Shaquille O’Neal Takes Course in Broadcasting at Syracuse University

Kevin Rivoli for The New York Times

Shaquille O’Neal and Dave Ryan. “You have to know what you’re doing,” O’Neal said. “I needed to learn the secrets.”

Shaquille O’Neal has starred in everything from rap videos to video games. He has filmed, by his own count, about 250 television commercials over the past 10 years. He has completed enough postgame interviews on TNT to have critiqued nearly all of Craig Sager’s purple suits.

Still, O’Neal found himself at Syracuse University on Tuesday, celebrating the successful completion of a mock four-minute interview as if it were a playoff buzzer beater.

“Bam,” he screamed, pointing at a computer monitor. “Exactly four minutes.” [Click for MORE]

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