WESTPORT — Sports journalist Jeremy Schaap, a veteran ESPN reporter and Westport resident, will recount memorable events and personalities from his 30-year career at a Sept. 21 Westport Library program.

The event will feature Schaap in discussion with fellow sports broadcaster and Westporter Dave Briggs in a program set for 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, at the library, 20 Jesup Road. A “sports bar” will open before the discussion begins at 6:30 p.m.

To register to attend the free program, click here.

Schaap, who joined ESPN in 1994, is the host of the network’s “E:60”  and  “Outside the Lines” programs, as well as the weekly radio show and podcast, “The Sporting Life.”

He has reported on some of the world’s major sporting events, from the Olympics to the Super Bowl and the FIFA World Cup to the World Series and college basketball championships to Grand Slam tennis tournaments. He also has interviewed many of the world’s best-known athletes, and scored breaking-news exclusives.

His reporting and documentaries also are known for spotlighting issues “at the intersection of sports and society at large, focusing on human rights,” according to the library’s publicity for the program.

Over the course of his career, Schaap has won two national Edward R. Murrow Awards, as well as a Peabody Award, two National Headliner Awards and 14 national Sports Emmy Awards, including an Emmy Award for writing — named in tribute to his father, sportswriter and broadcaster Dick Schaap — for a profile of chess champion Bobby Fischer.

In 2015, Schaap won the Robert F. Kennedy Award for reporting on human-rights and social-justice issues, a first for ESPN. His work also has been honored by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communication and the United Nations. 

Schaap also has written the books, “Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History” and “Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics.”

For more information, call the Westport Library at 203-291-4800.