2012 McGarr Symposium on Sports and Society
The University of Texas at Austin College of Communication's Texas Program in Sports and Media (TPSM) hosted presentations by award-winning sportswriter Frank Deford and David Maraniss, an associate editor at The Washington Post, during the week of April 23.
- Just heard a great presentation by David Maraniss! #mcgarrsymposium
- Former Sports Illustrated writer draws lessons from beginnings | The ...4 days ago... his new book, “Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter,” at the Texas Program in Sports and Media's McGarr Symposium on ...
RT @sportsandmedia: The form will change, but the human need for storytelling will never go away. #mcgarrsymposium
RT @sportsandmedia: As a writer you know that those first few seconds of an interview set the stage for everything. #McGarrSymposium
Fandom and tribalism can go overboard. In some ways it's stupid, but in other ways it can fill people's lives with joy. #mcgarrsymposium- The public clamors over trivialities. They don’t read policy stories as much. So there’s a pragmatic decision by editors. #mcgarrsymposium
- Political writing uses metaphors of sports and of the military. Sports writing uses metaphors of military and politics. #mcgarrsymposium
- Packers v. Bears conversation with Obama turned a 40-min. interview into a 2-hr. discussion. #McGarrSymposium
- The varsity basketball team Obama played on was terrific, probably one of the best basketball teams in the nation. #mcgarrsymposium
- The first way President Obama found his sense of self growing up in Hawaii was through basketball. #mcgarrsymposium
- The great Rafer Johnson was the greatest athlete of that era, the first African American to carry the flag in the Olympics. #mcgarrsymposium
- It was the ushering in of the modern era, in all it's dimensions, good and bad. First televised Olympics. #mcgarrsymposium
- "Whether it's an artist, or a musician or a writer, someone speaks directly to you, and for me that was Roberto Clemente." #McGarrSymposium
RT @sportsandmedia: @washingtonpost editor @davidmaraniss talks to Glenn Frankel's feature writing class. #McGarrSymposium @UTJSchool http://pic.twitter.com/OtehNg6q- "Why should amateurism only exist in athletics?" "...We wouldn't be better writers if we didn't get paid." #mcgarrsymposium
RT @sportsandmedia: "If you can write, someone will give you a job and you can succeed at it."#McGarrSymposium- "Writing -- it's easy to define who's good at it. It's tougher to prove you're a good salesman, dentist, etc." #McGarrSymposium
- "All that really counted at the end of the day was how well you wrote something." #McGarrsymposium
- "Billie Jean King said, 'Most guys didn't get it. You got it.'" #McGarrSymposium
- RT @sportsandmedia: House lights are down. Let the Frank-a-poloza begin. #McGarrSymposium
