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This editor’s letter appears in the Mar. 7, 2016 issue of Sports Illustrated. Rick Reilly is back in these pages, and we are thrilled. It has been more than 400 issues since he wrote the Dec. 3, 2007, Life of Reilly, the back-page space that defined the writer and, to a large extent, SI for …

By Emily Kennedy | @Emily_AKennedy Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS — The energy is so high and the smiles are so contagious. Off to the side in the Northwestern locker room, Lydia Rohde is singing as she gets her leg wrapped. Christen Inman describes the feeling at the end of this game perfectly: “Hell Yeah!” …

By Alaa Abdeldaiem | @Abdeldaiem_Alaa Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS — Maryland’s Brionna Jones and Satori Walker-Kimbrough, consensus first-team All-Big Ten players, are what Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder called two of the best players in the nation. Stop them from the outside, and they’ll find a way to succeed from within. Trap them inside, and they’ll …

Sports Capital Journalism Program Staff | @SportsCapJour INDIANAPOLIS – Alaa Abdeldaiem and Emily Kennedy, students in the Department of Journalism and Public Relations at IUPUI, are covering the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament at Bankers Life Fieldhouse for the Sports Capital Journalism Program website. Abdeldaiem, a first-year student, and Kennedy, a graduate student, are the …

By Alaa Abdeldaiem | @Abdeldaiem_Alaa Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS – Going into the second round of the Big Ten Women’s Tournament, the 11th-seeded Penn State Lady Lions knew what they were going up against as they prepared to face No.6 Purdue. It was a team they had met earlier in the season, one they …

By Emily Kennedy | @Emily_AKennedy Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS – The game was slipping away. The Rutgers Scarlet Knights knew this feeling too well in an often-frustrating season. Nebraska was in position to take control of the second-round game in the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament. But Rutgers had time to prevent that from …

In the early 1960s, after joining the Globe as a tennis writer, Bud Collins took a giant leap into the future of sports journalism when he stepped in front of a TV camera to offer commentary. As he expanded the reach of columnists, he called himself a “scribbler and a babbler,” and the words that …

By Emily Kennedy | @Emily_AKennedy Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS – “March is made for people who love basketball,” Northwestern coach Joe McKeown said. “And, you know, if you’re a basketball player, this is when you want to keep playing, and we get to play tomorrow.” For a month and a day, the Wildcats had …

Let’s say you happen to be in Indiana and you run across a basketball court — and let’s just stop right there. You go to Indiana, it’s hard to imagine you won’t run across a basketball court. They’re like Starbucks there, only it may be easier to get a seat at Starbucks. “Indiana is known …

Winner John Schulian The PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing, which was conferred for the first time in the fall of 2011, is given to one living American or U.S.-based writer each year to celebrate their body of work. The award seeks to recognize a lifetime of writing about sports and its dimensions …