Men In Blazers founder Roger Bennett, U.S. National Team midfielder and podcaster Sam Mewis, and The Athletic’s Rustin Dodd

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Episode 325 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features three guests. First up is Men in Blazers co-founder Roger Bennett and USWNT midfielder and podcaster Sam Mewis, who have combined forces with longtime USWNT center back Becky Sauerbrunn to broadcast on Twitch during the Women’s World Cup. Bennett and Mewis will be live on the Men In Blazers’ Twitch feed for the Women’s World Cup semifinals and final. In this podcast, Bennett and Mewis discuss how they approach a second screen experience for soccer fans; why they have had audiences of more than 500,000 viewers on their Twitch feed; Mewis on watching the WWC coverage this month and how that differed from how she consumed media as a player; the next evolution of Men In Blazers; Mewis’s post-playing interest in working in the media and more. Dodd discusses his new book with Mark Dent, “Kingdom Quarterback: Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs, and How a Once Swingin' Cow Town Chased the Ultimate Comeback”; the roots of Kansas City and how it is Everytown USA; why Mahomes has succeeded; how Dodd views Mahomes historically; why Kansas City is unique as a sports town; why Dodd sees Mahomes as similar to Steph Curry; New York City sports versus Kansas City sports and how media coverage differs in each city and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, 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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0:37.4	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Three guests this week, two segments. First up, men and blazers founder Roger Bennett and the United States Women National Team midfielder Sam Mewis. They have combined forces along with Becky
0:56.8	Sauerbren to broadcast on the men in Blazers Twitch feed during the Women's World
1:01.9	Cup. And it's been an incredibly fun second screen experience to watch. So Roger and Sam come on
1:08.5	to talk about that. We talk about soccer media. Get into a little bit of what it's been like for Sam, one of the great midfielder in the country who's been hurt the last couple years. And sort of what's that like to try to find some other avenues to discuss the game that you love. So Roger and Sam to start and then Rustin Dodd, who is my colleague
1:29.9	at The Athletic, he has a new book out with Mark Dent, Kingdom quarterback Patrick Mahomes,
1:34.6	the Kansas City Chiefs, and how a once-swing-in-cow-town chased the ultimate comeback.
1:39.3	It's a book that sort of runs on parallel tracks. It tells you about Kansas City and why it's sort of the quintessential American town.
1:48.0	And then obviously the importance of Patrick Mahomes and the chiefs to that town.
1:52.4	And Patrick Mahomes' genius, obviously, in terms of being a professional football player.
1:57.5	So I think you'll enjoy that as well.
1:58.7	So Roger Bennett and Sam Mewis to start, Rust and Dodd to finish coming up on the sports media podcast.
2:07.3	All right. As I said at the top, you know, Roger Bennett has essentially been the Pied
2:12.9	Piper for domestic and global soccer in the United States. If you're a soccer fan,
2:17.1	you know he's part of the men and Blazers's now digital dynasty.
2:21.7	Today, for the purposes of this podcast, he's joined by Sam U.S.
2:25.4	If you are a soccer fan of the United States and a women's soccer fan globally,
2:29.4	you know who that is, one of the best midfielder's in the world.
2:32.5	Right now currently rehabbing her knee surgery,
2:36.0	part of the 2019 World Cup winning team.
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