Ryan Ruocco of ESPN and the YES Network and Lindsey Adler and Olivia Witherite of The Athletic

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Episode 121 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features three guests. First up is ESPN and YES Network broadcaster Ryan Ruocco, who serves as a play-by-play announcer for ESPN’s NBA and WNBA coverage and was most recently named to serve as ESPN’s lead play-by-play commentator for Women’s college basketball. He is followed by Lindsey Adler, who covers the Yankees for The Athletic and Olivia Witherite, who is the social media lead for The Athletic. In this podcast Ruocco, who has worked for ESPN since 2008, discusses how the women’s college basketball assignment come about; whether he will be traveling for it this year; if feedback from producers and executives is different for women’s basketball vs the NBA; the anticipation of calling the Nets this year; why he thinks Brooklyn are legit NBA Finals contenders; his relationship with C.C. Sabathia, and more. Adler and Witherite discuss the impact of Kim Ng becoming the first female general manager in MLB; Adler’s column on on what Ng’s hiring meant for women in baseball and why it matters beyond her; Witherite’s piece on what Ng’s hiring meant to her and Korean-American representation in sports; how much Adler feels her gender on a daily basis covering baseball; Witherite on often being the only Asian person in the room during her sports career; the reaction to their pieces; representation heading forward in sports; Witherite on the skills needed to become a social media lead at an organization; Adler on the challenge for Ng with the Marlins talent base, 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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0:33.6	Hey everybody. This is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producers are Patrick Antonetti and Sean Cherry. This week, three guests, three excellent guests. First segment is the ESPN and Yes Network broadcaster Ryan Rucco, who calls NBA games for ESPN, Yankees and Nets games for the Yes Network, and was just
0:57.3	named ESPN's lead play-by-play commentator for women's college basketball. Ryan, of course,
1:03.3	also does the WNBA, but he now takes over for Adam Amin and has the women's final four.
1:09.1	So a really good assignment for him.
1:13.0	I know his colleagues Rebecca Lobo and Holly Roe really like him and advocated for him.
1:17.2	So he discusses getting that new assignment as well as calling the NBA and what he thinks will happen with the Nets this year,
1:26.5	his podcast that he does with C.C. Sabathia, and then some
1:29.2	other broadcasting stuff. So Ryan Rucco to start, he is followed by two of my colleagues at the
1:34.3	athletic, Lindsay Adler and Olivia Witherite. They discussed the impact of Kimang, becoming the
1:40.9	first female general manager in Major League Baseball. Both Lindsay and Olivia wrote excellent pieces on this.
1:47.6	Lindsay's piece, sort of what it means for women in baseball
1:50.8	and what it means for women like her who work in baseball on a day-to-day basis like Kim Ang does.
1:58.0	And then Olivia wrote a piece about representation and being Korean-American and what it meant to Olivia to see Kim Ang getting this high-profile job in baseball. And that's where our discussion leads to talking about being females working in sports. In Lindsay's case, being a female, on the Yankees beat,
2:18.8	where representation might be heading.
2:21.8	Olivia talks about the skills needed to become a social media lead in sports,
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