✍️ College GameDay has long been ready for the post-Lee Corso era. With record TV ratings and new faces, the show is as hot as ever. Rece Davis: "When people turn it on, we don’t want them to turn away." Story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...
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✍️ College GameDay has long been ready for the post-Lee Corso era. With record TV ratings and new faces, the show is as hot as ever. Rece Davis: "When people turn it on, we don’t want them to turn away." Story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...
Just a phenomenal interview of NASCAR icon Richard Petty by @jeff-gluck.bsky.social. Petty is a person in sports who actually can rightly be called a living legend. www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...
Jonas Salk died in 1995. Thirty years later:
I’m not floored by most news anymore but the fact that no mandatory vaccines in schools has become a litmus test for the GOP after Florida today—these are scary times.
NEW PODCAST: Rob Hyland, the producer of Sunday Night Football, and Drew Esocoff, the director of Sunday Night Football, go deep on plans for the season and what it's like during the NFL season when you know your group will broadcast the Super Bowl that year. link.chtbl.com/SportsMediaP...
NEWS: Kate Scott will add another first next month in what's been a career of sports broadcasting firsts. She'll call Vikings-Steelers on Sept. 28 for Westwood One, making her first female PXPer to call an NFL reg-season game for the audio network. Story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...
Sports broadcaster Kate Scott has been assigned to call Vikings-Steelers on Sept. 28 for Westwood One, the official network audio broadcast partner of the NFL. She will become the first female play-by-play announcer to call an NFL regular-season game on the network. www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...
Under Elon Musk's leadership, X has become the perfect platform to supercharge the spread of dangerous disinformation during breaking news events. www.wired.com/story/disinf...
NEW: @andrewmarchand.bsky.social and me go back and forth on the biggest NFL media storylines for the 2025 season: www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...
If you are nerd about stuff on the screen, Sunday Night Football will have new uses of the telestrator this year and new score graphics debuting late in the year.
NEW PODCAST: Rob Hyland, the producer of Sunday Night Football, and Drew Esocoff, the director of Sunday Night Football, go deep on plans for the season and what it's like during the NFL season when you know your group will broadcast the Super Bowl that year. link.chtbl.com/SportsMediaP...
NEW: @andrewmarchand.bsky.social and me go back and forth on the biggest NFL media storylines for the 2025 season: www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...
NEWS: www.nytimes.com/athletic/659... UConn coach Dan Hurley contemplated stepping down after last season: ‘I was completely cooked’
This from Peter Mansbridge — featuring guests James Moore & Gerald Butts — is the best podcast I've ever heard on dealing with the U.S. under Trump as far as trade. If you're an American who cares how the U.S. is perceived elsewhere, the highest rec. for this. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...
This is a great piece. Fantastic reporting.
NEW PODCAST SHORT: What are Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson like in production meetings with NFL broadcasters: link.chtbl.com/SportsMediaP...
The 1970s were an absolute freak show. This cover is from 51 years ago today.
Chapel Nil.
I would never claim to be a relationship expert but here is my one piece of advice for those looking for adoration and intimacy: Find someone who loves you as much as ESPN loves Bill Belichick tonight.
How good a story is Venus Williams at this year's U.S. Open?
NEW: Lee Corso's final College GameDay episode was the most-watched episode in show history. It averaged 3.5 million viewers and peaked at 5.1M when he made his headgear selection. Shatters the former high for the show which was 2.6 million viewers in Nov. 2007: www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
The only gas station on the Ice Fields Pkwy at the Saskatchewan River Crossing Resort. It links Lk Louise, Alberta in Banff National Park with Jasper in the national park of the same name. 2023. Much of Jasper was burned by wildfire last year. (Chamonix57N1, 203mmf7.7 Kodak Ektar, Ektar100 +1 stop)
It's a great Q. I do not know. The ESPN part is easy given it has a deal with TSN.
Middle finger came out and camera operator moved with the quickness 😂
Look at that cheese slice. That's a Van Gogh.
Find yourself someone who loves you as much as a college football broadcast booth -- every network -- loves college football coaches.
I mean we can appreciate both pieces, no? Especially one written when it happened.
No one should have any issue with your take. It's subjective and those complaints are totally fair for you as a viewer.
Both.
The point is to highlight how she overcame by her own sheer will what was a disgraceful move by the USTA dev back then. She won.
NEW COLUMN: ESPN relegated Doris Burke, but her impact and legacy will carry on long after she's done in sports broadcasting. Just look around NBA broadcasting. www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
The @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social was way ahead of the curve on Taylor Townsend and the USTA fucking up royally. www.si.com/tennis/2012/...
Doris Burke's demotion from ESPN's NBA Finals team had been telegraphed for some time. There will be plenty of time to weigh in on the new team. This is a good day to reflect on Burke's legacy in the business, which was cemented long ago, @richarddeitsch.bsky.social writes.
After 30 years at USA TODAY, it's -30- for me. I have taken a buyout. It's been the thrill and dream of a lifetime. Being a newspaper person was all I ever wanted out of work. There's not enough room to acknowledge everyone who deserves it but my gratitude runs wide and deep.
I hope @mcuban.bsky.social stays on this site and keeps posting because I fundamentally believe he wants a Twitter alternative with some mass. If he wants some disagreement, I'm always here to tell him Bobby Knight sucked. That's the kind of team player I am.
Navy quarterback Blake Horvath can't make any NIL money — which honestly is ridiculous in 2025. Pretty impressive kid to play for Navy. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Coming from an alltime columnist, I appreciate this compliment very much. Thank you.
NEW COLUMN: ESPN relegated Doris Burke, but her impact and legacy will carry on long after she's done in sports broadcasting. www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
Luthen Rael is a fictional character. He's also the most accurate political analyst of the moment I've come across. You might think I'm being flip. I'm not being flip.
NEW COLUMN: ESPN relegated Doris Burke, but her impact and legacy will carry on long after she's done in sports broadcasting. www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
Fascinating piece on boxing, the mob and two of the most famous fighters ever: sports.yahoo.com/boxing/artic...
NEWS: ABC/ESPN has demoted Doris Burke from its NBA Finals team and promoted Tim Legler, sources tell @andrewmarchand.bsky.social. Legler will pair Mike Breen and Richard Jefferson. Read: www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
Frank T.J. Mackey
Really interesting piece from @evandrellich.bsky.social.
NEW PODCAST: First guest: @austinkarp.bsky.social of Sports Business Journal, on what it's like to transition to full-time sports media reporting. Second guest Larry Keith, on what it was like to be a Sports Illustrated writer in the ATM 1980s. link.chtbl.com/SportsMediaP...
Thank you for listening.
In what can be an endless sea of shit when it comes to the news of the day, the Toronto Blue Jays have been an absolute joy to watch this season. It's been so much fun watching them this season — and a 180 degree change from 2024. It's also cool to see a country get behind a team.
I have zero doubts Dawn Staley would win in New York.
This is an absolutely phenomenal profile of Roman Anthony. But more than that: It's a beat writer at the top of her game. I know so much more about Roman Anthony now and if you are a fan of other AL East teams: This guy is going to be a problem for years.
Thank you for sending.
That, I don't think is complicated. His admin wants minerals and they don't seem to philosophically believe in the concept of sovereignty. They are not thinking about electoral impact, if any.
I'm speaking from the Canadian perspective: Canadians should pay attention to this kind of propaganda/influence play. It's attempting to destabilize/devalue gov't stuff. Russians very famous for doing this historically. I'm sure the americans have done it too abroad.
NEW PODCAST: If you are interested in the sports businesses of ESPN, Netflix, YouTube, Fox, Skydance, NBC etc...., my guests are Robert Fishman and Michael Nathanson, two of the best media analysts around: link.chtbl.com/SportsMediaP...
For starters, pay attention to whether you see any kind of social media movement promoting Canada as a 51st State, the Canadian government not dealing with the U.S. fairly etc...
To the Canadians who follow here, pay attention: apnews.com/article/denm...
One of the most iconic voices in global soccer is returning to Fox next year. Ian Darke will join Fox Sports as a play-by-play broadcaster during its coverage of the 2026 World Cup, a source tells @richarddeitsch.bsky.social.
Yeah, that's weird. Delete time.
Michael Phelps and Jay Glazer met 13 years ago, when Phelps was still chasing gold medals in the swimming pool. But they reconnected in 2022, bonded by a shared history with anxiety and depression. In time, their support system has grown. http://dlvr.it/TMhlBc
In Tom Brady’s rookie broadcasting year, he played by a special set of rules due to his Raiders ownership stake. The NFL relented for the Super Bowl. Now? The “Brady Rules” are basically done, sources tell @andrewmarchand.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/athletic/657...
This is an absolutely phenomenal profile of Roman Anthony. But more than that: It's a beat writer at the top of her game. I know so much more about Roman Anthony now and if you are a fan of other AL East teams: This guy is going to be a problem for years.
22 years ago today, ESPN debuted Playmakers, a drama about a football team dealing w/ drug issues, domestic violence and homophobia. It was a hit. But the NFL hated it. The show was canceled. I talked to everyone. Here's what happened to Playmakers: www.nytimes.com/athletic/473...
NEW PODCAST: If you are interested in the sports businesses of ESPN, Netflix, YouTube, Fox, Skydance, NBC etc...., my guests are Robert Fishman and Michael Nathanson, two of the best media analysts around: link.chtbl.com/SportsMediaP...
The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
PODCAST SHORT: How big an NFL player will YouTube be by the end of the decade? link.chtbl.com/SportsMediaP...
We Are Tech Privacy Reporters. Our Music Habits Got Doxxed. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/t...
Via @theglobeandmail.com: Lech Walesa has a few ideas about how to save democracy www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Via @theglobeandmail.com: Lech Walesa has a few ideas about how to save democracy www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
NEW PODCAST: The iconic soccer announcer Ian Darke on calling global soccer into your 70s, working Real-Barca games, why Lamine Yamal is the face of global football and the U.S's chances in the World Cup and more. link.chtbl.com/SportsMediaP...
Excellent piece.
I think often about how Murdoch changed America forever. It's deep in the ecosystem now. And it might be trite but it's a line from Rocky that highlights it all. "He doesn't think it's a damn show. He thinks it's a damn fight." The He is the audience.
Read this one if you are a CFB fan.
NEW PODCAST: The iconic soccer announcer Ian Darke on calling global soccer into your 70s, working Real-Barca games, why Lamine Yamal is the face of global football and the U.S's chances in the World Cup and more. link.chtbl.com/SportsMediaP...
The best story I have read this month: www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
NEW PODCAST: I have a long-form interview with soccer announcer Ian Darke coming tomorrow. Here's a sneak peak from Darke on why he thinks Barcelona teenage phenom Lamine Yamal is now the face of global soccer link.chtbl.com/SportsMediaP...
A big one for MLB fans from Marchand.
I find the phrase "we're through the looking glass" no longer fits anymore.
The WNBA says it has set an all-time attendance record with 2,501,609 fans as of Aug. 20 Breaks the 2002 record which was set with 16 teams across 256 games. It speaks to something I've been saying for three years: @tempobasketball.bsky.social are going to be a massive audience success.
NEW PODCAST: I have a long-form interview with soccer announcer Ian Darke coming tomorrow. Here's a sneak peak from Darke on why he thinks Barcelona teenage phenom Lamine Yamal is now the face of global soccer link.chtbl.com/SportsMediaP...
New from me: If MLB expands, it’s schedule might shrink www.nytimes.com/athletic/656...
Last year, Sara Errani & Andrea Vavassori split $200,000 for winning Mixed Doubles at the US Open. This year, they split $1 million.
That was fantastic theater. The doubles specialists — Eranni and Vavassori — pull it out. This will almost assuredly return next year.
Is the answer Matt Kramer?
Cody Garrett Runnels > Garrett Nussmeier.
Just remarkable reporting from @keithlaw.bsky.social and Brendan Kuty. www.nytimes.com/athletic/656...
The story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/650...
There has been a steady decline in reading for fun. From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40%, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend, according to a study published on Wednesday.
The story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/650...
Posted today.
Podcast is now out.
Thank you, Ryan.
Much appreciated!
This is an amazing sports collectible: www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/1939-basebal...
Podcast now up.
NEW: ESPN has a fascinating opportunity starting tomorrow. The world's best singles players are playing mixed doubles. Here's the plan to turn the coverage into an event, including on-court interviews AT THE END OF THE FIRST SET. www.nytimes.com/athletic/655...
Marchand goes deep on ESPN's big move into the direct-to-consumer space.
For fans of tennis: My Sports Media Podcast guests tomorrow are Catherine Whitaker, David Law and Matt Roberts, the hosts of the @tennispodcast.bsky.social, recently named by Time Magazine as one The 100 Best Podcasts of All Time To subscribe/listen: link.chtbl.com/SportsMediaP...