The Media Interview

Jason McIntyre co-creator, writer, and editor, of the blog The Big Lead interviewed on Sports Media Guide: Q. Do you do your interviews by e-mail or phone? A. Kornheiser was over the phone – he doesn’t do e-mail. I prefer e-mail. I started doing it by e-mail because I was anonymous at the time and [...]

English football manager Avram Grant gave a bizarre press conference after his Chelsea team’s win over Everton on April 17 – so bizarre that The Independent ran an almost complete transcript. I say ‘almost’ because it doesn’t give a full sense of the pauses and silences. Anyway, here’s part of the one-word wonder at work, [...]

Detroit Lions wide receiver Roy Williams was out delivering pizzas for an afternoon recently – all because of a media interview. Back on September 24th, during his weekly chat on WDFN radio, Williams said he never tips the people who deliver pizza. Doh! Despite trying to clarify himself on a later broadcast, the outrage poured [...]

Found this on the WNDU sports blog, from South Bend, Indiana: It was already past 8pm when Evan Sharpley [Notre Dame quarterback] walked into the media room on Tuesday evening. Practice ran about 25 minutes longer than usual. Sharpley was jokingly asked, “Is this the best part of your day—when practice is finished?” Sharpley answered [...]

If I hear one more player say during an interview, “we just do what we do”, I’m jumping out a 10-story window. Don’t hate – I just gotta do what I do. – Brian posting on Talking NFL Thank goodness for HBO running the “Star Wars” movies constantly so I don’t have to watch an [...]