Seth Wickersham will deliver the Frank Deford Lecture in Sports Journalism on March 25. Wickersham, a Senior Writer at ESPN, has been with the Worldwide Leader for over two decades. His primary focus is long form enterprise and investigative work on the NFL. Wickersham authored two NYT bestsellers:
- It’s Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness
- American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback
A collection of his ESPN work, Be on That Hill, is forthcoming.
In 2018, Wickersham was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting, and has been part of a staff that has three times won the NMA for General Excellence. His stories have been anthologized in the Best American Magazine Writing, the Best American Sports Writing, Next Wave: America’s New Generation of Great Literary Journalists, and in Words Matter: Writing to Make a Difference. He has won awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and the Pro Football Writers Association. In 2015, he won a Folio Award for Best Single Story – Sports, and received a second-place National Headliner Award in Magazine Feature Writing.
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- March 25th, 2026 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm Add to Google Calendar Add to Outlook Calendar Download .ics
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Location: Deley Center for New Media auditorium (DMC 2.106)
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