David Steele Email & Phone Number

Sports and betting reporter for Portfolio Media/subsidiary of LexisNexis. Subscription-only.

Contributing writer to publications and educational platforms, on topics including sports, culture, health, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Content has appeared in ESPN's The Undefeated, The Grio, NAACP's The Crisis, Washington (D.C.) City Paper, Black Health Matters, First and Pen, and.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Covers news and features about all institutions of higher learning, for U.S. base of Times Higher Education (THE).

College Park, Maryland, United States

Teaching a course on Sports and Society at the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park, for the spring 2022 semester. Among required reading is "Silent Gesture," the 2007 autobiography of Tommie Smith I co-authored.

Provided features, columns, enterprise stories and analysis for the oldest sports periodical in the United States. Beginning in 2017, U.S. portal for DAZN/Perform Media.

Joined the staff as a college basketball writer, covering national stories while concentrating on the Washington-Baltimore region. Wrote occasional feature and enterprise stories and live events other than college basketball. Became a senior writer in the fall of 2010 and added general columns to my responsibilities, while expanding the features and.

Wrote three to four columns weekly for the largest-circulation daily newspaper in Maryland, and added content to baltimoresun.com - weekly audio podcasts, occasional videocasts and a blog, "Steele Press." Made weekly guest appearances on talk shows for WNST-AM and Fox Sports Radio, and contributed to sports features, specials, documentaries and annual NFL.

Wrote general sports columns for the largest daily newspaper in Northern California for five years, after four years as the beat writer for the NBA's Golden State Warriors. Spent one summer writing features, analysis and opinion for the Chronicle's Sunday Insight section, on both sports and non-sports topics. Assisted on coverage of the school massacre in.

Covered the New York Knicks and the NBA for the daily paper in New York City and Long Island. Also worked on the copy desk for five months prior to becoming the Knicks beat writer. Regular guest on the "Tipoff With New York Newsday" segment of the pre-game show on the Knicks radio network.

Wrote about local youth and college sports for a member of the then-Times Mirror chain, a sister paper to the largest daily newspaper in Connecticut, the Hartford Courant. Wrote about high school basketball and football, youth league baseball and basketball, youth track and field and was a copy editor.

Joined inaugural staff of the first national all-sports newspaper as the beat writer for the New York Knicks of the NBA. Became the correspondent for the Washington-Baltimore regional edition in 1991; paper ceased publication in June 1991. After its demise, wrote freelance stories for several local and national publications and was a regular guest on the.

Started as a general assignment writer contributing to coverage of major league baseball, the NFL, college football and basketball. Began covering the then-New Jersey Nets of the NBA in the fall of 1988 and later assisted on New York Knicks coverage in the playoffs.

Joined the company as a general assignment writer for the St. Petersburg Evening Independent, became the beat writer for the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the summer of 1986. The Evening Independent ceased publication in November 1986 and the staffs merged; became a copy editor for the Times, then added general assignment duties in spring 1987 and began.