Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast
Kevin Fishbain, senior writer at The Athletic, interviews sports media personalities about their origin stories. Each week, reporters, columnists, play-by-play announcers, sports radio hosts, television anchors, producers and more will tell Kevin about their first jobs in the industry, and how they broke in.
Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast
Peter King, legendary NFL writer for NBC Sports and Sports Illustrated
In Episode 3, Kevin chats with Peter King, whose Monday morning NFL columns at Sports Illustrated and NBC Sports were must-reads for any football fan this century. Peter retired in 2024 after an incredible career that got its start 45 years earlier in Cincinnati and … Amsterdam. From idolizing Peter Gammons to being an AP intern in Europe to covering high school cross country in Ohio, Peter eventually got to cover the Reds, and then the Bengals — and he’s got an amazing draft day story from his start on the beat. This is how he broke in.