Amy Trask of CBS Sports and Caitlin Thompson of Racquet Magazine

Episode 115 of the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast features CBS NFL analyst Amy Trask and Racquet publisher Caitlin Thompson.

In this podcast, Trask, the former CEO of the Oakland Raiders, discusses her transition from football management to broadcasting; how she worked to get past her fears of being on camera; holding Bart Scott’s hand on-air to try to calm her nerves; how much sexism exists in sports broadcasting; why she took the job as CEO of the BIG3, a 3-on-3 professional basketball league that will begin its inaugural season in June; what social media is like for her; why we have yet to see a woman calling the NFL fulltime and whether it will happen; her insecurities about her looks as it relates to television; the impact Lesley Visser and Andrea Kremer had on her professionally; her attempts to get Al Davis to join Twitter; the potential of Las Vegas as a football market, and much more.

Thompson discusses why she founded a print quarterly on professional tennis; how her business model works; recruiting great writers on tennis; the number of subscribers she needs to be profitable; how story ideas are generated for a quarterly; examining what could have been between Justine Henin and Serena Williams had Henin not retired, and much more.


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Episode 115 of the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast features CBS NFL analyst Amy Trask and Racquet publisher Caitlin Thompson.

In this podcast, Trask, the former CEO of the Oakland Raiders, discusses her transition from football management to broadcasting; how she worked to get past her fears of being on camera; holding Bart Scott’s hand on-air to try to calm her nerves; how much sexism exists in sports broadcasting; why she took the job as CEO of the BIG3, a 3-on-3 professional basketball league that will begin its inaugural season in June; what social media is like for her; why we have yet to see a woman calling the NFL fulltime and whether it will happen; her insecurities about her looks as it relates to television; the impact Lesley Visser and Andrea Kremer had on her professionally; her attempts to get Al Davis to join Twitter; the potential of Las Vegas as a football market, and much more.

Thompson discusses why she founded a print quarterly on professional tennis; how her business model works; recruiting great writers on tennis; the number of subscribers she needs to be profitable; how story ideas are generated for a quarterly; examining what could have been between Justine Henin and Serena Williams had Henin not retired, and much more.


You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher.

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