“As he’s sort of asking me questions, I immediately put two and two together and just thought: ‘He’s dead.’” “Max was a photography major and had driven into Ontario to take some photos at some point, so they had a record of the car crossing the border - and they had a record of who was driving it, so they knew who Max was,” Maisel said. Max’s car was found in a parking lot a mile east from a family member’s summer home - a location the family had traveled to for every summer of his life. 23, 2015, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office in Rochester, New York, alerted Maisel that his 21-year-old son, Max, who attended the Rochester Institute of Technology, was missing near the south shore of Lake Ontario in below-freezing temperatures. The company’s mission was shifting, technology was advancing and the way people consumed content was evolving.Ĭontrary to what Maisel expected when he first arrived at ESPN, there was soon an insistence that everyone “be more than a one-tool player.” He began podcasting and making television appearances - a stark contrast from the ESPN that once considered writers worthy in their own right. He also got a glimpse into the company’s inner workings.Ībout every 18 to 24 months, there was change. There isn’t much he’s asked Saban for that the seven-time national champion hasn’t agreed to do. Former Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher named him an honorary coach for the team’s spring game.
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He attended a Michigan football team meeting to watch a music professor teach the players how to properly sing the university’s fight song. Maisel would soon become the inaugural college football writer for, providing him access to people and events that he wouldn’t have otherwise gotten. So, you know, this is worth taking a shot,’” he said. “I thought, ‘Well, I don’t know what’s gonna happen with the internet, but I know ESPN is not going anywhere. Maisel was used to getting calls about job opportunities at different websites, some of which struggled to find the funding necessary for longevity.īut ESPN had it together, and he wasn’t happy at Sports Illustrated, which he felt lacked a collaborative work environment. Would you be interested?’” Maisel recalled.Īt the time, people were still learning how to navigate the internet. Open that year, which was in Bethpage on Long Island, and just said, ‘Hey, we’re thinking of hiring a college football writer. (Courtesy: Jerome Miron / ESPN Images)Īfter earning his bachelor’s from Stanford University in 1981, Maisel spent years bouncing around newsrooms across the country, including the Orlando Sentinel, The Dallas Morning News and Sports Illustrated.ĭuring the summer of 2002, while in his second stint at Sports Illustrated, Maisel ran into John Marvel, his old press box friend and then-head of, about a job opportunity. John Daly (left) and Ivan Maisel talk to the attendees during the 2018 CFP Sponsor Summit, Wednesday, April 25, 2018, at the Omni Dallas Hotel at Park West in Dallas, Texas. Two weeks later, he found out there wouldn’t be another one. The two spent 90 minutes talking about his next three-year contract, which he had been accustomed to signing throughout his ESPN career. Then, in October, Maisel had lunch with his friend and boss, Lauren Reynolds, current vice president and executive editor for ESPN Digital Media. … I kind of feel like I never really figured out last year what to do,” he said.
“Just because I wasn’t there didn’t mean we didn’t have people doing what I used to do. When the project ended at the onset of 2020, Maisel had to reintegrate himself into ESPN’s college football coverage, which the project had taken him from. Amid years of layoffs, salary cuts and company adjustments to the cut-the-cord era, he had no reason to believe he would soon lose his job. Maisel thought his major role in ESPN’s multiplatform storytelling project highlighting the 150th anniversary of college football was job insurance. He spent the remaining months trying to do “as little as possible”: visiting his two daughters in San Francisco and golfing, researching for his next set of think pieces and writing the stories behind the players and programs they performed for. You can read other stories from Some Personal News here.įor nearly two decades, Ivan Maisel lived the dream of every up-and-coming sports reporter who fell asleep watching greats like the late Stuart Scott on TV: Work for ESPN.įrom July to January, Maisel worked almost seven days a week covering everything from former Texas quarterback Vince Young’s “dancing in the backfield” to Alabama coach Nick Saban’s “efficient, powerful Tide.”
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