Wednesday, February 25, 2026

How not to write a headline

By Nicholas Stix

A sporting news editor wrote the following hed:

"Cavs' James Harden, Donovan Mitchell made basketball history never done before for Cleveland"

Here's an English version:

Cavs' James Harden, Donovan Mitchell made basketball history

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/cleveland-cavaliers/news/cavs-james-harden-donovan-mitchell-made-basketball-history-never-done-cleveland/74de4addac25179ccebaf944



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Everything is history. Much of it is not noteworthy. Media tries to focus on what blacks do these days as the ONLY history we need to know about.

This was not noteworthy,sporting news.

--GRA

Anonymous said...

HERE'S THE "BIG" HISSSSTORY MAKING EVENT--OBSCURE NOTHINGNESS

(sporting news)In the intervening minutes, Mitchell and Harden became the first duo in Cleveland history in the play-by-play era to each score 15 points in the same fourth quarter, according to Cleveland.com's Chris Fedor.

GRA:So WHAT! As unimportant as the nba itself.

--GRA