Why Dave Kindred still writes...

Excellent segment. Touched on Dave's background, but made it mainly about his work with the high school team.

Been saying the same thing about girls' sports for years ... in part because I watched organizations discriminate against my mother during her more athletic days.

Keep up the good work, Dave.

 

Here's a link to the segment. Dave Kindred goes back on the beat to cover high school girls basketball

 

I really enjoyed the piece. Dave has a remarkable humility for such an accomplished writer. He keeps it pretty simple. Then he writes his ass off. Heartbreaking to hear about his wife. A great man.

 

Enjoyed the 60M piece and was glad they told the story. Quite a legacy.

 

Thanks for the link. Bball ran long and my DVR didn’t get all of it.

 

I understand Kindred's stature in our business and that he is an all-around great guy. I'm not knocking him at all.
But I remember seeing this story 2-3 years ago. Why is it a story again now?
I didn't watch "60 Minutes," maybe they answered that question, maybe there is something new. Don't know.
Is this going to be like the Down kids who get to score a touchdown or a basket? It is a wonderful moment for them. Let them do it. But it is not a major publicity event every time it happens.

 

Was probably just because he was on "60 Minutes". I didn't watch the segment (yet), but also, he recently had a book published about his grandson, Jared Kindred, and Dave's search for information on his life and death. Not sure if that was referenced in the "60 Minutes" segment, but I remember reading somewhere -- possibly in a link about the book -- that it was going to be.

 

He touches on something that I think gets lost in the constant measuring up of where we fit in in the food chain/where we're going etc: it's the process of reporting a story and then writing it that's the addiction. Not who we talk to. Not who reads us. Not "sourcing" etc. I've been lucky to do some pretty cool stuff (tho I am 52 Masters short of Dave) but the joy I get out of covering/reporting/writing a "big" event is no greater than the joy I got 20 years ago when I was doing preps. The stakes/venue/area might change, but the actual art of making it happen has not (at least for me). And I think that's what Dave was really talking about. That sitting in the stands it just sort of "kicked in" and if he finds it therapeutic in the face of personal loss, all the better.

 

I think there was the initial story about him like, wow, this is what he is doing. He said in the piece within like a six-month span after he started this part of his life that his grandson died of an overdose, his mother died and his wife had a stroke that, in his words, made her an invalid and so covering the team has kept him going