What will covering the WNBA be like in the era of Caitlin Clark? The guests are The Athletic’s Sabreena Merchant and Ben Pickman
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Episode 397 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two writers from The Athletic who cover women’s basketball — Sabreena Merchant and Ben Pickman. They are also panelists on The Athletic’s Women’s Basketball Show podcast. In this podcast, Merchant and Pickman discuss what they are seeing as far as local and national WNBA media coverage in 2024; what the preseason has been like covering; the upcoming WNBA national schedule; how they anticipate Caitlin Clark, Cameron Brink, Kamilla Cardoso, Angel Reese and other rookies will do in Year One; the dominance of the Las Vegas Aces; the people in WNBA media are doing under-promoted good work, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.
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| 0:28.7 | welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:41.1 | I'm your host Richard Deich. |
| 0:42.0 | My producer Patrick Antonetti, two guests this week on what is a very hot topic right now, |
| 0:48.2 | and that is the ascendancy of the WNBA. |
| 0:51.2 | The guests are my colleagues from the athletic, Sabrina Merchant, and Ben Pickman. |
| 0:55.8 | And we have a very, very media-centric discussion on where this league is now in 2024, |
| 1:01.6 | from a media perspective, what Ben and Sabrina, who cover the sport year-round, are seeing |
| 1:07.4 | both nationally and locally talk about the national schedule, the television schedule, |
| 1:12.6 | which is probably their best, not probably their best schedule ever. |
| 1:16.7 | And then how they anticipate this star rookie class, Caitlin Clark, Cameron Brink, Camilla Cardoza, Angel Reese, etc. |
| 1:24.2 | How they will do in year one in the WMBA. |
| 1:28.9 | So Sabrina Merchant and Ben Pickman coming up on the sports media podcast. All right, as I said at the top, I'm always excited |
| 1:37.8 | to talk about women's basketball. These are two of my excellent colleagues from the athletic |
| 1:42.7 | Sabrina Merchant and Ben Pickman. |
| 1:45.4 | They regularly cover women's college basketball. |
| 1:48.1 | They obviously regularly cover the WNBA. |
| 1:51.8 | I do want to promote their podcast, which is excellent. |
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