Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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Soccer commentator Ian Darke Aug 22, 2025

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Episode 538 of the Sports Media Podcast features renowned ESPN soccer commentator Ian Darke, who is the lead broadcaster for ESPN's coverage of the 2025-26 LaLiga season. In this podcast, Darke discusses his current U.S. broadcast schedule; calling LaLiga games; what he can do freelance-wise in the UK; why Barcelona's Lamine Yamal is currently the face of global football; his thoughts on Wrexham's story; the England women's national team winning the Euros; whether FIFA World Cup 2026 will be transformative for soccer in the USA; how he sees the U.S. men's team right now; the World Cup expanding to a
48-team tournament and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.

First Look: ESPN soccer announcer Ian Darke on why Barcelona teenage phenom Lamine Yamal is now the face of global soccer Aug 21, 2025

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Here’s a short clip from our upcoming interview with play by play voice Ian Darke. The full interview will be available on Friday. In this clip, Darke discusses the emerging greatness of Barcelona teenage star Lamine Yamal and what it is like calling his games in person. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.

David Law, Catherine Whitaker, and Matt Roberts — co-hosts of The Tennis Podcast Aug 19, 2025

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Episode 537 of the Sports Media Podcast features David Law, Catherine Whitaker, and Matt Roberts, the co-hosts of the popular "The Tennis Podcast." The podcast was recently named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best podcasts all time. In this podcast, we discuss the growth of The Tennis Podcast over the last five years; how influential the podcast is within the tennis community; being supported by enough patrons and advertising so they can do this full-time; the current state of tennis broadcasting; what we think of the upcoming mixed doubles competition at the 2025 U.S. Open; why Jannik Sinner an overwhelming favourite at the Open; the favourites for the women's title and why it is wide open between the likes of Aryna Sabalenka, Coco Gauff and Iga Swiatek aming others; the person who asks the best question at tennis media conferences and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.

Fox Sports and Chicago Bulls broadcaster Adam Amin Aug 15, 2025

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Episode 536 of the Sports Media Podcast features Fox Sports play by play announcer and Chicago Bulls broadcaster Adam Amin. In this podcast, Amin discussed attending the annual Fox NFL preseason seminar and what's it like interacting with all of Fox Sports' on-air talent; being assigned Cam Ward debut for Fox; his thoughts on Stacey Dales serving as a color analyst on preseason Bears games; his playoff baseball schedule; his hobby as a DJ in Chicago; young, South Asian broadcasters, especially of Indian or Pakistani descent, reaching out to him for advice and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.

First Look: Fox Sports play by play voice and Chicago Bulls broadcaster Adam Amin on what Fox's NFL summer seminars are like Aug 14, 2025

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Here’s a short clip from our upcoming interview with play by play voice Adam Amin. The full interview will be available on Friday. In this clip, Amin discusses attending the annual Fox NFL preseason seminar and what it is like interacting with all of Fox Sports' on-air NFL talent. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.

The escalating stalking problem in sports Aug 13, 2025

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Episode 535 of the Sports Media Podcast features Carson Kessler, an investigative reporter for The Athletic and a former investigative fellow at the New York Times. In this podcast, Kessler discusses her reporting on the escalating stalking problem in sports and how it particularly has escalated for prominent female athletes; The Athletic identifying at least 52 stalking cases involving athletes, male and female, since 2020; how this story came to Kessler; her reporting on UCLA women's basketball player Kiki Rice being stalked; whether colleges are in position to help athletes; how often this happens to male athletes and who stalks male athletes versus female athletes; why less than a third of stalking victims report their situations to police, according to a study published by the U.S. Department of Justice; what organizations help victims of stalking and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.

The NFL Takes A 10 Percent Stake in ESPN Aug 08, 2025

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Episode 534 of the Sports Media Podcast features Jon Lewis, the editor and founder of Sports Media Watch. In this podcast, we discuss Disney/ESPN acquiring the NFL Network and substantial rights to RedZone, along with other content assets, in exchange for the NFL getting a 10 percent ownership stake in ESPN; how we see the deal; the game inventory ESPN receives; what it means for ESPN's coverage of the NFL; the formal announcement of a launch date — Aug. 21 — for ESPN’s new direct-to-consumer (DTC) streaming service; the rights agreement for ESPN DTC to become the exclusive U.S. domestic home of all WWE Premium Live Events (PLEs), including WrestleMania; the NFL extending ESPN’s rights to cover the NFL Draft through 2030 and expanding the Disney networks where the draft can air, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.

A documentary on Diana Taurasi Aug 07, 2025

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Episode 533 of the Sports Media Podcast features Katie Bender Wynn, a narrative documentarian whose latest is "Taurasi," a three-part docu-series on basketball icon Diana Taurasi. It will premiere on Prime Video on August 7 in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. In this podcast, Bender Wynn discusses why Taurasi is a subject worthy of documentary exploration; how the project came to her; why Taurasi wanted to do it; Taurasi's time in Russia playing for a former KGB spy; the current environment for documentaries on women athletes; the challenge of finding archival footage; Taurasi's relationship with her wife, Penny Taylor, and more.You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.

Michael McCann on the growing nexus of sports and the law Aug 04, 2025

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Episode 532 of the Sports Media Podcast features Michael McCann, a legal analyst and senior sports legal reporter for Sportico and the Director of the Sports and Entertainment Law Institute and Associate Dean for Intellectual Life at the University of New Hampshire. In this podcast, McCann discusses how to write about sports legal issues for a layperson audience; why the next five years will be a test of who's a great university president because of paying college athletes, fewer students enrolling (especially foreign students) and birthrates down; the NCAA scoring a win in court as a federal judge dismisses Terrelle Pryor's lawsuit over lost NIL opportunities; the most pressing things that exists right now in the nexus of law and sports; Donald Trump's executive power abilities for college athletics; a judge's ruling that Nevada wide receiver Cortez Braham Jr. can play what will be his seventh college football season; the NFLPA's issues; what he expect to happen with sports gambling scandals; whether a college athlete sign a contract with a sports network, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.

The targeting of the NFL's headquarters in Manhattan Jul 31, 2025

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Episode 531 of the Sports Media Podcast features Jon Lewis, the founder and editor of Sports Media Watch. In this podcast, we discuss a gunman allegedly targeting the headquarters of the NFL when he burst into an office tower in Midtown Manhattan and killed four people, including a police office; CNBC's reporting of the NFL closing in on a deal to take a minority stake of up to 10% in ESPN; what an ESPN-NFL partnership means for the NFL Network and NFL RedZone; the importance of the NFL's YouTube game; ABC airing a non-Caitlin Clark and non-Angel Reese game that does 1.5 million viewers an more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.

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