The Athletic’s Kavitha Davidson and Sports Illustrated’s Jimmy Traina

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Episode 145 of the Sports Media Podcast features two guests. First up is Kavitha Davidson, a sports and culture writer for The Athletic and the host of Culture Calculus podcast. She is followed by Sports Illustrated writer Jimmy Traina, the host of the SI Media Podcast. In this podcast Davidson discusses the hiring of Wayne Gretzky by Turner Sports; Kenny Mayne leaving ESPN and what that means heading forward; the challenge of covering the Tokyo Olympics; how NBC will navigate issues of COVID in Japan, athlete protest and other news detrimental to the IOC; how the American public would react to an athlete protesting on the medal stand, and more. Traina discusses the massive amount of sports gambling money in sports media right now and what that means; whether the majority of sports writers will be working for places such as Draft Kings one day; if we are headed for gambling addiction issues; Adnan Virk’s exit from WWE; streaming services for sports fans; the challenges for WWE and AEW as media properties; sports teams asking people if they have been vaccinated, 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	This Sunday, the race for Premier League glory continues as Manchester City take on Liverpool at the Etihad.
0:06.3	As good as it gets!
0:07.6	And you can stream every moment live on Sky Sports.
0:11.3	Well, it's just wonderful.
0:12.6	Available without a contract with Now.
0:15.7	Absolutely brilliant.
0:17.6	Stream Manchester City versus Liverpool this Sunday from 4 p.m.
0:21.7	Head to NowTV.com 18-plus Sky Sports Content stream via internet.
0:27.5	Full terms apply.
0:41.7	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:48.3	Two guests this week. First up, Kavitha Davidson, a sports and culture writer for the athletic host of the Culture Calculus podcast.
0:53.6	She is followed by Jimmy Treana, the Sports Illustrated writer, and the host of the SI Media podcast.
0:57.3	This is very heavy sports media talk if you want a sports media nerd out.
1:11.4	Two conversations where we hit on a ton of topics from the hiring of Wayne Gretzky to Kenny Maine leaving ESPN to sports gambling, all the money floating into sports media, challenge of covering the Tokyo Olympics, what's going on with streaming services, why nan vert got whacked by the WWE so two conversations uh very heavy sports media this week
1:17.0	I think you're going to enjoy them first up's kavitha followed by jimmy trainer on the sports
1:21.4	media podcast all right as I said at the top cavitaavitha Davidson, my colleague at The Athletic, is a sports and culture writer for that publication. She's the host of the Culture Calculist podcast. And recently, this is pretty big news here, recently appeared as a correspondent on HBO's Real Sports with Brian Gumbull.
1:45.5	Kavitha, we may be seeing you on a Billboard in Times Square one day, given this career trajectory.
1:50.0	Well, thank you, man. I wouldn't go quite that far, but it was extremely a thrill.
1:54.1	You know, I grew up watching three shows that I'd always wanted to be on, and Real Sports was one of them.
1:58.7	So I'm very lucky.
2:00.4	And Kavitha, who is an amazing voice, used to be the co-host of the lead podcast, which is
2:06.7	the athletics podcast.
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