ESPN's Jeremy Schaap

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Episode 560 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with longtime ESPN reporter and host, Jeremy Schaap.

Schaap talks about ESPN's upcoming E60, "Southpaw–The Life and Legacy of Jim Abbott," which covers the career of the pitcher born without a right hand who threw a no-hitter as a Yankee. Schaap also discusses another great E60 that he worked on, "The Great Imposter," about the life of Barry Bremen, who was known for sneaking into various sporting events.

Other topics discussed with Schaap include his famous interview with Bobby Knight, whether he's ever come close to leaving ESPN, the story he missed out on that hurts the most, the state of journalism in 2025 and much more.

Following Schaap, Sal Licata from WFAN radio and SNY TV in New York joins Jimmy for their weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment. This week, they discuss the new price for NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube, the "torpedo bats" discussion completely going away, 4th of July plans celebrity encounters and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to S-I Media with Jimmy Train and thank you so much for listening.
0:07.7	We have an excellent show for you today.
0:11.0	Jeremy Shapp, longtime journalist at ESPN, comes on to discuss an upcoming E-60 on Jim Abbott,
0:19.3	one-handed pitcher for the Yankees throwing a no-hitter back in 1993.
0:23.6	Also discuss some of the other great E-60s he's done.
0:27.9	There's a great one called The Great Imposter.
0:29.7	I highly recommend everyone check that out.
0:31.7	We discuss that with Jeremy Schape as well.
0:34.3	Get into his famous Bob Knight interview, discuss sort of the state of journalism and what's going on at ESPN. So it's a great interview with Jeremy Schap. And then, of course, we have Train of Thoughts with Sal Akata after the interview with Jeremy Schap. Before we get to the pod for this week, let me just remind you great episodes in the archives. If you missed any recent episodes of SI Media with
0:54.8	Jimmy Traynor, go check them out. We had Richard Deich from The Athletic on last week to talk
0:58.9	about the latest sports media news. June Lee, independent reporter, was on two weeks ago to talk
1:04.0	about the cost of being a sports fan in 2025 in terms of streaming and in terms of going to games.
1:10.7	We did a mailbag, old mailbag edition.
1:13.0	Three weeks ago, we had Richard Jefferson from ESPN, ABC, on the pod as well.
1:18.5	So check those out.
1:20.0	And if you can make sure you're subscribed to the pod, if you're not a subscriber,
1:24.1	hit the subscribe button, hit the follow button and become a follower and subscriber to SIEMedia with Jeremy Trayton.
1:29.4	You can leave a review on Apple.
1:30.6	We'll read those coming up on an episode in the near future.
1:35.4	All right.
1:36.1	Let's get to it.
1:36.8	Jeremy Schap from ESPN, followed by Salakata and Traynor Thoughts all right here, right now.
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