I got bored a few lines into the generated article - it reminded me somewhat of a book report a kid might write. There was no drawn-out arc to the story; each s

I got bored a few lines into the generated article - it reminded me somewhat of a book report a kid might write. There was no drawn-out arc to the story; each sentence or two was correct and complete, but didn't flow that well into the following or previous ones. It was as if there were a bunch of bullet points that were joined together into a "story", which is, I suspect, similar to how it was created. When I read sports, I want to read passion. If I just want the bare facts about what happened, I'll read the boxscore - which tells me what the details are. For an actual article, I want emotion, I want character, and I want some feel about the game itself. If you ask me what the largest threat to professional sports journalism is, it's semi-pro local sports blogs. Guys (and it's mostly guys) who write passionately about their local team, and have a depth of knowledge about it that surpasses most general sportswriters. It's similar to comparing writings about small web businesses between SitePoint and 37Signals - in both cases you've got one author that investigated it (but also writes on other things), and one that lives and breathes it. The latter, almost always, will provide a more compelling story.