Awful Announcing
"It’s one of those fights that fight fans, sports fans, certainly have been anticipating for a long period of time, and were anticipating they’d have to shill out money from their pockets to watch [on pay-per-view], and that’s not the case. They’ll be able to see it live on ESPN, and it will be sensational."
"We're a team, and we meet, we interface with each other. The way I envision Sunday going down with all the new protocols, I'm going to see, physically see, two, maybe three live human beings. "
"There's an appetite for knowledge across sports, whether it be to understand how salary caps work or what goes into draft picks. So giving fans the power to reconstruct plays, and being able to do that across a NFL Sunday, is kind of cool."
Losers is up for a couple of Sports Emmys, but facing stiff competition. Creator, director and executive producer Mickey Duzyj told AA a win would be quite the turn for his interview subjects, though: "After all these years slandered as 'losers,' it’d definitely be poetic justice if they pulled off the upset."
"There was a period where there wasn't a lot of sports on, and that brought and amplified the spotlight to a bunch of other types of media and content."
The PFL is taking quite a different approach from many leagues to resuming play, postponing their season until 2021 but launching new studio content in the meantime.
"So Kevin gets a call and it's like 'Whoa, it's Richard Sherman!' And they go into a really organic conversation versus an interview, because he doesn't have preset questions. It's more of an organic, fun conversation with the guys going back and forth."
Top Rank has its first card since February Tuesday night. COO Brad Jacobs spoke to AA about their return to events and the precautions they're taking.
With a lack of sports taking place and a main-network broadcast slot, could IndyCar reach a bigger audience?
"If somebody had approached Roone Arledge early in the 1970s when ABC was televising the Evel Knievel Snake River jump and all of that, and said 'You're never going to believe this, we're going to have a pirate ship and a plank and golfers are going to have to walk the plank and jump onto a giant great white shark,' I think Arledge not only would have agreed, he'd have said 'We'll have Cosell there tomorrow.'"
"I think we're getting better. This is forcing us to be really efficient in the way we communicate, the way we share content."
"It reminded me of Field of Dreams where Kevin Costner says 'I am pitching to Shoeless Joe Jackson.' In my mind, I was going 'I am talking to Mike Eruzione.' This was truly the highlight of my career."
