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Kevin Bruce Blackistone (born October 17, 1959) is an American sports journalist and professor, as well as a frequent panelist for ESPN's ''Around the Horn'' and for Comcast's Redskins Postgame Live. On radio, he appears as a frequent guest co-host on the Sports Reporters on DC's ESPN980. As of October 23, 2014, Blackistone has 208 wins on Around the Horn. ==Career== Blackistone was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Hyattsville, Maryland. He is a graduate of Our Lady of Good Counsel High School. Blackistone started his career in journalism as a city side reporter at ''The Boston Globe'' newspaper in 1981, after graduating from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. In 1983, he wrote for ''The Chicago Reporter'', a monthly investigative magazine on Chicago's racial and social issues. In 1986, Blackistone joined ''The Dallas Morning News'' as a reporter in the City section; he later moved to the Business section covering economics, and the Metropolitan section covering city events and issues.〔 After covering Nelson Mandela's U.S. tour in 1990, moved to ''SportsDay'' to cover sports business and write columns. A year later, he became a full-time ''SportsDay'' columnist. He continued until September 2006, when Blackistone was one of 111 journalists to accept a buyout offer from the ''News'', forcing his departure from the newspaper on September 15, 2006. Editor Bob Mong, in an article on the buyouts, wrote of Blackistone: "His thoughtful and probing journalism almost always stimulated response from readers, and, in this hyper-busy world, that's saying something." Blackistone recently has served as a contributing writer to the web site (Politico.com ). He served as a columnist for the sports–oriented website ''FanHouse'' from October 2007 – March 2011; Blackistone left the website when it was bought by the ''Sporting News''.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sportsbybrooks.com/sources-kevin-blackistone-spurns-aolsporting-news-29529 )〕 He is currently an independent columnist, and contributes to the iPad-only newspaper The Daily.〔 In August 2008, he accepted the position of the Shirley Povich chair of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, where he now teaches sports journalism.〔 Cleveland racist 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kevin Blackistone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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