IUPUI to play host to Red Smith Award Hall of Fame unveiling, dinner
April 14, 2010 3:02 p.m.
Several of the nation’s most prominent sports journalists will descend upon IUPUI and Indianapolis later this month for the unveiling of the Associated Press Sports Editors Red Smith Award Hall of Fame.
Together with the IUPUI-based National Sports Journalism Center, the APSE on April 24 will unveil the Hall of Fame, which will pay tribute to past APSE presidents and the 30 winners of the Red Smith Award, given annually by the association for those who have made “major contributions to sports journalism.” The unveiling will take place inside the Student Media Center at the IUPUI Campus Center and be followed by a dinner at the nearby University Place Conference Center & Hotel.
“This will be a most wonderful evening for APSE, which will be honoring its finest at the APSE Red Smith Hall of Fame opening,” said Garry D. Howard, APSE President and assistant managing editor/sports of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “Inside the walls of ‘Red’s Room’ will be the most dynamic collection of sports journalists and it is our hope as an organization that the college students who venture in can learn a great deal about the history of sports journalism from the stories and faces of its key contributors.”
The award – given this year to Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom – and Red Smith Award Hall of Fame are named after Red Smith, a University of Notre Dame graduate and a long-time popular American sports columnist who wrote about baseball, football, boxing, horse racing and even fly-fishing. Smith was the first recipient of the eponymous award.
“Indiana University and IUPUI is honored to be home to the Red Smith Hall of Fame,” said Tim Franklin, director of the National Sports Journalism Center. “Hopefully, this hall of fame will give our young sports journalism students something to aspire to as they move into careers in sports journalism.”
The unveiling will feature previous Red Smith Award winners, local dignitaries and APSE officials and is by invitation only; however, a limited number of $50 tickets are still available to the dinner, set for 7 p.m. April 24 at the University Place Conference Center & Hotel on the IUPUI campus. L.A. Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the dinner.
To order tickets to the dinner, contact Kurtis Beavers at (812) 856-2804.
–Kristofer Karol
Together with the IUPUI-based National Sports Journalism Center, the APSE on April 24 will unveil the Hall of Fame, which will pay tribute to past APSE presidents and the 30 winners of the Red Smith Award, given annually by the association for those who have made “major contributions to sports journalism.” The unveiling will take place inside the Student Media Center at the IUPUI Campus Center and be followed by a dinner at the nearby University Place Conference Center & Hotel.
“This will be a most wonderful evening for APSE, which will be honoring its finest at the APSE Red Smith Hall of Fame opening,” said Garry D. Howard, APSE President and assistant managing editor/sports of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “Inside the walls of ‘Red’s Room’ will be the most dynamic collection of sports journalists and it is our hope as an organization that the college students who venture in can learn a great deal about the history of sports journalism from the stories and faces of its key contributors.”
The award – given this year to Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom – and Red Smith Award Hall of Fame are named after Red Smith, a University of Notre Dame graduate and a long-time popular American sports columnist who wrote about baseball, football, boxing, horse racing and even fly-fishing. Smith was the first recipient of the eponymous award.
“Indiana University and IUPUI is honored to be home to the Red Smith Hall of Fame,” said Tim Franklin, director of the National Sports Journalism Center. “Hopefully, this hall of fame will give our young sports journalism students something to aspire to as they move into careers in sports journalism.”
The unveiling will feature previous Red Smith Award winners, local dignitaries and APSE officials and is by invitation only; however, a limited number of $50 tickets are still available to the dinner, set for 7 p.m. April 24 at the University Place Conference Center & Hotel on the IUPUI campus. L.A. Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the dinner.
To order tickets to the dinner, contact Kurtis Beavers at (812) 856-2804.
–Kristofer Karol
