Tim Layden, Bruce Feldman and Daniel Dale

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Episode 51 of the Sports Media Podcast features three guests: First up is Tim Layden, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and a contributor to NBC Sports. He is followed by Bruce Feldman, a college football reporter for The Athletic and Fox Sports. The last segment is with Daniel Dale, the Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star. In this podcast, Layden discusses how to cover the Kentucky Derby, whatmakes covering the Derby unique compared to other events, the access that the sports media gets during Derby week and after the race; writing about horse racing versus other sports; what the media contingent is like covering the Kentucky Derby; how two Triple Crown horses over the last four years will impact this year’s coverage; the deaths of 23 horses at Santa Anita and where that story will next go; the prospects of Omaha Beach; whether there are young people on the horse racing beat; and much more. Feldman discusses his experience at ESPN The Magazine; how he views the decision of ESPN to stop publishing the print issue starting in September; the rivalry between ESPN The Magazine and Sports Illustrated; the future of magazines that focus on sports, and more. Dale and Deitsch discuss the Raptors postseason; the ceiling of this Raptors team; why the bench has struggled in the postseason; the genius of Kawhi Leonard; how Dale first got into the Raptors; whether you can declare the Leonard for DeMar DeRozan trade a success if Leonard leaves; how Dale grades Nick Nurse; Dale starting a website about Vince Carter at age 14; whether we would bring Marc Gasol back; whether the Raptors finish will be tied to Leonard’s decision, and much more. 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.
0:06.0	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:09.0	My producer, as always, is Terrence Malagon.
0:11.6	Before, I give you the lineup for this week.
0:14.8	Condolences to the family of Jason Bottsford, who was a colleague of mine at The Athletic. He was one of the most prominent
0:22.8	and respected hockey journalists around, really, really well known in Vancouver for his
0:29.0	incredible coverage of the Vancouver Canucks, worked for TSN, just an incredible talent, and passed
0:36.5	away at the really far too young age at 48.
0:40.2	So we'll start off just with condolences for him.
0:43.4	And we're thinking about he and his family as a couple other people in his family who are in sports journalism.
0:49.2	So just awful news on Jason Botchard.
0:52.6	And he and his family will be in our minds and our hearts.
0:57.7	Today's podcast is broken down into three different parts. The first part is Tim Layden and the
1:05.1	subject matter is how to cover a Kentucky Derby. Tim Layton arguably the greatest horse racing
1:10.2	writer of his generation, and one of the
1:12.5	greatest of all times, along with William Mack, Tim Lane's a long-time Sports Illustrated senior
1:17.1	writer, and it contributed NBC. So we discuss how to cover the Kentucky Derby and just what it's like
1:23.6	to chronicle one of the great events in American sports each year.
1:29.6	He will be followed by Bruce Feldman, who discusses the end of ESPN The Magazine,
1:35.8	which will close or which will end its final print run this September.
1:42.1	And Bruce Feldman was at ESPN the magazine starting with its second issue
1:46.0	and worked for there for many years. So he shares his reflections and thoughts on that. And then we
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