Adam Amin

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Episode 82 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features ESPN broadcaster Adam Amin, who handles a variety of assignments for the company including college football, the NFL, women’s college basketball and the Final Four; MLB, men's college basketball, and the NBA. In this podcast, Amin discusses how he approaches his assignments, his recent experience on Twitter that went viral when he decided to spend a plane flight praising his colleagues; crazy ESPN conspiracies on college football; struggling to always be positive; how he navigates so many different assignments; calling 95 events in 2020; sitting in the production meetings of multiple sports and what he's learned about that process; the interest in calling the premier SEC football games; the passion of college football viewers; why it works so well with Rebecca Lobo and Holly Rowe for Women’s Final Four coverage, and much more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen.
0:05.0	Hey, everybody, this is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:09.6	My producer is Patrick Anthony.
0:11.9	My guest today is someone who has written about a little bit.
0:15.5	Really have immense respect for him, a young broadcaster chronologically, but has really done some exceptional work.
0:23.9	Adam Amin is a play-by-play commentator for ESPN.
0:28.6	He joined the company in 2011 and age 24, so you can do the math, young guy, one of the
0:34.3	youngest network's youngest game callers. Adam, let me know how
0:38.6	great I am at reading your ESPNPR bio here. I'm, I'm cringing, I realize how hard I'm
0:45.0	cringing and how much my eyes are rolling into the back of my head, the more I hear this.
0:49.2	I hope you realize that. Yeah, first of all, my God, I imagine the person has to put all these bios together. I mean, what did you do in a past life?
0:57.4	It might be a ninth circle of hell type of job at all out of state,
1:00.5	whoever has to put these.
1:01.4	I feel bad for the Anna and the Grunner's in the world right now.
1:05.8	My hope is that it's Josh Kurelowitz, if it's this bad.
1:08.2	Anyway, so Adam Amin is a...
1:11.6	So he calls a ton of stuff.
1:13.9	Thursday, not college football on ESPN, Women's Final Four, college basketball, now the NBA, does MLB.
1:23.1	He's called the NFL on ESPN radio for a number of years.
1:29.3	His resume at ESPN also includes like the College World Series, Nathan's hot dog eating
1:34.6	contest, I know he's done wrestling, volleyball.
1:39.1	So primarily his work now, I think you see him when it comes to college football,
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