Marchand Sports Media How Woj became a Hall of Famer
In the 53-minute podcast, Basketball Hall of Famer Adrian Wojnarowski joins “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.” Woj explains why he made his career-altering decision to leave a New York sports columnist job to go to Yahoo in 2007, which in hindsight may be obvious, but certainly was not at the time.
He explains why he finally went to ESPN on the network’s third try and is asked if he got people fired there. Plus, what it takes to be an insider. And much, more more, including one year in as the GM of St. Bonaventure Men’s Basketball team.
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What’s on tap:
* The influence of ESPN growing up in Bristol
* The work ethic his blue collar dad instilled in him
* Woj would have signed up for 40 years covering college hoops at a local paper
* Amazing Jerry Tarkanian story on getting “blanked”
* Woj sitting next to the legendary New York columnists and thinking he “sucked”
* How Woj’s good friend, Mike Vaccaro changed the direction of Woj’s career
* The decision that altered Woj’s trajectory when he left the Bergen Record as a top sports columnist to become an NBA writer for Yahoo!
* How his sincerely concerned Bergen Record editor told him that no one may hear from Woj again
* The way Woj developed sources at Yahoo
* How his eventual agent, Matt Kramer, helped Woj meet NBA folks
* How he found out about the big stories before anyone else knew
* Woj wrote very critical columns on David Stern and LeBron James and then what happened …
* The advice on criticism that Adam Schefter gave to Woj when he joined ESPN
* Why Woj finally went to ESPN on the third try
* Did Woj get Marc Stein and other ESPN writers fired
* Has he talked to any of the people who claim this
* What was the competition with Shams Charania like
* Did Woj look at the memes after he broke stories
* How is Woj’s health doing after he revealed his prostrate cancer
* What he loves about his St. Bonaventure Men’s Basketball GM job
* Why Woj thinks Schefter will be an insider forever
* What is the biggest misperception of the insider game
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