Sports reporters write stories very quickly, feeding editors literally on deadline. My sports reporter husband jokes that political reporters stress out maybe once a year during election nights when nearly every weekend has at least two election-like nights for sports. In many ways, they have been doing what Twitter users are now figuring out, how to report reactions professionally as you experience them before writing the big picture piece later.
Often you need at least a day or two to let something really sink in, to figure out what sets each athlete or athletic feat apart from one another. In an interesting way, sports reporters are trained to think both on the fly and then later on a deeper level, analyzing what made that particular moment special.
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