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Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Hall of Fame basketball coach Muffet McGraw and soccer journalist Grant Wahl

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 17 November 2020

ā±ļø 56 minutes

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Summary

Episode 120 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two guests. First up is Hall of Fame basketball coach Muffet McGraw, who served as the head women's basketball coach at Notre Dame from 1987 to 2020, leading her team to nine Final Fours, seven championship game appearances, and two National Championships. Last month McGraw joined ESPN to work in a studio analyst role for the ACC Network. She is followed by soccer journalist Grant Wahl, who hosts the "FĆŗtbol with Grant Wahl" podcast. This week Wahl debuts "American Prodigy: The Freddy Adu Story," a seven-part series on the American soccer player Freddy Adu. In this podcast, McGraw discusses her decision to join the ACC Network and how it came about; why she is sure she will not coach again; why studio work is interesting to her; reaching out to former collegeĀ basektball coaches Andy Landers and Seth Greenberg about the transition to broadcasting; the challenge of being associated with Notre Dame while analyzing Notre Dame; her relationship with current Notre Dame coach Niele Ivey; the decision to play college basketball this year amid COVID; teaching at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business and working on Election Day as a poll worker; promoting women’s equality and speaking on behalf of women across the country; her former players in the WNBA and their activism; her relationship with Pete Buttigieg and more.Ā  Wahl discusses his new narrative podcast on Freddy Adu, a 7-part series including nearly two dozen interviews with people who have been closest to Adu;Ā the reportingĀ process for such a podcast; why Adu turned down media requests over the years; why Adu did not turn into an American Messi; what Adu told Wahl during their conversation; what Adu is doing now, and 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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0:41.4

Hey, everybody, this is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast.

0:44.2

My producers are Patrick Antonetti and Sean Cherry.

0:47.0

Two guests this week, two excellent guests.

0:50.1

First up, the Hall of Fame College basketball coach Muffet McGrath.

0:55.9

Even if you're not a women's basketball, watch her a fan. You probably heard of Muffet McGraw.

1:03.8

She, um, she coached Notre Dame from 1987 to 2020, led her team to nine final fours, uh, seven championship game appearances, two national titles and just a crazy amount of wins, one of the great

1:08.4

college basketball coaches of her day.

1:11.5

ESPN recently announced she is joining the company to be a studio analyst for the ACC Network.

1:17.2

So we get into that transition, why she says she will never coach again.

1:23.2

Her relationship, current relationship with Notre Dame, the challenges of being in broadcasting. Muffet's also teaching at the Mendoza College of Business. Muffet McGraw is always interesting, and we had a really good conversation on where she is in her life. Muffin McGraw is followed by the soccer journalist Grant Wall, of course, former colleague of mine Sports Illustrated. He has his own podcast on soccer, but he's here to talk about a new

1:49.3

narrative podcast that he's narrating and has reported on Freddie Adieu. It is called,

1:54.9

let me make sure I have this correctly, American Prodigy, the Freddie Adieu story. It's a seven-part series on Freddie

2:03.5

Adieu and what happened to him. At one point, you know, maybe the, the greatest 14-year-old

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