The best way to make changes like this to a theme is to use a child theme, so your tweaks won’t be overwritten when updating the theme. Here are some guides in case you haven’t made one before:
http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/wordpress-child-theme-tutorial
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
http://op111.net/53/
http://vimeo.com/39023468
You should also check this out for customizing your site.
http://themesandco.com/snippet/firebug-best-spent-6-minutes/
http://getfirebug.com
Then to edit this editor is fantastic. You can edit multiple files at the same time.
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
This is so beyond my expertise of sports writing but I am going to tackle this bit by bit and see if I can’t get it figured out. Thanks so much for your response. It is appreciated.