Michael Wilbon remembers John Feinstein: ‘Always a compelling figure’
"He could be the most charming guy in the room and the guy you wanted to throw out the room."
"He could be the most charming guy in the room and the guy you wanted to throw out the room."
"It leads toward the ruination of what I appreciate about college football."
"The NBA needs to follow suit very quickly after the tone that the NHL has set."
"You're the problem."
"The first game is where you are going to feel how much those fans feel betrayed and how much pain they have."
"PTI is one of the brilliantly engineered formats."
"I don't know why I said Pardon the Interruption."
"It's a money play for everybody involved, including this network."
"This is college football attempting to spit in the eye of the NFL."
ESPN is bouncing around ideas to replace the departing Around the Horn including an hour-long edition of Pardon the Interruption.
Wilbon is handing himself a W for predicting Brady would be great at Fox, not realizing just how split NFL fans are on the legendary QB's broadcasting start.
"The Big 12 stinks. It's a terrible conference."
"My Bristol sources insist PTI will continue to anchor ESPN’s afternoon block for the foreseeable future."
Unclear whether Wilbon and Costas actually understand what the criticism actually was of Costas, who appeared to retire on his own terms.
"Wilbon was criticizing me for moving 3½ miles — from Phoenix, where he moved 20 years ago."
"The Jets aren't as good as they, or all of their slurpers, think they are."
"It was like he was a human computer. A baseball computer."
"I want to fool around with the score."
"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.
"The discussion about Caitlin Clark has to deal with – and I mean initially and loudly – race. Race and culture in America."