David Kindred has been a newspaper and magazine columnist for thirty-six years and has written seven books, including Around the World in 18 Holes (Doubleday 1994), a chronicle of a 37,000-mile golf trip. For his newspaper work, Kindred received the Associated Press Sports Editors Red Award and is a three-time Pulitzer nominee. The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association named him the national sportswriter of the year in 1997 and he is a member of the U.S. Basketball Writers Hall of Fame.