Dave Kindred is an American Columnist, Author, and teacher based in Illinois. ^[3]

Kindred grew up in Atlanta, Illinois and attended Illinois Wesleyan. ^[3] He married his high school sweetheart, Cheryl. ^[10]

Kindred has been a Columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal , the Washington Post , the, and Golf Digest . ^[10] He is a director of Indiana University's National Sports Journalism Center and an adjunct professor at Bradley University and his alma mater, Illinois Wesleyan University. ^[10] Some of the most notable things he covered were Joe Theisman leading the Washington Redskins to the Super Bowl and writing about the Dream Team in the 1992 Olympics. ^[13] At the end of his career, Kindred went back to his roots and started covering girls basketball at Morton High School. ^[17]

Kindred is the author of several books including Heroes, Fools and Other Dreamers: A Sportswriter's Gallery of Extraordinary People, Around the World in 18 Holes, The Colorado Silver Bullets for the Love of the Game: For the Love of the Game: Women Who Go Toe-To-Toe With the Men,Morning Miracle: Inside the Washington Post The Fight to Keep a Great Newspaper Alive, and ** Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship (the dual biography of Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell) . [1] **

Dave's work has earned him the the Red Smith Award (sports journalism’s highest honor), Curt Gowdy Award (for outstanding contributions to basketball) as well as a National Headliner award for general-interest columns.

^[11] He is a member of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame.

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