The conference, which runs through Friday, March 3, features Lombardi biographer David Maraniss and sports commentators Frank Deford, Chris Berman and Dick Schaap. All sessions will be held in the Salomon Center for Teaching, on The College Green. They are free and open to the public.
Doors open an hour before each event begins.
Several guest speakers are available for telephone interviews before the conference opens. Contact the News Service for details. David Halberstam will present the conference's keynote address at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27. Halberstam regularly uses sports as a prism through which he views culture, history, race, and society. Halberstam's lecture is the Michael P. Metcalf-Howard R. Swearer Memorial Lecture, an annual address honoring the memory of public affairs conference founders Michael P. Metcalf, former chairman and publisher of the Providence Journal, and Howard R. Swearer, Brown's 15th president.