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.
Episodes
In episode 14, Kevin chats with Tyler Kepner, who has covered Major League Baseball for more than 30 years, dating back to when he made a baseball magazine out of his house as a high schooler. Kepner, who has authored "K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches" and "The Grandest Stage: A History of The World Series" covered baseball for the New York Times from 2000-23. His origin story begins with that magazine, w...
In episode 13, Kevin chats with Adam Amin, the voice of the Chicago Bulls on Chicago Sports Network, and a play-by-play broadcaster for Fox doing NFL and Major League Baseball. Amin was voted the 2021 Illinois Sportscaster of the Year. A graduate from Valparaiso, Amin discusses how he first got into broadcasting before taking his first job at a radio station in Spirit Lake, Iowa. Amin reflects on what he learned from that challengi...
In episode 12, Kevin chats with Vinnie Goodwill, senior reporter at Yahoo covering the NBA. He's been there since 2018, following a few seasons covering the Bulls at NBC Sports Chicago. Vinnie got his start on the NBA beat with the Pistons at the Detroit News, and he describes his origin story as a "villain" origin story. He battled some doubters in his efforts to move from freelancer to full-time beat writer. Learn ...
In episode 11, Kevin chats with Emily Kaplan, who's covered the NHL for ESPN since 2017. In addition to breaking news and writing about hockey, Kaplan is the between-the-glass reporter for ESPN's biggest games, interviewing the star of the game afterward. Before becoming one of the preeminent voices in the hockey world, Kaplan got her first job at Sports Illustrated, covering the NFL at the MMQB. She'll share how she...
In episode 10, Kevin chats with Mark Potash, who has spent 38 years as a sportswriter at the Chicago Sun-Times. Before he helped chronicle the Bulls dynasty, covered the Blackhawks Stanley Cups and worked on the Bears beat, Potash was a college student covering Marv Levy's Kansas City Chiefs. Then he was off to Little Rock, Arkansas, where he covered high school sports. The 2024 Illinois Sportswriter of the Year is full of sto...
In episode 9, Kevin chats with Paul Pabst, executive producer of The Dan Patrick Show. "Paulie," as he's known on the show, has worked with Dan Patrick dating back to 2002. As the show has taken off, with its simulcast on Peacock, Pabst has been everywhere from Super Bowls to Final Fours to even an upcoming episode of "Family Feud." He's been in sports media for more than 30 years, getting his start at...
In episode 8, Kevin chats with Mirin Fader, senior staff writer at the Ringer and the New York Times best-selling author of “Giannis” and “Dream,” her latest book on the life and legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon. Fader has become one of the country’s preeminent sports profile writers, and she got her start writing several stories a week for the Orange County Register. Mirin discusses the work ethic that went into that job, the difficult c...
In episode 7, Kevin chats with Courtney Cronin, who has covered the Chicago Bears for ESPN's NFL Nation since 2022. Prior to that, she was ESPN's Vikings reporter starting in 2017. Cronin also has appeared on — and hosted — "Around the Horn," which will have its final show this week. She hosts a weekly national radio show on Sunday mornings on ESPN while also appearing locally on ESPN 1000. Before she was all ov...
In episode 6, Kevin chats with Bruce Arthur, who’s been a columnist at the Toronto Star since 2014. He was named the sports writer of the year by Sports Media Canada and his work was included in the 2023 edition of “The Year’s Best Sportswriting.” Arthur has covered the NBA, NHL and nine Olympics, along with covering the COVID-19 pandemic starting in 2020 when sports shut down. Before Arthur was profiling Blackhawks star Conor Beda...
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.
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 meet...
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 the...
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 ...
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 ...
In this introduction to a new sports media podcast, Kevin Fishbain tells you what to expect from "Breaking In" and why he’s doing it, and you’ll hear a few clips from upcoming guests on the show.
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