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Veteran Broadcaster Drops Bold Take on Dale Earnhardt Jr. Over NASCAR's Best Podcast

In a fast-changing media world, podcasts have become a key bridge — linking NASCAR’s rich history with its fresh future. But in a space full of voices and choices, one question keeps popping up: What’s the best NASCAR podcast? Many fans would say Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s “Dale Jr. Download” is the clear favorite. But longtime […]

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In a fast-changing media world, podcasts have become a key bridge — linking NASCAR’s rich history with its fresh future. But in a space full of voices and choices, one question keeps popping up: What’s the best NASCAR podcast?

Many fans would say Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s “Dale Jr. Download” is the clear favorite. But longtime NASCAR broadcaster Mike Joy has a surprising pick — and it’s not from Earnhardt’s podcast empire.

Mike Joy Picks FOX-Backed Show Over Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Podcast

For Joy, the best podcast in NASCAR is “Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour.” Backed by FOX Sports, the show is hosted by 2014 Cup Series champ Kevin Harvick, alongside co-hosts Mamba Smith and Kaitlyn Vincie.

Joy, 75, has worked with FOX for decades, so his loyalty to the network isn’t surprising. Still, picking Harvick’s podcast over Dale Jr.’s shocked some fans. Racing news page BrakeHard broke the story online when it posted Joy’s comment.

“For what we think is the best podcast in NASCAR,” Joy said, sparking tons of reactions. Fans quickly jumped in to defend “Dale Jr. Download,” calling it the gold standard for NASCAR podcasts.

Earnhardt’s show has become a weekly must-listen in the racing world, packed with interviews, behind-the-scenes stories, and deep reflections from his racing career.

MORE: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Looks Forward to Exciting NASCAR Broadcast

Meanwhile, “Happy Hour” brings its own energy with rotating guests, from drivers to insiders, and covers news, analysis, and fun topics — all through a FOX Sports lens.

While both shows aim to entertain and inform, many still believe Dale Jr.’s podcast holds the top spot. And it’s not his only project.

The former driver-turned-media mogul has built a full-on podcast network:

  • “Actions Detrimental” with Denny Hamlin dives into bold takes on the sport.
  • “Bless Your Hardt” with wife Amy Earnhardt gives fans a peek into family life.
  • “Dirty Mo Dough” with Steve Letarte focuses on betting and race picks.

And let’s not forget “Door Bumper Clear,” hosted by Freddie Kraft, TJ Majors, Brett Griffin, and Casey Boat. It gives fans a unique spotter’s-eye view from the roof.

So, which NASCAR podcast tops your list? Drop your favorite in the comments below.

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DJ Steward Talks Strong Summer With Lakers, Developing Point Guard Skills

DJ Steward talked about his strong summer with the Lakers, developing point guard skills, and more! Join our LN YouTube Channel for perks like extra shows, input on content, badges and more! https://www.youtube.com/lakersnation/join Join us on Playback for our live stream of every game!: https://www.playback.tv/lakersnation Subscribe To The Lakers Nation Podcast! Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lakers-nation-podcast/id1200202500 Spotify: […]

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DJ Steward talked about his strong summer with the Lakers, developing point guard skills, and more! Join our LN YouTube Channel for perks like extra shows, input on content, badges and more! https://www.youtube.com/lakersnation/join Join us on Playback for our live stream of every game!: https://www.playback.tv/lakersnation Subscribe To The Lakers Nation Podcast! Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lakers-nation-podcast/id1200202500 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5RvQfs2iFUWc0sFMdHaN7o?si=L6qBbuieQsqOP4fUvnzo5Q Subscribe to our NBA Front Office Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/NBAFrontOffice Subscribe To Dodger Blue: https://www.youtube.com/@DodgerBlue1958 Subscribe to Raptors Nation: https://www.youtube.com/@raptorsnationcom ✔️ Help us continue to provide Lakers coverage and SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/5AXSud ✔️ Our MOST POPULAR Videos: https://goo.gl/k4Xvqq LakersNation.com on Social Media: ☑️ Like on Facebook: https://goo.gl/EQ4uiG…

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Colin Cowherd Podcast

Colin Cowherd is joined by Danny Parkins, Jason Timpf, and Nick Wright to discuss the WNBA’s biggest draw: Caitlin Clark. What does the media get wrong about Caitlin Clark? Is the Indiana Fever star the next Michael Jordan? Will she be a billion dollar athlete like LeBron James? What will the future hold for one […]

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Colin Cowherd is joined by Danny Parkins, Jason Timpf, and Nick Wright to discuss the WNBA’s biggest draw: Caitlin Clark.

What does the media get wrong about Caitlin Clark? Is the Indiana Fever star the next Michael Jordan? Will she be a billion dollar athlete like LeBron James? What will the future hold for one of the most popular basketball players on the planet?

FollowColin andThe Volume on Twitter for the latest content and updates!

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LeBron James, Travis Kelce Break Into YouTube Podcast Charts– See This Week's Top 100

Share Copy Link   Some of sports’ biggest names made their way onto the YouTube Top Podcast Shows ranking this week, bringing a lighter tone to the chart still dominated by true crime and political commentary. LeBron James and Steve Nash’s podcast, Mind the Game, hit the charts for the first time this week at #31. The pod’s second […]

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LeBron James, Travis Kelce Break Into YouTube Podcast Charts– See This Week's Top 100

 

Some of sports’ biggest names made their way onto the YouTube Top Podcast Shows ranking this week, bringing a lighter tone to the chart still dominated by true crime and political commentary.

LeBron James and Steve Nash’s podcast, Mind the Game, hit the charts for the first time this week at #31. The pod’s second season debuted in April after an almost year-long hiatus, with Nash replacing previous co-host JJ Redick of ESPN. Part one of the show’s extensive interview with NBA legend Kevin Durant, which debuted this week, has already gained over two million views.

Two more sports world celebrities joined the charts this week. New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce broke into the top 100 at #89, the first time the brothers have made the cut since the charts began being published. The football stars’ pod has done well for over two years, but hasn’t cracked a million views for months now. Their interview with Brad Pitt this week didn’t hit the million marker, but it definitely played a role in catapulting the brothers upward.

Checking in with the top five: Joe Rogan is still king, but this week the #2 spot – which The MeidasTouch Podcast has had locked up recently– has been claimed by top five regular Kill Tony. The Meiselas brothers have been bumped into third, with Rotten Mango maintaining its fourth place spot from last week. Last but not least, the Shawn Ryan Show has finally edged its way into the #5 slot. The former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor has been hovering at sixth or seventh for months now, and this week finally nudged 48 Hours aside to take its place.

Famous faces rundown: Tucker Carlson moved down to 12th, Megyn Kelly sits at 16th, Call Her Daddy at #68, and Benny Johnson is nowhere to be found.

Here’s a full rundown of the top 100 podcasts from YouTube, June 30 – July 6, 2025:

  • The Joe Rogan Experience
  • Kill Tony
  • The MeidasTouch Podcast
  • Rotten Mango
  • Shawn Ryan Show
  • 48 Hours
  • Smosh Reads Reddit Stories
  • Creepcast
  • The Diary Of A CEO
  • The Why Files: Operation Podcast (All of ‘Em)
  • This Past Weekend w/Theo Von
  • The Tucker Carlson Show
  • Brian Tyler Cohen
  • The Pat McAfee Show
  • Law&Crime Sidebar with Jesse Weber
  • The Megyn Kelly Show
  • 60 Minutes
  • Bad Friends Podcast
  • Black Conservative Perspective
  • PBD Podcast
  • Club Shay Shay
  • Murder, Mystery & Makeup
  • The DeVory Darkins Show
  • Timcast IRL
  • Gil’s Arena
  • Dr Insanity
  • Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
  • Just Trish
  • The Adam Mockler Show
  • Lex Fridman Podcast
  • Mind the Game
  • The Phillip DeFranco Show
  • Unsubscribe Podcast
  • Dark History
  • 520 in the Morning
  • Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast
  • IHIP News
  • The Lets Read Podcast
  • Legal AF Podcast
  • Barry Cunningham Podcasts and Live Shows
  • StarTalk Podcast
  • True Crime with Kendall Rae
  • Distractible
  • Breaking Points
  • Turtleboy Live
  • The Joe Budden Podcast
  • You Should Know Podcast
  • Reel Rejects
  • Stories from the Bible
  • Flagrant
  • Tomcats News Stories
  • CinePals
  • NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas
  • Joe And Jada
  • rSlash
  • Pardon My Take
  • Live Trials with Emily D. Baker
  • The 85 South Comedy Show
  • Democracy Now!
  • Impaulsive Podcast
  • Club 520 Podcast
  • The Ben Shapiro Show
  • Bulwark Takes
  • The Bulwark Podcast with Tim Miller
  • The Majority Report
  • The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
  • Law&Crime On the Case with Chris Stewart
  • Call Her Daddy Podcast
  • The Pivot Podcast
  • Javier Ceriani Show
  • Reality Check with Ross Coulthart
  • The Rubin Report Podcast
  • Así Veo las Cosas
  • MrBallen Crime
  • The Broski Report
  • Julian Dorey Podcast
  • Shane Dawson Podcast
  • Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime
  • Two Hot Takes
  • No Spin News
  • PBS NewsHour
  • Episodes – Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley
  • David Pakman Daily
  • The Stephen A. Smith Show
  • Your Mom’s House w/Tom Segura & Christina P
  • DEBRIEFED – An AREA52 Podcast with Chris Ramsay
  • Huberman Lab
  • Trap Lore Ross
  • New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce
  • Drop Dead Serious with Ashleigh Banfield
  • The Young Turks
  • Piers Morgan Uncensored: US Politics
  • The Yard Podcast
  • Law&Crime Crime Fix with Angenette Levy
  • Crime Weekly
  • The Mel Robbins Podcast
  • The WAN Show
  • Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
  • Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield
  • The Confessionals Episodes

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'The Domonique Foxworth Show' summer slate is exactly what an ESPN podcast should be

For tons of sports hosts, the calendar flipping to July doubles as an invitation to mail in the content. The long NBA season mercifully ends, and we all start to see football coming on the horizon. This is the time for vacations and fill-in hosts, GOAT debates, and schedule talk. But on The Domonique Foxworth […]

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For tons of sports hosts, the calendar flipping to July doubles as an invitation to mail in the content. The long NBA season mercifully ends, and we all start to see football coming on the horizon. This is the time for vacations and fill-in hosts, GOAT debates, and schedule talk.

But on The Domonique Foxworth Show, this might just be the best time of year.

The retired NFL cornerback took a circuitous path to hosting his own show for the four letters, writing features for Andscape before hosting weekend radio and breaking into the new-look Get Up roster. Since 2022, Foxworth has used the podcast to explore all the corners of his own skill set as a commentator. This summer, Foxworth and producer Charlie Kravitz have taken full advantage of the break from big-time sports to reach into their deep toolbag for conversations on labor, media, youth sports, and athlete health.

That these two would create compelling and creative content together is no surprise. Foxworth, beyond his playing career on the gridiron, is an experienced union leader. He was the president of the NFL Players’ Association executive committee, a Harvard Business School graduate, and a former COO of the NBPA. It would be no exaggeration to call Foxworth one of the most interesting and thoughtful people at ESPN.

As hard as it would seem to keep up with a host like that, Kravitz makes it look easy. Coming up in the Erik Rydholm branch of ESPN as a producer on Highly Questionable and then its digital spinoff, Debatable, Kravitz knows how to take the silly and make it serious. But, the Foxworth Show shines because of the chemistry Kravitz has developed with Foxworth and the effort he puts into shaping each conversation.

Their resumes make the Foxworth Show a place where the audience will see a television-worthy breakdown of Minnesota’s stifling secondary, followed by an Ivy League panel discussion on the economics of Caitlin Clark, within a few months. This is what podcasting used to be.

A decade or more ago, podcasts were intended for in-depth discussions and offbeat conversations. The top shows were known for “Half-Baked Ideas,” getting high with Elon Musk, and hardcore history. They were radio’s black sheep younger cousin. You listened to them to stretch your mind out and have a laugh.

The blast of new podcasts in recent years has morphed their identity. Now, podcast is a term that is almost impossible to define. In sports, they are for live reaction streams, sit-down interviews, and bro outs. They appear to be replacing the traditional studio show.

Ultimately, sports podcasts could become something like the Foxworth Show.

The offseason has given Foxworth and Kravitz time to delve into the NBA’s Achilles’ epidemic, the ramifications of Ace Bailey’s potential holdout, the NBA’s new CBA, a Caitlin Clark spinoff league, and the professionalization of youth sports. In previous years, Foxworth has hosted conversations with sports science writer David Epstein and NBA deputy commissioner Mark Tatum during these quiet weeks.

But he can do sports talk too. During football season, the more traditional Sunday night recap episodes with ESPN NFL writer Bill Barnwell are just as great.

Looking through the cracks of megadeals for top talent and the spending spree for live game rights, ESPN does need content. As much as the network might prefer it this way, many fans won’t pay to subscribe to the Worldwide Leader simply for games that they can illegally pirate or catch at a local bar. ESPN needs to establish a brand and a library featuring exceptional hosts.

Particularly at a time when ESPN (and most of sports media) faces the perception that it has backgrounded journalism over loud, messy entertainment, the Foxworth Show can do both. Perhaps the trick of today is to simply Trojan Horse the former into the latter. If so, Foxworth and Kravitz have been playing that trick on the audience for years.

Foxworth is not among the names typically listed among ESPN’s great hosts. Kravitz isn’t a recognizable producer like Stanford Steve, Ty Schmit, or Paul “Hembo” Hembekides. But ESPN clearly believes in the Foxworth Show, giving it a primo syndicated spot on ESPN2.

While other shows relax, the Foxworth Show has shown why it deserves that belief and is on its way up.

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Confidential memo reveals Dem official urged Kamala Harris to go on Bill Simmons during campaign

It’s officially been eight months since Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election to now-President Donald Trump, and the campaign retrospectives are already hitting the presses. On Tuesday, Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf released “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,” detailing the 2024 presidential campaign […]

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Confidential memo reveals Dem official urged Kamala Harris to go on Bill Simmons during campaign

It’s officially been eight months since Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election to now-President Donald Trump, and the campaign retrospectives are already hitting the presses.

On Tuesday, Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf released “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,” detailing the 2024 presidential campaign and perceived missteps by Harris and her team that led to Trump’s win in November. The book details confidential memos, obtained by Politico and published in Tuesday morning’s “Politico Playbook,” written by Democratic strategist Maria Comella to Harris’ campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon.

Within the memos is a surprising sports media tie-in. Written in the final weeks of the campaign, Comella warned O’Malley Dillon that the current Harris strategy was not working and that the Democratic nominee should alter her media strategy to get herself in front of different groups of voters.

One name specifically mentioned by Comella was The Ringer founder Bill Simmons. Simmons, of course, hosts one of the most-popular sports podcasts in the country. He’s also historically been friendly with the Democratic party, having hosted former President Barack Obama on his show while he was still in office.

Simmons’ show isn’t inherently political and rarely strays that way, but that’s exactly the type of interview the Harris team believed their candidate should’ve been looking for. The memo includes suggestions like “consider a male moderator as a contrast so it doesn’t feel and look too much like ‘girl talk.’”

Comella wasn’t the only Democratic operative pushing for Harris to appear on these platforms. In September, Harris ally Bakari Sellers was urging the nominee to appear on shows like Simmons’ and Paul Finebaum’s.

Of course, even if Harris wanted to appear on The Bill Simmons Podcast, it’s unclear whether he would’ve agreed to have her on. In an interview with Semafor one month after the election, Harris’ deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty acknowledged the difficulty the Harris campaign faced getting her booked on mainstream sports programs. “It got more complicated for sports personalities to take us on their shows because they didn’t want to ‘do politics,’” he suggested.

In today’s political climate, there is likely little to gain for the most popular sports hosts by having on political figures. Doing so guarantees angering a portion of your audience, so why bother?

That’s why it’s easier said than done when a strategist like Comella suggests something like this. There’s little upside for a sports personality to get political, unless it’s part of his or her brand. And seeing that politics isn’t a big part of the Simmons brand, especially in 2024, maybe that particular recommendation from Comella was a bit shortsighted.

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