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You Know I’m Right, Episode 194: Golf Channel's Tom Abbott

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Episode  ·  45:49  ·  Aug 31, 2022

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On the 194th episode of You Know I’m Right, Nick Durst and Joe Calabrese are joined by the Golf Channel and NBC's broadcaster Tom Abbott for an exclusive interview to discuss: - Growing up in Cheam, a suburb of London, England. - When did he start playing golf? - Was it a tough decision to come to America to go to school at Mercer University in Georgia? - Why did he decide to study Media Business? Did he do any internships? How did he create Mercer99, the school's television station? - Being inducted into the Mercer University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2015 - First few jobs out of college. How did he end up getting the chance to be on air? - Being on the first ever CBS19 broadcast in 2004 in Charlottesville, Virginia as the Sports Anchor - How did the opportunity to join the Golf Channel UK in 2005 come to be? When the channel ceased operations in 2007, was he worried or did he know that the US network would pick him up? - What was his experience like broadcasting the Olympics for the first time? - Hosting Big Break and later Big Break NFL - The most gorgeous golf course he has been to? - How is his mini golf game? - You Know I'm Right moment

45m 49s  ·  Aug 31, 2022

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