Chris Rose on His US Days, Breaking into Sports Media, and Behind-the-Scenes Stories

Wow. I think the people that know me best, and there's a bunch of guys I still are very close with from the class of 89. I was a sports dork, man. my um sherman prize speech on being a sportsaholic and i actually won the thing my junior year and it's although it was a comedic speech it was very true at the time and i think probably to some degree it hasn't left me like i was infatuated with sports now i was a terrible athlete i wasn't any good i stopped playing after being on mr siegman's freshman basketball team and I ended up being the manager of the basketball team for a couple years and the manager of the baseball team a couple years because I always loved being around sports and I think that if you were to ask all of the 87 other kids I graduated with in 1989 what would Chris Rose be doing years from now this would probably be it like this is what I wanted to do I wanted to do something in sports I didn't know what it was but I just loved watching and talking about it. And I think the line that probably won me my speech the junior year was, I had a teacher that, unfortunately, I think he just passed away last year, was Chuck Selbach.