JIMMY TRAINA is a columnist and podcaster for SportsIllustrated. He covers the sports media business, including the business part and the celebrity/personality part of the business. In this conversation he talks about his process, about the need for more people covering sports media,and the future of sports journalism. And, plenty more.

Recorded January 30, 2025

ADRIAN HEALEY has been for most of the last three decades a soccer announcer in the U.S.  The Marlborough, England native first did radio in the Boston area and then started announcing games for the Major League Soccer side New England Revolution. He then announced games for ESPNInternational, ESPN, Austin FC, and Apple TV+ MLS Season Pass. He is now back with ESPN, doing games in Spain’s La Liga. He talks here about his career, including the somewhat inexplicable decision by MLS not to bring him back in 2024. [He goes into detail starting at the 28-minute mark he goes into detail about the end of deal with Season Pass.]

Recorded February 26, 2025

DAVE RAYMOND has been the television play-by-play voice of the Texas Rangers for more than a decade. The Gering, Nebraska native is a graduate of Stanford University. He was once ‘traded’ to another minor league baseball team, he was an award-winning business journalist, did temp work in the Bay Area. All on his way to the big leagues about two decades ago. We talk about all of that, the new Rangers TVarrangement, some of the great announcers in history, the new baseball rules, and much more.

Recorded February 28, 2025

Union Omaha, the defending champions of USL League One, are the league's defending champions. The only two-time champion in the league's six-year history. They are also three-time winners of the Player's Shield, which honors the team with the best regular season record.

This team sets the standard for the third-tier professional league in American soccer.

The team has ambitions, including a new soccer-specific stadium in downtown Omaha.

This piece was reported and published in late February 2025.

Interview sources: Martie Cordaro, Dominic Casciato, Rashid Nuhu, Blake Malone, PxP calls courtesy USL/CBS

HOWARD MEGDAL founded The IX and The Next to focus on women’s sports. He is the author of eight books, writes for Baseball Prospectus and does some journalism for Forbes.Covering women’s sports and publishing the newsletter and the web site are his primary focus. We talk about women’s sports and why now, and the process of this work.  Megdal hosts the basketball coverage on Locked On Women’s Sports daily podcast. His outlets also go in-depth in the following women's sports: soccer, tennis, golf, hockey and gymnastics.

PAUL ALLEN is the voice of the Minnesota Vikings, radio host at KFAN and the horse track announcer at Canterbury Park.

From the days he talked his way into the horse racing business to his popular radio show and his more than two decades with the Vikings, Allen has been one-of-a-kind.In this conversation he talks about his work and its diversity. He talks at length about his faith. 

Nobody else does the NFL, radio talk and horse track announcing.

Paul Allen is the one.

Recorded January 29, 2025

BLAKE AERNI is the radio voice of the Major league Soccer team Sporting KC. He is a graduate of University of Nebraska-Lincoln journalism college. In 2025. he starts his second season as the primary announcer for the team, doing all the games on the 810 WHB radio. The home games can also be heard on Apple TV+ MLS Season Pass. He talks here about

Recorded January 30, 2025

ROSS JERNSTROM was a sportscaster in Omaha for 41 years, first at KETV and then WOWT. He is a UNL journalism graduate who started his career in Hastings but spent only a few months there.  In October of 2024 Ross’s wife of 44 years Julie passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer.  Ross talks about Julie and her impact on his life and those of many others. He also talks about his career and what it means to teach high school students now as advisor to the Omaha Westside journalism program. That too is Ross’s alma mater.

Recorded January 14, 2025

CHRIS TOWNSEND has been the host and producer of the

Recorded January 13, 2025

GRANT HANSEN is the new radio voice of the Omaha Supernovas, the champions in the first year of the Pro Volleyball Federation. The club is back to defend its title in 2025. Grant is a Nebraska native who works at Walnut Media in Omaha, with a variety of play-by-play duties and he

He can be found at @HansenNotHanson on X/Twitter

Recorded January 10, 2025