Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1980’s basking in the glow of the Showtime Lakers and the golden era of LA Sports, Jon Weinbach found himself glued to the LA Times reading the likes of Jim Murray and Gene Wojciechowski. Then At Yale under the watchful eye of his Sports Editor, Baseball’s eventual boy wonder, Theo Epstein, Jon flourished as a writer for the Yale Daily News. After a short stint with the Wall Street Journal, Jon then transitioned to producing a show for ESPN called the Life, which propelled him into a career of creating iconic sports programming. For the last 9 years he teamed up with legendary producer, Mike Tollin under the banner Mandalay Sports & Entertainment…
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