ESPN's Claire Smith: Race, Gender, and Sports

By Kaye McIntyre

Published February 18, 2018 at 5:00 AM CST

Photo by Ann Dean, courtesy of KU School of Business

Week of February 18, 2018: we mark Black History Month with a conversation on race, gender, and sports. ESPN's Claire Smith was the keynote speaker at KU's fourth annual Power of Sport symposium. She talks about her forty years as a sportswriter and journalist in this February 1st event, sponsored by KU Athletics, the KU School of Business, and the Langston Hughes Center.

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Kaye McIntyre

Kaye starts her weekends the same way you do: with Weekend Edition Saturday, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, This American Life, and To the Best of Our Knowledge. She started at Kansas Public Radio in 2001; in 2006, she became the producer of our weekly public affairs program, KPR Presents. In her spare time, she loves to read, travel, and attend theater.

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