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Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Covering sports inside a bubble with ESPN’s Holly Rowe, Tania Ganguli of the L.A. Times and Stefano Fusaro of ESPN

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3721 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Episode 108 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features three guests. First up is ESPN reporter Holly Rowe, who is covering the WNBA season from inside the bubble in Bradenton, Fla. Next is Tania Ganguli, the Lakers beat writer for the Los Angeles Times who is covering the NBA season from inside the bubble in Orlando. She is followed by ESPN’s Stefano Fusaro, who is covering the “MLS Is Back” tournament from inside the bubble in Orlando.  In this podcast, Rowe discusses how she landed the assignment and why she wanted it; her experience leading up to going inside the bubble and her first week there; speaking to her doctors about taking the assignment; the access she has inside the bubble; what WNBA players have told her so far about the experience; getting a daily COVID-19 test; her role on WNBA game broadcasts; navigating stories on social activism with game coverage and much more.  Ganguli discusses getting the assignment and how she arrived in Orlando; what the opening weeks were like for NBA reporters; the access she has inside the facility; her interaction with players; what she has been told about game access for reporters; the challenges of covering the Lakers; navigating stories on social activism with game coverage and much more.  Fusaro explains how he got the assignment and why he wanted to come to Orlando; his opening weeks inside the bubble; the access he has to MLS players; what players have told him about the experiences; navigating stories on social activism with game coverage; providing news for multiple parts of ESPN; how it works for him during game broadcasts; his experience with doctors prior to arriving inside the bubble 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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Hey everybody. This is Richard Dutch and welcome to the sports media podcast.

0:44.7

My producers are Patrick Antonetti and Sean Cherry.

0:46.7

Three guests this week.

0:51.8

And the topic of this podcast is reporting from inside the bubble. And I have three reporters who are in bubble environments for three different sports.

0:57.6

Holly Rowe.

0:59.3

Really needs no introduction for this audience.

1:02.2

She's been on this podcast a number of times.

1:06.0

Worked for ESPN for more than two decades.

1:08.4

It's been a lead reporter on college football, men's college basketball, the women's final four, women's college world series, uh, beach volleyball, and, uh, the

1:19.1

WNBA, which is the reason she's on this podcast as she talks to us from Bradenton about her

1:26.6

experiences being in the WNBA bubble right now. Holly's always

1:30.0

great to talk to and that was, it's just fascinating in terms of what she's going through and how

1:36.6

the WMBA setup is. So she starts the podcast off, followed by Tanya Ganguly, the fine Lakers beat

1:43.3

writer for the Los Angeles Times.

1:45.5

And we talk about her experiences so far in the NBA bubble in Orlando, what the opening

1:50.7

weeks were like, what she hopes to report on in the bubble environment and stories on social

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