Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host, Richard Dyche. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.

One guest this week. And I did say, you know, I wanted to do some more Canadian-centric podcast.

And this will fall into that.

Ivanka Azmak is a host for SportsNet in Canada.

If you're a sports fan in Canada, you certainly have heard of her or watched her.

She's on the weekday edition of Sportsnet Central, which again is sort of the Canadian version of SportsCenter.

In Canada, there's TSN and their Sportsnet.

Those are the two big entities that do live sports up here.

But she is here today because she is the author of a new children's book.

The book is called Allie Hoops, which is a story that encourages girls and boys to be involved

in sports in any role regardless of their skill level. And Ivanka talks about writing this book.

So obviously always been a passion project for her. I think it's very, very cool when people

sort of step out of their normal job roles

and then sort of do something else within the industry.

And that's why I wanted to have her on.

I just think it's really interesting.

Like, how do you write a children's sports book?

Like, you know, what goes into that process and stuff?

So I think you're going to find this interesting.

At the end of the conversation,

we do get into a little bit of, you know,

where the highlights show may or may not be going when it comes to Canadian sports television.

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