David Epstein, Seerat Sohi and Daniel Dale

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Episode 54 of the Sports Media Podcast features three guests: First up is David Epstein, a New York Times best-selling author whose latest book is “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.” He is followed by Seerat Sohi, an NBA writer for Yahoo Sports based in Toronto who is covering the NBA Finals. The third segment features Daniel Dale, the acclaimed Washington bureau chief for the Toronto Star and a mega-Raptors fan. In this podcast, Epstein discusses his latest book, which questions whether early specialization leads to your best possible result; the development of Roger Federer vs. Tiger Woods; how specialization impacts society; the system of parallel trenches in science and what that means; those who find success late; how parents can best introduce their kids sports; the greatest organizational challenge Epstein faced with the book; his thoughts on Caster Semenya, and more. Sohi discusses how she will approach covering her first NBA Finals fulltime; whether she feels pressure writing a major event versus a regular season game; how the Warriors-Raptors series might play out; why the Raptors receive a fair amount of press given their standing in the league; why Fred VanVleet is the most interesting quote on Toronto; how Kawhi Leonard might view the result of this series in relation to his free agency and much more. Dale returns to the podcast to discuss his Raptors fandom and how he has processed this remarkable Finals run; attending many of the playoff games in person; how he feels this team will impact basketball in Canada heading forward; whether there are Raptors fans amid his Washington circle; why he prefers not to write about this team and just revel in fandom, and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Radio.com 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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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen.
0:05.8	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Chris Flannery.
0:10.8	Coming up, three guests, three very, very interesting people. First up, David Epstein, a New York Times bestseller, a former staffer, Pope Publica, and Sports Illustrated.
0:21.3	He is the author of Range.
0:23.0	Why Generalist Triumph in a specialized world?
0:27.2	And Epstein basically examines whether early specialization leads to your best possible results,
0:34.4	specifically in sports.
0:36.1	That's our conversation.
0:37.0	And he finds that that is not the
0:39.0	case. You want to be more Roger Federer, perhaps, than Tiger Woods, where you sample many different
0:44.3	things in many different sports. But a very, very, very fascinating book, Range, why generalist
0:50.2	triumph in a specialized world. So he is our first guest, and that is the conversation.
0:54.5	After that, we go very big on the NBA finals. Siritt Sohi is an NBA writer for Yahoo Sports.
1:00.7	She is based in Toronto, and we diagnose the series in terms of what will happen. But beyond that,
1:07.3	in terms of at least for the sports media stuff, this is Syrett's sort of first major finals that she'll be covering from beginning to end. And we talk about what it's like. How do you find stories in mid a thousand media people being there? How do you separate yourself from the pack? Is there pressure in terms of writing the NBA finals versus, you know, writing Game 52 against, you know, against the Trailblazers
1:29.7	or something like that.
1:30.7	So it was a really interesting conversation, and she knows the Raptors cold.
1:34.7	So if you're interested in some NBA Finals talk, check her out.
1:38.1	Finally, we end with Daniel Dale.
1:40.4	Daniel Dale is probably familiar to you as the Toronto Stars, Washington Bureau Bureau Chief and basically the chief fact checker of Donald Trump.
1:47.3	But there are no politics in this podcast.
1:49.6	Daniel Dale is a massive Raptors fan.
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