Laura Rutledge and Kevin Clark

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Episode 37 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two guests: First up is Laura Rutledge, a reporter and host for ESPN in a number of roles including as a reporter on live-event programming such as college football as well as a co-host on “Get Up” and the SEC Network’s “SEC Nation.” She is followed by Kevin Clark, an NFL writer, podcaster and video host for The Ringer. He previously covered the NFL for The Wall Street Journal. In this podcast, Rutledge discusses her various roles on major college football and other sports as well as hosting; her work process for each of those roles within ESPN; how she landed on “Get Up” and what ESPN has told her about her future there; her thought process on discussing Courtney Smith and Urban Meyer via commentary; facing sexism and chauvinism on social media; dealing with the stereotypes that exist on her being a former Miss Florida; the specific differences in working the sidelines on Monday Night Football versus college football; the passion of college football fans in the South; her experience being a regular on The Paul Finebaum Show; getting offered to join the Nashville and Sarasota ballets; and more. Clark discusses his unique style of NFL writing and how he finds his stories; why he left The Wall Street Journal for The Ringer; why the football analytics revolution may not be obvious, but it is happening in front of our eyes; whether wins above replacement a good metric for NFL; the interest in NFL viewers in analytics; his access working for The Ringer versus the Wall Street Journal; his thoughts on the Patriots-Rams Super Bowl, 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	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer, as
0:05.9	always is Lou Pellegrino. Two guests this week, two really interesting conversations.
0:10.6	First up is ESPN's Laura Rutledge. She is a reporter and host for ESPN. If you're a watcher of ESPN,
0:19.4	you have seen her in a number of roles from major college football games on the sidelines to the host of the SEC Network.
0:26.4	She's now a regular on Get Up as well as on the Paul Feinbaum show.
0:30.9	And we had what I thought was a really interesting conversation on her career.
0:35.2	And I think you'll be surprised at some of the things she did prior to getting to ESPN. Following Laura Rutledge is Kevin Clark. He is an NFL writer and
0:44.8	podcaster for The Ringer previously worked for the Wall Street Journal. Kevin Clark just does pieces
0:50.0	that they're quirky and different and NFL writing that, in my opinion, you're just not
0:55.7	seeing elsewhere. So we got into a discussion on how Kevin finds his pieces or his subjects,
1:03.4	and also the difference of working for the ringer versus the Wall Street Journal,
1:08.0	two very different publications, two places in different parts of the world as well, Los Angeles, California, and New York City.
1:16.0	So Laura Rutledge first, and then Kevin Clark coming up on the Sports Media podcast.
1:21.3	Laura Rutledge is a reporter and host for ESPN in a number of roles, including working as a reporter on college
1:30.6	football, basketball, gymnastics, baseball, and softball. You also saw her this year do Monday
1:37.2	night football, Jets Lions, and we'll get into that. She is the host of the SEC Network's
1:43.4	SEC Nation. She's also a co-host of Get Up. She's a regular on the Paul Feimbaum show. I believe she's
1:49.8	hosted Sports Center. We're getting into Stephen A. Smith territory in terms of someone who's getting a lot of
1:54.5	different jobs at ESPN. And Laura Rutledge joins us on the sports media podcast. Laura, thanks for coming on today.
2:03.8	Thank you for having me. I really appreciate it. Big fan of the podcast for many years. So,
2:08.9	cool moment for me. Yeah. Way to read off the prompter, Laura. That was nice of you to say.
2:15.3	Yeah, that's something I don't usually do, but I started it right now for your
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