Kevin B. Blackistone

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Kevin B. Blackistone

Can Journalism (the horse) give a boost to journalism (the industry)? (washingtonpost.com) Can Journalism (the horse) give a boost to journalism (the industry)? By Kevin B. Blackistone 2025050210051800 A rule in my vocation is that there is no cheering in the press box.

3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Kevin B. Blackistone

Before Lee Corso donned mascot heads, he helped integrate ACC football (washingtonpost.com) Before Lee Corso donned mascot heads, he helped integrate ACC football By Kevin B. Blackistone 2025041911032700 It was unfortunate in this country, at this time, that the narrative of 89-year-old Lee Corso's retirement Thursday from college football's flagship kickoff show, ESPN's "College GameDay," was him as some sort of clown prince. Not that it didn't make sense.

1 month ago | phillytrib.com | Kevin B. Blackistone

The Dodgers are not the greatest sports franchise in U.S. history. But maybe more important, as Glenn Stout reminded in the introduction to his 2004 book, “The Dodgers: 120 Years of Dodgers Baseball,” they are the most consequential. “Theirs is an inherently American story that follows a familiar path,” Stout wrote, “a story of immigration, assimilation, migration and change.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Kevin B. Blackistone

Jackie Robinson’s Dodgers visiting Trump’s White House? For shame. (washingtonpost.com) Jackie Robinson’s Dodgers visiting Trump’s White House? For shame. By Kevin B. Blackistone 2025040710052200 The Dodgers are not the greatest sports franchise in U.S. history. But maybe more important, as Glenn Stout reminded in the introduction to his 2004 book, "The Dodgers: 120 Years of Dodgers Baseball," they are the most consequential.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Kevin B. Blackistone

Last week, my daughter’s school put on the play “Girls in the Boat” by Alice Austen. Austen ran track at Oregon before studying law at Harvard, where she co-founded the Harvard Human Rights Journal. Correlatedly, this play is about sports and equality — specifically, the American women who persevered against sexism to compete in the first women’s Olympic rowing competition at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games. They went on to become the most dominant Olympic sports team in U.S. history.