Sports In The Making

2:15 - Reflecting on the International Olympic Committee’s decision to delay the Games to 2021 2:48 - How the postponed Games will affect Olympic athletes. 4:32 - What challenges Olympic athletes have keeping their mental focus. 5:37 -  If he were coaching these athletes, how he would help keep their mental states intact for an additional year. 8:17 - Could the Olympics fall back to every four yea...

2:34 - What Mary Kate Shea does in her role as Senior Director with John Hancock. 3:27 - How she got to John Hancock and what the company’s role is with the Boston Marathon. 5:09 - How she was able to make this career and her background on marathons. 09:36 - 2013 was the first year she took the reigns of the Boston Marathon’s elite athletes and a treetops view of what her job entails including che...

2:31 - What Heather does as a Sports Athlete Agent 3:29 - When she knew being an agent is what she wanted to do. 6:13 - What she liked about work with Gold Medal Management. 8:19 - How storytelling is important in representing traditional or Olympic athletes rather than mainstream athletes. 9:35 - How Heather builds relationships and trust with athletes. 11:21 - Expectations athletes should have w...

3:26 - What Brian does as Manager of Engineers at Game Creek Video. 4:20 - What a television truck is made up of. 5:33 - How much mobile television trucks cost. 6:32 - How trucks are custom built for sports networks. 8:08 - How the trucks are planned for which event and how they are integrated. together. 10:43 - Planning ESPN’s MegaCast College Football National Championship. 12:29 - How much dedi...

PART 2: 2:09 - How he helped the Pittsburgh Steelers build their baseball PNC park. 5:29 - How he was able to get a new arena built for the Penn State hockey program. 10:12 - How Ben helped billionaire Terry Pegula buy the NHL Buffalo Sabres team. 13:52 - How the media tries to know what goes on in sports franchise deals. 15:55 - How negotiations happen between all parties to buy a sports franchis...

4:21 - What Ben Bouma’s title is and how he can’t fit into a title. 6:10 - How Ben got into sports television and how he connected with broadcaster Kenny Albert. 11:40 - How he started producing NHL games for Fox Sports and then later with ESPN on Sunday Night Baseball. 14:03 - What his responsibilities were as a sidelines producer, who he started working with and how he prepared for his responsib...

2:34 - What August 7, 2004 mean to Jimmy. 3:07 - How much effort he put into getting to the Major Leagues and how rewarding it was getting the call to go. 3:58 - How many times he felt like giving up on his dream of reaching MLB 4:41 - Growing up in Grand Junction, CO 5:20 - How Jimmy and I know each other. 5:51 - How he ended up in Arizona to play baseball. 7:07 - Jimmy didn’t have any offers to...

2:17 - Why he’s stayed with TV for as long as he has. 3:55 - How Dean got into sports television the non-traditional school route. 12:25 - What goes into creating a network and how content drives the direction of the network. 14:38 - How many sports he’s covered in his career. 14:52 - Dean names some of the sports he’s covered. 16:31 - What the model for World Championship Sports Network and how w...

2:31 - Dennis explains what Lagardere company is. 5:32 - What sports/media events and shows he works on with Lagardere. 7:27 - How the sports arbitrage business works in representing a sports property and how Lagardere helped the NBA with their international business. 9:09 - The competitiveness for sports media rights. 10:13 - The daunting task of securing rights and how individual sports properti...

  2:05 - How Carlos and I know each other. 2:50 - What it was like growing up in Cuba and how he came to love baseball. 3:20 - How he learned to play baseball on the beach in Cuba from an ex-MLB player. 4:25 - How he got to the United States in 1961 under the Peter Pan Movement sponsored by the Catholic Church. 5:15 - What the adjustment was like coming to the U.S. as a child. 7:43 - Being drafted...

1:40 - What he does with the University of Utah Athletics. 3:10 - What the guidelines are for how the university media department protects the student athletes. 5:00 - How social media has affected his job in following the media and student athletes. 6:15 - How university media relations departments help athletes build their brands. 7:40 - How he deals with a potential mishap by use of social medi...

2:00 - How seeing Monday Night Football Sidelines Reporter Melissa Stark inspired her to pursue a career in sports broadcasting. 3:40 - How conversations with her father, a high school Hall of Fame baseball coach, helped develop her for a career in baseball. 6:20 - Where she went to college, how internships were valuable for her and how she broke into the industry. 10:10 - How she won over her for...

1:30 - Where his love of sports comes from? 2:05 - Did he think he wanted to work in sports? 2:45 - How his interest in basketball translate into him working in the sports industry. 3:28 - How he got into the sports the sports industry and later into sports television. 6:00 - Was it easy working as a font coordinator (graphics coordinator), What the next steps in his career were. 7:48 - Going to t...

1:30 - What is a Technical Director? John describes the front bench of the tv production truck as similar to being on the USS Enterprise from the Start Trek franchise. 4:00 - The role, responsibilities and procedures of a technical director for NBC’s Sunday Night Football. 7:30 - What technical aspects the TD is responsible for. 8:20 - What’s the routine on game day during Sunday Night Football. 1...

David Loignon is a seasoned television producer, having worked at TVG Network, the first interactive horse racing network in the U.S.  He has also produced the UCI Cyclocross World Championships in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as in-venue television for fans at the X-Games and Formula One races. 1:50  - How he got started in sports broadcasting. 3:00 - Helping to launch TVG Network and whether he...

Scott Hecht has worked many different roles in sports broadcasting, including as a producer, director and coordinating producer/director, having been lead producer for the Phoenix Suns and San Diego Padres, lead director for TVG Network and as coordinating producer/director at ESPN.  He currently works as senior producer at Syracuse University Athletics. 1:36 - Where his love of sports started. 2:...