1.) What did the two of you think of the movie Concussion starring Will Smith? Did you guys think it did a good job displaying what you guys were talking about in your film?

2.) How long did League of Denial take to make?

3.) How do you feel investigative reporting differs from just the broad idea of reporting journalism as a whole?

4.) What are the first steps once you plan on starting an investigative piece like the ones you guys write/create?

5.) What is your favorite piece of investigative journalism you have ever worked on?

6.) Something that you haven’t wrote about, but you really want to?

7.) How much backlash did you receive from the NFL for the film League of Denial?

8.)Advice for graduating seniors right now?

9.) What kind of reading do you guys like to do in order to get better at investigative reporting?

10.) Did it take some warming up from Khatib, when writing the story about the Syrian National team or was he easy to talk to about the matter?

1.) What is it like writing about an international sport like cricket?

2.) What is the one story you haven’t written yet, but you know what you want to?

3.) What is it like going from living in India to now having lived in both Chicago and Washington D.C.?

4.) What is your favorite sport to write about?

5.) What was your hardest step on your journey to ESPN? And what advice would you have for us?

6.) What is your favorite part about the sport cricket?

7.) How much does your writing change when you are now writing for ESPN opposed to freelance writing?

8.) What is something you do to remain focused while writing?

9.) What is your relationship like with other writers at ESPN?

10.) What kind of writing have you been doing during the pandemic?

1.) How long did it take you to write that piece about postponing open heart surgery to see the Cubs win?

2.) Since the pandemic has started and you are still writing, what has been your favorite piece to write or maybe which one do you think has gotten the best response from your readers?

3.) What was the buzz like around ESPN, when the Tom Brady to Tampa Bay news broke.

4.) What is your favorite story you have ever written, whether it be professional or as a student journalist?

5.) How important do you think it is that ESPN can move up the airing date on the Michael Jordan documentary to an earlier date for sports fans at a time like this?

6.) If you know, what kind of decision making goes into moving up an air-time date like ESPN is doing with the Michael Jordan documentary?

7.) What is your favorite Chicago Cubs memory in your lifetime?

8.) What advice do you have for us as aspiring sports personalities during a time like this to be working on our craft?

9.) What is the most rewarding story you have ever wrote?

10.) What is your day to day like at ESPN compared to how it was before this pandemic?

1.) How different is it covering a sport like NASCAR compared to any other sport? Fans, Preparation, etc?

2.) Since 2016 what has been your favorite to cover and why, AFC or NFC East?

3.) What is your favorite football story that you have ever been apart of or edited during your time at ESPN?

4.) What would you say the biggest difference for you is working with digital compared to magazine?

5.) Between the NFL, College Football, College Basketball, MLB and NASCAR what was the most entertaining story you have come across?

6.) Being the editor of a sport like NFL how crazy can the workload become during season?

7.) While being an editor of the AFC East for the last 4 years what has been the best Tom Brady story you have come across?

8.) What has been the biggest struggle in your career to journey to get to ESPN?

9.) What is a normal day in the life like as an Editor of the NFL and NASCAR?

10.) What is your favorite part of your job?

• Comparing the race division that Bird and Magic brought to the game of basketball and the city of Boston to what the race division is like in the NBA now or in the city of Boston.

1.) Aside from growing up and having roots in Boston in the Bird vs. Magic era, what were some inspirations in your story, Magic, Bird were more than rivals?

2.) Out of all the stories that you wrote about Boston Sports, which one was your favorite to write and why?

3.) Writing about the famous “Sox- Yanks” rivalry over the years, what was your favorite player interaction if you have one?

4.) What is the biggest difference in writing a sports story compared to writing for the Magazine?

5.) What has your career journey been like, now being a senior editor?

6.) Personally what do you think the biggest sacrifice you had to make in order to be successful in this industry?

7.) What is it like being on First Take with Stephen A. Smith? Is it just as crazy as you might expect?

8.) Do you have a drastically different approach when you do work for NPR opposed to ESPN work?

9.) How do your writing styles change when you are writing sports stories in comparison to writing your books?

10.) What is the biggest change in any major sport that you have covered since you have been at ESPN?

• A feature story talking to sports leagues around the world and some of their higher-ups and ask what they are doing in order to promote the LGBTQ communities within their respected sports.

1.) What is biggest different you find in writing the pieces that you write now compared to some of the “fan fiction” works that you use to write?

2.) Over the last few years how drastically has covering LGBTQ issues changed?

3.) Writing about stunt-women in Hollywood seems like such a small niche audience. How or when did you decided you wanted to write features that are so unique?

4.) Writing about college campus sexual assaults is very important, so people are aware and can try to put an end to this, but how difficult is it to get quotes on such instances. Whether is the accused, victim, or even a by-stander?

5.) How slow/gentle of an approach is it when you get to have the victim of a sexual assault in front of you ready for questioning?

6.) I am most familiar with the NBA as far as sports leagues go, and I know some teams across the league have recently started to do “Pride Nights”. In what other sports do you see the LGBTQ communities being recognized? And what league do you think needs the most improvement with this?

7.) I actually watch a lot of Paige Bueckers highlights on Instagram, and just wanted to know how interesting that was to hear all the different coaches and players praise such a young athlete that much?

8.) What is your favorite topic to write about, or is there something different that you would enjoy writing about that you don’t already?

9.) Have you ever received negative feedback on your LGBTQ stories from anti-LGBTQ people? If so do you just leave it alone, or do you react ever?

10.) Do you think covering women’s sports is something that not only has grown a lot over the last few years, but is also something that is still growing rapidly?

• Writing a story where you go through all the times Wide Receiver Josh Gordon got in trouble with the NFL for drug use. Break down each incident, and possibly get teammate’s interactions from the three different teams he was on when this happened numerous times. Josh Gordon is a player whose name was always in the media for both outstanding play on the field, but also for his troubled behavior off the field. I think fan’s would be very interested.

Bonnie Questions:

• In your story “Portrait of a Rescue” how do you feel out the situation and interview to determine what you think Devin is going to allow you to ask?
• When you write stories about such heavy and touchy subjects do you find yourself searching for the right/perfect words to use to from a sentence more than you would maybe just writing a normal sports story that didn’t have as much complexity and controversy?
• Do you think your ability to write stories on subjects that carry such weight in emotion is a skill that makes you kind of unique for having?
• Do you believe the rise of podcasts and how prominent they are becoming in the sports news world, allows you to talk about the subjects you talk about in an easier fashion? Or maybe make it easier for listeners to understand the importance of it?
• When/How did you decide you wanted to write about such controversial and heavy weighted stories?

T.J. Questions:

• Honing in on the “Skaggs” story what is it like dealing with the DEA for information, and what kind of process goes into that?
• What made you want to do investigative journalism work?
• When writing a story like the “Skaggs” one and about the Los Angeles Angels, what compels you to just write smaller stories days apart on the same subject, instead of waiting and writing a longer story?
• Do you see being a fill-in host on “Outside the Lines” is a completely different change of pace from your investigative writing, or do you think it is all kind of similar just on TV instead of writing?
• How much do you think the investigative reporting at ESPN has changed over the years since you joined in 2007? And how has it changed the most?