ESPN Test Question

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So I was wondering if anyone has ever applied to ESPN and been called for an interview.

I've always heard that when you get interviewed you have to answer questions about sports in general so I was curious if anyone has gone through this process.

Today I had my process of it as I was driving home from a separate interview in CT. I damn near crashed my car (not part of the test of course).

But apparently I passed the first part, so now tomorrow at 5pm I've gotta take a 45 minute test with ESPN online regarding sports.

Has anyone ever taken this test and know the basic format of it? I'm assuming I should freshen up on all sports history, records, mvp's, champions etc...but are there other odds and ends? I don't want to study the wrong stuff before the test.

I have no idea how many questions the test consists of tomorrow, but I know if I'm so much as a second over 45 minutes to submit it I automatically fail and my dream of working for the Worldwide Leader in Sports is over.

Any feedback would be awesome. Thanks guys.

Oh, and btw, here's the questions I had to answer today, not too shabby:

How do you mathmatically calculate ERA?
Name 2 LA Lakers besides Kobe Bryant.
Name the last 5 Heisman Trophy Winners and the schools they attended.
Who holds the NFL Record for career TD passes?
Name the 4 men's PGA golf majors.
Who holds the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball record for career wins?

That was fairly simply and I hope they're all that easy, if not, welp, then it's a crapshoot.

[Yankees GM (A)]

The DBacks called me on a Saturday and gave me a pop quiz kind of like that. Some of them I remember:

Name the 5 starting pitchers for the 197X Baltimore Orioles team that each won 20 games?
What Eckersley pitch did Kirk Gibson hit out to win the World Series?
Name the players traded to Seattle in the Randy Johnson trade to Houston?
Who played SS for the Brooklyn Dodgers in Jackie Robinson's first game?

There were others but I think I blacked out and started crying.

All I know about ESPN is that they leverage the "dream job" situation to not pay shit and treat you like shit while you're there unless you are on air talent. I'd think long and hard about how badly I want the job.

[Cardinals (A)]

Jim Palmer, Mike Cuellar, x, x, ,x
Fastball?
Carlos Guillen, Freddy Garcia, John Halama
Pee Wee Reese

[Yankees GM (A)]

Schiraldi was one. I didn't even know that there was 5 20 game winners, thats ridiculous. I only knew Palmer.
Hanging slider
I think you got all three, there might have been another one.
Duke Snider I believe.

[Red Sox GM]

I remember you telling about that. Wasn't there a question where you had to arrange 5 pitchers by height?

[Yankees GM (A)]

yes, I can't remember the players though. The put me through about 6 interviews and then hired a female stats grad from MIT. Fuck them.

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Aug 11, 2009 21:11:37 GMT -5 Yankees GM (A) said:

yes, I can't remember the players though. The put me through about 6 interviews and then hired a female stats grad from MIT. Fuck them.

figures...Well I passed the 45 minute test and have a phone interview Tuesday the 25th...so at least I get to go through the same run-around as you hah

[Yankees GM (A)]

Well good luck regardless. It's certainly not my place to be a turd in the punch bowl.

Tampa Bay Steve intimated to me in our first year of law school that all he really wanted to do was dance. I told him he'd be stupid to give up the gavel for the tights. Four years later he's a lawyer but all he wants to do is dance, dance, dance.

He's never forgiven me.

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Aug 13, 2009 19:33:44 GMT -5 Yankees GM (A) said:

Well good luck regardless. It's certainly not my place to be a turd in the punch bowl.

Tampa Bay Steve intimated to me in our first year of law school that all he really wanted to do was dance. I told him he'd be stupid to give up the gavel for the tights. Four years later he's a lawyer but all he wants to do is dance, dance, dance.

He's never forgiven me.

All he wants to do is dance...and make romance