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.
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Introduction
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.
About 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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