Episode 547 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with longtime ESPN NFL Draft guru, Mel Kiper. Kiper talks about what the NFL Draft was like when he started with ESPN in 1984, when he knew the Draft was going to become a big deal as a television product and when he realized he had become the name most associated with the NFL Draft. In addition, Kiper reveals his best analysis of all time, the pick he'd most want to have back and the most shocking Draft moment. Kiper ...
Apr 10, 2025•1 hr 22 min
Episode 546 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with CBS' Ian Eagle and Bill Raftery. The duo discuss their longtime partnership, going back to work New Jersey Nets game together in the early '90s, Eagle shares his impression of Raftery and the pair reminisce about funny stories over the years. Raftery also shares a shocking admission about his famous catchphrases, talks about viral line from this year's Tournament and discusses whether he's ever thought...
Apr 03, 2025•1 hr 24 min
Episode 545 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with The Athletic's Richard Deitsch about all the latest sports media news. Among some of the topics covered: Pat McAfee getting LeBron James in-studio for over an hour; Impressive ratings for the Men's and Women's NCAA Tournament; J.J. Watt becoming CBS' No. 2 NFL analyst; Stephen A. Smith and RGIII playing the media game; the one problem with Cailtin Clark's national TV appearances; UConn's Comm...
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 29 min
Episode 544 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" is an All-Mailbag edition in which Jimmy answers listener-submitted questions. Among some of the topics covered: Would Fox move Tom Brady from games to its studio show? Why has ESPN changed "Monday Night Football" directors for the third time in four years? Would you rather Kevin Harlan or Ian Eagle calling the final two minutes of a tie game? Why is ESPN totally dropping the ball with "Around the Horn's" final episode? Foll...
Mar 20, 2025•47 min
Episode 543 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with CBS college football and college basketball studio host, Adam Zucker. Zucker talks about what it's like for him to replace Greg Gumbel as NCAA Tournament Selection Show host and what Gumbel meant to Zucker as a mentor. In addition, Zucker goes in-depth on what it's like to host the Selection Show, handle studio duties for the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament and to work with Charles Barkley and Kenny Smi...
Mar 13, 2025•1 hr 18 min
Episode 542 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with The Ringer's Editor-At-Large, Bryan Curtis, about all the latest sports media news. Topics covered with Curtis include ESPN cancelling "Around the Horn" after 23 years and the status of the show's host, Tony Reali; Jimmy Johnson retiring from "Fox NFL Sunday" and what Fox may do for a replacement; "Hard Knocks" deal with the University of North Carolina and Bill Belichick falling apar...
Mar 06, 2025•2 hr 32 min
Episode 541 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with AEW wrestler, Maxwell Jacob Friedman, aka, MJF. MJF talks about re-signing with AEW in 2024 and shares some details about his new contract. He also discusses what his goals are for his AEW career, being a mentor for fellow AEW wrestlers at just 28 years old, his "hard out" for leaving wrestling and his recent run of acting, which includes having a sizable role in the upcoming, "Happy Gilmore 2." In add...
Mar 04, 2025•55 min
Episode 540 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with ESPN college basketball analyst, Jay Bilas. Bilas talks about the popularity of the NCAA Tournament, whether the NCAA Tournament should expand the amount of teams that make the tourney and why he stopped doing NCAA Tournament games for CBS/Turner. In addition, Bilas discusses why college basketball's replay rule needs to change, why he wants the sport to get rid of halves and go to quarters and the quality of play...
Feb 27, 2025•1 hr 29 min
Episode 539 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with The Athletic's sports media reporter, Andrew Marchand, about the latest sports media news. Topics covered include Fox shielding Tom Brady from interviews all season long, Joe Buck's return to baseball to call Opening Day on ESPN, the battle brewing between MLB and ESPN, MLB's streaming problem, the possibility of Netflix getting a Sunday afternoon NFL package, the constant talk about Stephen A. Smith possi...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 16 min
Episode 538 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina features an interview with golf insider from Skratch, Dan Rapaport. Rapaport talks about his new weekly show, "Dan on Golf," how golf media has changed over the years, the explosion in golf's popularity on YouTube and gambling's role in the increased interest in golf. Rapaport also discusses what the TGL needs to fix, the relationship between LIV and the PGA Tour and the contract issues LIV will soon face. Rapaport also drops a very ...
Feb 13, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Episode 537 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" is a review of Fox's broadcast of Super Bowl LIX with Puck's John Ourand. How did Tom Brady do in his first Super Bowl in the booth? What were Brady's best and worst moments? Can Brady be judged fairly as an analyst? Other topics discussed include the bizarre Jimmy Johnson tribute segment during the pregame show, the commercials, whether the rating for the game will be hurt by the game being a blowout, a weird moment between Brady a...
Feb 10, 2025•44 min
Episode 536 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" is an All-Traina Thoughts edition with WFAN and SNY's Sal Licata. Topics covered during the show include Super Bowl LIX between the Eagles and Chiefs. Has this matchup fallen flat with sports fans? Has Chiefs fatigue hurt excitement for the game? How different would the buzz be if the Lions and/or Bills were in the game? In addition, Jimmy and Sal talk about prop bets, which team they like to win the game and why the Super Bowl doesn't ...
Feb 06, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Episode 535 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with Troy Aikman and a conversation with WWE Superstar, Seth Rollins. Aikman discusses his strong comments from the Texans-Chiefs Divisional Round playoff game about the referees and the NFL rules regarding roughing the passer. Aikman explains how he realized his commentary drew a lot of attention and reveals whether he heard from the NFL after his comments. Aikman also shares his thoughts on what the NFL should do about r...
Jan 30, 2025•1 hr 26 min
Episode 534 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio. Topics covered include the significant ratings drop for the Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs, the latest regarding the league going to an 18-game schedule, Netflix's involvement in the NFL, the narrative that the league and the refs want the Chiefs to win, the practice of having coaches interview for jobs with other teams while they are in the playoffs, what happened to D...
Jan 23, 2025•1 hr 17 min
Episode 533 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with The Athletic's media reporter, Richard Deitsch, about all the latest sports media news. Topics covered include why NFL playoff ratings have been down, NFL broadcasters, what Deion Sanders coaching the Cowboys would mean for networks, Tom Brady's alleged "conflict of interest" as a partial Raiders owner calling a Lions game while trying to hire Detroit offensive coordinator, Ben Johnson, a disappointi...
Jan 16, 2025•2 hr 42 min
Episode 532 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with versatile CBS play-by-play man, Ian Eagle. Eagle talks about calling the Chargers-Texans wild-card game, which he dubbed, "The Houston Invitational." Eagle also shares his thoughts on what it was like to call the Chiefs-Steelers Christmas Day game for Netflix, working with J.J. Watt and Pittsburgh getting snubbed at halftime. Eagle also revealed the advice he gave us son, Noah, on calling a blowout in the ot...
Jan 09, 2025•1 hr 23 min
Episode 531 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with WWE Chief Content Officer, Paul Levesque, aka Triple H. Levesque talks about all the aspects of the WWE's partnership with Netflix ahead of "Monday Night Raw" debuting on the streaming service. Levesque explains why the show won't be a specific length each week, how fans can watch "Raw" if they miss the live episode and why he expects "Raw" to have a bigger audience on Netflix. Levesque...
Jan 04, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Episode 530 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" is all-Traina Thoughts edition with Sal Licata from WFAN radio and SNY TV in New York. This edition of the podcast opens with Jimmy explaining why his Christmas was completely ruined. Jimmy and Sal discuss Netflix's NFL debut and ratings, Beyonce's Christmas Day halftime show, the NFL playoff picture, Super Bowl odds, the Aaron Rodgers Netflix documentary, the passing of broadcaster Greg Gumbel and more. Jimmy and Sal also read and reac...
Jan 02, 2025•52 min
Episode 529 of "Sl Media with Jimmy Traina" is the 5th annual year-in-review extravaganza roundtable with Peter Schrager from "Good Morning Football" and Andrew Perloff from CBS Sports Radio. The podcast covers and best and worst of 2024 in the world of sports, media and pop culture. Why did the NBA ratings dip while Caitlin Clark took over women's basketball? What effects will Woj's retirement bring and what were the underrated sports personalities of the year? What were...
Dec 26, 2024•2 hr 37 min
Episode 528 of "SI Media Podcast With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with the voice of NBC's "Sunday Night Football," Mike Tirico. Tirico reveals the details of his torn Achilles' injury and explains how he's been able to work through the injury. Tirico also discusses some of the best SNF moments of the season including the snow game in Buffalo, the Lions' wild comeback against the Texans and the Chiefs' "doink for the division" game. Tirico also ...
Dec 19, 2024•2 hr 34 min
Episode 527 of "SI Media Podcast With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with ESPN play-by-play caller, Sean McDonough. McDonough talks about his memorable calls at the end of Clemson's wild ACC Championship win against SMU, reaction to the calls and getting a text message from the legendary Verne Lundquist after the game. McDonough also takes a trip down memory lane to discuss some of his famous calls, talks about what it was like to work with Bill Raftery and why Raftery got the n...
Dec 12, 2024•2 hr 37 min
Episode 526 of SI Media Podcast With Jimmy Traina features an interview with The Ringer's Bryan Curtis about the latest sports media news. Jimmy and Bryan discuss the "Inside the NBA" licensing deal between ESPN and Warner Brothers Discovery feeling off and why we should expect some twists and turns with the deal. Other topics include Stephen A. Smith's reported contract extension with ESPN for six years and $120 million, how Tom Brady has progressed as an analyst and what we thi...
Dec 05, 2024•1 hr 15 min
Kyle Brandt talks about GMFB’s move from New York to California this season, whether he was shocked when he got the news about the show’s new home and how he feels about doing the show remotely about 90% of the time. Brandt also explains how his vignettes for CBS’ NFL Today come about, his process for writing his own scripts and how he came up with a piece to spoof the New York Jets by using the intervention scene from “The Sopranos” on GMFB. Brandt also talks about which team he’d like to see w...
Nov 27, 2024•2 hr 31 min
Episode 524 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with WWE Superstar, Roman Reigns. The "Original Tribal Chief" talks about returning at SummerSlam as a babyface, working as a babyface vs. a heel, the Bloodline vs. Bloodline story and how Wiseman Paul Heyman fits into it and what it's like to work with family. Reigns also shares his thoughts on the epic WrestleMania main event in which he lost his WWE title to Cody Rhodes, whether he can enjoy a match despite ...
Nov 26, 2024•57 min
Episode 523 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with ESPN President, Burke Magnus. Magnus talks about all the aspects of the shocking deal that will see TNT continue to produce "Inside the NBA" while it airs on ESPN beginning next season. How did the deal come about? Will ESPN have any editorial control over the show? On which nights will we see "Inside the NBA" air on ESPN? What will happen to ESPN's current NBA studio show, featuring Malika Andre...
Nov 21, 2024•2 hr 35 min
Episode 522 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with CBS's lead NFL broadcast team of Jim Nantz and Tony Romo. Nantz and Romo talk about their partnership over the past eight years, why Romo thinks they are having their best season ever together and what Romo has tried to do differently in the booth this season. Nantz and Romo also preview the huge Chiefs-Bills game, handicap the chances that Kansas City goes undefeated and discuss the Taylor Swift Effect on Chief...
Nov 14, 2024•2 hr 31 min
Episode 521 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with SiriusXM's Chris "Mad Dog" Russo with WFAN's Sal Licata joining the this episode as co-host. The radio Hall of Famer gives us the full story behind the MLB Network cancelling his daily show, "Hight Heat," his reaction to the cancelation and what his future is with the MLB Network. Russo also shares his thoughts on Pat McAfee turning down interviews with Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, the Yan...
Nov 07, 2024•44 min
Episode 520 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with ESPN's Joe Buck. The voice of "Monday Night Football" talks about why Major League Baseball calls have become such a big thing with fans, the issues that national broadcasters have to deal with when calling MLB playoff games and why he won't call baseball for ESPN. Buck also discusses the best play to call in the NFL, what it's like calling a "Monday Night Football" game that's going ...
Oct 31, 2024•2 hr 34 min
Episode 519 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with CBS' James Brown. The longtime "NFL Today" host talks about life before broadcasting when he attended Harvard University and tried out for the Atlanta Hawks and what happened when he didn't make the team. Brown then goes into his broadcasting career and discusses his decision to leave Fox's pregame show to join CBS' pregame show, what he expects to get out of the "NFL Today" each week...
Oct 24, 2024•2 hr 34 min
Episode 518 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" is an All-Traina Thoughts, All-Mailbag edition. WFAN's Sal Licata joins Jimmy to answer listener-submitted questions on a wide array of topics. Among the questions and topics: How will Tom Brady be affected as a broadcaster by the new restrictions put on him once he became a part-owner of the Raiders? Are Joe Buck and Troy Aikman ESPN's biggest win over the past five years? Will Bob Costas ever call postseason baseball again? What chang...
Oct 17, 2024•1 hr 1 min
