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Jon Wertheim

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  1. “I always say it's my guilty pleasure, but I really have a fondness for tennis. I cover a number of sports. I mean, obviously, tennis is not covering the NFL. It's not going to get you the biggest following. It's not going to draw the ratings of the NBA or the NFL or college football. But I think tennis is just an extraordinary sport. I'm really drawn to individual sports. I also like cage fighting UFC. Don't tell my wife. But people say, how can you like tennis, which is at least notionally image-wise, this elegant uppercrust board? How can you like cage fighting? And to me, the similarities, the Venn diagram is significant, that there are a lot of similarities. So I think the individual nature of tennis is really special, even in boxing. Every three minutes, you get someone to give you instructions and give you encouragement and give you water. I mean, tennis, you're totally out there by yourself.”

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  2. “Hard to believe in this day and age and in this media environment. I am still there and I've sort of been able to, again, as media has changed so much, one of the nicer changes is that things have really opened up in terms of moonlighting and freelancing and working elsewhere. And when I started, if you wanted to do an NPR interview, you would have to jump through hoops and get signed approval from a manager's manager. And now I think there's much more of an acknowledgement and a reasonable policy that as long as something isn't directly conflicting, it probably helps all of us if you branch out. So I've been here. We're doing this interview at my office at 60 minutes. I've been here for a few years and I do work for tennis channel and write books and sort of have a number of proverbial. It's a diversified portfolio, you might say. Well, let's dive in a little on sports and then we'll turn to kind of that intersection of sports and business. I thought of reaching out after.”

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  3. “Background. This was after Mike Tyson, and this was, I guess, 1996. I think they had come to this realization that sports and the law was going to be an increasingly busy intersection. Wouldn't it be cool if we had someone who knew the difference between a charge and a conviction and knew how to get papers at a courthouse? So I started sort of as a legal intern. This was the tail end of the Gene Age of magazines. Sports Illustrated was this high-flying entity that took the staff to Atlanta on private planes and had these crazy retreats. And Sports Illustrate essentially paid for my last year of law school on the condition that I worked there when I graduated. So it worked out great. I finished law school, took the bar on a Friday, and I think that next Monday I started at Sports Illustrated.”

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  4. “Great to see you, bud. Good to see you. Some fun. Why don't you just start with your background and how you got started in this business and go from there? Oh, man. We got to define our terms. I don't even know what business I'm in anymore. Well, you and I knew each other in college. I went to law school. I took a year off, went to law school, which was sort of a path of least resistance move. You know, you're 22 years old. You're not quite sure what to do. Well, law school is always safe. I loved law school. I met my wife in law school. I was at Penn in Philly and Elizabeth Warren was on the faculty. It was a great time. I just had no interest in being a lawyer. And I worked one summer in a law firm and have never looked at my watch clock watching is not just a metaphorical term. And I just, boy, I got to figure out another game plan. I can't do this for the next 40 years. And I lucked into an internship at Sports Illustrated. They needed someone who had a legal.”

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  5. “Bias, sports gambling, the business of sports, and lessons from interviewing. John moves with ease across sports, investing in psychology and the parallel of his anecdotes and the world of investing are both entertaining and readily apparent. Please enjoy my conversation with John Worthim.”

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  6. “My guest on today's show is John Wertheim, a sports journalist and author who has a passion for psychology and economics. John is the executive editor at Sports Illustrated, where he's been a full-time staff member since nineteen ninety six. He's also a contributing correspondent on sixty minutes and an analyst for the tennis channel at the four tennis majors. John is the author of ten books, including Strokes of Genius about the Federer Nadal Tennis Rivry, the New York Times bestseller Scorecasting, and more recently, This is Your Brain on Sports. Our conversation spans across sports, behavior, and decision making, discussing John's path to a career in sports journalism, an insider perspective on tennis, the role of luck, cycles in basketball strategy, loss aversion, job preservation, omission,”

    2019-06-17 · Capital Allocators · Jon Wertheim – Sports and… (Capital Allocators, EP. 102) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source