What better way to unveil my new website than with a column that has become a tradition in my three-plus decades of Globetrotting coverage focused on Olympic and international sports?
Thus, my 29th annual international sports awards.
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The Godfather of soccer
If there were a tone poem composed about the past year in sports, it would have a recurring theme with discordant sibilance to express sporting scandals, from silly to scurrilous to sordid, that resounded across the globe in 2015.
Implicated were presidents of the world’s two most far-reaching sports federations, Sepp Blatter of FIFA and Lamine Diack of the IAAF.
(A Swiss and a Senegalese. More sibilance.)
My Op-Ed for Around The Rings.
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If there were a podium for figure skating reporters -- or for Olympic sports reporters, to be more inclusive -- longtime journalists Phil Hersh and John Powers would almost certainly be standing on it.
Icenetwork sat down with the two globetrotting journalists to discuss figure skating and their memories of the sport, from the Battle of the Brians in Calgary to the Sochi mixed zone, and everything in between.
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That is when I convinced the first of the eight Chicago Tribune sports editors during my tenure that the newspaper needed someone paying full-time attention to the Olympics from multiple standpoints: sports, bureaucracy, politics. My argument would soon be reinforced, as there were to be three more Olympics in North America from 1996 through 2010, and the Games would move to a biennial schedule.
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Philip Hersh, formerly Olympic specialist for the Chicago Tribune, has covered 20 Olympic Games. He often uses sport as a way to write about the culture of a country or athlete. READ FULL BIO
