Michael Grange, Ann Killion and Mark Feinsand

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Episode 57 of the Sports Media Podcast features three guests. The first segment is a conversation with Michael Grange, who covers the Toronto Raptors for Sportsnet (Canada) and Ann Killion, a sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle who covers the Golden State Warriors. The second segment features Mark Feinsand, an MLB. com executive reporter, MLB Network Insider and the co-author of "Mission 27: A New Boss, A New Ballpark and One Last Ring For The Yankees' Core Four.” In this podcast, Grange and Killion discuss the challenges and professional excitement of covering a championship team; what the process was like to cover this year’s Raptors and Warriors; what kind of access they received as reporters; covering Kawhi Leonard and Kevin Durant daily; Killion on covering a team that consistently makes the NBA Finals; why Steph Curry is so unique among NBA superstars; the most challenging things about covering this year’s teams; who surprised each writer on the other team’s roster; what they anticipate will happen with Durant, Leonard and Klay Thompson; why Leonard’s camp does not leak and much more. Feinsanddiscussed his new book and why he felt it was a compelling subject; how to get people interested in the book who are not usually interested in the Yankees; whether covering the Yankees is different than covering other baseball teams; the metamorphosis of Alex Rodriguez from national pariah to anational voice in baseball; the challenges of getting information in baseball; how media access is MLB in 2019; the importance of reps if you want to be on sports television, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Radio.com 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	Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen.
0:05.5	Hey everybody, this is Richard Ditch and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:08.4	My producer is always is Chris Flannery.
0:10.4	Three guests this week.
0:11.6	First segment is a conversation with Michael Grange, who covers the Toronto Raptors for Sportsnet Canada, fine columnist and one of the big voices of the team up there.
0:23.4	And Anne Killian, a longtime sports columnist.
0:25.9	She is now a sports columnist at San Francisco Chronicle.
0:28.0	Also work with me at Sports Illustrated.
0:29.8	She specializes in the Golden State Warriors.
0:32.3	And we have a really interesting conversation just about how they covered the NBA finals from their perspectives,
0:36.8	what it's like
0:37.5	to cover a team that's won for as many years as the team that Ann covers, what it's like to be
0:43.7	part of a team that gets to the championship for the first time. The team that Michael covers,
0:47.5	we talk about the futures of Kauai Leonard, Clay Thompson, and Kevin Durant, and we get their
0:52.9	expertise on what they think will happen with them.
0:55.6	So if you're a basketball junkie, I think you're going to really enjoy that.
0:58.1	Michael Grange and Anne Killian to start.
1:00.0	And then it's Mark Feinstand in MLB.com executive reporter, MLB Network Insider.
1:04.9	He is the co-author of Mission 27, a new boss, a new ballpark, and one last ring for the Yankees Corps 4.
1:11.4	That's a book about the 2009 Yankees.
1:14.2	And we talked to Mark about sort of why he, not just why he wrote that book,
1:18.9	but what he found interesting about that team.
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