NBC's Maria Taylor
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Episode 593 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with NBC Sports’ host, Maria Taylor.
Taylor, who will host the network’s five-hour Super Bowl pregame show, discusses her prep for the event, why Super Bowl Sunday is in some ways an easier gig than a regular NFL Sunday, whether she has thought about how many people will be watching the pregame show and the physical and mental nature of doing a five-hour show. Taylor also talks about her role as the Lombardi Trophy presenter for the first time in her career.
Other topics discussed with Taylor include what it was like to work with Brent Musburger and Lee Corso, her exit from ESPN, the Sunday Night Football drawing attention for TikTok dances and much more.
Following Taylor, SNY's Sal Licata joins Jimmy for their weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment. This week, they discuss the Super Bowl, the Grammy Awards, another food incident for Jimmy, Will Arnett throwing out one hell of a teaser, the end of the “Washington Post” sports department and more.
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| 1:16.9 | Welcome everyone to s i media with jimmy trainer thank you so much for listening super bowl week is here and we have the woman who's going to be hosting five-hour |
| 1:22.5 | pregame show on mbc leading up to the soup ball mar Maria Taylor. First time for Maria here on. |
| 1:27.8 | Siamedia to train it. |
| 1:29.4 | So appreciate her coming on in this very big week. |
| 1:32.9 | Maria Taylor also hosting Sunday night basketball for NBC. |
| 1:38.2 | She'll be working on the Olympics. |
| 1:39.3 | She'll be working on WMBA. |
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