Adam Schefter & Chiney Ogwumike

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Episode 20 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two guests: The first is ESPN insider Adam Schefter, who is the author (along with SI’s Michael Rosenberg) of a new book, “The Man I Never Met: A Memoir.” The second guest is WNBA All-Star forward Chiney Ogwumike, who works as an ESPN host and commentator away from professional basketball. In this podcast Schefter discusses his new book, which is about how his life intersected with Joe Maio, who worked at Cantor Fitzgerald and died on Sept. 11, 2011 at the World Trade Center; why he decided to write a book about his wife’s late husband; how to write something so personal; revealing personal details about his life including the failure of his first marriage; what his wife and children, including Joe’s son who was 27 months old when Joe died; thought about the book; visiting the 9-11 site; how ESPN’s reset of its NFL relationship impacts him; what teams are the most forthcoming or transparent; the most interesting story this year in the NFL; which current players have a career in media ahead of them; working as an NBA sideline reporter and much more. Ogwumike discusses how she broke into broadcasting while playing; how to navigating being a professional athlete and working in the sports media; the importance of Stanford in pushing her to a career in media; being part of SportsCenter Africa and what that division covers; her first appearances on ESPN linear shows like First Take and The Jump; how working in the media has changed her perception of the media; what WNBA athletes deal with on social media; her long-term broadcast aspirations; whether WNBA players will ever earn enough domestically not to play overseas, and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and 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	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is
0:05.5	Lou Pellegrino. Two great guests this week and two conversations I really, really thought were good.
0:10.9	Adam Schaefter is first up. He's, of course, the longtime ESPN NFL insider. But for the purposes of this
0:16.3	podcast, I talked to him about his new book, The Man I Never Met, a Memoir.
0:24.8	That book goes on sale September 4th, and it is a book about grief and hope.
0:34.8	Adam Schefter, for those of you who don't know, married Sherry Schefter, whose first husband, Joe Mayo, died on 9-11 in the World Trade Center. And the book is about Joe Mayo's life before Adam Schefter entered the life of Shari Shefter and her son.
0:44.2	So a lot of personal stuff about Adam Schaefter that you've never heard before.
0:48.5	And we discuss the book and maybe a little bit about how the book was cathartic for Adam to write.
0:54.9	After that is Cheneo Gumaque, the All-Star Forward in the WNBA.
0:59.6	She's really interesting in that she, at the same time of playing professional basketball at the highest level,
1:05.2	is also working as a broadcaster at ESPN.
1:07.9	Started out of the Pac-12 network, eventually made her way to ESPN, was a sports center host of ESPN Africa out of the PAC 12 network eventually made her way to ESPN was a sports center
1:12.6	host of ESPN Africa not an analyst a host which is pretty impressive and Chenay also talks
1:18.3	about a lot of the shit that NBA the WMBA players have to take online really thoughtful smart
1:24.8	athlete which generally speaking they all are from Stanford, and that
1:28.5	was a great conversation as well. So, Adam Schefter, Chenay Ogumakeh, now coming up on the Sports
1:35.1	Media podcast with Richard Deich. Adam Schaefter is an ESPN NFL insider. He has been a guest
1:42.9	on my previous podcast at Sports Illustrated. If you're listening
1:45.8	to this podcast, you probably know who he is. For the purposes of this conversation, though,
1:49.9	we will be talking about Adam Schaefter, the author. And he has a new book coming out on September
1:55.4	4th. That is The Man I Never Met, a memoir. And it is a book about grief and about hope and a different side of Adam Schaefter than most of you know from watching him on television, and Adam Schaefter joins us on the sports media podcast.
2:12.1	Richard, thank you for that introduction, and that is very well said, grief and hope, because I've been asked a few times already to describe the book.
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