{"id":494,"date":"2013-05-01T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/?p=494"},"modified":"2013-04-25T14:10:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T18:10:12","slug":"5-questions-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2013\/05\/01\/5-questions-for\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Questions for…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Kirk Minihane ’94<\/strong>
\nA radio personality and sports journalist for Boston’s WEEI 93.7 FM, Mr. Minihane stopped by campus on April 18 to speak to Diane Williams’ Sports Studies class. \u00a0Mr. Minihane will be back on campus on Saturday, June 8 as the emcee for the Hall of Fame induction ceremony during Reunion Weekend<\/a>.
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How did your career in sports journalism begin?<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>That\u2019s a crazy journey.\u00a0 I graduated from Emerson College and moved to Los Angeles in 1997. That was a rough few years where I had some momentum, but it didn\u2019t work out. I moved down to La Jolla and worked at The North County Times<\/em>, writing sports. Then I went to Upper Deck, a baseball card trading company, where I was an editor for a few years. I was freelancing for newspapers when Rob Bradford, an editor at WEEI.com, asked if I wanted to return to Boston. In 2010, I returned to be a columnist on a new website WEEI was launching. Then they put me on the radio and I\u2019ve started doing that a little more. It\u2019s really worked out well, and it\u2019s fun.<\/p>\n

What was it like the first time you were on radio and TV?<\/strong>
\nThe first time I was on the radio was in 2009. During the first break the producer called me in and said, \u201cYou\u2019re whispering. I can\u2019t hear anything you\u2019re saying, and you\u2019re falling away from the microphone.\u201d The first time I was nervous, but after a while you kind of forget that you\u2019re doing it. Once you realize you\u2019re on TV or the radio, you\u2019re in trouble.<\/p>\n

Who has been your favorite person to interview?<\/strong>
\nBill Parcells was good. He\u2019s smart, and when I interviewed him he was in a nostalgic mood. I think we caught him on a good day. I like talking to him a lot. I \u2018ve had Dustin Pedroia on a couple times; he\u2019s been good. But good sports talk radio is so often not about the interview. The interview can sometimes bog down the show. <\/strong><\/p>\n

If a Williston student wanted to be a sports journalist, what advice would you give him or her?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s a tough business. It\u2019s hard to figure out what it\u2019s going to be like, not 20 years, but two years down the road. Seriously though, if it\u2019s your passion and it\u2019s the only thing you want to do, you\u2019ve got to try and do it, but you\u2019ve got to be smart and right from the start find a place to intern.<\/p>\n

Does your wife share your love of sports?<\/strong>
\nA little bit, I\u2019d say she tolerates it. If I don\u2019t have to watch a game, I\u2019m not just going to watch some random thing. Those days are over. Now you have to watch Downtown Abbey!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kirk Minihane ’94 A radio personality and sports journalist for Boston’s WEEI 93.7 FM, Mr. Minihane stopped by campus on April 18 to speak to Diane Williams’ Sports Studies class. \u00a0Mr. Minihane will be back on campus on Saturday, June 8 as the emcee for the Hall of Fame induction ceremony during Reunion Weekend. How … Continue reading 5 Questions for…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[85,3,25],"tags":[264,87,86,89,88],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-questions","category-alumni-news","category-alumni-sports","tag-5-questions","tag-class-of-1994","tag-kirk-minihane","tag-sports-journalism","tag-weei"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}