Michele Tafoya on her next role and USA Today’s Nancy Armour on covering the Beijing Olympics

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Episode 182 of the Sports Media Podcast features two guests. First up is Michele Tafoya, the longtime sideline reporter for NBC Sports who is leaving sports broadcasting for both a role in Minnesota politics and political commentating. She is followed by USA Today sports columnist Nancy Armour, who is onsite at the Beijing Games. In this podcast, Tafoya discusses why this was the right time for her to leave sports broadcasting; becoming a co-chairman of a gubernatorial campaign in Minnesota; making herself available as a political commentator; insisting that NBC Sports had no issues with her appearance on The View; the prospects of interviewing Enes Kanter Freedom at CPAC; how she classifies herself politically; navigating politics while working for NBC Sports; talking politics on with Sunday Night Football cast mates; being the poolside reporter at the Olympics; reporting on Gary Kubiak when he suffered a transient ischemic attack during Sunday Night Football; her most memorable assignments; her memorable interviews with Bill Belichick and Gregg Popovich; and more. Armour discusses the biggest challenges since she arrived in Beijing; what she had to do to get Beijing; her accommodations; staffing levels; how she decides what stories she does daily; her access to athletes; covering alpine skiing; covering the Olympics during a Super Bowl Week; how much she worries about her intellectual security; the future of the Olympics 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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1:10.4	Hey, everybody, this is Richard Deich, and welcome to the Sports Media Podcast.
1:30.3	My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Two guests this week. First up, Michelle Tofoya, the longtime sideline reporter for NBC Sports. She is leaving sports broadcasting for both a role in Minnesota politics as well as political commentating. We have a 50-minute conversation or so on why she's making this change, what she hopes to do in her post-sports broadcasting career. And we go into some of
1:38.1	her most memorable moments as a sports broadcaster. She had interesting conversations over the years with Bill Belichick and Greg Popovich.
1:47.1	And so this is an interview.
1:49.3	You know, some of you, some of you might not be surprised at where Michelle's heading.
1:53.5	Some of you, I imagine, will be surprised.
1:55.1	But tried to have a substantive and fair conversation with her regarding her future. After that, Nancy Armour,
2:04.0	the excellent and longtime USA Today Sports columnist, she joins us from Beijing, where she talks
2:09.7	about the challenges of covering these games, what she had to do to get to Beijing, what her
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