{"id":966,"date":"2015-05-08T08:58:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T13:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/?p=966"},"modified":"2015-05-08T08:58:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T13:58:28","slug":"liguori-interviews-provide-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/golf\/personalities\/966\/liguori-interviews-provide-perspective","title":{"rendered":"Liguori Interviews Provide Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DGG_4501_RT\"<\/a>Captain Obvious would agree: Older sports celebrities have more interesting stories than younger ones, because stories, like people (ideally), take time to mature. Prolific Ann Liguori\u2019s interviews \u2013 culled mostly from her weekly show on WFAN — with iconic figures are now available on Hulu. The question is: Would a 20-something basketball junky be interested in the observations of Wilt Chamberlain? (There\u2019s a dirty joke there somewhere.)<\/p>\n

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For fans of a certain age, of course, Liguori\u2019s body of work \u2013 600 conversations, counting her entertainment subjects \u2013 has a soundtrack-to-your-life quality: Mickey Mantle, Billie Jean King, Charles Barkley, Sam Snead, Wayne Gretzky, Ted Williams, Mike Krzyzewski, Dale Earnhardt, Gordie Howe, Pete Rose.<\/p>\n

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But there\u2019s also something fundamentally different from stars of today and their technically refined athleticism. Back in the pre-free agency day, professional sports was as likely to attract misfits as model citizens. Sure, athletes may have been well paid by relative standards, but nothing like today. They were, in that sense, more like just folks.<\/p>\n

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Liguori is good at bringing out this quality in her interviews. The girl next door, except smarter (as I’ve learned on several golf media trips with Ann). She does her homework. In fact, it\u2019s my wholly unscientific assessment that, in terms of pioneering female sports personnel, Liguori\u2019s underappreciated.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps this too dovetails with her interview style. While Liguori is a celebrity in her own right, it\u2019s always clear she understands she\u2019s not the interview subject \u2013 an increasingly rare and welcome trait in today\u2019s journalism-as-entertainment atmosphere.<\/p>\n

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