Kevin Fishbain
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1,371 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 12 Aug
Kevin Fishbain’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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See, prior to joining Medill, Chris spent two years covering the NBA for ESPN, which was his second stint at the worldwide leader.
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He spent nearly five years at 538 and got his start in journalism as a sports reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where he covered the New York Knicks.
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How did he land at such a big time publication right out of college?
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Well, Chris's origin story begins where a couple of our previous episodes have Homewood Flossmore High School in the south suburbs of Chicago, and then Michigan, where you're going to hear play
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Plenty of stories how Chris navigated the student newspaper in Ann Arbor and helped parlay some of those experiences into internships in Cleveland and then the Wall Street Journal.
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Before we get to Chris, a reminder of recent episodes.
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Last week was the athletic senior soccer writer Paul Tenorio, a great episode to listen to for the start of the World Cup.
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Prior to Paul was John Boog Shambi, television voice of the Chicago Cubs.
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Be sure to add this podcast on all of your listening platforms and tell your friends.
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All right, here's how Chris Herring broke in.
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Chris Herring, I was just telling you before we started, you have made Homewood Flossmore High School, maybe the official high school is podcast, 'cause you were the third guest from HoFlow joining Lawrence Holmes and Jason Benetti.
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So with that, welcome to the show.
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So I heard on a podcast that your mom thought one day that you were gonna be a sports agent because of the way you memorize sp sports cards and you know, like a lot of people I've had in the show, like a lot of us, you were just obviously this diehard sports fan.
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Um, when did that
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interest in sports kind of
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turn into an interest in sports writing.
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So your your first time in the Chicago Tribune on my newspapers dot com search was not a Chris Herring byline.
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Um I will read the lead to this story.
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This is from uh let me pull up my date here, March 10th, 2005.
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With a TV, a computer, a CD player, a Sony PlayStation 2, and a portable DVD player, Chris Herring's bedroom is more like a multimedia arcade than a place to sleep.
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