| Monday, April 1, 2019 |
| Mississippi State students volunteer at animal shelter for Big Event | |
 | Some Mississippi State University students taking part in the Big Event headed to West Point to volunteer at the West Point/Clay County Animal Shelter. They walked their furry friends and even gave some of them a bath. Morgan Stephens, a senior MSU business major, is one of many taking time from her weekend to volunteer. "I think because there are so many animals here and you know they get love and attention from people here but you know it's really nice for them to just have a day to have so many people come out and just to pet them and play with them and just them so love so what's we're doing today," said Stephens. |
| Old Main Music Festival set for April 5 | |
 | Music Maker Productions is presenting the Old Main Music Festival April 5 at the Mississippi State Amphitheater on the university's Starkville campus. Old Main Music Festival begins at 3 p.m. and includes a full day of both local and national musicians, outdoor games and activities, an art market, and food vendors. Local music acts, the Art Market and food trucks open at 3 p.m., and the Main Stage kicks off at 7 p.m. with Dirty Streets and Duncan Fellows. Headliner Lewis Del Mar concludes the festival. Lewis Del Mar is a New York-based indie-pop duo made up of Washington D.C.'s Danny Miller and Max Harwood. Named after the two musician's fathers' shared name "Lewis," the band combines acoustic guitars, percussions and mixed media samples to create an experimental sound. The duo's 2015 debut single "Loud(y)" caught the attention of many with its electrifying jolts of melodies. Lewis Del Mar's 2016 debut self-titled album paved the way for a large-scale world tour. |
| MSU 2019 International Film Festival | |
 | Mississippi State University will hold its 2019 International Film Festival from Saturday, March 30, to Friday, April 5. MSU's Institute for the Humanities is hosting the second annual event in partnership with the Holmes Cultural Diversity Center. Visitors to the film festival will also be able to enter a raffle for a free meal during the 29th annual International Fiesta, a cultural exchange event that MSU is hosting on April 6. For more information on the 2019 International Film Festival and the International Fiesta, visit msstate.edu/events. |
| MSU-Meridian to host film, panel on suicide awareness | |
| Talking openly about suicide is one way to bring awareness to the issue. That's the idea behind "Suicide - the Ripple Effect", a film that will be shown at MSU-Meridian next week. The film tells the story of Kevin Hines, who attempted suicide at age 19 by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. The screening is planned for 7 p.m. on Tuesday in the Kahlmus auditorium on MSU-Meridian's College Park Campus. After the film, there will be a panel discussion with mental health professionals, with resources provided by Weems Community Mental Health Center and other mental health organizations. Panelist Lee Lee Marlow, the children and youth services director at Weems, said the issue is important because of high rates of suicide among young people. According to Marlow, 18 percent of ninth to twelfth graders have considered suicide, while nine percent have made a suicide attempt. |
| Richard McNeel elected Regional Chair of National Architectural Board | |
 | Jackson architect Richard McNeel, NCARB, AIA president and chief executive officer of JBHM Architects, P.A., is the new chair of the Southern Conference of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. Over the course of his impressive career, McNeel has served as president of three statewide organizations: the Mississippi Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Mississippi Architects Foundation and the State Board of Architecture. McNeel has received more than 30 awards recognizing his design leadership and expertise, including regional and state AIA Awards for design, awards for interior design, and construction industry awards. His work has been published in local and regional publications, and he actively participates in the profession and is the Chair of the School of Architecture Advisory Council at Mississippi State University. |
| 'Witness to History': Judge Alsup on Growing Up White in the Segregated South | | |
| In February 1963, when U.S. District Judge William Alsup was 17 years old, he dealt a small blow against segregation near his hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. By the time he graduated from Mississippi State University four years later, Alsup was an ardent supporter of the civil rights movement. It's a history he's been forced to reflect on as a federal judge in San Francisco and the subject of a new memoir, Won Over: Reflections of a Federal Judge on His Journey from Jim Crow Mississippi. In this Legal Speak episode, Alsup, 73, describes the evolution of his views and how growing up in the South opened his eyes to the cruelty of racism. Ross Todd, San Francisco bureau chief of The Recorder and law.com, talks with Alsup, a former Morrison & Foerster partner, about the experiences that shaped his attitudes and why he wanted to tell his story. |
| Analysis: Lawmakers' decisions affect people's wallets | |
 | Pocketbook issues were an important part of the 2019 Mississippi legislative session. Senators and representatives approved pay raises for teachers and state employees. They voted to expand the availability of home-based health services to help some people stay with their families and avoid living in nursing homes or state mental hospitals. They gave more money to the Department of Public Safety so it can hire some workers to relieve long lines at driver's license stations. It was less money than the department requested, but budget writers said they wanted to do something to address the aggravating problem. This is an election year, and most legislators are either seeking re-election or running for higher office. Teachers and state employees tend to vote in big numbers, so it’s important for politicians to pay attention to them. Nothing shows that attention quite like a pay raise. University employees are supposed to get raises of up to 2 percent. |
| Election year budget will see a $190 million jump in funding after years of cuts or little growth | |
| The funding of state government, which has been on a downward trajectory in recent years, will increase about $190 million or about 3 percent for the upcoming fiscal year. Legislators concluded the budgeting process for the 2019 session Thursday and early Friday by passing a state-support budget of $6.35 billion with little debate and few questions with the exception of some members trying unsuccessfully to garner additional funds for a teacher pay raise. House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, said conservative planning in recent years -- resulting in cuts -- allowed the significant increase in spending for the upcoming fiscal year. Those increases will come as legislators campaign this summer for re-election in November. "I thought we had a very good budget this year," Gunn said. "I don't think any agency suffered cuts, did not suffer major cuts." Sen. Hob Bryan, D-Amory, said all the tax cuts passed in recent years, which will result in a reduction in state revenue of more than $700 million when fully enacted, have made it difficult to properly fund state government and to provide adequate raises for underpaid state employees. |
| Legislative session ends in Mississippi | |
 | Public school teachers in DeSoto County and across the state of Mississippi should expect to see some increase in their salaries from the state next school year, although it will likely be not as much as they were hoping to see. The teacher pay raise bill passed both houses of the state Legislature Thursday and was sent for Gov. Phil Bryant's signature, one day ahead of the final gavel being sounded to end the 2019 regular session, which took place Friday. State Sen. Kevin Blackwell (R-Southaven) also stated Friday afternoon he was not completely satisfied by the final result. "For my position, it was not enough, but it was the best we could do, given our economic situation," Blackwell said. "I know a lot of teachers are disappointed and there are a lot of legislators that are disappointed. The fact is it is going to be an estimated $55 million hit on the budget and it's not this year, but every year going forward. Our revenue projections are above projections and hopefully they continue. If they do, I believe we're going to revisit a pay raise again next year." |
| Rural internet, drivers license, school safety: New Mississippi laws | |
 | Mississippi lawmakers are headed home more than a week ahead of schedule. The 2019 Mississippi legislative session ended Friday. Lawmakers largely avoided controversial issues this (election) year, but that doesn't mean they didn't pass anything. Here are seven ways that new legislation could affect you and your family. Gov. Phil Bryant has signed or is expected sign all of the following into law within the next few days. A funding bill for the Department of Public Safety included a $3.3 million increase for drivers' services. Throughout the session, legislators have griped about long lines to get a license or facilities being closed. Department of Public Safety has been temporarily closing some drivers license stations due to personnel shortages. Rep. Tom Miles, D-Forest, said Wednesday that one Mississippian told him his local license station had "more people than Woodstock." |
| Gulfport mayor blasts opponents of new restaurant tax after bill dies in Senate | |
 | A bill to hike the sales tax at Gulfport restaurants died Friday before the state Senate adjourned its session. Sen. Deborah Dawkins, whose district includes a significant portion of Gulfport, fought the bill, saying a new soccer complex the tax would pay for could exacerbate flooding in North Gulfport and Long Beach. Gulfport Councilwoman Ella Holmes-Hines opposed the tax for the same reasons. Mayor Billy Hewes issued a statement Friday afternoon saying Dawkins and Holmes-Hines "conspired to kill" the bill and didn't give voters a chance to weigh in. "Councilwoman Holmes-Hines has long been opposed to developments in her Ward, using fear-mongering and speculation to kill multiple projects -- including those that would curtail flooding," he said. "She is the principal reason there has been little progress made in that segment of the City in the last two decades. If not for the leadership of Supervisor Kent Jones and Rep. Sonya Williams-Barnes, there would be few, if any improvements, there." |
| Unwelcome surprises: Despite law, Mississippians still receive unexpected medical bills | |
 | Across Mississippi and the country, people are finding unwelcome surprises in their mailboxes. Medical bills they expected to be largely covered by their health insurance arrive with a much bigger payment due. They find out that the emergency physician, pathologist, anesthesiologist or radiologist that cared for them was not in their insurer's network even though they sought care at an in-network hospital and often had no control over who provided the care. "From a consumer standpoint, there's the physical trauma and then the financial trauma," said Roy Mitchell, executive director of the Mississippi Health Advocacy Program. Mississippians have more legal protection than many across the rest of the country. If the health care provider accepts payment from their insurer, it is illegal for them to seek payment from the patient beyond their copayments and deductibles, a practice called balance billing. But some medical providers are ignoring the law, Mitchell said. Many consumers don't compare the medical bills to the explanation of benefits they receive from their insurer and never realize they were paying more than required. |
| U.S. Representative Trent Kelly Introduces Bill to Address Chronic Wasting Disease in Deer | |
 | U.S. Representative Trent Kelly (MS-01) introduced H.R. 1919, the Detection, Enhanced Education, and Response (DEER) Act of 2019, in coordination with U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) This legislation would establish a unified response to the growing threat of chronic wasting disease, a contagious, fatal disease that affects members of the deer family. There are confirmed cases of CWD in free-ranging and captive populations of the deer family in Mississippi and at least 24 other states. If signed into law, this legislation would require the U.S. Department of Agriculture to work in cooperation with state departments of wildlife and agriculture to enhance CWD surveillance, testing, management, and response. A multi-agency CWD task force would be formed to channel findings to the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, further enabling the agency to address the CWD epidemic. Additionally, the DEER Act would provide qualified Institutions of Higher Learning resources to continue researching CWD's transmission, effects, and management practices. |
| SEC honors U. of Alabama engineering professor with award | |
 | A University of Alabama engineering professor has been named one of 14 recipients of the 2019 SEC Faculty Achievement Awards. Ramana Reddy, the ACIPCO endowed professor in metallurgy at UA, earned the award, according to a news release from the Southeastern Conference. Faculty members from all 14 SEC universities received the honor, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said. Now in its eighth year, the program honors one person from each SEC university who has excelled in teaching -- particularly at the undergraduate level -- and research. "Through the SEC Faculty Achievement Awards we have a unique opportunity to recognize and encourage the work of outstanding faculty members on our campuses," Sankey said. "Although we have chosen to honor 14, we know they are truly representative of all SEC faculty." Reddy has secured nearly $20 million in grants and holds five U.S. patents. |
| Top LSU administrator looking at new job | |
 | One of LSU's highest ranking administrators is vying for a similar job at smaller school. Daniel T. Layzell, who as executive vice president for Finance & Administration answers directly to LSU President F. King Alexander, will head to Albuquerque on April 16 to interview for the job as Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration at the University of New Mexico, according to an UNM press release. He and three other finalists will meet with various groups, interview with UNM President Garnett Stokes, and answer questions from the campus community at open forums. Though no date has been set, a finalist will be selected sometime after the interviews and meetings are completed. Alexander brought Layzell to LSU in February 2014 from Illinois State University, where he was associate vice president for Planning and Administration. |
| U. of Florida hopes to create dense, but walkable campus | |
 | Cars, their fumes and asphalt would be out, and pedestrians and walkable pathways would be in, under a plan unveiled at the University of Florida's Board of Trustees meeting Friday. The $25 million plan calls for an 87-acre pedestrian-friendly campus core and would shut down Union Road, among other changes. The idea is to increase density in the eastern quadrant of campus near Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, while decreasing motorist activity near the heart of campus. Chris Jones, principal with CRJA-IBI Group, a landscape architectural design and environmental planning practice, gave trustees an overview of the plan. Jones is a consultant on UF's Landscape Master Plan. Jones said the landscaping improvements will set UF apart from other public universities. "This creates a pedestrian-friendly campus core of about 87 acres," he said. "None of your peer institutions have anything like this." |
| Suspect locked U. of South Carolina student in car before killing her, police say | |
 | The body of a missing University of South Carolina student was found in Clarendon County on Friday afternoon, about 15 hours after friends last saw her in Five Points. Columbia Police Department Chief Skip Holbrook, in a news conference Saturday, said Samantha Josephson's body was found abandoned on a rural dirt road in the town of New Zion. Clarendon County is about 65 miles southeast of Columbia. One suspect -- Nathaniel David Rowland, 24 -- was arrested after a traffic stop early Saturday morning and would be charged with murder and kidnapping, police said. Rowland was a few blocks from the Five Points area when he was arrested, according to Holbrook. Police believe Josephson, 21, in the early hours of Friday morning got into what she thought was her Uber ride but was actually the suspect's vehicle. Rowland activated the car doors' child-safety locks, Holbrook said, which prevented any escape attempts. |
| Texas A&M's Akhil Datta-Gupta receives Distinguished Scientist award | |
 | Akhil Datta-Gupta, the L.F. Peterson '36 Endowed Chair in Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University, was recently presented with the Southeastern Universities Research Association's annual Distinguished Scientist Award. The award and its $5,000 honorarium go to a research scientist whose work fulfills the SURA mission "to advance collaborative research and education and to strengthen the scientific capabilities of its members and our nation." He has worked in reservoir modeling, history matching and streamline simulation technologies for more than a decade. His research program is funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy and oil companies worldwide. He has authored four books and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. |
| National Science Foundation's experiment on federal career trajectories | |
 | The National Science Foundation has completed the first phase of an experiment to tap outside expertise to design tools for a better understanding of the skills needed for jobs at the large federal agency, which employs 2,100 workers at its headquarters in Alexandria, Va. The project, dubbed the Career Compass Challenge, aims to tap technology such as artificial intelligence to map the knowledge and skills its employees need and have earned. Its goal is to help employees plot a path for changing careers or moving up in their current job, and to assist them in continuously developing their skills. A motivator for the NSF is its own struggle to have an adaptable and prepared work force. A successful outcome for the project might be just to help to spur a national conversation about how to modernize the American work force through giving people more information about career trajectories, said Robyn Rees, budget lead and governance and strategy adviser for information technology at the agency. |
| How International Education's Golden Age Lost Its Sheen | |
 | On a Sunday in May 2014, 140 students from 49 countries, some in hijabs, some with hair tinted purple to match their graduation robes, walked across the stage to collect the first diplomas awarded at New York University Abu Dhabi. Former President Bill Clinton was the keynote speaker. But the day really belonged to John E. Sexton, NYU's president. He greeted every student -- many of whom he knew from the 14,000-mile round trip he made from New York every other week to teach -- with a fist bump or a hug. In hindsight, that commencement, held on NYU's campus, not far from the Abu Dhabi branch of the Louvre, came at the height of what was a golden moment for international education -- and one that would soon dim. It was an era in which higher education found ways to export its prestige, assert itself as a vehicle for American soft power, and facilitate the exchange of people and ideas across borders. "The landscape is changing," says Philip G. Altbach, founding director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College. "The era of internationalization might be over, or on life support." |
| Thirteen professors withdraw their labor from one of Yale's most diverse majors | |
| Yale University announced with some fanfare in 2015 that it was devoting $50 million over five years to faculty diversity. Three-plus years later, all 13 tenured professors who serve one of the university's most diverse majors are withdrawing their labor from that program. In a resignation announcement Friday, the faculty members said they can't adequately serve the 87 declared majors in ethnicity, race and migration studies, or ER&M, under their current circumstances. The professors, who all have permanent appointments in other departments, say they lack the autonomy and resources that Yale has promised them time and again. Yale disagrees with the professors' assessment, saying that the program's faculty size has enjoyed a "high rate of growth" and that the university "greatly values" ER&M. President Peter Salovey said in a statement that the university greatly values the work of faculty colleagues in the program, and regrets "their decision to withdraw from it, and in this manner." |
| United States should learn lesson from Finland | |
| Angela Farmer, an assistant clinical professor in Mississippi State University's Shackouls Honors College, writes: While each year brings new droves of students into the infamous world of high-stress standardized testing in the United States, there is one country which values quality individualized programming over early standardized indicators. Finland consistently produces top educational outcomes by doing things quite differently. First and foremost, students in Finland have no standardized testing. Their only aligned assessment is given toward the end of high school as an elective option as students are evaluating their post-secondary pathways. They instead are graded based on an individualized system set by their teacher. Tracking is measured periodically by sample of student work analyzed by the Ministry of Education. |
| Issues can be wild cards in competitive governor's race | |
| Syndicated columnist Bill Crawford of Meridian writes: Which of the 13 candidates for governor of Mississippi are you for? Huh? There are 13? Yep, three Republicans, nine Democrats and one independent. As the Associated Press explained, "The top of the ticket for Mississippi's 2019 statewide election could feature the most competitive governor's race since 2003, but a dearth of strong Democratic candidates down the ballot shows the party's continued weakness in Mississippi. |
| How funding increase for private school program made it through legislative process in final days | |
| Bobby Harrison writes for Mississippi Today: At one point Thursday on the next to last day of the 2019 session, Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, sat in his state Capitol office surrounded by reporters -- educating them on the fact that the Legislature does not have any money of its own. Asked if a $1,500 per year raise for teachers was enough, he said, "The issue though is what can the taxpayers sustain. What can the taxpayers support. The Legislature doesn't fund anything. The taxpayers fund everything --- We obviously would love to do much more than that. But that is all we could do. That is all the taxpayers could sustain. So we did as much as the taxpayers could afford." Hours later that same night on the House floor he informed many of the same media members that it was all right for the Senate leadership to insert $2 million in funds for private schools into an appropriations bill related to a completely different subject because "it was the Senate's money." The juxtaposition on those comments was not lost on those listening. |
SPORTS
| Oregon defeats Mississippi State in Elite Eight | |
| Mississippi State was the designated home team in Sunday afternoon's Elite Eight game. However, most of the 11,534 fans in attendance were clad in Oregon colors, giving the Moda Center the feel of a true road game. The top-seeded Bulldogs battled through the adverse conditions and entered the fourth quarter tied but ultimately could not keep pace with the sharp-shooting Ducks. No. 2 seed Oregon advanced on to its first Final Four with an 88-84 victory. "Man, I just can't be prouder of my team today," said MSU coach Vic Schaefer. "You talk about competitive and tough. I just thought my team just fought tooth and nail today in a really hostile environment." In Friday's national semifinals in Tampa, Oregon will face the winner of Monday night's Greensboro Regional finals between top-seeded Baylor (34-1) and second-seeded Iowa (29-6). |
| 'We'll be OK': Mississippi State seniors end careers with heads held high | |
| Anriel Howard wiped her eyes and prepared to speak into the microphone. Then the Mississippi State senior forward looked at the floor inside the media room at the Moda Center and tried to fight back more tears. She couldn't do it. She started to sob. "Let's come back to that," the press conference moderator said. MSU head coach Vic Schaefer, whose team had just fallen to No. 2-seeded Oregon in the Elite Eight of the Portland Regional, didn't want Howard's moment to slip away. He interjected, keeping the focus on his brokenhearted Bulldog. "Every day, smile. Every day, motor is 120 percent. Every day, competing," Schaefer said. "What she brings, the energy and the effort she brings, y'all, I promise y'all never seen anything like it on a consistent basis every day. That's what needs to be said about Anriel Howard. She is a tremendous young lady and an unbelievable competitor." |
| Looking ahead: Where does Mississippi State women's basketball go from here? | |
| Mississippi State women's basketball knows what heartbreak feels like. This year, though, it's different. The Bulldogs don't get to call themselves national finalists. They don't get to call themselves national semifinalists, either. Head coach Vic Schaefer's team lost before the Final Four for the first time since 2016. The season ended with an 88-84 loss to No. 2 seed Oregon in the Elite Eight. Schaefer said all year this could have been his best Bulldog bunch ever. This could have been the team that accomplished what no other team in Mississippi State history has. In a way, it was -- MSU won the SEC Tournament for the first time ever. But the ultimate prize went uncaptured. "We'll be young next year, but we'll be very talented," Schaefer said. "I'm excited about our future. I'm excited about our youth. This is what we do. This is who we are. I don't plan on going anywhere other than continuing to win at the highest level and competing for championships. That's where my mind is, and I think that's where our focus is at Mississippi State." |
| Need to blame somebody? Only one person -- Sabrina Ionescu -- to blame for State's loss | |
| Mississippi sports columnist Rick Cleveland writes: Losers often play the blame game. Sunday, Vic Schaefer wasn't playing. Schaefer might have blamed Mississippi State's 88-84 defeat to Oregon on the playing site. Why should a No. 1 seed be playing across the continent before 11,000 or so of the No. 2 seed's fans, 100 miles from the 2-seed's campus? "Here's the thing," Schaefer said. "We probably could have played it somewhere else and been on a completely neutral floor and played in front of a thousand people. Do we want that or do we want to play in that environment today? You know what, I liked playing out there today. I think my kids liked playing out there today. I was proud to be a coach in that game today." ... So, you still want to blame someone? I've got your public enemy No. 1: S-a-b-r-i-n-a. Sabrina Ionescu is her full name, and she wasn't going to let the Ducks lose this game. |
| Kat Moore lifts Mississippi State softball to 12-9 extra-inning victory at Alabama | |
 | With the game locked at 9-9 in the 10th inning, senior Kat Moore knocked a three-run home run to lift Mississippi State softball (22-12, 2-7 SEC) to a 12-9 victory over No. 4 Alabama (36-2, 7-2 SEC). Trailing by five runs, Alabama strung together a nine-run fourth inning to take its lone lead of the game, but the Bulldogs scored four unanswered to lock the game up at 9-9. Junior Christian Quinn helped force extra innings with a home-run robbing grab in the bottom of the sixth. The two squads traded three innings scoreless innings before Moore delivered her game-winning home run in the top of the 10th inning. The victory was Mississippi State's first in Tuscaloosa since 2013. Mississippi State rounds out its five-game road swing on Wednesday, April 3 with a neutral site contest versus Jacksonville State. MSU will meet the Bulldogs in Huntsville, Ala., on the campus of the University of Alabama at Huntsville. |
| LSU tops No. 2-ranked Diamond Dawgs, wins weekend series | |
 | Scattered among the 11,648 onlookers at Dudy Noble Field on Saturday afternoon were pockets of purple and gold. Midway through the top half of the seventh inning, fans donning the harrowed colors of the Bayou Bengals joined together in a chant. "Go," yelled those on the third base side. "Tigers" responded their first baseline counterparts. It was that kind of day in Starkville as the Mississippi State baseball team fell for the second consecutive day to LSU, this time 11-2 in game three of their weekend set. It marked the Diamond Dawgs' first series loss of the Southeastern Conference season and also their first series loss against anybody this year. MSU's next game is Wednesday at home against Louisiana-Monroe. First pitch is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. |
| Injuries limit Bulldogs in first scrimmage | |
| Mississippi State head coach Joe Moorhead and his staff put the team through the first scrimmage of spring practice on Saturday. But due to various injuries, it wasn't the type of scrimmage expected. The Bulldogs went through more of a situational-type of scrimmage at the Seal Complex and scrimmaged for a little over an hour. "We're kinda banged up at certain positions, particularly the interior defensive line," said Moorhead. "So normally today would be a full-live scrimmage. But we felt it was more beneficial to the team to have more of a controlled setting so we can get all of the different situations in today -- first and second down, third down, red zone and goal line. We wanted to keep them off the ground because when you start losing more guys to scrimmages, it's going to be difficult to scrimmage." |
| Ben Portnoy joins Dispatch as Mississippi State athletics beat reporter | |
| Ben Portnoy has joined The Dispatch staff as the beat reporter for Mississippi State University sports. He started work earlier this month and will primarily provide comprehensive coverage of Bulldog athletics -- from game stories and analysis to profiles, enterprise and other human interest stories. Portnoy, 22, is a Washington, D.C. native who graduated from the University of Indiana with a bachelor's degree in journalism. His minors were Spanish and political science. He's interned at the Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he covered IU football; with The Sports Capitol website based in Washington, D.C., where he covered professional teams in the area as well as the Major League Baseball All-Star Game; and even spent the spring 2018 semester as a reporter in Seville, Spain. |
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