Calling Caitlin Clark’s games
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Episode 404 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Debbie Antonelli, an analyst on the WNBA’s Indiana Fever broadcasts and a 2024 Curt Gowdy Media Award from the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Antonelli has worked for many media outlets including CBS and ESPN. She is joined by Pat Boylan, the play-by-play voice of Fever. He’s also calls Indiana Pacers games and works with on Pacers broadcasts as a sideline reporter and host. In this podcast, the guests discuss how challenging a year has this been for the Fever; how they view Clark’s year; how they have processed the national dialogue around Clark and the Fever; whether there is an expectation that their broadcasts should be pro-Fever; what happens if the Fever continue to struggle as far as attendance and viewership; the WNBA’s access for media; the upcoming players coming in from college in the future and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host, Richard Dyche. My producer's Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:13.8 | Two guests this week, but I think you will find this particularly interesting. I know this podcast has talked about Caitlin Clark and sort of the |
| 0:21.1 | discussions or the media discussions to be specific that have centered around her, but I have |
| 0:26.8 | two guests who are really, really in a unique position when it comes to the Indiana fever. |
| 0:31.9 | Pat Boyland is indeed the play-by-play voice of the Indiana fever. He also at times calls Pacer games, part of the Pacers Radio Network where he's |
| 0:41.3 | hosting a sideline reporter. |
| 0:43.3 | You'd also see him on Bally Sports if you are in that part of the world. |
| 0:48.4 | Debbie Antinelli is an analyst on fever broadcasts. |
| 0:51.3 | She's worked for ESPN, CBS, West 1-1, many other places. She's the 2024 |
| 0:59.6 | Kurt Gowdy Media Award winner from the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Debbie's been on this |
| 1:05.8 | podcast before, and obviously I've written about her before.'s you know trailblazer is a word that |
| 1:11.7 | should or should be reserved for specific people and she's indeed that particularly with |
| 1:17.1 | her work calling the NCAA men's basketball tournament and with those intros I bring in |
| 1:21.8 | Pat Boylan and Debbie Antonelli welcome to the sports media podcast hey Richard |
| 1:26.5 | appreciate you having us yeah thank, thank you, Richard. |
| 1:28.8 | Excited to be here. All right. So I'm going to direct questions to each of you, but you are both |
| 1:34.2 | free to follow up on each other, as a good analyst, play-by-play person would do. So let me start with |
| 1:40.8 | you, Debbie. A very broad question. |
| 1:44.4 | How challenging a year has this been for the Indiana fever? |
| 1:49.2 | Oh, I think there's so many new things to the puzzle for them. |
| 1:53.0 | Obviously, when you get the first draft pick back-to-back years, you've had a struggling franchise. |
| 1:57.7 | And I think they have struggled in many ways on the court winning |
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