Fred Mitchell has covered sports events across the globe ranging from the World Series, the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
 
He now writes the "Around Town" sports column for the Chicago Tribune and appears regularly on local and national television and radio. Mitchell also has served as the beat writer covering the Chicago Cubs, Bears and Bulls during his 34-year career with the Tribune.
 
Mitchell has received numerous awards of recognition, including "Outstanding Sportswriter of the Year," in 2000 by the All-American Football Foundation. In 1997 he was honored as a journalism Hall of Fame inductee by the National Association of Black Journalists. As a veteran member of the Baseball Writers of America, Mitchell has an annual Hall of Fame vote.
 
Mitchell received an honorary doctorate from Wittenberg University in 2000 and he also was named a Wittenberg Fellow in 2001. He is a member of the Wittenberg Board of Directors.
 
He was a three-sport athlete (baseball, football and track) at Tolleston High School in Gary, Indiana. As a student/athlete at Wittenberg, Mitchell was a sprinter on the track team and a place kicker in football. He set the NCAA college division career kick scoring record from 1965-68, which earned him Lutheran College All-American honors and later a spot in the Wittenberg Athletic Hall of Fame.
 
He has written 9 sports books, including "Playing Through," which he wrote with Earl Woods, the late father of No. 1 PGA  golfer Tiger Woods, and more recently autobiographies with Cubs Hall of Fame outfielder Billy Williams and Bears Hall of Fame running back Gale Sayers.Fred Mitchell has covered sports events across the globe ranging from the World Series, the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
 
He now writes the "Around Town" sports column for the Chicago Tribune and appears regularly on local and national television and radio. Mitchell also has served as the beat writer covering the Chicago Cubs, Bears and Bulls during his 34-year career with the Tribune.
 
Mitchell has received numerous awards of recognition, including "Outstanding Sportswriter of the Year," in 2000 by the All-American Football Foundation. In 1997 he was honored as a journalism Hall of Fame inductee by the National Association of Black Journalists. As a veteran member of the Baseball Writers of America, Mitchell has an annual Hall of Fame vote.
 
Mitchell received an honorary doctorate from Wittenberg University in 2000 and he also was named a Wittenberg Fellow in 2001. He is a member of the Wittenberg Board of Directors.
 
He was a three-sport athlete (baseball, football and track) at Tolleston High School in Gary, Indiana. As a student/athlete at Wittenberg, Mitchell was a sprinter on the track team and a place kicker in football. He set the NCAA college division career kick scoring record from 1965-68, which earned him Lutheran College All-American honors and later a spot in the Wittenberg Athletic Hall of Fame.
 
He has written 9 sports books, including "Playing Through," which he wrote with Earl Woods, the late father of No. 1 PGA  golfer Tiger Woods, and more recently autobiographies with Cubs Hall of Fame outfielder Billy Williams and Bears Hall of Fame running back Gale Sayers.