This dissertation is aimed at mapping the particularities of Sports Journalism, identifying the practices adopted by sports journalists and also the narrative strategies used in the construction of their texts. The analyses consider reports about the Brazilian Team published on three websites - the Brazilian Lancenet!, the Argentinian Olé.com and the North-American Sportsillustrated.com – during the participation of the Brazilian Squad in the World Cup 2010. This work consists of three stages: 1) the context -as it relates to the Brazilian Football, the World Cup and Sports Journalism are; 2) the study of the Theories of Journalism -regarding the breakdown of the journalistic field, a concept proposed by Pierre Bourdieu; 3) the analysis of the news, divided into two stages: first, an investigation about which news values guide journalists from the three sites in the selection and construction of the news, and, second, the narrative strategies adopted by these professionals alongside which stereotypes appear when they write about the Brazilian Team. The choice for the collection of news during the World Cup is important for the realization and understanding of this work, since it is in this period when the Sports Editor acquires even greater importance and becomes of more interest to millions of people. The world s biggest sporting event highlights more and more this most practiced sport, which moves passions and fortunes all over the globe.