This week’s guest is US Sportswriter Roland Lazenby. Roland is a prolific author and biographer with more than 50 books to his name including acclaimed biographies of Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.
We talk about what truly drove Jordan, and what it was like to cover his iconic career as a reporter.
Roland is also a teacher, and was teaching a media class in Virginia Tech on the day a student opened fire and killed 32 people in the deadliest school shooting in the history of the United States. Roland and his students’ reaction was remarkable: they crouched beneath their desks for safety...and then began reporting. Their live reporting became the basis for all of the national and international coverage of the horrifying event.
Roland’s picks were: The work of David Halberstam; The work of Kurt Vonnegut; The work of Robert Caro
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