When Pat Boyle was at Michigan State, he initially intended to be a news reporter. But someone later asked him whether he wanted to cover fires, shootings and other tragedies or play to his sports fandom. After going back and forth in his head, he chose to become a sports reporter.
He eventually discovered that sports and tragedies can intersect. At WTOG in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Boyle was anchoring the sports segment when someone told him through his IFB microphone that the newscast was going to pick up KTLA’s feed of a car that was believed to be carrying O.J. Simpson.
