Being that my subject was Jerry Rice, I knew that my obvious starting point could be Sports Illustrated. I was able to find the Sports Illustrated Vault and found the two issues that featured Jerry Rice on the cover. It was in these articles that I was able to find some valuable information, but again a lot of statistics. Next, I located a couple of newspaper articles through Google, but once again a lot of statistics. After looking through numerous articles, I finally came across an article in The New York Times and a couple in USA Today. It was in these articles that I finally found some personal information. Because it was written at the time he had announced his retirement from the NFL, he was reflecting back over his life and career. It was an emotional time for him. The internet articles were not difficult at all to find, however, finding good information would prove to be a very hard task. As with the other sources, many of them contained statistics. I
Being that my subject was Jerry Rice, I knew that my obvious starting point could be Sports Illustrated. I was able to find the Sports Illustrated Vault and found the two issues that featured Jerry Rice on the cover. It was in these articles that I was able to find some valuable information, but again a lot of statistics. Next, I located a couple of newspaper articles through Google, but once again a lot of statistics. After looking through numerous articles, I finally came across an article in The New York Times and a couple in USA Today. It was in these articles that I finally found some personal information. Because it was written at the time he had announced his retirement from the NFL, he was reflecting back over his life and career. It was an emotional time for him. The internet articles were not difficult at all to find, however, finding good information would prove to be a very hard task. As with the other sources, many of them contained statistics. I