Planning on attending the National Championship Celebration? Celebrate with Tony Barnhart first! Tony “Mr. College Football” Barnhart and Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg will speak at Auburn University on January 21-22, 2011.
Barnhart will give a luncheon address on Saturday, January 22, at 11:30 a.m. For those attending the National Championship Celebration, transportation will be provided to and from Jordan-Hare Stadium. Tickets to the lunch with Barnhart are $30.
Barnhart’s talk is entitled “College Football Is Not a Game. It Is a Way of Life.” Now in his 34th season as a reporter for television, radio and the internet, Barnhart can be heard on “The Tony Barnhart Show” (CBS) and is a regular commentator on “College Football Today” (CBS). His “Talkin’ Football” airs weekly on CSS. The 1999 Georgia Sports Writer of the Year, Barnhart was the 2009 recipient of the Bert McGrane Award, which represents the Football Writers Association of America wing of the College Football Hall of Fame. A reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for 24 years, he continues to write a daily college football blog, Mr. College Football, on ajc.com.
Bragg will give a dinner address on Friday, January 21 at 6 p.m. Tickets to the Bragg program are $50.
After growing up in the community of Possum Trot near Jacksonville, Alabama, Bragg worked at several newspapers before joining the New York Times in 1994. He covered murders and unrest in Haiti, then wrote about the Oklahoma City bombing, the Jonesboro killings, the Susan Smith trial and more as a national correspondent based in Atlanta. He currently teaches at the University of Alabama's journalism program in its College of Communications. His most recent book is The Most They Ever Had, set in Jacksonville and described as a brilliant evocation of the “hardscrabble lives of those who lived and died by an American cotton mill.”
Both speakers are part of the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts two-day public symposium, Becoming Alabama: Who, What, When, Where and Why. Focusing on how the press has recorded, reported and shaped Alabama politics, culture and opinion, Becoming Alabama will also feature popular columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson, NPR’s Debbie Elliott and faculty and students from the College of Liberal Arts’ Department of Communication and Journalism.
Reservations may be made online at www.auburn.edu/cah or by calling 334-844-4946. Registration deadline for meals is Tuesday, January 18. The conference is open to the public. For additional information and a list of presenters, visit our website or call 334-844-4946. Students may register at no cost.
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