Silver Presidential Lectureship to Feature Ivan Maisel

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Posted on September 18, 2024

Amber Day

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Please join the University of South Alabama for the Irving Silver and Frances Grodsky Silver Endowed Presidential Lectureship to feature speaker Ivan Maisel, author and hall of fame columnist. This free event will be held Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024 at 4 p.m. at the MacQueen Alumni Center.

Maisel covered college football for more than four decades, most prominently at ESPN from 2002-2021, where he wrote for ESPN.com, appeared on television, ESPN Radio and on podcasts. He also served as editor-at-large for ESPN College Football 150, the multi-platform history project that in 2019 commemorated the sesquicentennial of the sport. As editor-at-large, Maisel served as writer and host of “Down & Distance,” a podcast series, as well as a producer of more than 30 hours of original programming in three series and two documentaries. One series, “Saturdays in the South,” and one documentary, “Football is US: The College Game,” received four medals from the 2020 New York Festival TV & Film Awards.

Prior to joining ESPN, Maisel also covered national college football for Sports Illustrated, Newsday and The Dallas Morning News. Most recently, he served as vice president, editorial, and part-owner of On3, a new college football website/app. Maisel left the site in June 2023 to focus on writing books, but retains his ownership. 

He has been honored nine times for Best Story by the Football Writers Association of America, and twice by The Associated Press Sports Editors, which in 2019 named him one of the 10 best sports columnists. He has written three books, including “I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye,” a memoir of dealing with grief after the death of his son in 2015, for Hachette. He is currently writing a biography of Frank Leahy, the head football coach at Notre Dame before and after World War II. It will be published in September 2025.

Maisel is a second-generation graduate of Murphy High and earned a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies at Stanford University in 1981.

Please register to attend the event at SouthAlabama.edu/PresidentialLectureship

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