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Create Your Shot: Jon Rothstein

Create Your Shot

Chris Horwedel

Sports, Underdog Sports, The Underdog, Basketball, Nba, -- None --, Create Your Shot

4.9939 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

This week Tyler and Smallz chop it up with Jon Rothstein, College Basketball Insider for CBS Sports, WFAN, and the FanRag Sports Network. The guys and Jon talk a ton about breaking into media, balancing work and life, becoming a specialist and making first impressions. Jon does an extended version of Rothstein's, reviews Manhattan and drops quotes left and right. Jon can be found on twitter @JonRothstein. 0:29 Tyler and Smallz intro 9:53 Into to Jon Rothstein and background 14:35 Networking in Media- How Jon built his Network 18:50 Hard work, executing his plan 24:00 Why wearing a suit is important, Brian Williams story 27:30 Social media, utilization and the balance 30:50 Specialization in media, critical to success 40:20 Career goals 47:45 Rothstein's — Tony Carr, Shamorie Ponds, Kyle Guy, Trevon Blueitt, Gary Clark, Keita Bates-Diop, Wendall Carter 50:17 City Review- Manhattan 55:59 Ten Touches 1:08:30 Parting ShotsÂÂ

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0:00.0

The following podcast is part of the underdog sports

0:07.9

podcasting network for a full list of our shows as well as breaking sports news and engaging feature stories.

0:15.4

Visit us at www dot the underdog sports.com. Come. Tyler Lori joined by Chris Smalls, and this week we have an absolute giant in the college basketball media world,

0:37.5

John Rothstein from fan rag sports and CBS sports.

0:41.5

And it was really fun because this is the first time you know we named a segment

0:45.6

after John we had Rothstein's and we had a blast doing that with him and also

0:48.8

Smalls like the City Review we were looking forward to for weeks because nobody knows food and restaurants and

0:56.3

you know bars better than John and it was almost like we needed to keep the question

1:01.7

almost more open-ended.

1:02.8

We need to say like, hey, we need 10 of your best Italian restaurants,

1:06.4

10 of your best steak restaurants,

1:07.7

because his wealth of knowledge, especially,

1:09.8

he's a college basketball expert and there's no question about it.

1:12.3

But as a person, his wealth of knowledge of bars and restaurants,

1:15.9

I feel like we did him a disservice on the episode because we didn't,

1:19.7

you know, it was almost like we were like, hey, give us three restaurants,

1:24.7

like are these guys crazy?

1:25.5

There's a hundred restaurants worth going to.

1:27.7

Yeah, I mean, that's the tough part.

1:29.9

I mean, that's the tough part about the question is I think when we do other guests it's hard to think of three with John I probably should have said you know give me a hundred and fifty but you know we do we did want to keep you know the interview to a certain length obviously and I wasn't sure.

1:45.9

The one thing I did gather out of, you know, throughout the interview and the city review is, and

1:50.3

this is kind of why I wanted to do sit-or-view if you remember.

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