Awful Announcing
"Described as Welcome to Wrexham and Cheer meets basketball, the series will be dual-narrative following Cube and the challenges of building a new basketball league from the ground up, as well as the journey of one of the BIG3 teams. ...BIG3’s widely covered $1.2 billion lawsuit against Qatari investors will also be covered."
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."
Liberty and MLB have reportedly combined their bids, and Sinclair's now bidding again. The BIG3 bid is also there.
"Charter's conduct risks effectively excluding BIG3 from the bidding process and tainting the auction. It has been suggested to BIG3's ownership that Charter has disseminated its threat to drop the (regional sports networks) to other members of the industry."
While the BIG3 bid for the RSNs has big names attached, most are "content partners" who aren't actually investing. And there are questions about the finances here.
This is a pairing we did not expect to see involved in the bidding for the Fox RSNs.
The BIG3 is coming to Facebook, but how much of an audience will it find there?
Ice Cube wants Trump to call out Qatar's royal family — and also wants some publicity for his league.
Mushnick's surprisingly-strong opinion on the existence of an Andre the Giant documentary topped the hot takes from March 30-April 5.
Fox's willingness to air the BIG3's draft shows a substantial commitment to Ice Cube's league.
Today was a good day for Ice Cube. The rapper and founder of the BIG3 basketball league, which...
