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By Kim Dunlap | @kimjdunlap Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS — The horn sounds, and the player is shuttled to his next destination. That’s how interviews work at the National Football League Scouting Combine. Every team is allotted 60 formal interviews during the week, each one lasting 15 minutes. These interviews are important for several …

(Editor’s Note: Cory Collins of The Sporting News covered the NFL Scouting Combine in 2014 as a Graduate Assistant at IUPUI. This piece was originally published on Feb. 21, 2014.) By Cory Collins | @CoCoCoryCollins INDIANAPOLIS — It wasn’t always this way. Not so long ago, elite college football players could gather in relative anonymity, …

By Sports Capital Journalism Program Staff | @SportsCapJour INDIANAPOLIS – Kim Dunlap and Alaa Abdeldaiem will represent the Sports Capital Journalism Program at IUPUI when they cover the National Football League Scouting Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium. Dunlap and Abdeldaiem will file reports as prospects are evaluated by NFL coaches and administrators. This is the …

“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 …

By Sports Capital Journalism Program Staff | @SportsCapJour Sportsnet Magazine presents the oral history of Jaromir Jagr, who’s still going strong at 44 years old with the Florida Panthers. Tim Graham, of The Buffalo News, on the pain of former Buffalo Bills kicker Scott Norwood 25 years after his infamous missed field goal in Super …

There 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 …

The 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 …

The 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 …

By Sports Capital Journalism Program Staff | @SportsCapJour New York Daily News journalist Shaun King digs into a court document about Peyton Manning’s alleged sexual assault and smear campaign while at Tennessee. Which prompted a handful of questions from WTHR’s Bob Kravitz and this think piece from ESPN senior writer Howard Bryant. Monica Rhor and David Barron, …

Chris 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 …