OMG, he was a jock-sniffer!:
It’s something David Ovalle learned while covering sports at the University of Southern California. Then, it meant going to practice, talking to trainers, knowing the coaches’ names – something his college editors insisted on. Go to practice even if you’re not going to write about it, they told him. And now he puts that advice to use in his new job as The Miami Herald’s sole police reporter.
http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/72312/leaving-fingerprints-inside-the-police-beat/
