Interviewing the Interviewer

Andrew Baggarly covers the San Francisco Giants for The Athletic. He discusses his two decade career covering baseball and how the industry has evolved, how long it takes him to fill out his Baseball Hall of Fame ballot and his three-show appearance on Jeopardy!

Dave Eanet has been the radio voice of the Northwestern Wildcats for the last 30 years. He talks about how he prepares for football and basketball broadcasts, some of his craziest travel schedules, how he developed his voice and more!

Steve Burton is the sports director for WBZ-TV, the CBS affiliate in Boston. He talks about his time playing football at Northwestern, what it's like covering Bill Belichick, how he wrestled an alligator on live TV and more! Steve wrestling with an alligator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9VYCkeoaOA

Billy Witz covers college sports for the New York Times. He talks about the previous time he spent covering the Yankees, what it's been like covering college football during COVID-19 and how he's approached writing about race and sports.

Sam Levitt is the voice of the Amarillo Sod Poodles (AA - Padres) and a college sports broadcaster. He dives into why he switched from pre-med to journalism in college, how he's navigated taking jobs around the country, how his prep differs between baseball and basketball and much more!

Dave Revsine is the lead anchor for the Big Ten Network after working at ESPN for about a decade. He talks about his brief stint working at a bank in Manhattan after college, what his 17-hour Saturdays look like during college football season and how he approached his interview with Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren after the Big Ten announced it was postponing football in the fall.

Nicole Auerbach is senior writer covering college football for The Athletic. She discusses how she approached covering the protests against police brutality in college football, how little sleep she got when the Big Ten and Pac 12 deliberated over postponing the fall football season and her response to MIke Milbury's comments about women during an NHL on NBC broadcast. Link to story about college football athletes during June protests: https://theathletic.com/1851097/2020/06/03/amid-protests-college-football-coaches-pledge-to-listen-lead-and-act/

Adam Amin is a PbP broadcaster who recently joined Fox Sports after spending nine years at ESPN. In addition to his new role at Fox, he'll take over as the television voice of the Chicago Bulls at the start of the 2020-21 NBA season. He talks about his intro to broadcasting, the nuances of a baseball broadcast, what it was like being the first member of his family born in the United States and much more in an extensive conversation.

Jayson Stark has written about baseball for over three decades. Now writing for The Athletic, Jayson previously worked at ESPN and for the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 2019, he received the J.G. Taylor Spink Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame. He discusses what it was like giving that speech in Cooperstown, how he developed his unique style of writing and why writing for The Athletic is different from writing for a newspaper.

Joe Davis is the voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers and broadcaster for Fox Sports. He dives into what it was like to be a college quarterback and broadcaster, how he's developed a great rapport with Orel Hershiser and the best piece of advice Vin Scully gave him.

Candace Buckner is a sports reporter for the Washington Post, who formerly covered the Washington Wizards beat. She discusses the challenges of covering a team that loses a lot, how she came up with the idea to write about NBA players' feet and how she views herself as a "unicorn" in the sports reporting world. Link to story about NBA players and pedicures: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/01/16/fancy-footwork-why-nba-players-love-pedicures/ Link to story about racism in Milwaukee: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/04/25/milwaukee-cant-stop-talking-about-bucks-team-hopes-create-dialogue-about-race/

Joel Godett is the play-by-play broadcaster for Ball State University and the host of PxPCast, a podcast dedicated to talking with play-by-play broadcasters about play-by-play broadcasting. Joel talks about his time at Syracuse University, some nuances of PxP broadcasting he's learned over the years and how his podcast came to be.

Lisa Byington is a play-by-play broadcaster for Big Ten Network. She's also broadcasted and reported for FS1, ESPN, Pac-12 Network and CBS Sports Network. She talks about what it was like working in the second smallest TV market in the US, how she started doing PBP relatively recently and the role she thinks she plays as one of the few female PBP broadcasters in sports.

Christine Brennan is a sports columnist for USA Today and a commentator on CNN and ABC News. She discusses the time she spent as the first female reporter for the Miami Herald, what it's like covering the Olympics and her work with the Association for Women in Sports Media (AWSM). Christine's column from 7/17 about what it was like covering the Washington NFL team: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/brennan/2020/07/17/redskins-revelations-nothing-new-cesspool-nfl-franchise/5455505002/

Tyler Kepner has been the National Baseball Writer for the New York Times since 2010. In this episode, he discusses how he made it to the Times at such a young age, his book "K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches" and more!

On this episode, Eric Rynston-Lobel interviews Glenn Geffner, the radio broadcaster for the Miami Marlins. They talk about the time Glenn spent working in public relations, how that influenced his work as a broadcaster, what baseball will look like in 2020 and more!

This week, Washington Post Columnist and ESPN Contributor Kevin Blackistone joins the show. Topics of discussion include Blackistone's time covering racial and social justice issues at the Chicago Reporter and Dallas Morning News, what the sports media industry needs to do to improve the environment for African American journalists, what it's like covering the Olympics and much more!

Eric Rynston-Lobel chats with Megan O'Brien, the team reporter for the New England Patriots. She discusses how her experience as a cross country runner at Northwestern influenced her reporting career, what it's like covering a team that doesn't like to talk much and who might start week 1 for the Patriots.

Eric Rynston-Lobel talks with Kenny Albert, the only current PxP broadcaster who announces all four North American professional sports. Kenny calls MLB and NFL games for Fox, NBA games for the New York Knicks on MSG, New York Rangers games on ESPN Radio and NHL games on NBC. He talks about what it was like growing up in the same house as Marv Albert, how he manages his busy schedule and how he's developed as a professional broadcaster over the years.