Going into Comm 462 I knew we were talking about sports, but it was so much more. I was totally taken out of my comfort zone and was shown a whole new side of sports with our assignments. With the pen pal assignment, I had to reach out and cold call someone. Now that I…

As a freelance reporter you are not tied to one conference or division. You get called up by a scheduler or director in the media department for a conference. You get the call, and they tell you where to be and what days you are there. The rest of the steps are up to you….

Jesse Owens at the time was one of the greatest athletes on earth. He didn’t have it easy as he was under pressure from his community and Nation. America was in between World War I and World War II and Germany had been awarded the 1936 Olympics. America didn’t know if they were going to…

I can remember having soccer tournaments every weekend and traveling a lot, but my dad always had the radio on 670 listening to the bears game on Sundays. He was the one that really got me into the bears and to this day I love and hate that. The bears as everyone knows is a…

When I was little and eating breakfast, I always had to get my morning sports. To do this I would always turn on ESPN. Now there was ESPN news or SportsCenter. I didn’t have the hour to get all the highlights for SportsCenter, so the half-hour ESPN news was the way to go for me….

My name is Anthony Patrick. I am a senior at Old Dominion University where I am currently earning my undergraduate in Sports Management. I transferred from Tidewater Community College where I graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in General Studies. I spent six years in the Navy before I was medically retired with an…

Connecting with my Pen Pal Stacy Standohar was much easier then I expected. I follow a lot of Chicago reporters on twitter and this is how I found her. on her twitter she had her website link, so I went to it and it had a “Get in Touch” fill out feature. I filled out…