Steve Fainaru speaks on campus about sports and politics
On Monday, Nov. 7, Steve Fainaru, Pulitzer Prize winner and ESPN investigative journalist, sat down with students over dinner to discuss his career in journalism and the interface between sports and politics. “Sports are such a big part of our world, our culture and the way we see ourselves,” Fainaru said at the event, titled “What Sports Tell Us About the World.” Fainaru’s career in journalism began with the Boston Red Sox for the Hartford Courant in Connecticut, and later the Boston Globe. “My whole world was Major League Baseball,” he said of this time. Fainaru’s coverage of the BostonRead News