{{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Dale Tepas was as startled as anyone when he got the news that Adrian Wojnarowski was leaving ESPN to come back to St. Bonaventure as general manager of the men's basketball team.
"I must have gotten 40 messages about the news when it came out," Tepas said by phone from his home in Canandaigua late Wednesday afternoon. "I'm thrilled for him and thrilled for the university." Adrian Wojnarowski It so happens that Tepas, who played with Bob Lanier on the Bonnies' 1970 Final Four team, is the reason Woj ended up going to school at Bona in the first place.
“I think about how different my life would have been if I didn’t meet Dale Tepas,” Wojnarowski told me in 2020. “I met my wife at St. Bonaventure.
I got my journalism degree there. Almost everything good that has come in my life, whether personally or professionally, has been because of St. Bonaventure.
And none of it happens if my sister didn’t work for Dale.” Wojnarowski was born in Bristol, Conn., which also happens to be the birthplace of ESPN, where for the past seven years he broke nearly every piece of news, large and small, from the NBA beat, which he all but owned.
When he dropped NBA news on Twitter (now X), the Twitterati delighted in calling his dispatches "Woj Bombs." "He dropped the biggest bomb on himself" Wednesday, Tepas said. "To be honest, I was surprised.
Woj was at the pinnacle of his career." .