Sports Media With Richard Deitsch

Episode 266 of the Sports Media Podcast features two guests. First up is Tara Slone, a digital, television, and podcast host for the San Jose Sharks and a contributor to NBC Sports Bay Area. She is followed by Stephen Brunt, one of Canada’s most well-known sports voices and the author of multiple bestselling books. including his two latest, “Playing the Long Game,” written with Christine Sinclair, and “All Roads Home: A Life On and Off the Ice,” written with Bryan Trottier. In this podcast, Slone discusses her new job with the NHL’s Sharks and how that came to be; living and working in a new country; her long and distinguished run as a host at Sportsnet (Canada) including her work as co-host on the long-running Rogers Hometown Hockey, which aired on Sportsnet; the shock of being let go by Rogers; dealing with vitriol on social media after her thoughts on Don Cherry and getting hate mail; her previous life as the lead singer of the Juno-nominated band Joydrop; where she thinks sports media is heading in Canada