Education
Windhorst attended high school in Akron, Ohio at Saint Vincent - Saint Mary High School, the same school that James would later attend, and graduated from Kent State University with a degree in journalism in 2000.
Windhorst attended high school in Akron, Ohio at Saint Vincent - Saint Mary High School, the same school that James would later attend, and graduated from Kent State University with a degree in journalism in 2000.
Nicknamed "Windy", he was the Cleveland Cavaliers beat writer for the Akron Beacon Journal from 2003 through the summer of 2008, and began to work for Cleveland newspaper The Plain Dealer in October 2008. He moved to Entertainment and Sports Programming Network in 2010 after LeBron James left the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat. Windhorst began covering James during his high school playing career, and began covering the Cavaliers in 2003, the year that James was drafted.
While James was the youngest player in the National Basketball Association, Windhorst was the youngest traveling National Basketball Association beat writer
In 2007 he co-wrote The Franchise: LeBron James and the Remaking of the Cleveland Cavaliers with renowned sports columnist Terry Pluto. His writing at The Plain Dealer was honored by the United States Basketball Writers Association for Best Game Story in 2009, and by the Associated Press.
In 2010, Windhorst left the Plain Dealer for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network to cover James" new team, the Miami Heat. Prior to leaving The Plain Dealer, he contributed columns to Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.com and made appearances on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network First Take.
In an interview, Windhorst stated that "obviously LeBron"s a huge factor" in his decision to join Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, but that the Cavaliers "need to move on" without James.
On October 10, 2014, it was announced that Windhorst would join Entertainment and Sports Programming Network Cleveland on WKNR Department of Administration and Management 850 in Cleveland to be their Cavaliers beat reporter and analyst, as well as host his own weekly program on sister station WWGK Department of Administration and Management 1540. The move followed James" re-signing with the Cavaliers in 2014.