Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox. Welcome to With Friends Like These.

Now, one thing that some people don't know about me is that I am a big football fan.

And I married into a Villanova family, which means I've gained an interest in college basketball

by osmosis. But even if you aren't a sports fan, you probably realize that fandom is for good progressive

feminists like myself, problematic. Even after the industry's reckoning unraised, which was

led by athletes, there's still a lot to be uncomfortable with. Double standards about sexual

assault, corruption, double standards for men and women's sports, how people even talk about

that stuff. That's why I wanted to talk to Mina Kheims. Mina Kheims been on the show before,

we talked about a big story she wrote on the Olympic gymnastics team scandal. But since then,

she's been promoted by ESPN out of reporting and is now the channel's only female NFL analyst.

She's also the only female Korean American analyst. This interview was recorded in early April,

so there are references to Baylor University's March Madness win as well as what were then new

allegations against the Houston Texans quarterback to Sean Watson. This is all still relevant.

So we do talk about sexual assault. If you're not up for listening to a conversation that contains

that right now, take a break, come back later. We'll be here for you. Coming right up, ESPN's

Mina Kheims. Mina, welcome to the show. Glad to be back. You're an NFL analyst for ESPN.

That is my title, yes, officially. You are just to get out of the way. You're the only female

NFL analyst on ESPN. Yes, so we have a lot of really great NFL reporters and hosts,

including the host of our show I'm on and if alive. But my job being an analyst is being an opinion

in aator. So doing analysis, it's exactly what it sounds like. And that is new. Yes, and I want

to sort of dive into that a little bit further. But first, I actually want to tell you something I

found just kind of poking around before the interview, which is that the Guardian ranked you as the

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