Episode 21 - Reporters in locker rooms, Olympics next steps & an interview with NASCAR President Steve Phelps The Sports Media Podcast

Marchand and Ourand dissect Adam Silver’s comments about limiting locker room access for reporters. They also look into what’s next for the Olympics, which is coming off a disastrous two-year run in Japan and China. Marchand and Ourand discuss NFL media free agents this off-season and talk about NFL schedule changes that are likely to be implemented next season. Other topics include media prospects for the planned Saudi golf league and TV free agents in college football. Special mentions go to Holly Rowe, Phil Mickelson, Mike Tirico, Sean McVay, Ed Orgeron, Dan Mullen, Andrew Catalon, Craig Silver and Suzanne Smith.
 
NASCAR President Steve Phelps joins as “The Big Get” and talks about an exciting Daytona 500, NASCAR’s upcoming media rights negotiations, whether ESPN covers his sport enough and his favorite NASCAR announcer when he was growing up in Vermont.
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