The Freedom Forum Institute and the Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism at the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland are pleased to host a special program, “Sports Writers: Are We Also the Enemy?”
This program is the latest in a series begun in 2014, focused on sports topics. In past years, the focus has ranged from sports column writing through the years and the future of sports cartooning to women in sports writing. This year, we’re exploring what seems to be an increasingly tension-filled relationship between coaches and sports writers — and whether coaches view those writers as enemies.
The sessions will be co-moderated by George Solomon, director of the Povich Center and former assistant managing editor for sports at The Washington Post and Gene Policinski, president and chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum Institute and former managing editor for Sports at USA TODAY.
Panelists (seated left to right):
* George Solomon (co-moderator)
* Pepper Rodgers: Franklin Cullen “Pepper” Rodgers is a former American football player and coach. He was head coach at the University of Kansas (1967-1970), University of California, Los Angeles (1971-1973), and the Georgia Institute of Technology (1974-1979), compiling a career college football record of 73–65–3 (.528). Rodgers was also the head coach of the United States Football League’s Memphis Showboats from 1984-1985 and of the Canadian Football League’s Memphis Mad Dogs in 1995. He also served as the Washington Redskins’s director of football from 2001-2004.
* Christy Winters Scott, Sports Broadcaster: Christy Winters Scott is sports analyst for college basketball games broadcast on ESPN, FSN, the Big Ten Network, NBC Sports Washington and Raycom Sports and a former collegiate basketball player at the University of Maryland.
* Leonard Downie Jr., Former Executive Editor & Vice President, The Washington Post: Leonard Downie Jr., ...More...
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