Awful Announcing
"It's also just being able to give them an opportunity to kind of let their guard down and knowing that 'You can keep it a buck on this show. You can speak your truth on this show.'"
Albert's schedule this month includes the NFL on Fox, Rangers' games on ESPN New York, Knicks' games on MSG, and a Fox boxing pay-per-view.
"It's fun to call a game when there's points and there's strategy and it's not just every yard is such a grind and every third down is 'God, is anybody ever going to convert a third down?' You've got these two offenses that can score literally in 11 seconds."
"This is one of those moments where I've actually had to kind of take a step back and realize what's happening."
"We just started to really dive into where the places are where the sports fan was at that might also have some crossover with the gaming community."
"After putting on Gil’s podcast, I wanted to try my own. I tweet and say a lot of crazy stuff so I think it’d be interesting to have it all on a podcast. To be able to talk about basketball, culture, and fashion is what I’m all about."
"What we've experienced so far in our time on the ground with the Flyers has been great in terms of letting our cameras in places where they're going to give viewers and fans an opportunity to see things they wouldn't normally see."
"The goal with My Game was to showcase Tiger and bring the viewer into the mind of golf’s greatest champion. Tiger’s deep understanding and knowledge of the game is a part of his greatness, but so is his unique mental approach he takes in practice and onto the course."
"This is going to supercharge what will already be a lucrative three or four-month period at the end of the year for us."
Vox Media college football site Banner Society is taking a new approach, focusing not just on a website, but also on platforms from Reddit to Twitch to Twitter and Instagram. Banner Society head Ryan Nanni spoke to AA about that.
"You wouldn't want to try this without a strategic partner like ESPN, and because they've been the ACC's partner for so long, it was just a natural fit."
"It was pretty obvious and pretty evident, even when I talked to my friends and peers at ESPN, that there’s no question about this. Leaving the personal relationships, I think, in anything we do is hard, but professionally there was simply no doubt."
"If you had $1 billion, that is probably not enough money to compete with the UFC; they're so established and they're so good at what they do. I didn't want to recreate that. Combate, my feeling is very different; I think it's reinventing MMA."
"I read about all these other media people that can't say anything because they don't offend the league or they don't want to upset partnerships or they don't want to impact the economic flow of their company and the league. I see it as freeing."
Tom Ladd and Chuck Sebastian are calling 34 12-and-under baseball games in 10 days for Stadium. They spoke to AA about what that's like.
