Michael Wilbon wants Pat McAfee’s freedom to curse on ESPN
"I guess if I wore a black tank top and I could get away with those words on this show, I would use them."
"I guess if I wore a black tank top and I could get away with those words on this show, I would use them."
"Mike was not interested in doing a daily show."
"Most of us got jobs by studying what happened in our industry before we got there. But apparently in sports, if you're a great athlete you don't feel you have to do that."
"Will he be allowed to just be a basketball player, or will all the cultural notions overwhelm him?"
Fairness versus marketing in women's basketball, part 10 million.
"Tim Hardway Jr. can get hot and be important and be a factor in these games."
"The worst halftime show in all of sports."
"That was the halftime show … for The Finals?????!"
"The discussion about Caitlin Clark has to deal with – and I mean initially and loudly – race. Race and culture in America."
"It's probably better to focus on a specific sport — the way I do — than talk about things you don't have any knowledge of."
"I love them both. I wish there was some way to just bridge it."
"Happy 420 and Carry on…"
"That's not a great fanbase at all. It hasn't been. They're frontrunners."
"Why do they pay billions of dollars for something that does not draw until the playoffs?"
"She is publicly defiant, she is somewhat over-controlling, she does not want to be covered in the way that champions are covered, which is in-depth."
Stephen A. is at least doing the bare minimum.
"That’s what we specialize in now, all of us in the talk industry."
"There’s nothing as divisive as this."
"It's the way the game is being played and is here to stay."
“I am probably speaking stupidity here….”