What This Policy Covers
This page sets out how SportsHighLight decides what to publish, where our facts come from, how we handle quotes and footage, and what happens when we get something wrong. It applies to every article on the site. If our work does not match what is written here, we want to hear about it.
How a Story Gets Made
Coverage starts with the game. A writer watches the full broadcast, takes the sequence of events as it actually happened, and only then goes to the numbers. We do not build recaps out of other people’s recaps.
Once a draft exists, every load-bearing claim is checked against a primary source before publication. Nothing goes live on the strength of a single social post, a screenshot or an aggregator.
Sources, in Order of Preference
- Official records first. League and competition box scores, official play-by-play, brackets and draws, injury and availability reports issued by teams, and competition rules published by the governing body.
- The footage itself. For any description of how a play unfolded, we watch it again, at speed and slowed down, before writing a word about it.
- Established statistics providers for advanced metrics leagues do not publish directly, always naming the provider and the date the figure was pulled.
- On-record human sources — post-game press conferences, official club and team channels, and interviews published by other outlets, credited to the outlet that obtained them.
Where two credible sources disagree, we say so in the article instead of picking the more convenient number.
Quotes
We never invent a quote, never paraphrase inside quotation marks, and never reorder a speaker’s words to change their sense. Every quote carries its origin: which press conference, which broadcaster, which publication. Where a quote reaches us through translation we say so. Where one is trimmed for length, the cut is marked and the meaning of the original is preserved. If an athlete, coach or representative tells us a quote has been misused, we check it against the recording or transcript and correct it if they are right.
Statistics
Numbers get dated. A metric that was true at tip-off is not true a week later, so advanced figures carry the date they were retrieved. When a league revises a stat after publication — a rebound reassigned, an assist removed — we update the article and note it. Projections, ratings and rankings are labeled as estimates, with the model or provider behind them named.
Rumors, Transfers and Speculation
We do cover transfer talk and draft speculation, because readers follow it. We label it for what it is. A rumor is presented as a rumor, attributed to whoever reported it first, with an honest account of that reporter’s record where it is relevant. We do not launder speculation into fact by burying the attribution, and we do not publish rumors about an athlete’s health, family or private life at all.
Images, Video and Sports Rights
Broadcast footage of live sport is tightly licensed and we respect that. We do not host, re-upload or mirror match footage. Where video appears on our pages it is through an official embed supplied by the rights holder or broadcaster, served from their platform on their terms. Photographs are used under license or supplied through official channels, credited as the license requires.
Athlete likenesses appear in the context of reporting on sporting events. We do not use a player’s image to suggest that the player endorses this site, an advertiser or a product. Rights holders with a concern should write to [email protected] with the page URL and the specific asset; we respond promptly and remove material where the claim stands up.
Corrections
Errors are fixed in the open, at three levels:
- Typographical fixes — spelling, formatting, a dead link — are made silently.
- Factual corrections — a wrong score, a misattributed quote, an incorrect statistic, a misspelled name — are made in the text and recorded in a dated note at the foot of the article stating what the article previously said.
- Retractions — where the central claim of a piece does not hold — leave the article online carrying a prominent notice explaining what was wrong. We do not delete articles to make mistakes disappear.
Send corrections to [email protected] with CORRECTION in the subject line.
Sponsored Content and Commercial Independence
Advertising pays for this site. It does not shape it. Advertisers do not see articles before publication, cannot commission or suppress coverage, and are not told when a story concerns them. No advertiser has been given a right of review, and none will be.
If a piece is paid for, produced in partnership, or contains links that earn the site a commission, it says so in a label above the first paragraph rather than in a footnote. Such pieces are never presented as independent reporting and are excluded from rankings, awards and best-of selections.
Training and Performance Content
Articles on conditioning, recovery, supplements and sports nutrition summarize published research and general practice. They state what the evidence supports and where it is contested, they avoid single-study claims, and they are not individual advice. The Disclaimer explains the limits.
Contact
Editorial questions, corrections and rights matters: [email protected].