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Peter King (0.93) and Mike Garafolo (0.92) form two distinct poles in Albert Breer's top 10 — both fellow journalists, but the cluster around them pulls in strikingly different directions, bridging NFL beat coverage and hockey media in roughly equal measure.
The shape is two-peak. Six of the top 10 neighbors carry the Journalists subcategory: Peter King at 0.93, Mike Garafolo at 0.92, John Buccigross at 0.90, Jayson Stark at 0.88, Darren Dreger at 0.87, and Peter Gammons at 0.86 — so the core of the neighbor set is same-kind. But the remaining four neighbors reveal the second peak: The MMQB (0.89, a website), Paul Bissonnette (0.89, athlete), Bob McKenzie (0.87, athlete), and Spittin' Chiclets (0.87, podcast). Buccigross, Dreger, McKenzie, and Bissonnette are all hockey-adjacent figures, while King, Garafolo, Stark, and Gammons anchor the NFL and baseball beat. The audience Breer draws sits at the intersection of those two sports-media worlds — not just football insiders, but a crowd that also follows hockey journalists and hockey-culture media at comparable rates.
That cross-sport composition is the defining structural feature: an audience shaped by sports journalism broadly, not by any single league's beat.
