Episode Description
In the 39-minute podcast, five-time New York Times best seller and The Athletic national columnist Ian O’Connor joins “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.” O’Connor tells amazing stories from his book and explains what it takes to be a best seller.
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What’s on tap:
* How and why O’Connor has written New York Times best selling books on Arnie & Jack, Derek Jeter, Bill Belichick and Aaron Rodgers. His latest is co-authored with Dan Hurley
* The value of breaking stories for a best-selling book
* How O’Connor broke the story in his Coach K book on how Mike Krzyzewski blocked Tommy Amaker from being hired instead of Jon Scheyer
* Why O’Connor started writing books
* How O’Connor got the final George Steinbrenner exclusive when Steinbrenner threatened to fire Joe Torre
* O’Connor’s Clueless Joe Torre column was always misunderstood
* How Joe Torre was almost got fired before he managed a game
* Why O’Connor did the Belichick and the Jeter books
* How a friend of Belichick said O’Connor told him that he told stories about Belichick’s life that he didn’t know
* Why Jeter was the most negative of any of the people O’Connor has written about
* The late night hotel scene in the Jeter book that Jeter probably didn’t like
* How Aaron Rodgers was really good about understanding the reason for the negative and the positive being in his book
* Why O’Connor told Rodgers about the negatives when he went to his house
* The way O’Connor shows accountability with examples from Jeter, Rodgers and Belichick
* What was the Coach K process like
* O’Connor reaction when Coach K got sick the day the Amaker story came out
* How Hurley book happened after he won back-to-back National Championship
* What O’Connor is looking for in his next book? Aaron Judge?
* What Jon Bon Jovi told O’Connor about his Belichick book
* Would O’Connor write a non-sports book? Some interesting names he has thought about
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