Sports Matters Symposium; “Covering Domestic Violence Issues: Have Sports Media Done Enough?” Panel

Syracuse University’s Newhouse Sports Media Center hosted a daylong symposium examining current issues in sports and sports media on Wednesday, Feb. 25. “Sports Matters,” three panel discussions. The second, “Covering Domestic Violence Issues: Have Sports Media Done Enough?” featured the following panelists: Jon Frankel ’86 (correspondent, HBO Real Sports) Don McPherson ’87 (activist and sportscaster) Keri Potts ’98, G’99 (senior director of PR, ESPN) CJ Silas ’90 (host, ESPN Radio San Luis Obispo and author, “No Girls Allowed: The Jock and Jill Mentality of Sports Broadcasting”) Anne Osborne, associate professor of communications at the Newhouse School, moderates