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2020 Special Awards Announcements
The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) continues its weeklong announcement of its 2020 Special Awards Thursday by recognizing two individuals who are providing outstanding service to the organization and to collegiate athletics.
Malcolm Moran, Director of the Sports Capital Journalism Program at IUPUI and the Executive Director of the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), will receive the
Keith Jackson Eternal Flame Award. This is presented to an individual who has made a lasting contribution to intercollegiate athletics, has demonstrated a long and consistent commitment to excellence, and has been a loyal supporter of CoSIDA and its mission.
The
Jake Wade Award, presented annually to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution in the media to the field of intercollegiate athletics, will go to
Ivan Maisel, a senior writer for ESPN.com.
All 2020 Special Award winners will be honored at CoSIDA’s annual convention which takes place June 7-10 at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. The CoSIDA Convention is held in conjunction with NACDA and Affiliates Convention Week.
Past recipients of the Keith Jackson Eternal Flame Award
Past recipients of the Jake Wade Award
Here's a closer look at these special awards recipients.
KEITH JACKSON ETERNAL FLAME AWARD
Malcolm Moran
IUPUI, Director of Sports Capital Journalism Program
United States Basketball Writers Association, Executive Director
Award-winning storyteller teaching the next generation of sports journalists and advocating for CoSIDA and its professionals.
After a career as an award-winning reporter and columnist at
The New York Times, USA TODAY, Newsday, Chicago Tribune and other publications,
Malcolm Moran has turned his attention to directing sports journalism programs for more than a decade. Currently the director of the Sports Capital Journalism Program at the University of Indiana’s IUPUI campus in Indianapolis, he joined the IUPUI faculty in January of 2013. Prior to that, Moran was the inaugural Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society at Penn State University where he directed the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism for more than six years.
A tremendous supporter and advocate of CoSIDA and the athletic communications profession, Moran also has been a frequent panelist on CoSIDA continuing education webinars, serves as a contributor to CoSIDA publications, and has presented on topics of writing, the media, media relations, crisis communications and gambling awareness at numerous CoSIDA conventions.
With the mission to advance sports journalism and the art of storytelling in athletics, Moran has directed IUPUI students in their coverage of the Bowl Championship Series, College Football Playoff, NCAA Division I Men’s Final Four, World Baseball Classic, NFL Scouting Combine, Indianapolis 500 and the Olympic Games at Rio de Janeiro.
Additionally, Moran is heavily involved in promoting collegiate basketball and enhancing relationships between media, coaches and athletic communications professionals in his new role as the Executive Director of the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA). A long-time USBWA member and past president who was inducted into the USBWA Hall of Fame in 2005, Moran assumed the Executive Director role last January. (He took over for the retired Joe Mitch, another 2020 CoSIDA Special Awards honoree who will enter the
CoSIDA Hall of Fame this June.)
Moran has covered more than 30 post-season college football games with national championship implications as well as 37 NCAA Final Fours, 11 Super Bowls, 16 World Series and four Olympic Games.
A long-time member of the board of the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), Moran has had several stories recognized in the organization’s best writing contest. In 2007, Moran received the Curt Gowdy Print Media Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for lifetime coverage of basketball. He also is a member of the National Football Foundation Awards Committee.
Past recipients of the Keith Jackson Eternal Flame Award
JAKE WADE AWARD
Ivan Maisel
ESPN.com, Senior Writer
Award-winning national leader in sports reporting excellence.
Ivan Maisel has a long and distinguished career as a sports journalist and has been on the college football beat for over two decades. He has covered college football as a senior writer for ESPN since 2002, writing for ESPN.com, appearing on television, ESPN Radio and on podcasts.
He recently served as Editor-at-Large for ESPN College Football 150 during the year-long celebration of College Football 150th Anniversary. As part of the celebration, ESPN embarked on the multi-platform storytelling experience commemorating the 150-year history of the sport, prior to and through, the 2019 season.
In that role Maisel served as writer and host of Down & Distance, a podcast series; as a producer of The American Game and The Greatest, two 11-week series on ESPN; and as a producer on Saturdays in the South, an eight-week series on the SEC Network. Additionally, he contributed to and publicized the ESPN.com “My Story” series of one-minute video testimonials from all parties associated with college football -- current and former players, coaches, administrators, media, and fans – who offered memories of the game through some of the best untold stories. Numerous CoSIDA members and former sports information directors were featured in this series.
Prior to his ESPN duties, Maisel served as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and CNNSI.com for five years. Prior writing and reporting experience including covering national college sports for Newsday (1994 to 1997) and for The Dallas Morning News (1987-94) and serving as The Sporting News’ college football columnist.
Among his honors, Maisel received the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) 2016 Bert McGrane Award, the equivalent of the organization’s Hall of Fame. The Associated Press Sports Editors have recognized him twice, and in 2019 named him one of the 10 best sports columnists in the nation.
He has received “Best Story” honors seven times from the FWAA - most recently for a 2018 ESPN.com column about the family of Tyler Hilinski, the Washington State quarterback who ended his life in January of that year.
Maisel also is the author of two books, “A War in Dixie: Alabama vs. Auburn” and “The Maisel Report: College Football's Most Overrated and Underrated Players, Coaches, Teams, and Traditions.” He also serves on the Honors Court, which selects the members of the College Football Hall of Fame for the National Football Foundation.
Past recipients of the Jake Wade Award