Director of the Writing Center Tony Reid ’75 sat down for a conversation with Dave Kindred, newspaper sports columnist and author, on Wednesday, Dec. 10. Kindred was the third speaker in The Hill’s “Writers at Work” series sponsored by the Writing Center.
Kindred is the author of “Sound and Fury” and “Around the World in 18 Holes.” He currently is the director of the National Sports Journalism Center at Indiana University, for which he writes a weekly on-line column. He has covered 40 Super Bowls and 10 Olympic Games; his first Olympics were the 1972 Munich Games, about which he said, “It [the attacks on Israeli athletes] changed the world and it changed the sports world.”