SpeakEasy: January 2012 Archives

Joe Zeff, who moderated last week's Take Me Out to the Ballgame night at the Helen Mills Theater featuring Sports Illustrated's Christopher Hercik and ESPN's John Korpics, offers these takeaways:

1. Don't take yourself too seriously. As they say in sports, these guys are future Hall of Famers. Hercik and his team at SI practically invented the multimedia magazine, beginning with its forward-thinking You Tube video showing a tablet-based magazine before anyone even knew what a tablet was. Korpics himself has won more medals than most of the people in the room. Combined. (And that's saying a lot considering some of the people in the audience.) Yet the two remain modest and approachable, taking time from their busy schedules to prepare in-depth presentations and share their experiences on a rainy Thursday night in Manhattan. Their work is impressive, their humility even moreso.

John Korpics, VP/Creative Director for Print and Digital Media at ESPN the Magazine and a featured speaker at SPD's "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" event later this month at the Helen Mills Theater, shares his favorite sports moments: