4.3 • 721 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2019
⏱️ 95 minutes
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0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen. |
0:05.0 | Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. |
0:08.4 | My producer, as always, is Patrick Antonetti. |
0:10.7 | Three guests this week. |
0:11.9 | Three interesting conversations, I think, for you. |
0:14.3 | First up, Michael Smith, who worked for ESPN for 15 years in various capacities, |
0:19.3 | including as an NFL reporter and a sports center host, specifically the SC6 host, with Jamel Hill. |
0:26.2 | And he was incredibly honest about why things ended up as they did with ESPN. |
0:32.1 | Those two entities parted ways, Michael Smith asking for a buyout from ESPN after 15 years. And I think you'll |
0:38.3 | appreciate that very honest conversation about Michael Smith and ESPN and now what he is doing. |
0:44.7 | And that is as an executive vice president and chief content officer for Collaboratory, which is a new LA studio startup focusing on |
0:53.5 | developing on original content and sports. |
0:57.1 | After Michael, Isabella Creschutian, who has covered the Washington Capitals for the Washington |
1:01.6 | Post since the fall of 2015, she will now become a Moscow correspondent for that newspaper. |
1:07.9 | And Isabel talks about how she's preparing for that assignment, what it's like to be an American reporter in Moscow, her job responsibilities. |
1:14.5 | Really fascinating career shift for her. |
1:17.8 | She's one of the bright, really smart young reporters in this country. |
1:21.5 | So I think you'll enjoy that. |
1:23.6 | Finish up with Mark Beach, a senior editor at the Players Tribune, long-time Sports Illustrated |
1:28.3 | Stafford with me. His new book is the People's Team in illustrated history of the Green Bay Packers, |
1:34.2 | a massive undertaking to do the history of the Green Bay Packers, but Mark Beach undertook it and |
1:40.7 | produced a really terrific book. Three guests this week, Michael Smith, Isabel, |
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