[Wayne]
Coach Petrov slid the request across his desk.
"Campus Sports Network wants fifteen minutes. Season stats, team chemistry, standard stuff." He tapped the paper. "I already told them yes."
"Didn't think I had a say."
"You don't. Be there at four."
I figured it'd be easy. Softball questions about power plays and conference standings, the kind of interview that filled airtime between actual news.
The studio sat in the basement of the communications building, three cameras aimed at a single chair under lights hot enough to make me regret wearing a long-sleeve shirt. The interviewer, some junior named Priya with a clipboard and a smile too sharp for "standard stuff," shook my hand before I even sat down.
"Thanks for doing this, Wayne. Should be quick."
"That's what I was told."
