Joe Rivera is a sports journalist for USA Today and also a professor at Rutgers University. We grew up together and both attended John P Stevens High School in Edison, NJ. Follow Joe at @JoeRiveraSays on X/ Twitter.

0:00 Intro

0:19 Haircuts

6:27 Blocking Exes

10:12 Joe’s Intro

11:00 Getting into Sport’s Journalism

20:00 People Can’t Take Feedback

24:00 People Can’t Write

30:28 Our Band Teacher Mr. Anand

36:00 High School Reunion

38:44 Inspiring Mr. White

41:14 Joe Works Hard

51:10 Reading Yearbook Signatures

1:04:30 Plugs

1:05:50 What Would Joe Change?