Solomon, a former Washington Post sports editor, serves as coordinator for the Shirley Povich Symposium, a panel of professional athletes, sports professionals and reporters discussing the day’s leading topics in athletics. Speakers at Wednesday night’s event (7 p.m. at the University of Maryland’s Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center) include Kevin Anderson, the university’s athletic director, and former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue. The event, which is free and open to the public, will also celebrate the creation of the Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism, where Solomon will serve as director. How long has this event been celebrated?

This is a sixth annual event, the Shirley Povich Sports Journalism Symposium, and we thought the intersection of sports and society and culture was worthy of an event for public discussion and public discourse.