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Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

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4 days ago

In episode 38, Kevin chats with Michael Silver, senior NFL writer at The Athletic. Silver has been covering the league since he was on the 49ers' beat in the early 90's. He wrote more than 70 cover stories for Sports Illustrated and also worked for NFL Network and Yahoo Sports. An author of five books, Silver's latest, "The Why Is Everything: A Story of Football, Rivalry and Revolution" is now out in paperback. Silver's origin story goes back to seeing "All the President's Men" as a child, a ...

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In episode 38, Kevin chats with Michael Silver, senior NFL writer at The Athletic. Silver has been covering the league since he was on the 49ers' beat in the early 90's. He wrote more than 70 cover stories for Sports Illustrated and also worked for NFL Network and Yahoo Sports. An author of five books, Silver's latest, "The Why Is Everything: A Story of Football, Rivalry and Revolution" is now out in paperback. Silver's origin story goes back to seeing "All the President's Men" as a child, a ...

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Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Michael Silver, senior NFL writer at The Athletic

In episode 38, Kevin chats with Michael Silver, senior NFL writer at The Athletic. Silver has been covering the league since he was on the 49ers' beat in the early 90's. He wrote more than 70 cover stories for Sports Illustrated and also worked for NFL Network and Yahoo Sports. An author of five books, Silver's latest, "The Why Is Everything: A Story of Football, Rivalry and Revolution" is now out in paperback. Silver's origin story goes back to seeing "All the President's Men" as a child, a ...

4 days ago

1 hour 6 minutes

Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Sheil Kapadia, podcast host at The Ringer

In episode 37, Kevin chats with Sheil Kapadia, podcast host at The Ringer. Kapadia hosts the Philly Special podcast and The Ringer NFL Show. Prior to his time at The Ringer, Kapadia covered the Philadelphia Eagles at The Athletic. He also was ESPN's Seahawks beat writer for a few seasons. Kapadia got his start working his way through different outlets in Philadelphia, finding ways to set himself apart in the blogging space and garner eyeballs for his Eagles analysis. Eventually it opened the ...

1 week ago

32 minutes

Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Stacey Dales, NFL Network senior national reporter

In episode 36, Kevin chats with Stacey Dales, senior national reporter for NFL Network. Dales has been with NFL Network since 2009, and prior to that, she was an analyst and reporter for ESPN and ABC. She also was an NCAA women's basketball analyst for CBS Westwood Radio. Before her broadcasting career, Dales was a two-time first-team All-American basketball player at Oklahoma. She got her start at ESPN while playing in the WNBA, after being the No. 3 pick in the draft. Dales will discuss her...

2 weeks ago

42 minutes

Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Jake Zivin, lead play-by-play for MLS on Apple TV

In episode 35, Kevin chats with Jake Zivin, the play-by-play broadcaster for Apple TV's coverage of the MLS. Saturday afternoon, Zivin will be on the call for the MLS Cup on Apple TV alongside Taylor Twellman. How Zivin got to that seat began as a kid with sports broadcasting aspirations, and included an internship with the MLS 20 years ago where he worked in the truck working the score bug. Those connections came in handy later on in Zivin's career, while he worked local TV in Montana and th...

3 weeks ago

47 minutes

Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Kevin Clark, host of "This is Football" from ESPN and Omaha Productions

In episode 34, Kevin chats with Kevin Clark, host of "This is Football" from ESPN and Omaha Productions, and former NFL writer at The Ringer and the Wall Street Journal. The first "Kevin" to appear as a guest, Clark recalls the first podcast he listened to — and how it influenced his own podcast — and his early days writing, from being an agate clerk at the Chicago Tribune to an internship in his home state of Florida. Clark offers valuable perspective on the industry and advice to those who ...

1 month ago

51 minutes

Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Mark Lazerus, senior NHL writer at The Athletic

In episode 33, Kevin chats with Mark Lazerus, senior NHL writer at The Athletic and Chicago Blackhawks beat writer. "Laz," who's in his 14th season covering the Blackhawks, has been named one of the top three columnists in the country twice in the past three years by the Associated Press Sports Editors. Before Lazerus was chronicling the Hawks' Stanley Cup wins, or more recently, their rebuild, he was designing newspapers in Northwest Indiana and covering high school and Valparaiso sports. Yo...

1 month ago

37 minutes

Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Judy Battista, NFL Network senior national columnist

In episode 32, Kevin chats with Judy Battista, NFL Network senior national columnist. Battista is on "The Insiders" on NFL Network Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 p.m. ET. She's been writing for NFL.com and discussing the league on NFL Network since 2013, and had previously been at the New York Times. Before Battista became an authority on the NFL, she was covering local news in her hometown of Miami. She got her start 35 years ago at the Miami Herald, and she'll discuss how she got into j...

1 month ago

36 minutes

Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Sarah Kustok, NBA analyst

In episode 31, Kevin chats with Sarah Kustok, Brooklyn Nets analyst on the YES Network. A two-time winner of the New York Emmy Award, Kustok was the first-ever solo female analyst for an NBA team. She also does NFL sidelines on Fox and is part of CBS Sports' "We Need To Talk." Before becoming a pioneer in the game analyst space, Kustok was a player herself, a star basketball player at DePaul University. She'll discuss how she transitioned into media, a field she hadn't previously considered, ...

1 month ago

42 minutes

Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Marcus Thompson II, senior columnist at The Athletic

In episode 30, Kevin chats with Marcus Thompson, senior columnist at The Athletic in the Bay Area. Thompson is the author of "Golden: The Miraculous Rise of Steph Curry" and was a 2025 nominee for the Dan Jenkins Medal in Excellence in Sportswriting. Thompson recently covered the Track and Field championships and the WNBA Finals before being there for the beginning of the Warriors season, a sign of his versatility. His love for writing began when he read newspapers with his grandma, and you'l...

2 months ago

44 minutes

Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Ken Rosenthal, senior MLB writer at The Athletic and Fox Sports broadcaster

In episode 29, Kevin chats with Ken Rosenthal, senior baseball writer at The Athletic and Emmy-winning broadcaster for Fox Sports’ MLB coverage, including this week’s World Series. Rosenthal has been one of the most prominent news breakers in the sport. His name is synonymous with baseball, which he has covered since the late 80’s. He’ll talk about the editor at an internship who doubted him, his first job in York, Pennsylvania, and covering a multitude of sports — including harness racing — ...

2 months ago

30 minutes

Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Jeff Pearlman, New York Times best-selling author

In episode 28, Kevin chats with Jeff Pearlman, New York Times best-selling author of 11 books. His latest book, "Only God can Judge Me: The many lives of Tupac Shakur,” comes out Oct. 21. He has written biographies of Brett Favre, Walter Payton and Bo Jackson, chronicled the 1986 Mets, the Showtime Lakers, Kobe and Shaq, and the USFL. Pearlman also hosts the podcast "Two Writers Slinging Yang," which helped inspire this one. Before he became an author, Pearlman wrote for Sports Illustrated. I...

2 months ago

41 minutes

Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Tom Fornelli, CBS Sports college football writer

In episode 27, Kevin chats with Tom Fornelli, college football writer for CBS Sports and co-host of the Cover 3 podcast. Fornelli has been at CBS for 15 years, and he is a fixture in their college football coverage. How did he get to CBS? It wasn't the typical writer's route, but one that speaks to the times. Fornelli blogged in his free time while working as a manager at an Osco Drug in the Chicago suburbs. That led to more blogging for Fanhouse, before getting discovered by CBS. Hear how To...

2 months ago

42 minutes

Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Mina Kimes, ESPN NFL analyst

In episode 26, Kevin chats with Mina Kimes, NFL analyst at ESPN and host of "The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny." Kimes can be seen on NFL Live and a variety of ESPN shows offering her NFL expertise, but her start in journalism was in the business world, not sports. A blog post she wrote about how she and her dad bonded over the Seattle Seahawks caught the eye of an ESPN editor a decade ago, which led to her opportunity. First a profiles writer for ESPN, now Kimes is everywhere, and her path...

2 months ago

31 minutes

Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Ian Rapoport, NFL Network senior insider

In episode 25, Kevin chats with Ian Rapoport, senior insider at NFL Network, where he has become one of the most prominent newsbreakers in the sport. Rapoport began covering the NFL when he was on the Patriots beat with the Boston Herald in 2009 and he made his move to becoming a national reporter in 2012. Well before that, he was a college student looking for a job in sports writing, sending out more than 300 applications. Rapoport discusses his first job, how he got a chance to cover the SE...

3 months ago

41 minutes

Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Dianna Russini, senior NFL insider at The Athletic

In episode 24, Kevin chats with Dianna Russini, The Athletic's senior NFL insider and host of "Scoop City." Prior to joining The Athletic, Russini spent eight years at ESPN. An accomplished prep athlete, Russini's story begins there, and how she loved to compete. Russini's media career, however, began in news. Inspired by the reporting she watched on Sept. 11, Russini, then a soccer player at George Mason University, began to do whatever it took to get a foot in the door with New York televis...

3 months ago

39 minutes

Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Joe Buck, MNF play-by-play announcer

In episode 23, Kevin sets the stage for the first "Monday Night Football" game of the season between the Bears and Vikings with Joe Buck, the voice of MNF on ESPN and ABC. Buck has been calling NFL games since 1994. He was in the St. Louis Cardinals booth from 1991-2007, and has called 24 World Series and six Super Bowls. Buck has eight Sports Emmys for his play-by-play. He talks about what it was like following in his father's footsteps, what he learned from Jack Buck, dealing with criticism...

3 months ago

37 minutes

Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Mike Tirico, host and play-by-play, NBC Sports

In episode 22, Kevin kicks off the NFL season with the voice of Sunday Night Football, Mike Tirico, who will call Cowboys-Eagles on Thursday night to begin the season, and then Ravens-Bills on Sunday night. With the NBA returning to NBC, Tirico will be on the call this October, then the Super Bowl in February followed by the Winter Olympics in Italy. Tirico, who was inducted into the National Sports Media Association's Hall of Fame this summer, is calling some of the biggest events in sports ...

3 months ago

30 minutes

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Bruce Feldman, national college football insider for The Athletic and sideline reporter for Fox

In episode 21, Kevin chats with Bruce Feldman, national college football insider for The Athletic. In addition to his written work at The Athletic, Feldman co-hosts the podcast "The Audible" and is a sideline reporter for Fox's college football coverage. Before his decades spent as an authority on college football, Feldman had two main talents — golf and drawing. He went to college to study art and play golf, and somewhat stumbled upon journalism. That led to stories about Tiger Woods' early ...

4 months ago

50 minutes

Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Adam Hoge and Adam Jahns, Bears reporters and podcast hosts at CHGO

In episode 20, Kevin chats with Adam Hoge and Adam Jahns, hosts of the aptly-named "Hoge and Jahns" podcast about the Chicago Bears. They've covered the Bears alongside Kevin for over a decade. It's a special triple-origin-story episode, as Hoge and Jahns each go through their journeys in sports media, and then go into how their podcast began as it reaches its 10th anniversary. Kevin has been a frequent contributor on "Hoge and Jahns" and worked with Jahns for six years at The Athletic, so th...

4 months ago

1 hour 2 minutes

Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

Bryan Curtis, editor-at-large at the Ringer, co-host of The Press Box

In episode 19, Kevin chats with Bryan Curtis, an editor-at-large at The Ringer and co-host of the media podcast, "The Press Box," one of the podcasts that helped inspire this one. Curtis got his start as an intern at the New Republic before heading to Slate. He then got an opportunity to write the media column for Play, a magazine inside the New York Times. Curtis discusses how he got comfortable writing columns about sports media, a special article he wrote about his grandfather playing soft...

4 months ago

41 minutes