-Capitalize: Division I, II, III, and JV soccer (don’t capitalize varsity)
-Lowercase: sectionals, districts, states unless using it as the formal title ie, The
Regional Championship or The State Tournament will take place…
-Coach: lowercase when used as a job description, not as a formal title. Capitalize only when substituted for a name as a term of address.
Don’t capitalize: said varsity swimming head coach Mike Davidson.
-Scores: use figures exclusively; placing a hyphen between the total of the winning and losing teams.
The Reds defeated the Yankees 4-3.
-Capitalize the names of team, associations, and recognize nicknames
Red Sox, the Big Ten, the A’s, the Colts.
-Titles:
Capitalize formal titles before names. (Don’t capitalize job descriptions.)
Never capitalize title when used alone, without a proper name.
NOT The President said BUT Today President Clinton said.
-Time:
Simplest form is best. "O'clock" is out.
10 a.m. (NOT "10:00 a.m." or "10 o'clock")
-Numbers:
Rule of 10: Generally use numerals for 10 and up; spell out single digits. For thousands and millions, use a combination for easy readability:
$50 thousand .... $100 million ... population of 281 million people
-Example of numbers used in a sport…Track and field (for other sports just refer to the
A.P. Style Handbook)
-Men’s 100-meter dash
-Woman’s 880-yard dash
-For time events, spell out minutes and seconds
-Also remember when writing your piece to double space, and make sure that when you indent your paragraphs you use five spaces, not a tab.