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Scott Stanchak has been an award-winning media personality and sports journalist for over 10 years. During this time, he has appeared on such networks as Fox News, Time Warner, Cablevision and MTVU as a reporter and host. He's also spent time in front of the microphone as a radio D.J. (Clear Channel, WRPR), host (WDVR) and anchor (WGHT).
The New Jersey native is also an established sports writer, having composed articles and columns for a variety of print and online media outlets, including Yahoo! Sports, FoxNews.com,
NBA.com, WNBA.com and USABasketball.com. Stanchak’s writing career began in 2000 at The Hunterdon County Democrat, where for six years he was the paper’s minor league baseball reporter. His work has also been featured by ESPN Radio, Sporting News Radio, The Star-Ledger, Connecticut Post and many others.
Stanchak has broken a number of major news stories over the years. Most recently, he conducted the first one-on-one interview with Rickey Henderson since he was named to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. The story appeared on Yahoo! Sports as the site’s lead headline. He was also credited as the first to report the Newark Bears folding by ESPN Radio, The Star-Ledger and many other local and national news organizations.
Stanchak's media credits extend behind the lens as well, where he's worked as a television producer and writer. Furthermore, the 28-year-old has a passion for developing original online content, which has led to positions with AT&T (host/reporter/producer), FoxNews.com (reporter/producer) and the National Basketball Association (editor/writer). He's also the founder of two popular
websites: CheapSeatsRadio.net, which takes readers inside the locker rooms of many of New York’s professional sports teams, and AtlanticLeagueBaseball.com, which remained the league’s number-one news source for over seven years until Scott sold it in 2010.
Over the years, Stanchak has sat down with some of the biggest superstars in the world for exclusive interviews, including LeBron James, Brett
Favre, Tiger Woods, Tom Brady, Sidney Crosby, Derek Jeter, Shaquille O'Neal,
Rickey Henderson, Martin Brodeur, Terrell Owens, Donald Trump, among hundreds of others. He's also covered games at almost every stadium in the New York metropolitan area, namely Yankee Stadium (old and new), Giants Stadium, New Meadowlands Stadium, Madison Square Garden, Prudential Center, Radio City Music Hall and over a dozen more. This access has allowed Stanchak to report on everything from the NFL playoffs to the NBA Draft, the PGA TOUR's Barclays Golf Tournament to minor league baseball championships.
Currently, Stanchak is a Team Sites Editor with the National Basketball Association, where he is overseeing individual team
websites, as well as writing feature stories for the league's Web properties. Stanchak also continues to create unique content for his
website, CheapSeatsRadio, by covering the NFL, MLB, NHL, PGA, MLS and more.
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