The media coverage of Caitlin Clark and the WNBA
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Episode 403 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features ESPN and NBC basketball analyst, host and reporter LaChina Robinson and author and Awful Announcing columnist Lyndsey D'Arcangelo. In this podcast, Robinson and D'Arcangelo the media coverage of Caitlin Clark; why the conversation has veered into the spaces it has; what they have seen as far as access this year with the WNBA; Toronto and the Bay Area’s WNBA expansion teams; LaChina’s Olympic assignment in Paris; who they would pick to build a WNBA franchise, and more.You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm your host Richard Dyche. |
| 0:12.3 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:14.3 | Two guests this week, but I'm looking forward to doing this when I booked them a couple |
| 0:19.3 | of days ago because anyone who's even a casual sports fan, |
| 0:24.1 | I think has become well aware of the dialogue around the WNBA. |
| 0:29.3 | We're taping this on June 4th. |
| 0:31.6 | Yesterday was an absolute clown show when it came to WNBA discussion. |
| 0:35.8 | And I have two people actually have done the work when it comes to covering this league. |
| 0:41.1 | LeChina Robinson, who's been on this podcast before and obviously a name I think people |
| 0:46.2 | who listened to this podcast would be familiar with is an ESPN and NBC host and reporter. |
| 0:54.9 | She's covered the WNBA for many, many years along the way. |
| 0:58.6 | I saw her at many, many women's final fours that we both covered. |
| 1:02.0 | And she just landed a very, very premium assignment, which I will ask her about. |
| 1:06.4 | And that's working for NBC when it comes to the Olympic basketball tournament. |
| 1:12.2 | And you make an argument the women's, the American women's basketball team is the singular best team in the world when it comes to any team in an Olympic sport. |
| 1:20.4 | Just look at the numbers that they put up. |
| 1:22.7 | So that's a pretty awesome assignment for LaChina. |
| 1:26.4 | She will be joined by Lindsay Darkangelo. She is a |
| 1:30.6 | longtime writer and columnist when it comes to women's sports. You can catch her work right now |
| 1:37.2 | on awful announcing, worked with me for a couple of years at The Athletic and someone who um who's been in the women's |
| 1:46.2 | basketball space for a long period of time and follows the stuff religiously and with |
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