How boxing gets covered in 2019 with Mike Coppinger and Lance Pugmire; Chad Finn on Sports Media

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Episode 61 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features three guests: First up is a boxing roundtable with Mike Coppinger, a staff writer covering boxing for The Athletic who formerly covered the sport for USA Today and Ring Magazine, and Lance Pugmire, a senior writer covering boxing for The Athletic who previously spent 19 years at the Los Angeles Times as their lead boxing writer. They are followed by Chad Finn, the sports media writer for the Boston Globe. In this podcast, Pugmire and Coppinger discuss the most enjoyable and most challenging thing about covering boxing in 2019; who the most important people are for them on the boxing beat; the transparency of fighters, promoters and TV executives; the kind of access they get as writers; the rise of DAZN as a player in the sport and what it means; Al Heymon’s power; how they define Boxing Twitter; what exists in the podcast space and their upcoming podcast; what it is like covering a sport where there are few reporters, and much more. Finn discusses Sunday Night Baseball and why so many viewers are expressing displeasure with the broadcast; the changes on the morning show at WEEI Radio in Boston; how the Celtics will look with Kemba Walker and without Al Horford 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.
0:05.0	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich and welcome to the Sports Media Podcast. My producer, as always, is Terrence Malagon.
0:11.0	Three guests this week. First up is a little bit of a mini roundtable. Lance Pugmire is a senior writer covering boxing for the athletic.
0:18.0	Previously spent two decades at the LA Times as their lead
0:21.7	boxing writer. He is joined by Mike Coppinger, he's a staff writer covering boxing for
0:26.1	the athletic. Mike previously covered boxing for USA Today and Ring Magazine. And we have a
0:32.3	roundtable on what it is like covering boxing in 2019. The joys, the challenges, who the most important
0:38.6	people are in the sport, how transparent people are.
0:41.3	So I think you're going to enjoy that.
0:42.3	Obviously, if you're a boxing fan, you definitely will enjoy it.
0:44.6	But even if you're not, it's just interesting getting a little insight into this sport.
0:50.2	They're followed by Chad Finn, who's a regular on this podcast, the sports media writer and columnist of the Boston Globe.
0:56.5	Chad discusses Sunday Night Baseball, which has not really been particularly popular, I think, for the majority of the viewers.
1:03.9	And the major changes in his market for sports radio at WEEI, where longtime sports talk host Jerry Callahan in the morning will no longer be on that show that he co-helmed for 20 years.
1:17.4	So Lance Pugmeier, Mike Coppinger, and Chad Finn all coming up on the Sports Media Podcast.
1:26.4	All right, as I said at the top, Mike Coppinger is a staff writer covering boxing for the athletic.
1:33.0	Prior to working at the athletic, he formerly covered the sport for USA Today and Rig Magazine.
1:38.9	You may have seen him on television for Fox ESPN Plus.
1:43.5	Lance Pugmire is a senior writer covering boxing for the athletic.
1:47.1	He previously spent 19 years at the Los Angeles Times as their lead boxing writers.
1:52.2	If you are a boxing fan, you obviously know both of these gentlemen.
1:55.6	If you are not into boxing, I hope you find this really interesting because they cover
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