Nicole Kraft is a Professor of Journalism Practice at The Ohio State University, USA. She also directs Ohio State's Sports and Society Institute. An award-winning writer, she covers sports for the Associated Press and Columbus Dispatch, and sports media for Forbes.com. Kraft is the author of Always Get the Name of the Dog, Writing Fabulous Features and 100 Years in Harness, and co-editor of Teaching Media Ethics. She was named the 2023 Scripps-Howard Journalism Teacher of the Year.

Jean-Jacques Taylor is an Adjunct Lecturer of Journalism at Southern Methodist University, USA, and president of JJT Media Group. A veteran Dallas-Fort Worth sports journalist, he co-hosts the JacquesTalk Podcast and contributes to ESPN Radio. Since 1995, Taylor has covered the Dallas Cowboys in various capacities, reporting from 23 Super Bowls, eight Pro Football Hall of Fame inductions, two World Series, two NBA Finals, a Stanley Cup Finals, and the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. He is the author of Coach Prime: Deion Sanders and the Making of Men, Game of My Life Dallas Cowboys, and Dak, Zeke and a New Cowboys' Era in Big D.