Which podcasts do you listen to?

My point is that most of the sports writing outside of a few good beat reporters is very generic. You can notice the patterns very quickly for most of the bread and butter articles released by most websites.

A good AI/boilerplate can make it a narrative. Team X went up, then continued to maintain a lead with additional scores until Team Z finally scored. Then…

There are ways to make stuff interesting.

People who don’t like podcasts and/or just want to quickly skim over stuff.

Even postgame recap podcasts will probably be automated to some extent quite soon once you get better text to speech programs.

IIRC that sports journalism was already one of the fields that was quickly being automated even before AI started to be in the news all of the time.

Stuff such as box scores, certain plays, etc can all be automatically pulled various game stats and/or play by play recordings. Those are things that can almost be automated with boilerplate statements and needs minimal human and/or AI work to smooth out the boilerplate into something more cohesive.