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Before Rich Eisen became famous at ESPN and NFL Network, he was just another graduate student looking to make a few bucks.
While attending Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism in 1993-94, Eisen worked as a stringer for the Tribune, covering high school football and basketball games. He’d watch a game, find the person keeping the stats and call in a report from a payphone.
“They would send me to Schaumburg, Wheeling, the hinterlands of Chicagoland,” said Eisen, who grew up on Staten Island in New York.