Jim Miller has spent four decades in the sports world as a journalist, executive and author. After eleven years as a newspaper reporter in Louisville and Baltimore, the Kentucky native joined the National Football League Management Council in 1981. A 21-year NFL career followed which included positions with the New Orleans Saints, Buffalo Bills and Chicago Bears.

            Miller became athletics director at the University of New Orleans in 2003, guiding the program through Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath until retiring in 2010. Miller returned to full-time writing and chronicled the Katrina ordeal in his 2012 book, Where the Water Kept Rising. His current book – Integrated: the Lincoln Institute, Basketball and a Vanished Tradition – was published on March 15 after it was judged a finalist in the narrative non-fiction category of the Wisdom-Faulkner Competition at New Orleans’ prestigious Words and Music Literary Festival.

            Miller operates a sports-related website at: www.JWMillerSports.com and appears frequently on television, radio and online sites as an expert commentator on the business of professional sports and college athletics.