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By Jay Smith |@_SmithJ_ Sports Capital Journalism Program HOUSTON — The late Andrew Smith of Butler University and his widow Samantha were honored by the United States Basketball Writers Association with the organization’s Most Courageous Award on Monday. The presentation marked the first time that the award, which was created in 1978, has honored two …

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 …

An Indiana appeals court has ruled that the University of Notre Dame’s police department is a public agency and subject to open records laws, rejecting the university’s arguments that its police records should remain closed and handing media network ESPN a win. “There is a danger that the public will be denied access to important …

The big man next to me in the press box, peered over the top of his binoculars and observed, “I just don’t see that many people here anymore that I know.” It was their loss. The press box just ain’t what it used to be. And it’s not going to be as much fun now …

This editor’s letter appears in the Mar. 7, 2016 issue of Sports Illustrated. Rick Reilly is back in these pages, and we are thrilled. It has been more than 400 issues since he wrote the Dec. 3, 2007, Life of Reilly, the back-page space that defined the writer and, to a large extent, SI for …

In the early 1960s, after joining the Globe as a tennis writer, Bud Collins took a giant leap into the future of sports journalism when he stepped in front of a TV camera to offer commentary. As he expanded the reach of columnists, he called himself a “scribbler and a babbler,” and the words that …

Let’s say you happen to be in Indiana and you run across a basketball court — and let’s just stop right there. You go to Indiana, it’s hard to imagine you won’t run across a basketball court. They’re like Starbucks there, only it may be easier to get a seat at Starbucks. “Indiana is known …

Winner John Schulian The PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing, which was conferred for the first time in the fall of 2011, is given to one living American or U.S.-based writer each year to celebrate their body of work. The award seeks to recognize a lifetime of writing about sports and its dimensions …

Stuart Sternberg, the principal owner of the Tampa Bay Rays, says a pending move to bar reporters from Major League Baseball locker rooms would be a big mistake. Choking off media access could stem the flow of publicity, he says, both positive and negative. “Be careful what you wish for,” Sternberg said. “You’ve got all these …

Nearly a month has passed since the death of former Texas Rangers owner Rusty Rose, who lost a decades-long battle against clinical depression. While the tragic nature of his death was addressed beautifully at his funeral by senior minister Paul Rasmussen of Highland Park United Methodist Church and in a subsequent piece by Dallas Morning …