KEVIN B. BLACKISTONE HOMETOWN: Born in Washington, D.C., and reared in Hyattsville, Md. EDUCATION/CAREER TRACK: A 1981 graduate of Northwestern University. Started as a city side reporter at The Boston Globe. In 1983, moved on to write for a monthly investigative magazine on racial and social issues in Chicago called The Chicago Reporter. In 1986, started at The News as a reporter on the city desk, then moved to business covering economics. After covering Nelson Mandela's U.S. tour in 1990, moved to SportsDay to cover sports business and write columns. Morphed into a full-time SportsDay columnist a year later. MOST UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE ON THE JOB: Spending a summer month in Europe writing about its sports. SOMETHING PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME: I've never seen Roots. IF I HAD TWO SPARE HOURS, I WOULD: Have two more to waste. MOST MEMORABLE SPORTING EVENT I'VE COVERED: The Mike Tyson bite fight.