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March 29, 2021

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Hall of Fame sports writer and À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ alumnus Dave Kindred ’63 is the subject of a that aired Sunday, March 28 on CBS.

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Sports Illustrated executive editor and 60 Minutes contributing correspondent Jon Wertheim traveled to Central Illinois in February to interview Kindred for the segment. A 60 Minutes producer also visited Illinois Wesleyan to peruse housed in IWU's Tate Archives and Special Collections in The Ames Library.

Over a career spanning more than 50 years, Kindred covered every major sporting event in America while writing for the Louisville Courier-Journal , the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , the Washington Post and Sporting News . After retiring with his wife, Cheryl, to Central Illinois in 2010, Kindred has spent the past decade on a self-appointed beat chronicling the Morton High School girls basketball team — . Kindred also recently authored a book, Leave Out the Tragic Parts: A Grandfather's Search for a Boy Lost to Addiction .

An English major at Illinois Wesleyan, Kindred donated his expansive collection of correspondence, columns, and reporter’s notebooks to the University for a collection that opened in 2019 . University Archivist Meg Miner submitted scans of several selections from The Dave Kindred Papers collection for the 60 Minutes segment.

By John Twork