Welcome to the Sports Media Podcast. I'm your host, Richard Dichmer, producer is Patrick Antonetti.

Two guests on this podcast. This is an author podcast. We're classing up the joint by having some people who write books on this podcast.

First up, Howard Magdalal, a long time women's basketball writer and the author of a new book,

Becoming Caitlin Clark, the Unknown Origin Story of a Modern Basketball Superstar.

That book comes out June 17th.

Howard has been in the women's basketball space for a long time and really did a deep dive on Caitlin Clark through the prism of the growth of women's basketball. So this isn't like I followed Caitlin Clark around last year, wrote about her first year with the fever. This is a pretty thoughtful and intellectual look at how Caitlin Clark emerges to be this megastar in the 2020s.

So I recommend that.

He is followed by Tom Caracoli and Jerry Caracoli.

They are the co-authors of Ice Breakers, a kid's guide to hockey and the greatest

players to change the game. They are longtime sports communications executives, worked at the highest

level of CBS sports, NBC Sports, etc. But they also write books on the side. They are identical

twin brothers. And this one is where they picked basically the most influential NHL players of all time and introduce them to young kids.

So we get into sort of the market for kids hockey books, how one writes for kids.

And then finish up with a little bit of advice

if you want to get into sports public relations, particularly in the media space.

You know, they've reached the highest levels, and so they offer advice on how they would do it.

So first of Howard Megdell, then followed by Tom Caracoli and Jerry Caracoli coming up on the

sports media podcast.

All right. As I mentioned at the top, I will bring in Howard Megdal.

And again, let's give his book some more publicity.

It is becoming Caitlin Clark, the unknown origin story of a modern basketball superstar. Howard is a long-time

women's basketball writer. It's written a number of books. This book comes out June 17. People

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