Mike Tirico tells his story of watching the OJ Simpson chase with Lee Corso in Daytona Beach
"I've done hundreds of football games now, the very first one I did on network TV was a Florida-Georgia All-Star game with Corso on that day."
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Ian Eagle reacts to Al Michaels criticism: ‘Al’s going to do it the way that he sees fit because he’s earned it’
"They're allowed to have an opinion, that's how it works."
Robert Griffin III gives full story behind neighbor selling candy to kids on Halloween
"You're supposed to give the candy to the kids."
Bill Simmons: ESPN ‘way late’ to gambling boom, ‘they’ve handled it badly’
"They should have bought DraftKings. They should have been on the ground floor."
Scott Hanson clears up once and for all who deserves credit for the NFL ‘witching hour’
NFL RedZone host Scott Hanson knows one of his biggest catch phrases is borrowed. Hanson appeared on the SI...
‘At The Athletic, metrics are king’: Bob Kravitz discusses his takedown of former employer
"I hope they make a run of it by being more national in orientation, but it doesn't do the readers here any good."
Scott Van Pelt on if he’ll still be hosting SportsCenter in three years: ‘No chance.’
"At some point you just got to step aside and let somebody else have it."
Pat McAfee realized how big ‘College GameDay’ is after a message from President Obama
“So like it was in 2020, I think, when I realized like, hey, this is a completely different animal and it is an institution."
NFL Network’s Kyle Brandt: ‘I want Super Bowl Saturday’
"I think the Black Friday game walks so that Super Bowl Saturday can run."
Ian Eagle shares his thoughts on the Tom Brady-Greg Olsen saga
"...These are arranged marriages. You don’t get to choose who you work with."
Is there anything Adam Schefter could do to get in trouble at ESPN?
"ESPN has told you, just to be blunt, they don't care."
Greg Olsen flippantly told Tom Brady ‘This TV thing sucks’ during their first Fox meeting
"Greg said, 'Tom, I gotta tell ya, this TV thing sucks.' It was great, we were dying laughing."
Jim Nantz calls discussing Tom Brady’s divorce during NFL broadcast ‘out of bounds’
"I’m gonna be there to cover a football game, I want to be respectful."
Erin Andrews thought Fox would hire Peyton Manning, not Tom Brady, to replace Troy Aikman
"I had convinced myself we were getting Peyton Manning."
Greg Gumbel doesn’t think broadcasters attract fans: “Moe, Larry, and Curly can do a good football game”
"The only thing a broadcaster can do is chase people away."
Troy Aikman: “Disappointing” Fox didn’t attempt to keep me from joining ESPN
"I guess what’s perplexing to me is that I had no conversation with my boss."
Kenny Mayne looks back at ESPN exit in comments to Jimmy Traina: “It all turned out okay for me and my family.”
"It was the right move for everybody. They saved some money, I replaced it with Caesars and the other things I'm doing. Everybody did okay."
NFL Network’s Kyle Brandt on auditioning for ESPN’s ManningCast: “The hype is real, they don’t need a host”
Brandt also talked to SI.com's Jimmy Traina about trying to replace Nate Burleson on 'Good Morning Football.'
Tony Romo on early broadcasting work: ‘It was so boring…this guy needs to stop doing this right now’
"I sounded like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the teacher. ‘Bueller, Buller.’ ”
Joe Buck responds to military flyover controversy, says Fox is investigating who leaked clip
"No, it was not a hot mic," said Buck. "It leaked. It was clipped by somebody along the chain."
Dan Patrick talks to SI on his “What am I doing here?” moment ahead of leaving ESPN in 2007
When Dan Patrick left ESPN in 2007, it was a bold move, and one that spurred a lot of discussion. This week, Patrick revealed some new and interesting details to Jimmy Traina of Sports Illustrated on how he felt approaching that move.
After an ESPN producer vetoed Chris Berman’s nicknames, a threatened boycott from George Brett brought them back
A producer told Berman "No nicknames" in 1985, and Brett got upset, revealing that to the world and leading to a deluge of angry mail for ESPN.
Scott Van Pelt says gambling programming will expand because “everyone’s got way more hours than they’ve got good content”
"I’d be stunned if you didn’t see us, Fox Sports 1, NBC Sports, CBS Sports, anybody that’s got hours to fill, I’d be shocked if they didn’t take a stab at it."
Jeff Van Gundy says ESPN bosses have chided him over off-topic talk, including comments about Masters discrimination
Remember when Van Gundy called out Augusta National for discriminatory policies during a Masters promo? ESPN execs apparently weren't thrilled.
