National sports journalist Kevin Blackistone presents Wenner-Wingate Memorial Lecture

National sports journalist Kevin Blackistone presents the Wenner-Wingate Memorial Lecture at McDaniel College on Tuesday, April 9. The event, which is free and open to the public, takes place at 7 p.m. in Coley Rice Lounge, McDaniel Hall.

Blackistone speaks on sport myths and social justice during the lecture titled "Don’t Believe the Type: Sport in American History.”

A commentator for The Washington Post, Blackistone frequently appears as a panelist on ESPN's “Around the Horn” and is a contributor to National Public Radio. He was an award-winning sports columnist for The Dallas Morning News, sports columnist for AOL FanHouse, and has written for numerous other outlets, such as The Boston Globe, The Chicago Reporter, and Emerge. He has received awards for sports column writing from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors, for investigative reporting from the Chicago Newspaper Guild, and for enterprise reporting from the National Association of Black Journalists.

Blackistone is also a professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the co-author of "A Gift for Ron,” a memoir by former NFL star Everson Walls. He also co-produced and co-wrote a 2022 documentary, “Imagining the Indian,” on the history of and fight against mascoting Native Americans.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He was a Martin Luther King Fellow as a graduate student at Boston University and a Davenport Fellow at the University of Missouri, as well as a Wharton Business Journalism Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Wenner-Wingate Memorial Lecture was established in 1989 by longtime English Professor Evelyn Wingate Wenner in memory of her brother, W. Wilson Wingate, Class of 1918, member of the McDaniel College Athletics Hall of Fame and noted sportswriter; and her husband and friend of the college, Charles Malcom Wenner Jr. This endowed lecture focuses on the history of sports in all of its dimensions: literary, historical, and philosophical. Call 410-857-2530 for more information about the event.

Additional information:

• Requests for ASL interpreters are welcome and should be made as soon as possible (two weeks prior to the event preferred) by contacting the specific event organizer.
• Other accommodation requests and questions can be directed to Conference Services at 410-857-2407. Visitors are asked to adhere to all health and safety policies and regulations in effect at the time of the event.