“Full Court Press,” the annual United States Basketball Writers Association sportswriting seminar and scholarship competition, will take place on Friday, April 1 in the football press box at NRG Stadium in Houston. The session will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., and will be followed by the presentation of the Oscar Robertson Trophy …
Read MoreThere is, perhaps, no more fertile ground for scoops than sports journalism in the days leading up to a trade deadline such as the NBA’s, which arrived today at 3pm Eastern. For the past week, the news outlets and Twitter feeds that cover the NBA have buzzed with stories about what would or would not …
Read MoreThe new film ‘Race’ honors one of the most significant athletes in U.S. history. “It’s an important story,” Gloria Owens Hemphill said. “And it’s time for this.” It’s been nearly 80 years since Hemphill’s father, the track-and-field superstar Jesse Owens, made history at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, winning four gold medals in a performance viewed …
Read MoreThe U.S. Basketball Writers Association announced today the selection of the late, former Butler player Andrew Smith and his widow, Samantha, as co-recipients of the USBWA’s Most Courageous Award for men’s basketball and Kent State coach and cancer survivor Danielle O’Banion as the winner of the Pat Summitt Most Courageous Award for women’s basketball. Andrew …
Read MoreChris Ballard, Kevin Ding, Jason Quick and Marc J. Spears have been named first-place winners in the 2015 PBWA Blumenthal Memorial Writing Contest, which honors the best work by members of the Professional Basketball Writers Association during the 2015 calendar year. Ballard, of Sports Illustrated, won the Features category for his 30th-anniversary retrospective of the …
Read MoreThe Rangers made the grandest of classy gestures on Friday. The team donated $5,000 to the GoFundMe.com fundraiser account raising money for Associated Press sports writer Ira Podell, a beloved mainstay on Garden press row until last spring when a brain tumor, surgery and subsequent stroke left him fighting for his life. “I was sitting with …
Read MoreWith news like this, there is crying in baseball. Tom Singer, among the first journalists hired at MLB.com, passed away suddenly on Monday at his residence in Scottsdale, Ariz. Tom was a world-class reporter and beloved colleague who had been with us for each of our first 15 seasons. He dedicated his life to the …
Read MoreBy Sports Capital Journalism Program Staff | @SportsCapJour Here’s how The Denver Post and The Charlotte Observer covered Super Bowl 50. The Chicago Tribune’s Shannon Ryan on Rob Gronkowski’s ‘shameful, infuriating, damaging’ lap dance on a live Fox Sports1 show. Toronto Star columnist Bruce Arthur on Roger Goodell and nihilism. Eric Nusbaum of Vice Sports …
Read MoreThe Super Bowl’s true spirit came to life Thursday night at a midway point — not San Francisco or Santa Clara, but a restaurant in Half Moon Bay, where an assemblage of royalty gathered for a glorious reunion. Football heroes come and go, but the photographers persevere. The guests of honor were Mickey Palmer and …
Read MoreBROWNSBURG, Ind. — Five days before a documentary alleged that quarterback Peyton Manning and other star athletes had used performance-enhancing drugs, two men hired by Manning’s lawyers visited the parents of the documentary’s key witness. Both men wore black overcoats and jeans and, according to a 911 call from the house that evening, one initially said …
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