On today's AA Podcast we welcome award winning sports reporter Tom Verducci. Tom's an award winning field reporter for TBS and MLB Network as well as a game analyst for Fox and a respected writer for Sports Illustrated. Tuesday Tom will appear as a field reporter for MLB Network's coverage of Yankees-Orioles. Tom chats with AA about his many different duties in the baseball media and the 2013 MLB season taking shape. Topics include... -Being honored as the best sports reporter in the nation. -Th...
May 20, 2013•28 min
In this week's AA Podcast we welcome one of the pioneers of people with sports blogs taping podcasts - Dan Levy! Dan is the current National Lead Writer at Bleacher Report and had one of the blogosphere's most successful podcasts at On the DL. He was on our panel for the People's Sports Emmys so we chat with Dan about fake awards and actual real sports topics including... -The disconnect between the Sports Emmys and sports fandom. -ESPN being dissed by the Sports Emmys and the network's depth ch...
May 10, 2013•47 min
With one of the wildest days we can ever recall in sports media, we invite back to the show Deadspin's John Koblin to break it all down. John's reporting into ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and more in the sports media is one of the pillars of the top sports blog in the land. Today, we chat with John about Jason Collins coming out, the fallout of Chris Broussard's comments on Outside the Lines, and where we go from here, as well as... -The significance of Jason Collins coming out in a first person na...
Apr 30, 2013•33 min
On this week's podcast we're joined by one of the preeminent basketball analysts in the land, Steve Kerr of Turner Sports. The five time NBA champion has been busy the last month calling not just the NBA Playoffs, but the Final Four as well as leading one of the most experimental broadcasts in sports in an all-analyst booth. Steve chats with AA about that experience as well as... -What his trademark play by play call would be. -The biggest challenge in covering the NCAA Tournament and how he was...
Apr 26, 2013•29 min
For this week's podcast we welcome back veteran sports media and golf writer Ed Sherman of The Sherman Report. Ed joins the show to chat about CBS Sports' massive week with the NCAA Tournament Final Four and The Masters and his Q&A with CBS Sports ubervoice Jim Nantz. We break down the coverage of both events including... -Jim Nantz's position as CBS Sports' #1 announcer and his identity with the Masters. -Why sports fans don't have passionate feelings regarding Nantz. -The major headline of...
Apr 10, 2013•35 min
With the start of the MLB season, we welcome MLB Network analyst Al Leiter to the AA Podcast. Al is a former MLB All Star and World Series winner whose work in the booth started before his playing days were done calling LCS games for Fox. Now at MLB Net, Leiter has continued to do standout work as one of the best analysts in the field. Al Leiter talks to AA about that broadcast career and the early MLB season including... -How he uses sabermetrics in his analysis and providing balance to fans. -...
Apr 03, 2013•32 min
The AA Podcast is back after a not-so-brief hiatus and to bring us out of hibernation we welcome The Gaffer, Christopher Harris, of EPL Talk. EPL Talk is one of the top independent soccer blogs on the web and The Gaffer is one of the most respected and influential voices when it comes to the soccer media and announcers. With Gus Johnson's installation as Fox's top soccer announcer looking ahead to the 2018 World Cup, we ask Chris what he makes of the decision and whether or not the experiment ca...
Mar 11, 2013•39 min
What better way to welcome back the AA Podcast with our first episode of 2013 than by talking to one of our most popular guests, Michelle Beadle of NBC. Michelle's new show The Crossover launches Monday January 28th from New Orleans during Super Bowl week. We chat with Beadle about The Crossover, Access Hollywood, and more including... -Her input into the format of The Crossover and the pop culture/sports mix. -Her new co-host Dave Briggs and how the two will develop on-air chemistry. -Carrot To...
Jan 24, 2013•35 min
It's that time once again for our AA Year in Review Podcast and joining us for the second year running is Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated. Richard is one of the preeminent voices on the media beat and is widely recognized as one of the best sportswriters to follow on Twitter. Yesterday, Richard gave out his 2012 Media Awards at SI.com (a must read) and we talk about some of his award winners and the biggest stories and newsmakers from the last 12 months including... -The Penn State scandal...
Dec 20, 2012•48 min
In the newest Awful Announcing Podcast, our guest is Deadspin media writer John Koblin. John's reporting on ESPN in the past year has been some of the finest work in the blogosphere. Last week, he was thrown into the story when an ESPN executive made a false claim about the motivations of his reporting on plagiarism at ESPN.com. We talk to John Koblin about his interaction with ESPN VP John Walsh and so much more including... -His conversation with John Walsh and reaction to being put into the s...
Dec 12, 2012•55 min
With the college football season coming to a close and conference realignment heating up again, we welcome ESPN college football reporter Brett McMurphy to the AA Podcast. Brett is the top college football reporter when it comes to realignment and has broken the news on many of college football's biggest stories in recent years working for both CBS and ESPN. In this podcast, Brett chats with AA about... -His career path leading him to ESPN. -How he developed a reputation as the preeminent force ...
Nov 30, 2012•30 min
This week we welcome former NASCAR Cup and 3-time Daytona 500 champion Dale Jarrett to the podcast. Dale serves as ESPN's lead NASCAR analyst and has followed his father Ned's footsteps in having both a successful racing and broadcasting career. Interest in NASCAR is certainly at a high this season with the controversy at Phoenix preceding the championship deciding season ending race at Homestead. In this week's podcast, Dale chats with AA about... -Whether he ever envisioned an announcing caree...
Nov 14, 2012•25 min
This week's guest is Ian Eagle of CBS Sports and YES Network. Ian's reputation as one of the top play by play men in sports has grown in the last several years with his work calling the NBA, NFL, college basketball, and pretty much everything in between. We talk to Ian in Miami before a Nets-Heat game and in the middle of a stretch where he will call four games in five days. Also, Ian chats to AA about the impact of Hurricane Sandy on himself personally and the Nets franchise as they begin in Br...
Nov 07, 2012•51 min
This week's podcast is all about this year's World Series and our guest is former MLB All-Star, "The Mayor" Sean Casey. Casey played in the 2006 World Series with the Detroit Tigers and spent several years in Cincinnati, becoming one of the most popular players in Reds franchise history. Currently, Casey is an MLB Network analyst and will appear on MLB Tonight throughout the World Series on their pre and postgame shows including on-site in Detroit for the middle three games of the series. Sean c...
Oct 23, 2012•25 min
This week's podcast welcomes Alex Flanagan of NBC Sports and NFL Network. Alex serves double duty as sideline reporter for NBC's coverage of Notre Dame football and NFL Net's Thursday Night Football and she works as a correspondent for Football Night In America. We talk with Alex about her busy schedule and... -The challenge of balancing family life with her work. -Being travel buddies with Mike Mayock. -The different level of access into Notre Dame football with NBC. -The secretive nature of co...
Oct 11, 2012•20 min
This week's AA Podcast is all about this weekend's Ryder Cup as we welcome Dan Hicks, who will call the weekend action from Medinah. Dan is the play by play man for NBC's golf coverage and also called swimming at the London Olympics. He chats with AA about calling both events and other topics including... -The adjustments working with Rowdy Gaines and Johnny Miller. -What makes the Ryder Cup unique from other golf tournaments. -Tiger Woods' struggles in past Ryder Cups. -What it would mean to se...
Sep 27, 2012•29 min
The AA Podcast returns after a bye week to ring in the beginning of a new NFL season with Fox NFL Sunday host Curt Menefee. Curt took over the reigns of America's #1 pregame show full time in 2007 and has been instrumental in the continued success of Fox NFL Sunday. Curt has also been more involved at Fox Sports in hosting the network's UFC and international soccer coverage. AA chats with Curt about numerous topics including... -How important off-air relationships are to on-air chemistry. -The k...
Sep 12, 2012•45 min
With most of the sports world's attention on the opening of the college football season, we shift gears and focus on this week's final grand slam tennis tournament of the season on the podcast. We welcome Aussie tennis legend Rennae Stubbs of the Tennis Channel, NBC, and ESPN from New York to talk about this week's tournament and her transition from playing career to media career. Rennae also chats with AA about... -Her decision to forego playing at the London Olympics and work for NBC. -How she...
Aug 31, 2012•30 min
This week's podcast welcomes veteran media reporter Ed Sherman, formerly of the Chicago Tribune and now operating his own website, the Sherman Report. Ed has spent a number of years on the sports media beat and offers insights into the transition from writing a print column to writing online and the future of the sportswriting industry. We also talk about the sports media stories of the day including... -What has happened to the middle class of sportswriters. -How covering sports media has chang...
Aug 23, 2012•41 min
This week's AA Podcast guest is Michelle Beadle from NBC and Access Hollywood. Michelle's move from ESPN to NBC was the most talked about move in the sports media in 2012 and she just finished covering the Olympics for NBC in London. We talk about the transition to working sports and entertainment, -The plans for her new NBC show and how it could resemble Chelsea Lately. -What NBC could offer her that ESPN didn't. -The one thing she misses about ESPN. -Why ESPN is so obsessed with Tim Tebow. -He...
Aug 16, 2012•41 min
We welcome Darren Rovell back to the AA Podcast for the first time in over a year. In that time, Rovell has become one of the most talked about figures in the sports media from his reporting to his Tweeting to his move back to ESPN from CNBC. We talk with Darren about why he returned to Bristol as well as what impact it'll have on his social media game and a few thoughts on the Olympics as well. In addition, we ask Darren about... -What has changed at ESPN since his first and second stint and th...
Aug 08, 2012•27 min
In the latest AA Podcast, our guest is John Ourand of the prestigious Sports Business Journal. John is one of the top sports media and business reporters around and joins us from London where he is covering the Games for SBJ. John tells us about the experience covering his first Olympics from the O2 Arena right after the women's gymnastics team competition (Spoiler Alert) and also gives his perspective on the massive tape delay controversy facing NBC. Also included in this podcast... -Why NBC ch...
Jul 30, 2012•25 min
Once again the developing story at Penn State has dominated the sports world this week. With the punishment handed down by the NCAA, the Penn State football program and all of college athletics will never be the same. To talk about the punishment and its lasting effect as well as the call for culture change at Penn State and around college football, we welcome back to the AA Podcast Bruce Feldman of CBS Sports. Bruce is a best selling author and one of the most respected writers in all of sports...
Jul 26, 2012•38 min
Our latest guest aboard the AA Podcast is one of America's top sportswriters, Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports. Dan is one of the most accomplished and respected sportswriters in the country with Death to the BCS and Glory Road amongst his body of work. At Yahoo, he has emerged as a premier sports columnists writing about the Penn State scandal, the BCS, the Olympics, and the major topics of the day. In this podcast, we ask Dan about his in-depth coverage on the Penn State story from the Jerry Sandusk...
Jul 16, 2012•39 min
The podcast is back! After a brief hiatus we welcome back one of our favorite guests, the author of the #1 Bestseller Those Guys Have All The Fun, Jim Miller. We catch up with Jim about everything that has transpired at ESPN in the last year with a focus on the latest round of free agency that led to high profile moves across the sports world. Jim also chats with AA about... -The question of whether anyone is truly indispensable at ESPN. -Who ranks at the top of the Bristol talent hierarchy? -Wh...
Jul 11, 2012•26 min
In the newest AA Podcast we're joined by Rob Stone all the way from Munich, Germany where he is on site for Fox's coverage of the Champions League Final. Rob joined Fox from ESPN this year to anchor the network's soccer coverage moving forward. Being in Munich, we talk about the atmosphere surrounding Bayern being the first team to host the European Cup Final since 1984 as well as look back to Fox's daring coverage of Survival Sunday in the EPL and some of the criticisms the network faced last y...
May 18, 2012•38 min
In the latest AA Podcast we chat with the voice of the Boston Celtics, Mike Gorman, about the Celtics/Sixers and the NBA Playoffs. Working for Comcast New England, Mike is one half of the longest running broadcast booth in sports with Celtics Hall of Famer Tom Heinsohn. We talk with Mike about not only this series, but the Celtics season and the future of the Big 3 as well as... -How impressed he's been by Doug Collins and Philly's young roster. -The impact of the shortened season and condensed ...
May 15, 2012•29 min
As the podcast turns 20 (who would've thunk it), we welcome in the voice of hockey in America, Doc Emrick. Doc is the lead announcer for the NHL on NBC and has called countless Stanley Cup and Olympic hockey games. This week he'll be calling two Game 7s in two days in Boston and New York. In this wide-ranging podcast, Doc chats with AA about... *How exactly he got the nickname "Doc" *Favorite moments from his career *His thoughts on the difficulty calling hockey compared to other sports and his ...
Apr 24, 2012•26 min
In the latest episode of the AA Podcast we welcome Brian Kenny of MLB Network looking ahead to the start of the baseball season. We talk about his transition from ESPN to MLB Network and his role in bringing analytics to the forefront of baseball coverage. Brian also chats with AA about... -His memories of working with Bert Sugar -The evolution of analytics and whether it's becoming mainstream -Possible backlash against Albert Pujols moving from St. Louis to Anaheim and the value of his megadeal...
Apr 04, 2012•29 min
In the newest AA Podcast, we're joined by Ken Fang of the excellent Fang's Bites to talk about CBS and Turner's NCAA Tournament coverage. With March Madness in full swing, the focus hasn't been on just the on-court action, but on the announcers and studio personalities that bring March Madness to life. We delve in-depth into who has shined thus far and a couple other topics with Ken including... -Does the tournament actually miss Gus Johnson? -Should JIm Nantz be announcing more college basketba...
Mar 21, 2012•37 min
