John Skipper dismisses NBA ratings concern: ‘The league is in excellent shape’
"Ask anyone associated with the NBA, would you rather have the ratings go up 20% or the media rights go up 300%?"
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Bill Belichick’s girlfriend is reportedly his ‘de facto agent,’ used power to get herself in Super Bowl ad
"Bill Belichick is doing literally the opposite of what he used to do."
Pablo Torre lauds PTI for being ahead of its time
"PTI is one of the brilliantly engineered formats."
Jerry Jones’ ‘Landman’ role surprised show’s production crew
"Who have they got to play Jerry Jones?"
Paul Finebaum: My ‘legacy’ will be showing college football elites ‘where the country really is’
"It may make the athletic directors, and the chancellors and the bowtied crowd in the Ivory towers uncomfortable, but I really don't care."
Award-winner Ezra Edelman says current state of sports documentaries ‘border on branded content’
With more sports documentaries hitting the scene than ever before, Ezra Edelman has observed a shift in the medium.
David Samson reveals he was ‘anorexic’ while running Marlins: ‘I was sick’
"It's a horrible thing to have what I have ... I would run 20 miles and purposefully not eat the entire day, while running a baseball team."
John Skipper thinks Stephen A. Smith will join ‘Inside the NBA’ cast ‘at some point’
"I think you'll see him on Inside the NBA at some point."
Noted art critic shreds Dwyane Wade statue: ‘An absolute sh*t work of art’
"It looks like a little mini statue on an idiotic store-bought trophy."
Mina Kimes, Pablo Torre on sports media criticism from athletes: ‘They want public relations’
"I just don't think we can ever solve that frustration. It's actually part of why you get paid so much money."
Mina Kimes denies claims Bluesky is a liberal echo chamber amid ‘Xodus’
"It's not political at all ... (it) is the engagement farming, (it) is that people are now using it to make money in the lowest ways."
Mina Kimes on Dallas Cowboys fan tours: ‘Eroding the long-term value of this franchise’
"What I'm disputing is that the value of the franchise is in any way tied to any of this bulls***."
‘Pablo Torre Finds Out’ given award for reporting on transgender teenage athlete
"Rigorous reporting with a sense of humor is the most underrated commodity in sports media. I believe it is also the antidote to America’s lazily predictable culture war."
Mina Kimes: Peddling ‘inflammatory bulls***’ is all Clay Travis has
David Samson references ‘OnlyFans for press releases’ around NBA’s WBD response
"I like how this is the part of the show where we become aroused by press releases."
Mina Kimes calls out media personalities who are ‘obsessed’ with the New York Times and X
"I think Twitter is a very small platform that has its importance over-emphasized because all of us media people live on it."
Mina Kimes: ‘There are a lot of very successful people in football who are very online’
"There are very successful GMs who I know for a fact see everything and read everything, and there are ones who don't."
Comedian Gary Vider recalls father’s fake reporter scam to meet pro athletes and celebrities
"As a kid, you could get away with it."
Mina Kimes on Caitlin Clark hysteria: ‘It seems perfectly calibrated to piss off everybody’
"I guess my point is everybody is right?"
Tony Kornheiser tells Pablo Torre ‘his uncensored complaints about people he hates at ESPN’
"I love my old man friend."
Jon Sciambi on play-by-play announcers: ‘We all try to sound like a 67-year-old white guy’
"That's not how I speak. I really want to be as far away from that as possible."
Jon ‘Boog’ Sciambi blasts Pablo Torre, Mina Kimes on Tom Brady: ‘Smart people say dumb things’
"For it to be executed at the highest, highest level, it's two parts — it's diagnosing and articulating."
Dan Le Batard proclaims Charles Barkley ‘greatest broadcaster’ outside of Howard Cosell
"It's a charisma unlike anything I've seen in the history of sports media."
Dan Le Batard: If Charles Barkley leaves, ‘Inside the NBA’ is over
"All of those people (on Inside the NBA) are really important, but there is one star."
Pablo Torre got the Knicks’ LeBron James recruiting video and it’s so bad
It's the epilogue to The Sopranos that no one wanted.
