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Alumna Sarina Morales traded her baseball bat for ESPN
By Brianna Moné
October 7, 2016 - 11:02am
Sarina Morales, now an on-air contributor for SportsCenter:AM, spoke on race, gender, and sports as the commemorative speaker for Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month.

She was the only girl on her baseball team. Her dream — to play centerfield for the New York Yankees.

As she gets up to bat in front of a huge crowd of people in the Bronx, most of whom have come to scope her out to see if she can really play, the opposing team sits down on the field. The opposing team didn’t believe in her, and her own team didn’t cheer her on either.

The pitcher threw her a soft toss, she took it, and she didn’t quit. She went home, cried and grew a thick skin.

Panel discusses lack of women's sports coverage
By Dearbea Walker
March 2, 2016 - 11:50am
Speakers from ESPN, NBC Sports Group, Fox Sports, USA TODAY Sports, CBS News came to share their experiences and thoughts on the difficulties of sports reporting at the Sports Matters panel discussion.

Vera Jones believes the sheer lack of women's sports coverage has a direct correlation — money.

ESPN broadcaster Beth Mowins visits Syracuse
By Tyler Piccotti
September 30, 2014 - 2:53am
The Syracuse alum spoke to students about her career, the future of women in the play-by-play booth.

Beth Mowins has called a lot of games during her career as a broadcaster, but one stands out more than any other.

She can vividly recall every detail of the night she met NBA legend Michael Jordan while working for NBA Radio.

"Michael walked over and shook my hand," Mowins said with a smile. "This is the most famous person in the world, and then to be able to sit courtside and Michael's running up and down the floor... that was one of my ultimate highlights."

Shafer, Orange aiming for improvement
By Tyler Piccotti
July 28, 2014 - 6:06pm
Syracuse head football coach sets season goal of eight victories during ESPN visit Monday.

Syracuse clawed its way to a bowl game last season, the school's first in the ACC, but head coach Scott Shafer is expecting even more in 2014.

Shafer joined Florida State's Jimbo Fisher, Louisville's Bobby Petrino and four other ACC coaches as part of ESPN's mid-summer "car wash" on Monday. The annual event invites coaches from around the country to appear across multiple platforms at the network's Bristol, Conn., headquarters.

ESPN baseball personalities speak at Newhouse
By Georgie Silvarole
February 3, 2014 - 5:29pm
Jayson Stark '73, Tim Kurkjian and Dan Shulman shared their paths to sports reporting and advice to aspiring journalists.

Students and faculty packed the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium Friday when three ESPN baseball personalities visited the Newhouse School.

“There are really two reasons I am where I am in life,” said Jayson Stark ‘73, a graduate of the Newhouse School. “One is because I’m one of those lucky people in the world who is doing exactly what I dreamed of doing since I was nine years old. And the second reason I am here today is because I went to Syracuse.”

Panel discusses women in the sports industry
By Marabia Courtne...
April 10, 2013 - 8:04pm
Women in Sports and Events hosted its second annual symposium Tuesday to address the issues that women in the sports industry face.

Students and community members came out to the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium Wednesday for the second annual sports symposium presented by Women in Sports and Events or WISE. 

Loss to UConn marred by Boeheim's postgame comments
By Sean Walker
February 14, 2013 - 12:51pm
Syracuse's recent upset loss at UConn may have been overshadowed by a confrontation between the long-time head coach and an ESPN reporter in the post-game press conference.

The Syracuse men's basketball team suffered a shocking 66-58 loss at Connecticut on Wednesday night in the teams' final Big East regular season meeting.

But the fireworks weren't limited to the on-court effort.

Fab Melo to miss the NCAA tournament
By Ryan Marfurt
March 13, 2012 - 4:01pm
The sophomore center did not travel with the team to Pittsburgh and will sit out the entire tournament due to eligibility issues

Syracuse starting center Fab Melo will not participate in the NCAA Tournament and did not travel with his teammates to Pittsburgh for the first round, accroding to SUAthletics.com.

When the game turned grim
By Jon Krouner
February 23, 2012 - 9:07pm
Representatives from ESPN, The New York Times, Sporting News, The Post-Standard, and The Patriot News discussed covering sports Scandals in Newhouse on Thursday.

Local and national media gathered on Thursday to discuss the rigors and risks of covering sports scandals as part of “When Games Turn Grim,” a daylong sports scandal symposium hosted by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Moderated by Dean Joel Kaplan, panelists discussed, analyzed and dissected media coverage of the Jerry Sandusky and Bernie Fine scandals which broke last fall.

Syracuse fires Fine amid investigation
By Fred Omar Imbert
November 28, 2011 - 1:46am
Syracuse University fired men's basketball associate coach Bernie Fine Sunday after a third man stepped forward, accusing the longtime coach of molesting him when he was younger and ESPN released a taped conversation between Fine's wife and accuser Bobby Davis.

Bernie Fine, Syracuse University men’s basketball associate head coach, was fired by the university Sunday after sexual assault allegations toward Bobby Davis, a former ball boy for the men’s basketball team, surfaced last week.