NFL Network reporter Stacey Dales and ESPN MLB Reporter Marly Rivera

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Episode 137 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two guests. First up is NFL Network reporter Stacey Dales. She is followed by ESPN national baseball reporter Marly Rivera. In this podcast Dales discusses her journey from Canada to becoming an All-America basketball player at the University of Oklahoma to playing professional basketball to landing a job at ESPN; the challenges of navigating a high-profile media job in her 20s; how she ended up at the NFL Network after leaving ESPN; the challenges of focusing on an entire league; how to get better as a reporter; her duties and responsibilities at the NFL Network; why offensive lineman are excellent interviews; the state of women’s college basketball and the NCAA’s leadership’s attitude toward its most prominent women’s sport; and much more. Rivera discusses the major stories the baseball media will focus on to start the season; what kind of access MLB reporters will have this year; the challenge of covering amid COVID 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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0:54.3	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producers are Patrick Antenetti and Sean Cherry. Two guests this week, two excellent guests, really interesting conversations, very accomplished at what they do. First up is Stacy Dales, the NFL Network Reporter.
1:02.2	You see her all over that network, whether it's covering pro days right now or during game weeks.
1:05.0	She is assigned to a game.
1:12.4	And she's had just a fascinating career because she first came out on the scene as a star basketball player at Oklahoma, then played professional basketball for a little bit, joined ESPN in her 20s and did multiple things there, and then
1:18.0	eventually became a NFL specialist. So she's had a really interesting career, and we talked
1:24.4	about sort of navigate, how she navigated jobs covering the NFL in 2021.
1:31.5	And then we did get into a little bit about women's basketball and just the absolute continued nonsense that the NCAA continues to provide us when it comes to equity and supplies for the men's tournament and the
1:47.9	women's tournament and women's basketball and men's basketball. So Stacey Dales is up first.
1:52.3	She is followed by the ESPN MLB reporter Marley Rivera, who's been on the show before.
1:57.6	We love Marley. One of the best at what she does. And she talks about the big
2:03.7	stories that the media will be looking at in baseball in 2021. What kind of access she has right now
2:10.6	and how she has to cover the sport as we still are in a pandemic, but knock on wood, heading to see the other side.
2:20.4	And then something I asked her, and I really appreciate her honesty here, just what she
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