January 17, 2025

Cari Champion has done a lot of prominent broadcasting across outlets, from past work with ESPN and Amazon’s Prime Video through current work as a CNN contributor and as a podcast host. On that latter front, she’s done three seasons of her Naked podcast, with that featuring in-depth interviews with artists, writers, sports figures and more. Now, Champion is shifting its fourth season to Naked Sports, and kicking that off with a six-part limited series, “The Making of a Rivalry: Caitlin Clark vs. Angel Reese.” Here’s a trailer for the new series

There are plenty of prominent figures and entities involved here, from iHeart’s Women’s Sports Audio Network (which they launched this June with podcasts from Sarah Spain and Sheryl Swoopes, and have since expanded) to Charlamagne Tha God’s Black Effect Podcast Network.

And while Clark and Reese have certainly been extensively covered, it sounds like Champion will bring a different focus to this. Another line from the release discusses how “the media’s fixation on their so-called rivalry has been fueled by the same gender and racial bias that has haunted society,” and there’s certainly lots that can be analyzed there. (Some of Champion’s CNN work in particular has explored those kinds of areas in sports, including specifically around the WNBA and Clark, so she’s bringing a lot of experience to this

We’ll see how this podcast series turns out and what it adds to the discussion on Clark and Reese. But it’s definitely notable to see Champion take her long-running podcast (169 episodes so far) more specifically to sports (she’s done some sports interviews there in the past, but also many outside the sports realm), and to start that with a longer series on a topic like this rather than the standalone episodes most of her podcasts to date have been.

 

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