Could Robot Writers Take Over Sportswriters' Jobs?
No one has ever confused Woody Paige with Arthur Rimbaud. And there's a good reason: daily sportswriting is, by definition, Mojave-dry. Beat writers covering a Major League Baseball team, for instance, have to find a way to churn out stimulating articles daily, over the course of a Homeric 162-game regular season. Understandably, then, the writing tends toward the cliché-ridden and the ...









