Kevin Harlan and Jeff Pearlman

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Episode 286 of the Sports Media Podcast features two guests. First up is Kevin Harlan, the CBS Sports, Warner Bros Discovery Sports and Westwood One Audio play by play broadcaster. Harlan is calling the NCAA Tournament this month. He is followed by Jeff Pearlman, the best-selling author of ten books, the writer of the “Jeff Pearlman's Journalism Yang Yang Substack” and host of the “Two Writers Slinging Yang” podcast. In this podcast, Harlan discusses his now-viral call of Furman’s upset of Virginia; why he was uncomfortable with that video getting out; how he prepares to call four games in a single day; calling NCAA Tournament games in Las Vegas; calling the Super Bowl on radio; working with his daughter, Olivia Harlan Dekker, and more. Pearlman discusses his column on journalists not paying sources, how he looks at things such as reporters taking subjects out to dinner; whether we were complicit at Sports Illustrated attending parties where subjects were invited; reporting for his upcoming book on Tupac Shakur 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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0:00.0	Four guards out there along the subject of the best free throw shoot.
0:05.0	Clark and a straight jackal. He threw it away. He threw it away.
0:09.0	He threw it away.
0:10.0	Hilling. Bonanus!
0:11.0	Go-A!
0:13.0	Fort Worth a lot!
0:15.0	Virginia!
0:18.0	Did we just see what we just saw?
0:23.6	Wow!
0:29.6	That is, of course, the memorable voice of Kevin Harlan, one of the best play-by-play people out there and his remarkable call that went viral of Furman upsetting Virginia in the NCAA tournament.
0:48.2	I am Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:50.3	My producer is Patrick Antenetti.
0:52.8	Kevin Harlan is a guest on this podcast.
0:56.5	He is followed by Jeff Perlman.
0:59.0	Kevin comes on to talk about going viral with that fantastic call,
1:03.9	as well as just the challenge of calling four games in one day,
1:07.3	as all NCAA tournament announcers for television have to do.
1:12.0	And a number of other topics we get into, including Calling Games in Las Vegas. Jeff Proman, who has a great
1:17.2	substack, Jeff Prolman's Journalism Yang-yang substack, comes on to discuss one of the pieces he wrote,
1:23.5	which was about never paying for sources and how there is, at least in sports, a little bit of nuance there.
1:29.6	And we get into a discussion on that.
1:32.0	Jeff Proman was a longtime colleague in mine at Sports Illustrated.
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