How do you promote a book about D3 basketball? The guest is Chicago sports talk host Danny Parkins
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Episode 391 of Sports Media Podcast features Danny Parkins, the author of "Pipeline to the Pros: How D3, Small College Nobodies Rose to Rule the NBA" and the co-host of The Score 670 (Chicago) afternoon show with Matt Spiegel. In this podcast, we discuss the origin of the book (he co-wrote it with Ben Kaplan); the many former D3 players serving as head coach in the NBA including Tom Thibodeau and Frank Vogel; Jeff and Stan Van Gundy's amazing D3 roots; how to promote a book such as this; the future of local sports-talk radio in a city such as Chicago; competing against national sports radio shows; how Chicago is different from other passionate sports markets and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.
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| 0:28.7 | welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:40.9 | I'm your host, Richard Dyche. |
| 0:41.8 | My producer Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:43.8 | One guest for this episode, but an excellent one. |
| 0:46.7 | Danny Parkins is the co-author of Pipeline to the Pros, |
| 0:51.4 | How D3 Small College Nobody's's, Rose to Rule the NBA. |
| 0:56.5 | He wrote that book with Ben Kaplan, and it is really, really interesting. |
| 1:00.4 | It's sort of an examination of some of the very well-known people in the NBA, |
| 1:06.1 | Tom Tibido, Frank Vogel, the Van Gundy's are prominently featured, |
| 1:11.2 | just people who started their basketball journeys in Division III |
| 1:16.1 | or eventually sort of made a little bit of a name in Division III |
| 1:19.5 | and how they moved into the NBA. |
| 1:22.2 | It's really, really interesting, highly recommended if you are a basketball junkie. |
| 1:27.2 | Also, Danny is the co-host of one of the leading Chicago afternoon shows. |
| 1:33.2 | He's on the score 670, works with Matt Spiegel. |
| 1:37.6 | And so we get into sports talk radio in 2024. |
| 1:42.6 | What he's trying to sort of do as a host, where he sees the business going, |
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