Bill Raftery - CBS/Turner college basketball analyst
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Episode 221 of the Sports Illustrated Podcast features an interview with legendary CBS/Turner college basketball analyst, Bill Raftery. The man who has been calling college hoops for 33 years talked about his various catchphrases, the challenges with calling the NCAA Tournament, what it meant to get the assignment to call the Final Four five years ago, how he prepares for a game, whether retirement ever creeps into his mind, what technology he does and doesn’t use and much more. The podcast kicks off with host Jimmy Traina and his SI colleague, Jack Dickey, discussing various sports media stories in the news, including Mike Trout’s monster deal, ESPN wooing Peyton Manning, NFL draft overkill, ESPN’s wise move with UFC and Jimmy’s issues with DirecTV. This electronic message, including any attachments, may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). You are hereby notified that any unauthorized disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of this message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete it.
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