Nine out of ten people would say Jay Onrait changed Canadian sportscasting. The first nine are right. The tenth just doesn’t get sports.

From the 2011 Gemini Award-winning sportscaster comes a book of essays and stories featuring the rise of a small town prairie boy and his journey to broadcasting in the big city. But, it’s not what you think. These are not tales of triumph, but the stories his fans and viewers have been waiting for.
Anchorboy teaches aspirational sportscasters that if you make enough mistakes you’ll land the right job. It explains Jay’s philosophy on personality-based sports broadcasting and how he changed sportscasting forever. A behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to work at TSN--it’s a balance of humour, pop culture, and sports.
Specifically, you’ll read about:

• Jay being sexually harassed at TSN by a senior every day for ten years
• Jay being beaten up by a professional MMA fighter while hosting Winnipeg’s The Big Breakfast
• Jay’s nervous interview with one of his comedy heroes, Will Ferrell
• Jay’s own personal Worst Christmas Eve Ever

These are the stories that will make you laugh. Mostly at Jay’s expense.

Jay Onrait is a Canadian television personality, author, sports anchor, and most importantly your friend. Born in Calgary, Jay and his family eventually moved to Athabasca, where he was raised in the aisles of the family drug store. Following a two-year stint at the University of Alberta, a period he refers to as his “Lost Years,” Jay applied to and was surprisingly accepted at Ryerson University in Toronto, where he enrolled in the prestigious Radio and Television Arts Program. Several hundred orders of Pad Thai from Salad King later, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and embarked on a career in television. Flash forward to 2003, when Jay landed a job hosting TSN’s SportsCentre alongside Dan O’Toole and became the stuff of legend. Jay and Dan taped their final episode of SportsCentre in June 2013-upsetting Canadian sports fans from coast to coast-and joined the launch of the new Fox Sports 1 network in Los Angeles as hosts of their flagship show, Fox Sports Live. Somewhere along the way, Jay found time to write the bestselling memoir Anchorboy and co-create the wildly successful “Jay & Dan Podcast,” which continues to make people laugh to this day. Jay is married and currently resides in Los Angeles, where he tries to limit his In-N-Out Burger trips to once a week.

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