Rebecca Lobo and LaChina Robinson

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Episode 29 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features sports broadcasters Rebecca Lobo and LaChina Robinson for an examination of women’s college basketball coverage, and a look at this year’s top teams. Lobo joined ESPN in 2004 as a WNBA and women’s college basketball analyst and reporter and calls the Women’s Final Four annually. She is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Robinson calls games for a myriad of companies including ESPN, Fox Sports, Raycom’s ACC women’s basketball, the Atlanta Dream, and works at espnW, where she hosts the “Around The Rim” podcast. In this episode, Lobo and Robinson offer their thoughts on Notre Dame, UConn, Oregon, Baylor, and Louisville, and dissect the biggest challenges for Notre Dame to repeat; what women’s basketball programs are the most media accessible and why; how forthcoming coaches are in production meeting with broadcasters; the U.S. media markets with a lot of coverage of women’s basketball and the markets that should be better; the state of the women’s basketball blogosphere and the websites doing a good job of covering the sport, and much 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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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, this is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer, as always, is Lou Pellegrino. Two guests this week. If you are women's basketball watchers, readers, or fans, they don't need really introductions, although I will give that to them anyway. Or give them introductions anyway. Rebecca Lobo joined ESPN in 2004 as a WNBA and Women's College Basketball analyst and reporter.
0:26.7	She is a former college All-American at Yukon.
0:29.4	I'm sure you've heard of that school.
0:30.9	A WNBA All-Star and Olympic champion, a member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame,
0:37.0	and just an all-around great person who I was privileged to hang out with a little bit in Beijing.
0:44.0	Always a good place to hang out with Rebecca Lobo in China.
0:47.2	LeChina Robinson is the hardest working person, in my opinion, in women's hoops.
0:50.8	She has a myriad of jobs in women's basketball, including working for deep breath
0:55.9	because there's too many employers, LeChina, ESPN, Fox Sports, Raycoms, ACC, W, Women's Basketball, the Atlanta Dream,
1:02.4	and ESPNW. She played her college hoops at Wake Forest. Go look her up on YouTube.
1:08.3	Rebecca Lobo and LeChina Robinson, thank you very much for joining me
1:11.7	on the sports media podcast today. Thanks for having us. I will say that when Rebecca and I work
1:16.5	together, my request is often that we don't put the bios up because Rebecca's is like ridiculous.
1:23.5	And then there's, oh, LeChina, a little blurb on the map. But you made me sound, you expanded my territory.
1:29.8	So thank you, Richard.
1:30.6	I know, I didn't go into whatever, you know, 1995 player to year, Sullivan Award.
1:37.8	I don't, it's, Lobo's bio, it's annoying.
1:40.8	Yeah, it's like, it's like, yeah, it might as well be like the size of like a presidential memoir at this point.
1:47.2	It's a little too much.
1:48.7	It's crazy.
1:50.2	Rebecca, you still there?
1:51.8	Richard, as you know, like once you become a parent and none of that matters, like all I am is this is Russian.
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