Kimmi Chex is an on-air host for NFL Network. She recently signed a multi-year contract extension with the company and joined the Press Pass podcast to document how she got to this point as quickly as she did, and what the future holds for her.

 

 

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Josh Weinfuss is ESPN's NFL Nation Arizona Cardinals beat reporter. He joined Press Pass this week to discuss the career path that took him from Indiana University all the way to a coveted spot at ESPN. He delved into the Cardinals' future, whether Kliff Kingsbury will be a part of it and what Kyler Murray needs to improve on. Weinfuss also touches on some of his favorite interview subjects and talks about his favorite event he has covered. 

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Jesse Agler joined Press Pass and discussed his first season as the radio voice of the San Diego Padres. He touched on how his career got him to this point, his relationship with his broadcast partner Tony Gwynn Jr., calling the Padres' first no-hitter and what it's like to watch Fernando Tatis Jr. every day. Agler also talked about the differences of doing radio vs. television broadcasts, and the difficulties of calling games during a pandemic. 

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Liam McHugh covers the NHL for TNT, working as the network's No. 1 studio host. He came over to Turner after a decade spent covering hockey and a variety of other sports for NBC, including hosting Football Night in America. Liam joined the Press Pass Podcast to discuss what it's like to start a new job after 10 years, the early returns of Turner's inaugural NHL season, and the free-flowing nature of debate and discourse that he and his colleagues try to embrace onscreen. 

Liam also touched upon the experience of working with Wayne Gretzky and kindly informed me that Liam is growing to be a more popular name by the day amongst the youths. Our time is coming! 

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Seth Wickersham is a longtime ESPN NFL writer and investigative reporter. He joined the Press Pass Podcast to discuss the up coming release of his book, "Better To Be Feared", a deep dive into the relationship between Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, and Robert Kraft over the course of the New England Patriots' 20-year dynastic run. 

 

Seth addresses Belichick's claim that he never talked to him, the process of writing his first book, what he enjoyed about that process and what was challenging. 

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Brandon Tierney was hosting "Tiki and Tierney" remotely for more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now he and Tiki Barber are back in a brand new studio. He joined Press Pass to discuss the transition back from remote work, his chemistry with Barber, and some of his favorite recurring guests. 

Tierney also went deep on his thoughts about his beloved Jets, the New York Yankees and how Major League Baseball must seize the momentum it has built over the past two years.

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Stan Verrett has always wanted to host SportsCenter. From his first job as a host of a radio show for the blind in his hometown of New Orleans to his Howard University days, to Charlotte and Virginia and back to Louisiana, Verrett's end goal was always the same. All the sacrifices made, all the long hours worked, has led him to here, as one of the face's of ESPN's flagship show and the original host of the SportsCenter airing out of the Los Angeles studio. 

 

Verrett joined the Press Pass podcast to tell us how he got here. Each step of the road described in painstaking detail, the dedication it took to even get a shot at the job articulated. Verrett is one of a lucky few, his face and voice synonymous with SportsCenter as we know it today. He knows that, and knows better than anyone just how hard it is to get there. 

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Michael DiRocco is ESPN's Jacksonville Jaguars beat reporter. He joined the Press Pass podcast ahead of the most exciting season in recent memory for the woebegone franchise to discuss the upcoming football year and his career arc, working his way up the newspaper ranks and the decision to join ESPN around the turn of the decade. 

Michael explains what it was like to cover the University of Florida during their heyday of the 2000s (both football and basketball) and the singularly unique experience of watching the Tim Tebow phenomena unfold before his very eyes. He also touches upon making the jump from newspaper to ESPN and uthe experience of working for the Worldwide Leader over the last decade. Finally, Michael explains what the energy has been like in Jacksonville after the Trevor Lawrence pick and his experience covering Urban Meyer at Florida and why he wasn't surprised the former college coach made the jump to the big leagues. 

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Kevin Clark wears many hats for The Ringer. He writes weekly feature columns on the NFL, hosts a podcast, and helped create the popular Slow News Day show. Kevin joined the Press Pass Podcast to document how he got here, starting from his early days growing up in a journalism family and an internship with the Sun-Sentinel in Miami before making his way to the Wall Street Journal as one of their first writers for the sports section. One day in 2016, he got an email from Bill Simmons. The rest, as they say, is history, and Kevin takes us through it all. 

 

 Kevin takes the audience through his career and what it was like helping build The Ringer from a good idea to one of the biggest brands in sports media today. He also touches upon the importance of versatility in media, his writing process, how much media has changed and how it will continue to evolve, and more. 

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Matt Sullivan is the author of "Can't Knock The Hustle," his new book about the Brooklyn Nets. Matt embedded with the organization for over a year and was with Brooklyn for the rollercoaster events of 2020, from the pandemic to social unrest to the bubble playoffs and everything in between. 

 

Matt joined the Press Pass podcast to discuss what it was like writing his first book and how his past experiences as an investigative reporter and editor helped shape who he became as a book author. He also touched upon how the book evolved from when he first embedded early in the 2019-20 season to what the final product ultimately became.  

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Stu Holden is FOX Soccer's lead analyst. He joined the Press Pass Podcast to discuss Saturday's Copa América final between Argentina and Brazil, which naturally features two of the world's most exciting players in Lionel Messi and Neymar. Stu gives his analysis and prediction for the big game while taking a step back and evaluating what a Copa championship would do for the legacies of both international superstars. 

 

Stu also took the time to talk about his transition from on-field play to the life of a broadcaster; he played soccer at the professional level both in the MLS and Premier League for nearly a decade. He discussed the differences between the two experiences, the advice he'd give to athletes-turned-broadcasters, and some of his greatest hits working as a broadcaster for FOX. 

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Joe Davis has worked for FOX Sports since 2014 and became the full-time play-by-play broadcaster for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2017. His swift rise in the industry has been noticed, as Davis is a 2021 Sports Emmy nominee in the Outstanding Sports Personality/Emerging On-Air Talent category. 

 

He took the time to join the Press Pass Podcast about what it means to be nominated for a Sports Emmy and the path he took to arrive here. Davis also touched upon how his preparation for each broadcast has changed over the years and what it was like to fill in for Joe Buck during Game 7 of the NLCS in 2020. 

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Mike Joy has been deep in the NASCAR media scene since the mid-70s and hasn't taken his foot off the gas since. Joy joins the Press Pass Podcast to discuss the life of a NASCAR PxP broadcaster, the relationship between media members like himself and NASCAR athletes, and how he got into race broadcasting in the first place. 

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Travis Sawchik is a senior MLB writer for theScore. A proud Ohio State grad (to the chagrin of the host), Sawchik joined the Press Pass Podcast to discuss his career at length. Sawchik started off at a small newspaper in North Carolina covering local beats before working his way up the ranks, as a prospect works his way from Single-A to the Majors. He ended up at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, where Sawchik began to work sabermetrics and advanced stats into his writing.

 

Sawchik entered the online-only media game about five years ago and has bopped around, finally ending up at theScore as a senior writer with the ability to tell stories while dive into the obscure stats that a segment of the baseball fandom know and love. Listen to the podcast in full below, as well as on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts.

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Matt Murphy is the youngest play-by-play broadcaster in the G-League, the man on the mic for the Delaware Blue Coats since 2018. He came on the Press Pass Podcast to talk about the life of a PBP man, what it was like to be the only play-by-play broadcaster in the G-League bubble this year, how he breaks down other broadcasters, the importance of preparation when it comes to broadcasting, and the legacy of Fordham broadcasting.

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Stephen Cannella is the co-Editor-in-Chief of Sports Illustrated alongside Ryan Hunt. He joined the Press Pass Podcast to discuss his career at Sports Illustrated dating back to the mid-1990s, his rise through the ranks and his eventual promotion to co-EIC in 2019. 

Cannella has been with the publication for every crucial stage of its modern evolution. He touches upon where Sports Illustrated has been, where it is now, and where he hopes to lead it with Hunt.

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Matt Miller decided to leave Bleacher Report after more than a decade. The long-time NFL Draft discusses his decision to launch a Substack and why it was time to leave his long-time employer.

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Kevin Kaduk, founder of Midway Minute, a Chicago sports newsletter, joins the podcast to talk about his new venture and discuss the best movies filmed in his great city. Just two sports-content enthusiasts drafting things. Like the internet should be. 

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Jeremy Schaap is one of ESPN's most decorated journalists. An 11-time Emmy award winner for his groundbreaking reporting, Schaap joined the Press Pass Podcast to walk us through the early days of his media career, which started very early indeed at the desk of his father, Dick Schaap. Schaap discusses the past, present, and future of Outside the Lines and the E:60 series, both of which will be a part of his notable legacy at the Worldwide Leader of Sports, and explains why he considers the reporting he did on the plight of migrant laborers in Qatar to be among the most important of his career. An experienced sports journalist who has (literally) been all over and written about some of the most important stories of this century, Schaap has plenty to ruminate on and a lot to say about it all.

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Dom Cosentino is an NFL senior features writer for theScore. He joined the Press Pass podcast to discuss his journey through sports media and how he ended up at theScore starting all the way back in Pittsburgh, when he'd publish a sports newsletter out of his parents' basement as a kid. After taking a job with a videoconferencing company out of college, Dom broke into the industry on a local township beat and wrote articles about the town's favorite pig dying. He moved on to the high school beat for a decade before deciding to try his hand at the online media industry, joining Deadspin as an editorial assistant. From there, he transitioned to covering the Jets as a full-time beat writer before ending up back at Deadspin, and was part of the staff that quite en masse after editor-in-chief Barry Petchesky was fired. Now he's at theScore.

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