Sports in U.S. History

Sports are about far more than playing games or winning and losing; they get us thinking about what it means to be human, and reveal all the good, bad and ugly in societies past and present. Join HST 377: Sports in U.S. History, for a virtual conversation with "The New York Times’ "Kurt Streeter and moderated by Victoria Jackson, sports historian at ASU.

This classroom conversation is Wednesday, October 20, 1:30–2:45 p.m. Pacific and open to the public to attend via Zoom. A link will be shared at a later date. 

Award-winning journalist Kurt Streeter writes the Sports of The Times column for "The New York Times". He has a particular interest in the connection between sports and broader society, especially regarding issues of race, gender and social justice. Streeter recently won the Sigma Delta Chi award given by the Society of Professional Journalists for excellence in journalism for Sports Column Writing for his “Sports of The Times” column, “where he brings the edge of a beat reporter and investigative journalist to bear not only on the biggest topics in sports, but also on the biggest topics in American conversation.” He also won first place in the Associated Press Sports Editors 2020 contest in Category A Columns, for his stories on a high school football coach and cop in Minneapolis, remembering Rafer Johnson, Ironman Chris Nikic and the movement inspired by Colin Kaepernick’s taking a knee.

Before coming to "The Times" in 2017, he was a senior writer for ESPN. He was also a general assignment reporter at "The Baltimore Sun" and spent 15 years at "The Los Angeles Times", where he wrote about everything from crime to transportation to religion as a columnist. A former athlete, Streeter played tennis at U.C. Berkeley and was world-ranked by the ATP Tour for three years.

You can review Kurt’s collection of columns here: https://www.nytimes.com/by/kurt-streeter

This event is offered as part of a university-wide celebration of Humanities Week hosted by The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU.

Victoria Jackson

School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies

vljackso@asu.edu