In Episode 18 of The Mitch Goldich Podcast, my guest was Jeff Passan.Jeff is a baseball and Olympics writer for Yahoo, who just covered his fourth Olympics last month in PyeongChang, South Korea.We spoke about how he covered the Olympics, his sit-down interview with the skier who didn't do any tricks in the halfpipe, how he broke baseball news from…

In Episode 17 of The Mitch Goldich Podcast, my guest was Hannah Keyser.Hannah is a writer for Deadspin, and we talked about both covering our first Olympics last month in PyeongChang, South Korea.Our conversation got into how to prepare for a month covering sports you don’t follow year-round, picking one event to watch per day, trying to write diff…

In Episode 16 of The Mitch Goldich Podcast, my guest was Erik Malinowski.Erik returns to the podcast to discuss his new book, Betaball: How Silicon Valley and Science Built One of the Greatest Basketball Teams in History. This book about the Golden State Warriors’ rise is available now.We talked about his writing, researching and reporting process,…

In a short bonus track, Mitch Goldich introduces his new podcast called Mitch Eats Food. Fans of The Mitch Goldich Podcast can also subscribe to Mitch Eats Food in iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or Google Play Music.If you enjoy the podcast, please consider taking a minute to give it a rating and a review on iTunes. It helps other people find my podc…

In Episode 15 of The Mitch Goldich Podcast, my guest was Jay Kornegay.Jay is the Vice President of the Race and Sportsbook at the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook.We talked about the NHL and NFL moving franchises to Vegas, and the effect it would have on the city. We also discussed changing attitudes toward gambling, his sportsbook taking prop bets on …

In Episode 14 of The Mitch Goldich Podcast, my guest was Derek Bodner.Derek has covered the Sixers for five years and recently adopted a model of subscription-based independent coverage on his own website.He talked about working the Sixers beat from analyzing games to developing sources and breaking news. He discussed how he balances his time to co…

In Episode 13 of The Mitch Goldich Podcast, my guest was Sarah Barshop.Sarah is a former coworker of mine at Sports Illustrated, now an NFL Nation reporter covering the Texans for ESPN.We talked about both covering our first Super Bowl last week in Houston, highlights of the week, the party scene bringing together reporters and players, and what we…

In Episode 12 of The Mitch Goldich Podcast, my guest was Tom McCarthy.T-Mac is the Philadelphia Phillies’ lead TV play-by-plan man, and he also calls NFL and college basketball for TV and radio.Tom talked about calling the great Packers/Cowboys game in the divisional round of the playoffs the week before, how he juggles multiple sports and prepares…

In Episode 11 of The Mitch Goldich Podcast, my guest was Ben Lindbergh.Ben is a writer for The Ringer, covering mostly baseball, but also topics like movies, television, video games and more.Ben explained how he manages to cover baseball while also finding time to follow his many other hobbies. He also talked about how he writes about baseball, com…

In Episode 10 of The Mitch Goldich Podcast, my guest was Michael McCann.Michael is my colleague at Sports Illustrated, where he serves as our legal analyst. He’s also a law professor at the University of New Hampshire, where he also holds several other administrative positions.We spoke about his legal career, which includes serving as counsel for M…

In Episode 9 of The Mitch Goldich Podcast, my guest was Nichole Young. Nichole recently finished through-hiking the Appalachian Trail, a 2,000+ mile journey that took about five months. We discussed what made her want to do something so crazy, and what mental and physical challenges she faced on her hike. She gave details about what she ate, where …

Dan Hicks is a broadcaster for NBC. He calls Olympic swimming, golf and Notre Dame football. Rio 2016 will be his sixth Olympics as the lead play-by-play man for NBC’s swimming in prime time.We discussed his career as the play-by-play voice for Michael Phelps’ entire Olympic career. Dan gave insight into how he prepares for the Olympics, and the un…

Michael Levin is a writer for Liberty Ballers, SB Nation’s Philadelphia 76ers blog, and co-host of The Rights To Ricky Sanchez podcast. He also organized The Rights To Ricky Sanchez NBA Draft Lottery party with about 2,000 Sixers fans that received national media attention.We discussed The Process, and what it’s been like being a Sam Hinkie support…

In a special bonus episode, Jeff Chiucchi and I do our annual 1-on-1 fantasy baseball draft for a league unlike any you’ve likely heard of. This league, entering its eighth season, has just two opponents. Each team consists of 25 players, mimicking a real MLB roster (including a backup catcher who must be an actual backup catcher), with 65 stats th…

Kim Adams is a basketball reporter and broadcaster, primarily for the Big East Digital Network. She has also done color commentary and sideline reporting for Fox Sports 1 and ESPN3.We discussed her background, growing up in a basketball household, watching her dad ref college games and having her mom coach her high school team. She also spoke a lit…

Sheil Kapadia is the ESPN NFL Nation reporter covering the Seattle Seahawks. He previously covered the Philadelphia Eagles for Birds 24/7 (which he co-founded) at Philadelphia Magazine. He has also written for Philly.com, covered the Baltimore Ravens at BaltimoreSun.com and done work for Fox Sports 1 and 97.5 The Fanatic in Philly.We discussed how …

Will Leitch is the founder of Deadspin. He now covers sports for Sports On Earth, covers politics for Bloomberg Politics and reviews movies for The New Republic.We discussed his vision for Deadspin, and how the site has grown since he left. Will talked about his upcoming trips to cover both Super Bowl 50 and the Iowa Caucus. We also talked about a …

Jeff Pearlman is a New York Times best-selling author of six books. He also covered MLB for Sports Illustrated from 1996-2003.We discussed his upcoming Brett Favre biography, his process of writing books, what it was like working at Sports Illustrated before the magazine had a website and got into some other fun and unexpected topics like Sisqó and…

Jayson Stark is a senior baseball writer and a TV reporter and analyst for ESPN. Before joining ESPN in 2000, he spent 21 years writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer.We discussed what his life is like at ESPN, how he keeps track of all 30 teams, his hectic travel schedule every October and the way he balances his current job as a national reporter …

Erik Malinowski is a freelance writer and a regular contributor for Rolling Stone and Sports On Earth. His work has also appeared at Fox Sports, Deadspin and Buzzfeed, and he had a story selected for the Best American Sports Writing anthology in 2013.He shared his experience covering the Giants’ and Warriors’ championship runs within the last year …