The Good Life – November-December 2016

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BY: MEGHAN FEIR ■ PHOTOS BY: URBAN TOAD MEDIA 10 / THE GOOD LIFE / urbantoadmedia.com
Dom Izzo isn’t from around here, but we’re certainly glad he’s a Fargoan now. The WDAY News sports director is an adventurous transplant from Oswego in western New York State, another city in which the temps drop and the snow piles up. He was willing to go wherever his career dared him to travel, and for 10 years, he’s let the Fargo-Moorhead area know all the highlights on high school, college and Minnesota Vikings updates. The New Yorker is half Italian and a full-blooded sports lover, and we were able to enjoy a glass of water at Drekker Brewing Co. in downtown Fargo, though that’s not what they’re typically known for around town. Good Life: What’s one thing about yourself that you think people would be really surprised by? Dom Izzo: I drive with two feet. GL: Like, you steer the wheel with them? DI: I have my left foot for the break and my right for the gas, and I drive like a grandpa, which drives my fiancé nuts. GL: What does being a sports director require of you? DI: It’s not for everybody, this profession. It’s not like we’re curing cancer or sending people to the moon, but there are a lot of sacrifices. It’s weekends. It’s holidays. It’s nights. I’m on call almost all the time. As soon as I get up every day, I’m checking and reading stories to make sure I’m on top of everything. It’s not a 9-5 gig. There’s a lot of grind and grit that goes into the three or four minutes I’m on each night. I do my own makeup. I write my own scripts. I shoot and edit my own video. And I’m glad I do. It keeps me in touch with all my skills and sharpens them. GL: If you could play any sport with a historical figure from the past, which sport would you choose, and with whom would you want to play? DI: Baseball because I grew up playing. It was my favorite sport, even though I wasn’t very good at it. And probably Lou Gehrig. He was such an unbelievable baseball player, but he was an unbelievable guy, too. He was totally overshadowed by Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth was setting every kind of record, and every newspaper guy wanted to follow what he was doing. Lou Gehrig is only known for two things: the number of games he played in a row and his death. I’m not urbantoadmedia.com / THE GOOD LIFE / 11
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