New book: Field Guide to Covering Sports

Our friend and sometimes contributor Joe Gisondi has a new book coming out this spring. It's called a Field Guide to Covering Sports, and it offers practical advice for those fans interested in taking the journalistic leap toward covering sports. The book will become available in March, but you can get more information about pre-orders and/or exam copies here.

Joe continues to teach at Eastern Illinois University and writes an informative blog aimed at helping students and journalists do a better job covering sports. We wish him well with this new publication.

On a completely unrelated note, the Feb. 1 deadline is looming for abstracts for the Third Sport, Race and Ethnicity Conference, July 15-18 in the West Indies. There is more information here about the call and other particulars of the conference.