Awful Announcing Podcast

As we say goodbye to July, we welcome back to the show Rob Stone of Fox Sports. Rob is the studio host for Fox Soccer and will also have a role on Fox's college football coverage this fall. Today, Rob chats with AA about the USA's victory in the Gold Cup and the imminent launch of Fox Sports 1. Topics include... -The USMNT's record winning streak and how excited fans should truly be. -How expectat...

The podcast returns with a full recap of the biggest sports media stories of the past month with Steve Lepore of SB Nation's Puck the Media. Steve anchors SB Nation's sports media coverage, which has grown in the past year with all the developments in the industry. We touch on all the hirings, announcements, new shows, and developments including... -Why Nate Silver's hire by ESPN is the most signi...

With the Stanley Cup Final in Boston and the series tied at 1-1, we're joined before a pivotal Game 3 by NBC's voice of the NHL - Mike "Doc" Emrick. Doc is widely regarded as the best play by play man in sports and has been honored by the Hockey Hall of Fame. We talk to Doc about the Bruins-Blackhawks series and some of the traits that make him one of the elite announcers in the business. Topics i...

We're back for a rare weekend podcast and have the privilege of interviewing one of our favorite guests - the voice of the NBA Finals, Mike Breen. This year's championship series is the 8th Finals for ESPN's lead NBA announcer. AA chatted with Mike Saturday afternoon during an off day of the series before a pivotal Game 5 with the series tied at 2-2. Topics include... -The flop of the Finals. -Bro...

Who else could be the guest on the Silver Anniversary edition of the AA Podcast except our first and most frequent guest, the co-author of the #1 New York Times Best Seller Those Guys Have All The Fun - Jim Miller. With several stories surrounding ESPN in the last month, we catch up with Jim and get his take on the happenings in Bristol as well as a few stories he broke on his Twitter page. Topics...

On today's podcast we venture into the world of Formula 1 to chat with globetrotting NBC Sports pit reporter Will Buxton. Will covers every F1 race on the calendar live on-site for NBC and is in Monaco this week for the world's most glamorous race, the Monaco Grand Prix. NBC will be airing live coverage of the Monaco Grand Prix on broadcast network television this weekend. We chatted with Will fro...

Today's podcast guest is the lead analyst for the NHL on NBC, a Stanley Cup champ, and NHL veteran who played over 1,000 games in the NHL. After his playing and coaching careers, Eddie Olczyk has transitioned to a successful broadcasting career calling the Stanley Cup Finals and Olympics for NBC as well as the Blackhawks locally in Chicago. Eddie joins us to talk about the Red Wings-Blackhawks ser...

On today's AA Podcast we welcome award winning sports reporter Tom Verducci. Tom's an award winning field reporter for TBS and MLB Network as well as a game analyst for Fox and a respected writer for Sports Illustrated. Tuesday Tom will appear as a field reporter for MLB Network's coverage of Yankees-Orioles. Tom chats with AA about his many different duties in the baseball media and the 2013 MLB...

In this week's AA Podcast we welcome one of the pioneers of people with sports blogs taping podcasts - Dan Levy! Dan is the current National Lead Writer at Bleacher Report and had one of the blogosphere's most successful podcasts at On the DL. He was on our panel for the People's Sports Emmys so we chat with Dan about fake awards and actual real sports topics including... -The disconnect between t...

With one of the wildest days we can ever recall in sports media, we invite back to the show Deadspin's John Koblin to break it all down. John's reporting into ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and more in the sports media is one of the pillars of the top sports blog in the land. Today, we chat with John about Jason Collins coming out, the fallout of Chris Broussard's comments on Outside the Lines, and whe...

On this week's podcast we're joined by one of the preeminent basketball analysts in the land, Steve Kerr of Turner Sports. The five time NBA champion has been busy the last month calling not just the NBA Playoffs, but the Final Four as well as leading one of the most experimental broadcasts in sports in an all-analyst booth. Steve chats with AA about that experience as well as... -What his tradema...

For this week's podcast we welcome back veteran sports media and golf writer Ed Sherman of The Sherman Report. Ed joins the show to chat about CBS Sports' massive week with the NCAA Tournament Final Four and The Masters and his Q&A with CBS Sports ubervoice Jim Nantz. We break down the coverage of both events including... -Jim Nantz's position as CBS Sports' #1 announcer and his identity with...

With the start of the MLB season, we welcome MLB Network analyst Al Leiter to the AA Podcast. Al is a former MLB All Star and World Series winner whose work in the booth started before his playing days were done calling LCS games for Fox. Now at MLB Net, Leiter has continued to do standout work as one of the best analysts in the field. Al Leiter talks to AA about that broadcast career and the earl...

The AA Podcast is back after a not-so-brief hiatus and to bring us out of hibernation we welcome The Gaffer, Christopher Harris, of EPL Talk. EPL Talk is one of the top independent soccer blogs on the web and The Gaffer is one of the most respected and influential voices when it comes to the soccer media and announcers. With Gus Johnson's installation as Fox's top soccer announcer looking ahead to...

What better way to welcome back the AA Podcast with our first episode of 2013 than by talking to one of our most popular guests, Michelle Beadle of NBC. Michelle's new show The Crossover launches Monday January 28th from New Orleans during Super Bowl week. We chat with Beadle about The Crossover, Access Hollywood, and more including... -Her input into the format of The Crossover and the pop cultur...

It's that time once again for our AA Year in Review Podcast and joining us for the second year running is Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated. Richard is one of the preeminent voices on the media beat and is widely recognized as one of the best sportswriters to follow on Twitter. Yesterday, Richard gave out his 2012 Media Awards at SI.com (a must read) and we talk about some of his award winners...

In the newest Awful Announcing Podcast, our guest is Deadspin media writer John Koblin. John's reporting on ESPN in the past year has been some of the finest work in the blogosphere. Last week, he was thrown into the story when an ESPN executive made a false claim about the motivations of his reporting on plagiarism at ESPN.com. We talk to John Koblin about his interaction with ESPN VP John Walsh...

With the college football season coming to a close and conference realignment heating up again, we welcome ESPN college football reporter Brett McMurphy to the AA Podcast. Brett is the top college football reporter when it comes to realignment and has broken the news on many of college football's biggest stories in recent years working for both CBS and ESPN. In this podcast, Brett chats with AA ab...

This week we welcome former NASCAR Cup and 3-time Daytona 500 champion Dale Jarrett to the podcast. Dale serves as ESPN's lead NASCAR analyst and has followed his father Ned's footsteps in having both a successful racing and broadcasting career. Interest in NASCAR is certainly at a high this season with the controversy at Phoenix preceding the championship deciding season ending race at Homestead....

This week's guest is Ian Eagle of CBS Sports and YES Network. Ian's reputation as one of the top play by play men in sports has grown in the last several years with his work calling the NBA, NFL, college basketball, and pretty much everything in between. We talk to Ian in Miami before a Nets-Heat game and in the middle of a stretch where he will call four games in five days. Also, Ian chats to AA...

This week's podcast is all about this year's World Series and our guest is former MLB All-Star, "The Mayor" Sean Casey. Casey played in the 2006 World Series with the Detroit Tigers and spent several years in Cincinnati, becoming one of the most popular players in Reds franchise history. Currently, Casey is an MLB Network analyst and will appear on MLB Tonight throughout the World Series on their...

This week's podcast welcomes Alex Flanagan of NBC Sports and NFL Network. Alex serves double duty as sideline reporter for NBC's coverage of Notre Dame football and NFL Net's Thursday Night Football and she works as a correspondent for Football Night In America. We talk with Alex about her busy schedule and... -The challenge of balancing family life with her work. -Being travel buddies with Mike M...

This week's AA Podcast is all about this weekend's Ryder Cup as we welcome Dan Hicks, who will call the weekend action from Medinah. Dan is the play by play man for NBC's golf coverage and also called swimming at the London Olympics. He chats with AA about calling both events and other topics including... -The adjustments working with Rowdy Gaines and Johnny Miller. -What makes the Ryder Cup uniqu...

The AA Podcast returns after a bye week to ring in the beginning of a new NFL season with Fox NFL Sunday host Curt Menefee. Curt took over the reigns of America's #1 pregame show full time in 2007 and has been instrumental in the continued success of Fox NFL Sunday. Curt has also been more involved at Fox Sports in hosting the network's UFC and international soccer coverage. AA chats with Curt abo...

With most of the sports world's attention on the opening of the college football season, we shift gears and focus on this week's final grand slam tennis tournament of the season on the podcast. We welcome Aussie tennis legend Rennae Stubbs of the Tennis Channel, NBC, and ESPN from New York to talk about this week's tournament and her transition from playing career to media career. Rennae also chat...