What: "SportsCenter Stories: Good Stories, Great Writing and Do I Have to Wear Pants?"
Where: Emens Auditorium
When: 7:30 p.m. March 23
The event is free, but tickets should be reserved at the Emens Box Office, located in Sursa Hall, prior to the event.
It's not every day an Emmy Award-winning speaker travels to campus, but tomorrow, ESPN’s John Anderson will be coming to Ball State to discuss sports journalism and entertainment.
Anderson's lecture “SportsCenter Stories: Good Stories, Great Writing and Do I Have to Wear Pants?” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in John R. Emens Auditorium.
The event was rescheduled from the original lecture date in October "due to an emergency," according to a press release sent out by the university.
Anderson is an anchor on the ESPN daily sports news show “SportsCenter,” where he is mostly seen in the studio or at major sporting events on the 11 p.m. program.
Christopher Taylor, who is the director of digital sports production at Ball State, said having someone of Anderson's caliber is a good sign for the program and the university.
"For the Letterman lectures series and for Ball State sports and for what we are doing at SportsLink, having the external validation of someone of his prominence is very, very important to what we're doing," Taylor said in an earlier interview with The Daily News. "I think he is one of the most well-respected sports-media folks out there."
Anderson got his broadcast career start at KOMU-TV in Columbia, Missouri. He then worked in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Phoenix, Arizona before joining ESPN in 1999 as an anchor on ESPNews.
He has previously been a co-host of "Wipeout," the extreme obstacle course TV show on ABC and was also the voice of a sportscaster alien from the future in an episode of the Disney XD animated series "Penn Zero: Part Time Hero" in 2015.
Anderson is the newest speaker in the annual David Letterman Distinguished Professional Lecture and Workshop Series.
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