Four reporters discuss camping out overnight to get a major sports story

Episode 605 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Front Office Sports women's basketball writer Annie Constable; Doug Feinberg, the lead women's basketball writer for the AP; Jackie Powell, who works at The IX Sports covering the New York Liberty and the WNBA and hosts the IX Sports Podcast and Alexa Philippou, a women's basketball writer for ESPN. These four reporters were instrumental in providing first-hand reporting on the WNBA and WNBA Players Association agreement on the terms of a new collective bargaining agreement. In this podcast, the group discusses the reporting experience; what it was like to interview subjects at 3:30 a.m. ET; how to learn about sports labor agreements on the fly; evaluating the deal from both the players' and management sides; how frantic WNBA free agency will be in the next couple of weeks; the upcoming WNBA Draft; the salary cap jumping to $7 million (up from $1.5 million in 2025); the current owners of the WNBA; whether they would take Sarah Strong over Paige Bueckers if they were building a team and more. You can

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This episode is 49:52 long.

This episode was published on Mar 20, 2026.

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