Andrew Marchand on Charles Barkley NCAA Football Coverage & More
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Episode 571 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with The Athletic's sports media reporter, Andrew Marchand about all the latest sports media news.
Topics discussed: Charles Barkley's recent comments that he still doesn't know what's going on with "Inside the NBA" on ESPN; Fox and ESPN's over-the-top college football coverage in Week 1; Lee Corso's perfect ending; Why ESPN dropped Doris Burke and added Tim Legler to its lead NBA crew; Major League Baseball's television future; ESPN's new direct-to-consumer product; Ryen Russillo leaving The Ringer and much more.
Following Marchand, Sal Licata from WFAN radio and SNY TV in New York joins Jimmy for their weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment. This week, Jimmy and Sal go through some NFL win total over/unders for the 2025 season, look at Week 1 betting lines and discuss NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is presented by Yahoo Fantasy. |
| 0:05.7 | Welcome everyone to SI Media with Jimmy Traynor. |
| 0:09.0 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:11.6 | We have Andrew Marshan from the athletic on this week. |
| 0:15.0 | It's a periodic visit here to go through the latest sports media news. |
| 0:18.3 | And there has been a ton of sports media news over the past few weeks. |
| 0:23.1 | We get into a slew of topics with Andrew, Red Zone having commercials, ESPN and Fox first week college football coverage, the Lee Corso stuff, Major League Baseball's future, ESPN's new direct-to-consumer product, tons of stuff with Marshan. And then we have Sal Lakata and the train of thought segment. Sal and I do a lot of week one NFL, some over-unders, a couple other things there. So big show. Before we get to it, just if you missed it last week, I know it was a holiday Labor Day wrapping up this summer. If you miss Brent Musburger last week, I highly, highly suggest you give it a listen. |
| 0:57.7 | Brent was always... to it. Just if you missed it last week, I know it was a holiday Labor Day wrapping up the summer. If you miss Brent Musburger last week, I highly, highly suggest you give it a listen. |
| 1:04.9 | Brent was awesome. Feedback on the pod was tremendous. Got so many tweets and emails from people about how much they enjoyed Brent. |
| 1:14.1 | So if you missed it, check out Brent Musburger from last week's show. All right, let's get to a big week one here in the NFL and a ton of sports media news to get through with Andrew Marchand and then Salakata in the train of thought segment. |
| 1:18.9 | All right here right now on SI Media with Jimmy Trayn. |
| 1:26.3 | All right. |
| 1:27.0 | Joining me now for his periodic visit. |
| 1:29.9 | Everyone always loves when he comes on the SI Media podcast from the athletic, from his own |
| 1:34.7 | podcast, from his own substack, sign up for it all. |
| 1:39.0 | Media reporter Andrew Marshan. |
| 1:41.3 | Andrew, how are you? |
| 1:42.5 | I'm well. |
| 1:43.2 | Good to talk with you, Jimmy. |
| 1:44.7 | Good. |
| 1:45.0 | It was a crazy few weeks here in the sports media world. |
| 1:48.0 | A lot of stories. |
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