Kimberley A. Martin blasts NFLPA locker room pushback: ‘It’s a small, very tiny group trying to make this a bigger conversation’
"The locker room is how we develop a lot of those relationships that help us do our job."
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‘NASCAR: Full Speed’ producer: ‘It’s shocking how quickly you’re given better access when you’re the Netflix crew.’
Tim Mullen suggested NASCAR: Full Speed has gotten better access than even NASCAR's past in-house docuseries.
Colorado’s Travis Hunter appeared on both ‘Big Noon Kickoff’ and ‘College GameDay’
This was some rare access to a top player from a team not involved in the game the shows were at.
Amidst refusal to talk to columnist who dubbed him ‘the Bruce Lee of B.S.’, Deion Sanders says ‘I’m not built to hate’
Bears’ GM Ryan Poles: ‘HBO will have trouble finding teams’ for ‘Hard Knocks Offseason’
"I think that moving forward they are going to have a hard time finding a team."
‘It all starts with trust’: Betsy Riley and Mike Watts discuss how Prime Video’s NWSL coverage got key off-field access
Around press conference issues, it’s the leagues really not staying in their lane
Michigan student journalists supported after pointing out NCAA-denied Frozen Four access, potential role of gender (updated)
The NCAA Frozen Four credentialed four Michigan Daily journalists the past two years. But this year, the new all-female men's hockey beat there only received two seats.
FC Cincinnati tries to defend ban of Laurel Pfahler, takes even more criticism
‘Who is he?’ talk on Dov Kleiman recalls early criticism for Mike Florio, sports bloggers
FC Cincinnati revokes independent writer’s credentials for two weeks
Dabo Swinney on reducing coordinator access: ‘We were very different from most of our peers.’
"It was just something I felt like looking at our competitors, from a national standpoint all across the board, just felt like it was a good change."
Jets ‘Hard Knocks’ premiere date announced
"The 2010 Jets changed the profile and the success of Hard Knocks forever. That Jets team made football fun for fans."
Pac-12 greenlights enhanced football broadcasts
"The Pac-12 is committed to delivering unprecedented access and entertainment to our fans throughout our football broadcasts, and to working with our media partners to be on the cutting edge of innovation."
Big 12 plans for expanded access could see football coaches and players mic’d up
"We want to bring our fans closer to what we do, and give them a peek under the hood."
‘Ted Lasso’ pays tribute to Grant Wahl, who helped answer writers’ questions on Trent Crimm’s book
"In what I now know to be his typical generosity with his time, he wrote very long, very detailed, very valuable answers to all our questions. He was hugely helpful."
NFL will keep locker rooms closed to independent media in 2021, but will allow three team PR/media employees in
"A maximum of three people from a team’s public relations department/team-affiliated media are allowed in the locker room postgame while players are present."
After Naomi Osaka left a press conference in tears before returning, her agent called a reporter a “bully”
"The bully at the Cincinnati Enquirer is the epitome of why player/media relations are so fraught right now. Everyone on that Zoom will agree that his tone was all wrong and his sole purpose was to intimidate. Really appalling behavior."
NHL will require media and broadcast personnel interacting with players to be vaccinated and masked
"The memo also said all media and broadcast personnel (both in-house and third party) who are interacting with players or hockey operations personnel must be fully vaccinated and masked at all times during such interactions."
The NFL overruled the Houston Texans’ attempt to go to regular-season media rules early
"The Texans were informed of the violation, and they changed back to training camp mode."
Vaccinated MLB media members will soon be able to talk to players one-on-one ahead of games
MLB is loosening some restrictions on in-person media interviews for vaccinated media members.
The NBA has fined Kyrie Irving and the Brooklyn Nets a further $35,000 each over Irving’s postgame media refusals
Irving and the Nets were previously fined $25,000 each in December.
LSU AD Scott Woodward says head coach Ed Orgeron “was a bit too transparent” when he said “most” LSU players have had COVID-19
"There's lies, damn lies and statistics. We're very careful with (coronavirus), and as long as I think we have the proper oversight with what we're doing, we're in a very good direction."
Russell Wilson’s ESPN video podcast is the latest active athlete/media company collaboration. Should that trend raise concerns?
Russell Wilson's new "DangerTalk" podcast on ESPN is just the latest in a growing trend of content deals media companies have signed with active athletes. And the history and implications of that trend are worth some consideration.
This year’s “Quest for the Stanley Cup” will provide “exclusive access” to the NHL bubbles, but raises access questions in the process
It will be interesting to see what this behind-the-scenes show gives us, but it's also notable that this comes at a time where many independent media have been heavily restricted in their access to NHL players and teams.
