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Jimmy Traina

Jimmy Traina

Staff Writer

About Jimmy Traina

Jimmy Traina is a staff writer and podcast host for Sports Illustrated. A 20-year veteran in the industry, he’s been covering the sports media landscape for seven years and writes a daily column, Traina Thoughts. Traina has hosted the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast since 2018, a show known for interviews with some of the most important and powerful people in sports media. He also was the creator and writer of SI’s Hot Clicks feature from 2007 to '13.

EXPERTISE

MEDIA

EDUCATION

Long Island University

YEARS AT SI

25+

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SI Media With Jimmy Traina

Episode 592 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation about all the latest sports media news with The Ringer’s Bryan Curtis Topics discussed include: Mike Tirico calling his first Super Bowl for NBC; Ratings for the AFC and NFL Championsh
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Jimmy Traina answers your questions on the future of Jim Nantz and Tony Romo, a league-wide bye week, broadcaster predictions and championship Saturday?
ESPN’s Australian Open coverage has caused mass confusion.
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The ‘Inside the NBA’ star went off on ‘idiots’ and ‘fools’ in sports media over the Liam Coen-Lynn Jones ‘controversy.’
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Ian Rapoport and Adam Schefter were visibly flustered after learning the Bills fired their coach while on the air.
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CBS has an ‘NFL Today’ opening. Who will the Cowboys play on Thanksgiving? Did ‘The Sopranos’ have a bad character?
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So far, Jordan’s NBC role as a “special contributor” has consisted of one chopped up interview with Tirico.
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There isn’t a television job out there where the former Steelers coach can be a difference maker.
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Between Week 18 and the Divisional Round, CBS and Fox can’t be happy with the NFL.
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Cries for Ian Eagle and J.J. Watt to become CBS’s No. 1 NFL crew have reached a fever pitch after Sunday’s Bills-Jaguars game.
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Football rules analysts just keep getting worse and worse at their jobs.
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John Harbaugh’s firing led to contradictory reports from two top NFL insiders.
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CBS, NBC, Fox and ESPN saw huge ratings increases for the regular season.
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The NBC play-by-play man gave as a good a performance as you’ll ever hear during the NFL’s season finale.
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The ‘First Take’ contributor said so many nonsensical things about controversy involving Steelers wide receiver.
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Jaguars coach Liam Coen is getting the last laugh after supposedly ‘losing the press conference.’
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It doesn’t benefit anyone for college football to go head-to-head with the NFL.
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Buck shed some light on a dust-up between his ESPN broadcast partner and the Bears QB.
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The ESPN college football analyst got some heat for a totally fair comment that was taken out of context.
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The final week of the regular season could see a slew of matchups with playoff implications.
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The college football maven says he was asked to go after “woke Disney” if he ran for Senate.
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Mike Kafka’s awful, expletive-laden speech was a hilarious piece of content.
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