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The top 10 neighbors for Jon Rothstein span five different subcategories, with no single type dominating — a broad shape with meaningful spread across the full range of scores from 0.95 down to 0.90.
The set is anchored by fellow journalists. Jeff Goodman leads at 0.95, followed by Seth Davis at 0.92 and Andy Katz at 0.92 — all three classified as Journalists, the same subcategory as Rothstein himself. Pete Thamel rounds out the Journalist contingent at 0.90. That's four of the top 10 sharing Rothstein's own subcategory, which means the audience shape is substantially self-similar: people who follow Rothstein look a lot like people who follow other sports journalists.
But the top 10 also pulls in meaningfully different kinds. Joe Lunardi (0.93) is classified as a Professional, not a Journalist. Pardon My Take (0.92) is a Podcast and Radio channel. The Athletic CBB (0.91) is a News Publisher. Scorigami (0.91) is Humor, Memes and Satire — the most structurally distant neighbor in the set. ESPN Stats & Info (0.90) is a Sports brand, and Ryen Russillo (0.90) is a TV Personality. The presence of a meme account and a sports-humor account at scores above 0.90 signals that this audience's shape extends well beyond the college basketball press corps.
The broad shape here reflects an audience that overlaps with sports media in multiple formats — beat journalists, analytics accounts, podcasts, and satire — rather than clustering tightly around any single type.
