Political sportswriter and author Dave Zirin presents Wenner-Wingate Memorial Lecture

Political sportswriter and author Dave Zirin presents the Wenner-Wingate Memorial Lecture at McDaniel College on Tuesday, April 7. The event, which is free and open to the public, takes place at 7 p.m. in Coley Rice Lounge, McDaniel Hall.

Zirin plans to speak on sports and resistance in the United States.

Named one of UTNE Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” Zirin is a sports editor for The Nation. He is also the host of the Edge of Sports Television on The Real News Network. In addition, Zirin is a columnist for SLAM Magazine and the Progressive.

He has been called “the best sportswriter in the United States” by American sports journalist and author Robert Lipsyte and has won Northeastern University School of Journalism's “Excellence in Sports Journalism” Award.

Zirin is also the author of the acclaimed “Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down,” “The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment that Changed the World,” which was nominated for the NAACP Image Award, “Bad Sports: How Owners are Ruining the Games We Love,” “A People’s History of Sports in the United States,” “Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports, and “What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States.” 

Additionally, he co-wrote and narrated the documentary, “Not Just A Game: Power, Politics and American Sports, and produced “Race, Power, and Politics in American Sports.”

Zirin graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Macalester College in Minnesota in 1996.

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 410-871-3897 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.