Charles Fountain

Road racing cyclist Lance Arm­strong has report­edly admitted to using per­for­mance enhancing drugs in an exclu­sive inter­view with Oprah Win­frey. We asked a trio of experts to explain how this news will affect him in the court of law and public opinion.

On Tuesday, a panel dis­cus­sion on sports, race and media con­tinued Northeastern’s cel­e­bra­tion of Black His­tory Month.

The St. Louis Car­di­nals com­pleted an improb­able come­back win over the Texas Rangers in Game 6 of the World Series, in what one base­ball expert deemed a game for both the “story books and the his­tory books.” The Car­di­nals then capped-​​off a remark­able run through the post­season with a 6–2 vic­tory in Game 7. We asked jour­nalism pro­fessor Charles Foun­tain, who has written about sports for many years, to ana­lyze the pas­toral nature of base­ball and the effect of the Fall Classic on the future of the game.

Before the season, many sports experts pegged the Boston Red Sox as the best team in base­ball. So a late-​​season epic col­lapse that kept the team out of the play­offs was all the more shocking. Fans and jour­nal­ists demanded answers, and an explo­sive Boston Globe story out­lined details of a sup­pos­edly out-​​of-​​control club­house and dis­tracted man­ager. We asked jour­nalism pro­fessor Charles Foun­tain, who has written about sports for many years, to examine the team’s Sep­tember swoon and the ensuing media coverage.

Pro­fessor Charles Foun­tain, whose book, “Under the March Sun,” exam­ines the spring training season, offers his insights on spring training’s sur­vival, despite the strug­gling Florida and Ari­zona economies, and the inno­cence it man­ages to maintain.

North­eastern Uni­ver­sity jour­nalism pro­fes­sors Charles Foun­tain and Dan Kennedy dis­cuss Walter Cronkite and the evo­lu­tion of media in America.

Avid base­ball fan, jour­nalism pro­fessor dis­cusses annual tradition