Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Episode 671 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Jon Lewis, editor and founder of Sports Media Watch and Jimmy Traina, a podcast host/writer for Underscore Media. In this episode we discuss The Athletic's story that details the recent acrimony between Joe Buck and Troy Aikman; whether the relationship can be saved this season; how management let things get t...

Episode 670 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the University of Virginia Center for Politics’ nonpartisan election forecasting newsletter. Kondik analyzes American campaigns and elections and is frequently a guest on places such as C-Span. In this podcast Kondik discusses the parallels between ele...

Episode 669 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features a roundtable with Jon Lewis, editor and founder of Sports Media Watch; Armand Broady, the co-host of the Sports Media Watch podcast and a contributor to SMW, and Derek Futterman, a multimedia writer and producer for Sports Media Watch. In this podcast, we discussCBS Sports naming J.J. Watt as its permanent lea...

Episode 668 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two guests. First up is Michael Grady, who works as a play-by-play broadcaster nationally for the NBA on Prime, the NBA on NBC and locally for the Timberwolves. He is followed by Mirin Fader, the editor of "The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2026," the annual anthology of the best sports writing. She is also a sen...

Episode 667 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features a roundtable with Jon Lewis, editor and founder of Sports Media Watch, Chad Finn, sports media columnist for the Boston Globe and Austin Karp, the media writer for Sports Business Journal. In this podcast we discuss ESPN NFL analyst Troy Aikman's recent statements including this on to Jimmy Traina: "it just se...