Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast

In episode 66, Kevin chats with Ross Dellenger, senior college football reporter at Yahoo and the National Media Association's national sportswriter of the year. Dellenger has been with Yahoo since 2023 after five years covering college football for Sports Illustrated. He got his start in his hometown of Biloxi and worked his way through newspapers in the southeast before landing at the Clari...

In episode 65, Kevin chats with Sean McDonough, broadcaster for ESPN and the Boston Red Sox Radio Network. McDonough has been at ESPN since 1989. He's currently the voice of the Stanley Cup Finals and he can be heard on one of college football's biggest games every Saturday. He calls a College Football Playoff semifinal before voicing the national championship for ESPN Radio. He also is...

In episode 64, Kevin chats with Ryan Glasspiegel, media and entertainment reporter at Front Office sports. Prior to his time at FOS, Ryan wrote for the New York Post. One of the top sports media reporters in the country, Ryan explains why the sports media world is still undercovered, and offers his perspective of the landscape for those trying to break in. His own origin story includes working for...

In episode 63, Kevin chats with Joe Healy, writer at D1Baseball, co-editor of SEC Extra, D1Baseball's premium SEC subsite, and co-host of Highway to Hoover, D1Baseball's SEC-focused podcast. Healy has been writing about college baseball since not long after college, and he joined D1 Baseball in October 2022. You'll hear about Healy's unique journalism path, which included time...

In episode 62, Kevin chats with Chris Herring, senior lecturer at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism and author of "Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks." Prior to his job at Northwestern, Herring covered the NBA for ESPN, his second stint with the network after writing about the NBA for them from 2016-21. Herring's first job out of col...

In episode 61, Kevin chats with Paul Tenorio, senior writer at The Athletic covering soccer and author of “The Messi Effect,” available now. Before becoming one of the country’s authorities on soccer, Tenorio studied journalism at Northwestern, and you’ll hear about his internship at the St. Louis Dispatch and what he learned from trying to write about Jim Edmonds. Tenorio’s first full-time job wa...

In episode 60, Kevin chats with Jon “Boog” Sciambi, television voice of the Chicago Cubs on Marquee and national radio voice of “Sunday Night Baseball” on ESPN Radio. Sciambi is also a play-by-play broadcaster for ESPN’s college basketball. His origin story begins as a high school baseball player who admired the Phillies’ Harry Kalas before he started doing sports radio at Boston College. Sciambi...

In episode 59, Kevin chats with Danny Parkins, co-host on FS!'s "First Things First". He can also be seen on "The Herd". Parkins has been at Fox Sports since 2024 after he spent nearly a decade hosting afternoon drive in Chicago on 670 The Score. Parkins is returning to his hometown this week to host his annual "Radiothon," something he first did in 2005 as a hig...

In episode 58, Kevin chats with Cory Provus, lead television voice of the Minnesota Twins. It's his third year in the Twins' TV booth after spending 12 seasons as their lead radio play-by-play broadcaster. Provus also broadcasts college football and basketball for Big Ten Network. Prior to that, Provus spent three seasons doing play-by-play with the Brewers. From 2007-08, Provus was the...

In episode 57, Kevin chats with Nick Friedell, senior writer at The Athletic covering the Golden State Warriors and the NBA. Prior to joining The Athletic, Friedell spent 14 years at ESPN covering the NBA, including his time on the Chicago Bulls beat. Friedell's origin story begins with dreams of being the next Harry Caray and calling Cubs games, but it took a detour at Syracuse. You'll...

In episode 56, Kevin chats with Hannah Storm, legendary sports broadcaster. Storm has been at ESPN since 2008, where she's served as an anchor across SportsCenter, NFL Live, NBA Today, and WNBA and NBA Countdown. She's hosted everything from the Boston and New York City Marathons to the Rose Parade, while also appearing on Vibe Check on Disney+. Long before her time at ESPN, Storm got he...

In episode 55, Kevin chats with Dane Brugler, national NFL writer at The Athletic who produces "The Beast," an annual draft guide. This year's version includes 402 scouting reports and almost 300,000 words. How did Brugler become everyone's main resource for draft intel? It started with a fascination with the Cleveland Browns' draft in 1999, and then went to Brugler's...

In episode 54, Kevin chats with Len Kasper, radio play-by-play broadcaster for the Chicago White Sox on ESPN 1000. Kasper is in his fifth season calling White Sox baseball following 16 seasons as the television voie of the Chicago Cubs. He was the fourth full-time lead television voice in Cubs history. Prior to that, Kasper — the 2016 Illinois Sportscaster of the Year as voted on by the National S...

In episode 53, Kevin chats with Pat Hughes, the legendary play-by-play broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs. He's called Cubs games since 1996, first on WGN radio and now on The Score in Chicago. Prior to joining the Cubs broadcast, Pat was in the radio booths for the Brewers and Twins. The 2023 winner of the Ford C. Frick Award, the highest honor for a baseball broadcaster, Hughes is a 10-time I...

In episode 52, Kevin chats with John Fanta, broadcaster at NBC sports where he does play-by-play for college basketball and the NBA, along with sideline reporting, in-studio hosting and podcasting. Fanta has been with NBC full-time since last summer, and has become one of the most beloved personalities when it comes to college basketball. Fanta grew up a sports-obsessed kid in Northeast Ohio watch...

In episode 51, Kevin chats with Jason Benetti, who was just named the lead play-by-play broadcaster for Sunday Night Baseball on NBC and Peacock. Benetti will remain the television voice of the Detroit Tigers, a role he has held since 2024. Prior to that, Benetti spent eight seasons as the voice of the Chicago White Sox and he was a national broadcaster for baseball, football and college basketbal...

In episode 50 — yes, 5-0 — Kevin chats with Laurence Holmes, radio host at 104.3 The Score in Chicago, where he's worked for nearly 30 years. Holmes, whose own podcast, "House of L," helped inspire this one, also teaches aspiring journalists at DePaul University, giving him plenty of perspective on how to break in. You'll hear about what got Holmes into radio, how he got starte...

In episode 49, Kevin chats with Dave Revsine, lead studio host and basketball play-by-play broadcaster at Big Ten Network. He is also the author of “The Opening Kickoff: The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation.” When BTN launched in 2007, it was Revsine who introduced the network to the masses, and he's been the voice of the channel's coverage ever since. Prior to that, Revsine spent 1...

In episode 48, Kevin chats with Eric Edholm, lead draft writer for NFL.com. Edholm has covered the NFL for more than two decades, including 11 years at Pro Football Weekly, where he overlapped with Kevin for the 2010-12 seasons. Edholm got his journalism start at his town’s local paper when he was still in high school, and had a unique Missouri journalism experience. He’ll also discuss how he got...

In episode 47, Kevin chats with J.A. Adande, the director of sports journalism at Northwestern's Medill School of journalism. Inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2024 as the Curt Gowdy Print Media Award winner, Adande spent several decades covering sports, most notably the NBA, for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and then ESPN, where he was a mainstay on "Around the Horn....

In episode 46, Kevin chats with Mike “Doc” Emrick, one of the most famous hockey play-by-play broadcasters of all-time. Emrick called 22 Stanley Cups and is in seven Halls of Fame. Emrick originally wanted to be a baseball announcer before he went to a Fort Wayne Komets hockey game in 1960, and everything changed. From that first game he went on to call Bowling Green hockey to Port Huron, Mich. to...

In episode 45, Kevin chats with Peggy Kusinski and Dionne Miller, hosts of "Peggy and Dionne" on ESPN 1000 in Chicago. Kusinski has been on the air in Chicago since the early 90's including two decades at NBC-5. She discusses what it was like at Jerry Sloan's basketball camp, discovering — and then working at ESPN, how she got started in her hometown. Miller, a reporter and anc...

In episode 44, Kevin chats with Mike Sando, senior NFL writer at The Athletic. Prior to joining The Athletic, Sando spent 12 years at ESPN. His first NFL beat was covering the Seahawks for the Tacoma News-Tribune, where he covered his first Super Bowl, 27 years ago. He's been at every one since (except the COVID year) and will reminisce about that first one, and offer tips to anyone covering...

In episode 43, Kevin chats with James Brown, the host of "The NFL Today" on CBS. A three-time Emmy Award-winner, JB has been an NFL pregame host for more than 30 years, having done 11 Super Bowls. This episode dropped on the Sunday morning of the AFC Championship Game in Denver, where Brown will host "The NFL Today." Before he became a broadcaster, Brown was a star basketball p...

In episode 42, Kevin chats with Seth Wickersham, senior writer at ESPN and author of "American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback," a New York Times bestseller. Wickersham has won numerous awards for his writing and he's profiled the likes of Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck and Jim Harbaugh. You'll hear about how Wickersham got into sportswriting while...