Bryan Curtis on Russini-Vrabel, NBA Playoffs & More
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Episode 606 of “SI Media With Jimmy Traina” features an interview with The Ringer’s Bryan Curtis about the latest sports media news.
Curtis talks about the latest developments in the Dianna Russini–Mike Vrabel story, Prime Video’s “technical difficulties” vs. NBC’s scorebug mistake during early first-round NBA playoff games, and ESPN’s massive promotion of WWE.
In addition, Curtis weighs in on whether reporters should tip NFL draft picks and the decline of the NFL draft as a major television event.
Following Curtis, Sal Licata from SNY TV and “The Sal Licata Show” joins Jimmy for their weekly “Traina Thoughts” segment. This week’s topics include World Cup train tickets going from $12.50 to $150, the difficulties of logging into streaming services, WrestleMania 42, the New York Mets’ pathetic play, and the NBA playoffs. In addition, Jimmy reads some listener emails.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to S-I Media with Jimmy Train and thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:07.1 | We have our regular comes on every three months or so. |
| 0:11.1 | Brian Curtis from the Ringer and the Press Box podcast to discuss all of the latest sports media news. |
| 0:17.0 | We're giving to Diana Rossini and Mike Grable. |
| 0:19.7 | NBA playoff observations with Amazon Amazon NBC back in the mix. |
| 0:24.6 | Mike Tomlin to NBC. |
| 0:27.4 | ESPN's promotion of WrestleMania. |
| 0:31.1 | So a ton of sports media news with Brian Curtis. |
| 0:35.1 | And then, of course, we have the train and thought segment with Sal Likata following that. |
| 0:39.8 | So make sure you subscribe to SIA Media with Jimmy Trina. |
| 0:42.7 | Catch up on past episodes if you missed it. |
| 0:44.9 | We had Shams Tarania on last week. |
| 0:47.1 | We did a bonus podcast with Cody Rhodes from the WWE, Adam Shine a couple of weeks ago, |
| 0:51.9 | Andrew Marshan, a recent guest. |
| 0:53.6 | So if you missed any of those, give them a listen, download them, and subscribe and leave a review on Apple. |
| 1:00.3 | It helps tremendously. |
| 1:01.3 | All right. |
| 1:01.9 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:02.9 | Brian Curtis from the Ringer, followed by Salakata and Traynor thoughts. |
| 1:06.4 | All right here, right now. |
| 1:10.6 | On SI Media with Jimmy Trana. |
| 1:13.3 | All right, joining me now for his quarterly visit to the SI Media podcast. |
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