Heard on Campus: Frank DeFord at the Forum

"America produces leisure, of which sport has the advantage of having the dual components -- both participant and spectator. Don't think for a minute either that America is an especially sports-minded country. Sports is the human condition. Wherever I've been in the world -- Indiana, India or Indonesia -- the two things I hear men say are, number one: 'We have the most beautiful women in the world right here,' and number two, 'We have the best sports fans.'"
-- Frank DeFord, Morning Edition commentator on NPR and senior contributing editor at Sports Illustrated, speaking Monday (Dec. 4) on "Sports: The Hype and the Hoopla," at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel. DeFord's talk was the last of the fall semester for the Penn State Faculty Staff Club Forum. For more information on upcoming speakers in the Penn State Forum lineup, visit http://live.psu.edu/story/18687 online.