Curt Menefee and Joel Klatt will be Fox’s top USFL booth
In addition to their NFL and CFB roles with Fox, Menefee and Klatt were previously the network's top XFL team in 2020.
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Bomani Jones says Skip Bayless wrote him off First Take
"I think I spoke to him once since then, and then they didn’t call me back."
NASCAR president Steve Phelps opens up about next media rights deal
Even though streaming is the future, NASCAR will wants to have a presence on broadcast TV.
Jeff Van Gundy discusses how ‘contentious’ relationship with Marv Albert led to broadcasting success
"It always centered around [Patrick] Ewing. I didn't think he was particularly fair to Ewing."
Michigan’s resurgence may have Big Ten looking at TV rights bidding war
The Big Ten's TV deals are up after the 2022-2023 season and Fox, ESPN, CBS, and others will be lined up.
Shaquille O’Neal claims he turned down role of John Coffey in ‘The Green Mile’
“That was my role in Green Mile. I turned it down."
Bob Costas: David Letterman/CBS made him ‘tempting’ offer to leave NBC for ‘Late Late Show’ & ’60 Minutes’ roles
"At a different crossroads in my life, I undoubtedly would have done it."
ESPN’s Jimmy Pitaro: ‘We’ve oftentimes struggled’ with talent points of view
Like many other media companies, we've oftentimes struggled but I do believe that we've put the right people on these assignments."
NY Post & Sports Business Journal team up for The Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast
The weekly podcast will premiere on October 6.
John Skipper’s abrupt exit opened the door for ESPN to strike a UFC deal
Skipper reportedly "wasn’t a fan of the sport and didn’t believe it fit into ESPN’s schedule."
Michael Eisner showed an amazing level of Ducks and Angels fandom while running Disney, from meetings to duck calls to Prague
"We were trying to figure out where he was and how we could get a satellite feed to him so that he could watch his Ducks game in a hotel in Prague. I believe we succeeded."
Matt Vasgersian says Sunday Night Baseball booth is still growing together, and “there are detractors built in”
"When a booth is functioning on all cylinders, there's this nice symbiotic dynamic between the producer and the people in the booth. ...You're just vibing. That's what we're trying to get to, and it has to happen organically."
