Sports In The Making
Andy Frye - Sportswriter and Contributor, Forbes
Episode Summary
Andy Frye is a sportswriter and contributor to Forbes (www.forbes.com/sites/andyfrye) writing about sports business and does interviews with many high-profile athletes. This is an interesting conversation with insight on how he does his work. We talk about some of the interviews he's done, how he got started and other interesting topics.
Episode Notes
- 2:28 - How Andy got his start as a sportswriter.
- 4:46 - How he was able to get his articles published when he was blogger and didn’t have a journalism degree.
- 6:42 - How he got his first article published on ESPN.com Page 2 covering “Fistball”.
- 9:13 - Whether he had any insecurities in pitching his next stories to sports digital publications and how relationships can help him get interviews.
- 11:54 - How Andy finds interesting people to interview.
- 16:00 - How Andy looks at doing interviews to find interesting things to talk about.
- 19:27 - What his methods are to help open up the interviewee to talk.
- 23:10 - What his interview with boxing trainer Teddy Atlas was like and some of what he talked about in their conversation.
- 26:21 - How he got a surprise response from Teddy him when talking about Mike Tyson.
- 28:28 - His conversation and thoughts on soccer broadcaster Andres Cantor, known for his "Goooooooool" call.
- 29:48 - His conversation and thoughts on professional basketball legend Julius "Dr. J" Irving.
- 32:07 - His conversation and thoughts on professional golfer Annika Sorenstam.
- 35:53 - His conversation and thoughts on former Oakland Raiders great quarterback Jim Plunkett.
- 38:01 - How Andy comes up with his stories, interviews and what his angle is when writing.
- 41:32 - How he prepares for an interview and how much time he has to spend with those he's interviewing.
- 43:51 - Who some of his sports writing influences have been.
- 46:12 - What advice he has for someone who wants to be a sportswriter.
- 50:05 - An introduction to Andy's new podcast "28 Minutes of Sport"
- 51:27 - Where people can find out more about Andy's articles.
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