Sports Journalism

The greatest sports upset I ever saw was 28 years ago today on Feb. 22, 1980, when the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviet Union, 4-3 at Lake Placid, N.Y.Many people forget that the game was a semifinal and that the U.S. won the goal medal by defeating Finland.

My good friend, Joel Sucherman, Executive Producer at USA Today, will speak to my Online Journalism class as part of the “New Media Series” on Tuesday Feb. 26 at 3 p.m. in SUB II, rooms 3-4. Joel has an extensive sports background — we worked together at USAToday.com — and will talk about multimedia production […]

Your comment must be posted by 30 minutes before the Tuesday Feb. 26 class.’You must include the URL so that others can read the column, too.Let me know if you have any questions.See you in class.

Alan Goldenbach, who will hopefully be with us in class on Thursday March 6, has a wonderful centerpiece story on the Washington Post sports front headlined “Blindness Doesn’t Deter Mat Vision” about C.H. Flowers High School wrestler Michael Spriggs. Give it a read and leave Alan a comment.The online version of the story includes video. […]