EP #117 - 9.1.2020 Education, COVID-19 and Sports with Billy

(This is the 117th episode, the host misspoke in the intro and said 116)

Today we will talk about sports, the pandemic, and racial justice with Billy Witz, reporter for the NYTimes.

Billy Witz is a sports reporter for The New York Times. He has spent the last year covering college sports, writing about everything from how the University of Alabama uses phone-tracking technology to prevent students from leaving football games early; to chronicling a University of Mississippi basketball player’s decision to take a knee during the national anthem in response to white supremacists marching on campus.

Witz has been at the paper since 2015, when he arrived to cover the New York Yankees, which he did for four seasons.

Among the national recognition he has received is an Associated Press Managing Editors’ first-place award for an investigative series on a high school basketball powerhouse built on foreign players with falsified immigration documents.

Witz is a graduate of Tulane University, where he studied sociology.