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Dave Kindred (??? ??? – ??? ???), is an American sportswriter and author who currently serves as senior writer at Golf Digest and contributor to Sporting News. He has written nine books and has been honored with numerous awards during the course of his nearly four decades of journalism, including induction to the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame in 2007.

Early Life and Education
Kindred is a native of Atlanta, Illinois, and attended Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois on a journalism scholarship funded by The Pantagraph. In college, he played baseball under legendary coach Jack Horenberger and honed his journalism skills working at the Pantagraph and as sports editor of the Argus, IWU's student-run newspaper. A graduate of 1963, Kindred attended IWU at the same time as longtime Kansas City Royals play-by-play announcer Denny Matthews.

Career
After graduating, Kindred joined the Pantagraph on a full-time basis. He later moved on to work at the Lousiville Journal-Courier, during which time he established himself as one of few journalists able to build a friendly rapport with heavyweight champion and Louisville native Muhammad Ali. Kindred later would chronicle Ali's life and relationship with sportscaster Howard Cosell in his 2006 book Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship. Kindred later went on to work as a columnist at the 'Washington Post', the 'The Atlanta Journal-Constitution', and The National.

Kindred received the 1991 Red Smith Award for Lifetime Achievement and was named the 1997 National Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. In 1998, he was given Illinois Wesleyan’s Distinguished Alumnus Award and was the recipient of the Curt Gowdy Award for outstanding contributions to basketball in 2000.