Press Pass Podcast

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.