Marc Krein (Assistant Professor, MA Washington State University): Seven years of experience in sports broadcasting. Independent contractor for ESPN, CBS Sports, FOX Sports, several other independent production companies; Jefferson Pilot Sports, tape operator, editing, tape replay with feeds to MSG, ESPN, HTS, FOX; Media One, Richmond, VA, editing, tape replay with feeds to FOX Sports; World Sports, Harrisburg, NC, tape operation, editing, tape replay with feeds to MSG, ESPN, HTS; ESPN Southeast. Fully certified in ELVS tape delay. Author of several peer-reviewed articles and host for panel presentations on sports broadcasting.
Mike Sowell (Associate Professor, M.S. OSU): Professional sports writer and editor. Co-host of sports trivia radio show; sports editor of the Tulsa Tribune ; author of The Pitch That Killed (Macmillan), July 2, 1903: The Mysterious Death of Hall of Famer Big Ed Delahanty (Macmillan), One Pitch Away (Collier), The History of Baseball (Collier’s Encyclopedia), and Cardtoons—featured in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News and other major media outlets. Mike is a member of the Associated Press Sports Editors, The Authors Guild, The Society for American Baseball Research, and a former member of the Tulsa Sports Commission.
John McGuire (Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Missouri): Thirteen years of broadcast experience; host of sports talk programs; board operator for live sporting events, sports director and play-by-play announcer for high school football, basketball and baseball; host of high school post-game football show.
Ray Murray (Assistant Professor, MA, University of Missouri): 15 years of experience in newspaper sports. Former sports editor and assistant sports editor of the Columbian Missourian, Murray spent 14 1/2 years at the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel as a sportswriter and copy editor.
Lori McKinnon (Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Oklahoma): A public relations expert, responsible for the development and instructor of record for “Sports Public Relations” at the University of Alabama.
