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Spring Speaker Reception
April 10, 2016
From Typewriters at the Sun Office to Live Tweeting at the Super Bowl: How technology has changed sportswriting over a 35-year career
This event was held at Nauvoo Grill Club in Fair Haven. Over 35 attendees were treated to hors d'oeuvres and a light dinner. Two raffle baskets brought in substantial donations to our Alumni Memorial Scholarship Fund. |
 Our venue |
 L to R: Wendy Harman '82, Arthur Kretschman '85, Ed Butler '63, Cliff Fishman '70, Carole Fishman '70, Dale Harman '82 |
 Marissa Russotto, BJ Dowlen '09, Jim Graf '80, John Russotto |
 Polly Chu '81 (CCMO President), Barbara Bennett '77, Donald Levy '77 |
 Pat Reilly '82, Linda Meltzer '64, Carole Fishman '70, Richard Meltzer '65 |
 Anne Mayer '77, Bruce Wagner '64, Dan Tagatac GR |
 Raffle baskets containing theater tickets, Finger Lakes wines, Cornell mugs and more |
 Claire Stack '15, Cornell Alumni Affairs, staffed the welcome table |
 Margaret Graf '80 introduced our speaker |
 Speaker Neil Best '82 |
 Neil Best displaying obsolete technology |
 Polly Chu '81 and BJ Dowlen '09 |
 David Fischell '75 and Rhonda Anderson '83 |
 Sports mementos gathered by the speaker over 35 years |
Neil
Best ’82, sports business and media columnist at
Newsday, discussed how changes in technology - especially
the Internet and all that it has wrought - have altered the
business of sports journalism over the decades, and some
ways in which it hasn't. He answered a stream of questions
about sports, athletes, coaches, the business of sports and
more. And he told us what Derek Jeter is really like (what
you see is what you get) to what Mike Francesa's den looks
like to how he helped the Giants win Super Bowl XLII.
