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The Full 60 with Craig Custance

Chris Jones - Sports Writers: The Luckiest People on the Face of the Earth

The Full 60 with Craig Custance

The Athletic

News, Hockey, Sports News, Sports

4.8595 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

ScreenWriter Chris Jones, former sports writer and editor for Esquire, the National Post and ESPN.com, joins Craig to discuss his journey in the sports writing world.  Chris takes Craig on an emotional ride throughout his career, from his start at the National Post, to working at Esquire, eventually quitting in protest when his editor lost his job. Chris discusses how the lifestyle of a sports writer can sometimes not be good for family life.  Craig and Chris reminisce about their time spent together in Toronto in the fall of 2016 covering the World Cup of Hockey for ESPN. Plus, Chris talks about the life changing opportunity, writing for the Netflix hit Away and focusing his professional energy on screenplay writing.

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1:20.2

Hey, this is Craig.

1:22.6

Welcome to this week's episode of The Full 60,

1:26.0

and my God, am I excited to do this episode?

1:31.6

For so many reasons, mostly to catch up with an old friend, but let me set it up. The guest this week is Chris Jones, and I'm going to assume if

1:38.6

you've ever read anything good, you're familiar with his work, long-time writer for Esquire. Now a writer for a way

1:48.0

hit show on Netflix, and I'm sure we'll get into that. But the most important work, without

1:54.1

a doubt, I don't think there's any debating this Chris ever did, was his coverage of the World Cup

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