Chris Hine On Being An Openly Gay Sportswriter

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Dane Moore

News, Sports, Sports News, Basketball

4.8 • 722 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Chris Hine of The Star Tribune to discuss his career as an openly gay sportswriter. Chris has worked as a traveling beat writer since 2009, for The Chicago Tribune covering Notre Dame football and the Chicago Blackhawks, and most recently for The Star Tribune as a Minnesota Timberwolves reporter. His job has taken him all over the country covering hundreds of players in his career. Two of those players from Chris’s beats — Andrew Shaw of the Blackhawks and Anthony Edwards of the Timberwolves — entered the public eye for videos that displayed homophobic language. In this episode, Chris describes the repair work he saw Shaw do in Chicago and the repair work he hopes Edwards can do in the Minnesota community. You can read Chris’s story with Andrew Shaw here. And you can read the reporting Chris has done in the wake of Edwards’s comments here, along with his interview with Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Dane Moore MBA podcast brought you by Blue Wire podcast coming at you Monday afternoon, September 19th, and on today's show, I'm joined by
0:22.9	Chris Hein from the Star Tribune.
0:25.1	We're not sure if we're going to make this in every Monday.
0:27.4	We'll see.
0:28.0	Yeah, we hope so.
0:29.1	We hope so.
0:29.8	So either way, as is the case with Jace and Kyle and Britt, I want to bring all of the writers on the show a little bit more this year to be able
0:41.0	to talk wolves.
0:41.7	So there will be a lot of Chris Hine in your life this year on the podcast.
0:47.2	Hopefully that's a good thing.
0:49.2	Yes.
0:50.2	I think it is.
0:51.2	The context is we don't really have much or any Wolf's Basketball things to be talking about right now.
0:59.7	So we aren't going to be talking about Wolves Basketball like every other time you've been on the show.
1:05.0	Today I wanted to just have a conversation with Chris about his career as an openly gay sports writer,
1:14.2	which has probably come onto some more people's radars in the recent, what has it been,
1:21.6	eight days now.
1:22.6	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:24.6	I just, Chris, I mean, you know, we've been texting a lot.
1:26.6	I think you have a very cool story, a unique journey that isn't even tied to your sexuality.
1:34.7	It is just, I mean, we both have this where we have people reaching out about, you know,
1:42.3	how does one get into sports journalism? How do you become a beat
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