For more than a decade, the Fordham University Sports Communication Institute has helped prep students looking for careers in the sports media industry.  The two-week, two-session-a-day course, which includes guest lectures by such luminaries as the TV voice of the N.Y. Knicks and NBA ESPN play-by-play man Mike Breen (pictured); Clifton Brown of The Sporting News, Brandon Steiner, founder of Steiner Sports and David Newman, Senior VP of the N.Y. Mets, concludes Thursday.

The Institute, developed and co-instructed by John Cirillo, President of Cirillo World, and Dr. Ron Jacobson, associate VP of Academic Affairs at Fordham, also includes field trips to sports organizations like the Mets and NFL and specialty events like Thursday’s Women in Sports Media panel with Barbara Barker of Newsday, Lolita Lopez of WPIX-TV and Lauren Spencer, formerly of WNBC-TV Sports.

Fordham, located in the Bronx, N.Y., is the alma mater of dozens of highly-respected sports media professionals, including Breen, Vin Scully, Michael Kay and Jack Curry, as well as two of its most famous sporting alums, Vince Lombardi and “The Fordham Flash,” Frankie Frisch.