The Athletic COO: ‘I don’t see us acquiring sports [broadcasting] rights’ but live events are in our future
"I don’t see us...competing with Amazon, Disney, and Apple. But everything else is on the table."
"I don’t see us...competing with Amazon, Disney, and Apple. But everything else is on the table."
Valentina Shevchenko's loss may lead to a tattoo for Greg Rosenstein of The Athletic.
In addition to an aliens-focused NL Central prediction, Votto also recently annotated an Athletic oral history on him.
The silver lining is that The Athletic is losing less money than they were before the NYT takeover.
An excerpt from Drellich's new Winning Fixes Everything book illustrates what the process of breaking the Astros sign-stealing story was like, and how early MLB knew of these allegations.
Plenty of notable names will be honored.
"Nonetheless, should have read this article. Let's do it live."
The judge noted that "a reasonable reader could conclude that the tweets implied an asserted fact.”
Google is helping to fund a major expansion of women's sports coverage at The Athletic, an interesting bet.
Michelle Beadle’s podcast announcement comes just two weeks after she joined FanDuel’s TV network to launch a show with Shams Charania and Chandler Parsons.
"Since the Times is committed to investing in the Athletic as a key tentpole of its subscription offering, one obvious way to cut some of its sports coverage costs, multiple staffers said, would be to shrink the Times’s sports desk."
In the wake of Woj and Schefter staying at ESPN, Shams also re-ups with his current group of outlets.
The Athletic is ad-free no more.
Luck himself doesn't speak on the record for the podcast, which is a real shame.
On Wednesday, Shams Charania reported Colin Kaepernick "is investing" in the BIG3, "which was on the verge of potentially shutting down." On Thursday, The Athletic reported that Kaepernick's representative denied any investment: "It's just not true."
"I will still very much be in the NFL media space, tweeting, podcasting, etc."
"The people who are most informed about a particular issue, are now the ones who are banned from covering the issue."
A bundled Times/Athletic subscription is also in the works for later this year.
"Integrity is important. It’s very important. And when you assume sh*t and you try to put things out there to cause controversy...it's ridiculous"
"Let him be cause he ain't a bad guy."
It helps that the Times paid in cash.
The Athletic could have been part of Amazon's big digital family.
Does it make sense for both sides?
Matt Millen revealed to The Athletic that John Madden had a rule where 'nobody takes a dump' while they were on the Madden Cruiser.