Dollars and sense is a column about sports business and media in Chicago.



Adam Delevitt spent the last three months going through the last 21 years of his life. You’d be amazed what you find cleaning out your office after spending the majority of your post-college life at one job.



“It was crazy,” said Delevitt, who was quietly told in mid-September that he was being let go from his job as program director at ESPN 1000 with Good Karma Broadcasting taking over the station from ESPN Radio. “It took me more than a month, going through papers and files. Literally the greatest thing is you find an old piece of paper, like an invoice from you or you find an old plane ticket for Hawaii for a Pro Bowl. Boy, everything is a memory and a story. And I kept a bunch of shit. Because it’s a great part of my life. I don’t want to forget that stuff.”



He found demo tapes from people like Adam Amin, a former ESPN 1000 intern, Shae...