Awful Announcing
"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."
"I like how this is the part of the show where we become aroused by press releases."
"I think Twitter is a very small platform that has its importance over-emphasized because all of us media people live on it."
"There are very successful GMs who I know for a fact see everything and read everything, and there are ones who don't."
"As a kid, you could get away with it."
"I guess my point is everybody is right?"
"I love my old man friend."
"That's not how I speak. I really want to be as far away from that as possible."
"For it to be executed at the highest, highest level, it's two parts — it's diagnosing and articulating."
"It's a charisma unlike anything I've seen in the history of sports media."
"All of those people (on Inside the NBA) are really important, but there is one star."
It's the epilogue to The Sopranos that no one wanted.
Pablo Torre is lobbying to "enshrine a true legend of hoops culture," Red Panda.
Spain and Wilder shared a tender exchange about navigating a moment in life when you feel comfortable and unwanted at work.
"I don't see (gambling) to be so special that it cannot fund journalism."
Williams didn't hire an agent, so logically agents would blabber to reporters about all that is wrong with the likely No. 1 overall pick. Right?
"What are we talking about?"
"I know when I'm on track when that part of the internet starts saying crazy things."
"The impression I get is that people are annoyed with the idea of other fans being allowed into their space."
"They were obsessed with getting all the scoops away from me, and making my life difficult, making me feel unwelcome. It drove them nuts that I'm at the event, representing ESPN with that microphone."
"This is not a knock on the intelligence of anyone in sports media."
"They think they're an independent geographical entity."
Golic and Thomas offer a candid look at the physical and mental tolls of weight management for offensive linemen, despite SI's fixation on farts.
