Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...many have observed, you tell sports stories with the language of urban America. What sort of feedback have you received, and do you think your current fame is a validation of the way you tell sports stories...
...have to learn how to deal with "No." A lot. You'll hear more people tell you "No," you'll be turned down for more jobs, you might hear people insult you. A news director in college reduced me to tears on the phone because he told me I sucked and I would never make it in this business. A professor told me I wouldn't make it because I was too silly. If that's too much for you to handle, then choose something else...
Also, always write your own stuff. Even at the level I'm at, it's not about the cameras, the makeup, the attention or the popularity. This job is all about writing, plain and simple. Can you write well? Creatively? Can you tell me a story in a short time to make me go "Wow, I didn't know that"? Can you find that information that no one else knows? My favorite thing I've ever said on "Sportscenter"...was when Homer Bush, who was playing for the Yankees at the time, hit a home run two years...
...relationship with my parents has changed drastically during college, so I thought they would have opened up to me about this. We're friends now, and friends tell friends when they're incredibly wealthy and powerful. "Son," they should have said, "The man in the tuxedo isn't nutty Uncle Bill as we always told you. He's the butler...
...your parents' friend, you'll get to hear gossip about other parents (the short version: Tim's dad is also Bryan's dad, and Mr. Werner wears a bra). They'll also tell you the hopes and dreams they had in college (the short version: hemp store). You'll realize that your worries will never go away, even after you begin worrying for a child. And if you think that's scary, don't even mention sex to your new "friends." You might get to hear how you were conceived, and you'll never look at seven strawberry daiquiris...