Writing seems to be the one constant through your career. At what age did you know you wanted to write? By my senior year of high school, I knew I wanted to work for a newspaper, whether in news or in sports. True story — I ultimately chose sports because I thought the sports writers at Penn were cooler than the news writers. It was a good call on my part. Some of the friends I made on the sports staff at the Daily Pennsylvanian remain some of my best friends today. This is an excellent question, but allow me to re-set the parameters!
I would say writing well quickly. After Fox went exclusively to video, your pen was usurped. Why The Athletic? But yes, if at all possible, I was going to find a way to write. I think we were in only five cities. Seth Davis and Stewart Mandel had come aboard, or were coming aboard, but back then the site certainly was not what it is now, less than two years later.
At the time, I never imagined it would expand as quickly as it did and become such a force so quickly. That said, I did have more traditional options that I could have pursued. I guess I also could have waited for other options to develop. But the sheer quality of The Athletic excited me. The idea of possibly helping revive our end of the business excited me, too. A few other things: I previously had interviewed with our chief content editor, Paul Fichtenbaum, when he was the top editor at Sports Illustrated.
I had a great deal of faith in him and wanted to work with him. And the fact that I had other jobs at MLB Network and Fox enabled me, at this stage of my career, in my mids, to take a chance. My family — my wife and son, in particular he is our oldest; all three of our kids are in their 20s — very much encouraged me to go for it.
It might be the best decision I ever made. ESPN had a head start on developing localized sports websites. Rosenthal's bow ties are the signature statement of The BowTie Cause , a charitable clothier that specializes in creating high-end bow ties that are designed to support specific charities, foundations and causes.
Ten dollars from each bow tie sold goes towards the charity it was designed for. Jones originally gravitated to the bow tie to support Kunta Littlejohn, a high school friend of his who had lymphoma.
As an act of support for Littlejohn, Jones did. And Jones has since turned that advice into this giving initiative.
As Rosenthal explained in a column he wrote in , the bow tie was an idea thrust on him by one of Fox Sports' vice-presidents in order to give him a signature look when he was on television. After a Facebook fan vote, the FOX baseball reporter will don the blue and gold fashion statement during Game 3 to help out with prostate cancer research. The diminutive reporter you've noticed in the dugout during postseason games is Mr.
Ken Rosenthal, whose affinity for bow ties is being put to good use this postseason: every game he's worn one identifying a special cause. On Facebook the Bow Tie Cause put about fortysomething bow ties up to a vote, and based on the results, the University of Toledo bow tie finished with the third most votes, meaning Rosenthal will wear it during Game 3.
That works out, because that game will be played in Detroit on Saturday night.
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