ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University professor and men's soccer team faculty advisor Grant Farred will appear on ESPN's Outside The Lines on Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. The subject of Tuesday's show will be the NBA's Boston Celtics winning their first championship since the 1986 death of Len Bias to a drug overdose.
Farred, who serves as one of three faculty advisors for the Cornell men's soccer team along with Director of Financial Aid and Student Employment Tom Keane and history professor Derek Chang, joined the faculty in the Africana Studies and Research Center last fall after previously working in the Literature Program at Duke University. Farred's career also includes stops at Williams College and Michigan University. He has written books on a wide variety of topics, including post-colonial theory, race, formation of intellectuals, sport theory and cultural and literary studies. His most recent book, Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football, details his lifelong love of his favorite professional club, Liverpool F.C. of the English Premier League.
Farred's official biography from the Africana Studies and Research Center can be found here.
Tuesday's Outside The Lines program will detail how the death of Bias to a cocaine overdose just two days after his selection in the NBA Draft has impacted the sporting world in the 22 years since.