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Sports Illustrated writer to speak Oct. 1 11:38 a.m., Sept. 23, 2004--Gary Smith, award-winning reporter for Sports illustrated, will discuss his career as a sportswriter at 4 p.m., Friday, Oct. 1, in 127 Memorial Hall, in conjunction with Homecoming Weekend activities at UD. A reception will follow. The event, which is free and open to the public, also is being held for graduates of the Department of English’s concentration in journalism program, which was started in the early 1970s by Edward A. “Nick” Nickerson, professor emeritus of English. A Delaware native, Smith has won four National Magazine Awards, including three for feature writing and one for profile writing. His stories have appeared a record seven times in the annual Best American Sportswriting anthologies, and his 1996 profile of Tiger Woods, “The Chosen One,” was selected by editor David Halberstam to appear in Best American Sportswriting of the Century Smith’s 1996 profile of James “Radio” Kennedy, about a mentally challenged man who has attended T.L. Hanna High in Anderson, S.C., for nearly 40 years while serving as the team’s assistant football coach, trainer, manager, cheerleader and one-man halftime show, was later turned into a film starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ed. Harris. A graduate of La Salle University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in English in 1975, Smith has worked at The News Journal (Wilmington), The Philadelphia Daily News, The New York Daily News and Inside Sports. Smith also has written for Rolling Stone, Esquire and Life. A collection of his work, Beyond the Game: The Collected Sportswriting of Gary Smith, was published in 2001. The event is sponsored by UD’s College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of English and the Journalism Program. For more information, call (302) 831-2361. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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