David Samson responds to Jordon Hudson’s lawsuit threat to Pablo Torre: ‘Bring it’
"Please do me a favor and do it. It would make me so happy."
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David Samson shaves head in show of support for ill daughter
"When you go to a hospital every day to get treatment and your hair starts falling out and you recognize what hair means in terms of vanity, you realize that vanity takes a step behind living."
David Samson: NBC could have saved face on Michael Jordan interview with a ‘costume change’
"All you do is change clothes, put a green screen for a different background, and it looks like he sat down a second time, and no one’s saying a word."
David Samson returns to show following family crisis: ‘I wasn’t ready to talk about it’
"There is life before the phone call and life after the phone call, and there is never going back."
Pablo Torre scoffts at media who doubt his Kawhi Leonard reporting: ‘We’re taking an IQ test’
"I would love to talk about what we had reported on Wednesday with anybody in any setting, under any amount of spotlight that you've got."
David Samson dismisses Bob Iger’s comments on ESPN DTC bundling other sports channels
"Does that not sound like cable to you?"
David Samson questions ESPN’s ability to cover NFL honestly after equity deal
"Do you think ESPN is going to spend hours of programming each day criticizing the NFL, bringing Jerry Jones to task?”
David Samson skewers MLS after Don Garber reveals lackluster viewership
"How do you spin the fact that Messi is not providing the sort of increases that one would have expected?"
David Samson disputes Pat McAfee saved ESPN from budget cuts
"You can bet your sweet bipsters that you are going to get to the number that your superior and their superior and their boss needs to get to, through hell or high water."
Stan Van Gundy wishes LeBron James was appreciated
"What’s the biggest off-court controversy you’ve got on this guy...I have never understood the negativity around him."
David Samson predicts WNBA players will lose in CBA talks unless Caitlin Clark gets involved
"What the players in the WNBA don't realize is they're too early for this."
Andrew McCutchen calls out David Samson in baseballs mess: ‘Stick to ur lil channel’
"Whoever Andrew McCutchen is speaking to, that person doesn't know squat about squat."
David Samson rips Stephen A. Smith, ESPN for NBA Finals presentation
"Stephen A. isn't the story. He's supposed to be the presenter of the story."
Dan Le Batard jokes about Pablo Torre’s ‘greedy and needy craving for attention’
"Who likes being the center of attention more, you or Pablo?"
David Samson accuses Jeff Passan of carrying ESPN’s water
"Being an insider doesn't make you a journalist."
David Samson on potential new ESPN-MLB deal: ‘Not going to happen’
"MLB and ESPN will not renew. It's done."
Jon ‘Stugotz’ Weiner discusses being ‘trapped’ in ‘Dan Le Batard Show’ character
"It's a character that comes with so many rewards, but it's a character that I fight on a daily basis because it's not the way I intended to get into this business."
Keith Hernandez shares secret behind Mets booth’s chemistry
"You have a whole generation that's grown up watching this, and they identify with us."
Dan Le Batard reveals he is planning to interview Tim Walz
Le Batard could become the next non-traditional host to interview a candidate in the U.S. presidential election, joining everyone from Alex Cooper to Theo Von.
Dan Le Batard: NFLPA is ‘right’ to try to restrict media’s locker room access
"It prevents us from doing the job as well as we'd like, but we have now more ability to be close to the athlete because they control their own social media."
Domonique Foxworth gives new NFLPA head Lloyd Howell Jr. a ringing endorsement
"If there was a reason or an opportunity to get involved and help, then absolutely I would walk away from my media career to do something like that."
Rich Eisen ‘never’ worries about NFL Network blowback over league criticism
"I think I've built up, thankfully, enough capital where I'm trusted to speak into a microphone by an employer for 21 years now."
Producer: Pandemic delayed Dan Le Batard’s ESPN departure
"The writing was on the wall with Skipper and ESPN parting ways."
Bob Costas: Charles Barkley ‘is as close to indispensable as anyone I can think of’
"He knows that if he wants to, wherever basketball ends up, he can go."
David Samson: Stephen A. Smith and Pat McAfee don’t realize ‘we are incredibly replaceable’
"The only people who are not replaceable are the owners."
