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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Jimmy Traina

Reminder: Don’t Get Sucked In by the Dumbest Trope in Sports

1. I’m not exactly sure when it started, but in recent years, many folks in sports media like to rely on the unbelievably stupid and meaningless phrase, “Win the press conference.”

If a new coach has good banter and comes across as smooth at his introductory media briefing, he wins the press conference. If the coach doesn’t have good banter and is awkward, he gets ripped.

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