Taylor Twellman

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Episode 56 of the Sports Media Podcast features ESPN’s Taylor Twellman, the network’s lead analyst for domestic and global soccer. In this podcast, Twellman discusses Fox owning the rights to the World Cup and the frustration that comes from that; how he watches World Cup games; how he got into broadcasting following his career as a professional soccer player; how he hopes to navigate his soccer presence with other opportunities to discuss and cover sports away from soccer; his fandom for the St. Louis Blues; living in arguably the most intense sports media city in the U.S. (Boston); and a long conversation between Twellman and the host on the United States’s 13-0 win over Thailand in Group Stage play. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Radio.com 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	Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen.
0:05.8	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:08.6	My producer is Chris Flannery.
0:10.7	Today's guest is Taylor Twelman.
0:13.2	He is the lead soccer analyst at ESPN.
0:16.6	If you were a soccer diehard, you know he was one of the great goal scorers in MLS as well.
0:22.4	But you have basically seen Taylor calling World Cups National Team Games for the U.S.
0:29.3	You've seen him calling international soccer tournaments.
0:32.0	He is their premier voice, premier analyst, when it comes to that sport.
0:37.2	And we had a really, really fun
0:38.6	conversation about, you know, just Taylor being honest about how frustrating it is not to be
0:44.3	calling these games because Fox has the package, how he got into broadcasting after not
0:50.5	being a particular media darling as a player, where he wants to go with his career
0:55.5	beyond soccer. And then the last 12 minutes or so, we get into the United States women,
1:01.8	the big win over Thailand, the celebrations that have launched 15,000 think pieces. And it's a pretty good back and forth, I think.
1:12.4	We disagree on some of this stuff, at least in terms of how it was covered.
1:18.1	And so I think you'll enjoy that.
1:19.6	So it is one guest on this podcast.
1:21.9	That doesn't always happen.
1:23.2	And it is Taylor Twelman.
1:24.9	Not too long a podcast, but Taylor was great.
1:28.4	And I've been wanting to do this for a while.
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