In Episode 5, Kevin chats with David Aldridge, senior columnist at the Athletic and 2016 winner of the Curt Gowdy Media Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Before he began his 30 years covering the NBA, David got his start at the Washington Post as a general assignment reporter, and then on the Baltimore Orioles beat. Hear why he calls his career "preposterous" and how he broke in.
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Jayson Stark, senior MLB writer at The Athletic
In Episode 4, Kevin chats with Jayson Stark, the 2019 BBWAA Career Excellence Award winner and 2024 National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame inductee. Jayson, who hosts the "Starkville" podcast, has been covering baseball since 1979, including stints at the Philadelphia Inquirer and ESPN. Long before he was on "Baseball Tonight," Jayson was a news reporter at the Providence Journal, covering city hall meetings. This is how he broke in.
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Peter King, legendary NFL writer for NBC Sports and Sports Illustrated
In Episode 3, Kevin chats with Peter King, whose Monday morning NFL columns at Sports Illustrated and NBC Sports were must-reads for any football fan this century. Peter retired in 2024 after an incredible career that got its start 45 years earlier in Cincinnati and … Amsterdam. From idolizing Peter Gammons to being an AP intern in Europe to covering high school cross country in Ohio, Peter eventually got to cover the Reds, and then the Bengals — and he’s got an amazing draft day story from his start on the beat. This is how he broke in.
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Nicole Auerbach, NBC Sports’ lead college football and college basketball insider
In Episode 2, Kevin chats with Nicole Auerbach, an authority on college sports for NBC. Nicole has covered the Final Four, the College Football Playoff and the Olympics, and she learned the value of versatility at the Trentonian. Nicole tells stories of covering youth softball, drag racing, and minor league baseball as a college intern; how she got her first full-time job at USA Today, and the late nights waiting on an updated RPI rankings that marked her start in college sports. This is how she broke in.
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Joe Davis, Dodgers broadcaster and lead play-by-play announcer for MLB on Fox
In Episode 1, Kevin chats with Joe Davis, who has taken over for two legends — Vin Scully in the Dodgers’ booth, and Joe Buck in the Fox national booth for Major League Baseball. Years before he called Dodgers games, the World Series, the MLB All-Star Game and NFL games on Fox, Joe was calling Minor League Baseball — in Schaumburg, Illinois and Montgomery, Alabama. His stories include how a Taco Bell employee helped connect him to Len Kasper and what it was like being the youngest Double-A broadcaster. This is how Joe Davis broke in.
Sobre Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast
Kevin Fishbain, senior writer at The Athletic, interviews sports media personalities about their origin stories. Each week, reporters, columnists, play-by-play announcers, sports radio hosts, television anchors, producers and more will tell Kevin about their first jobs in the industry, and how they broke in.
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