Category: From The Director

Sports Capital Journalism Program By Malcolm Moran | @malcolm_moran I went to the Final Four, and a journalism class broke out. The interview room at NRG Stadium was probably the last place to expect a discussion of journalism ethics and practices late on a Saturday night. But there it was as Roy Williams, the North Carolina …

By Malcolm Moran | @malcolm_moran Director, Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS – The Sports Capital Journalism Program website is 100 days old. The student work it features, and the program that strives to create an unmatched series of opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students on the IUPUI campus, is much older than that. In 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 …

Editor’s Note: Sports Capital Journalism Program director Malcolm Moran, who covered Penn State’s 1987 Fiesta Bowl victory over Miami for The New York Times, wrote this article for the College Football Playoff National Championship Official Program. It was New Year’s Day 1987, and it felt odd to be in a hotel room rather than a …

The sun has come out, the Texas sky blue at last. You can find Michigan State green in the streets, with Alabama Crimson Tide fans rolling into the Metroplex. A Cotton Bowl – my first Cotton Bowl, I must sheepishly admit – is within sight, and I keep telling myself how much I wish my …

  The morning was cloudy and dreary on that 2007 New Year’s Day in Tampa. There had already been enough rain to create a mushy walk from a distant parking lot outside Raymond James Stadium, and the threat of more was in the forecast.