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Celeste Taylor at the Indiana Fever’s media day on May 1, 2024. (Grace Hollars/The Indianapolis Star, via USA Today Sports.)

WNBA

Celeste Taylor’s Connecticut Sun deal was broken by team PR before her old team announced she left

Reggie Bush on Fox in 2020.

Reggie Bush’s defamation lawsuit against NCAA over 2021 spokesperson remark advances

A judge found Bush offered "concrete examples" of how a 2021 NCAA spokesperson remark hurt his broadcasting and endorsement deals.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnMay 31, 2024 0
Golf Channel airing a taped interview with Michelle Wie West instead of live coverage of Scottie Scheffler's arrest Friday.

Golf Channel PR gets in X dustup with No Laying Up over delayed Scheffler coverage

"Are you saying you were not allowed to go live *at all* to cover the biggest breaking news story of the year?"

By Andrew Bucholtz OnMay 18, 2024 2
Chad Kelly at the 2023 CFL Awards.

CFL and Argonauts under fire for limited response to lawsuit alleging harassment by Chad Kelly

The CFL's response to Chad Kelly allegations has taken criticism.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnFeb 23, 2024 3
Mike Soltys.

Mike Soltys calls ESPN layoffs ‘very disappointing,’ but is moving on from ‘the sadness’

"Showing this amount of people the door, not for performance reasons, is very disappointing."

By Andrew Bucholtz OnMay 15, 2023 0
Knicks' brand consultant Steve Stoute on First Take.

Knicks’ new branding consultant goes on First Take for first televised interview, says they’ll fire coaching staff, has to recant and apologize

"In my excitement to defend the Knicks on live TV today, I inadvertently insinuated about Knicks personnel. I look forward to working with Knicks management to elevate the great Knicks brand moving forward."

By Andrew Bucholtz OnFeb 11, 2020 4

ESPN

The art of the demotion: some of the most prominent ESPN “reassignments” that have minimized negative coverage

The Knicks' tweet about Richard Jefferson.

Knicks PR insists they didn’t send Richard Jefferson a contract offer, a day after Jefferson said on-air he retired after getting a Knicks...

The Knicks are probably right that they didn't actually offer Richard Jefferson a contract in 2018, but trying to correct Jefferson's on-air claim brought them a lot more negative attention.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnNov 25, 2019 0
After #Fartgate, American Standard offered Mike Francesa this personalized bidet.

After #Fartgate, American Standard offers to send Mike Francesa a personalized “First time, long time” bidet seat

"While the Internet debates whether or not this is true, we wanted to make sure that when you need to go, you can go with dignity."

By Andrew Bucholtz OnNov 5, 2019 0
Jeff Luhnow, the Astros' GM, during the 2019 ALCS.

Astros’ GM Jeff Luhnow meets with SI’s Stephanie Apstein after firing Brandon Taubman, but doesn’t commit to retracting “wrong” statement

A full retraction of a statement Luhnow and the Astros have already called "wrong" and "incorrect" would seemingly be easy, but they haven't committed to doing that.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnOct 25, 2019 2
Jeff Luhnow of the Houston Astros in September 2019.

Astros’ GM Jeff Luhnow continues organization’s PR blunders, says “many people” wrote fabrication statement, he couldn’t personally apologize

Luhnow and the Astros are still digging themselves deeper.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnOct 24, 2019 4
Brandon Taubman on a 2017 MLB broadcast.

Astros fire assistant GM Brandon Taubman, admit his comments were targeted at specific reporters, apologize to SI with “we were wrong”

Three days after insisting Taubman's comments weren't directed at particular reporters, the Astros have changed their tune.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnOct 24, 2019 5
Brandon Taubman

Astros’ Brandon Taubman reportedly specifically targeted a reporter who’d tweeted about domestic violence, in contrast to team statements

NPR's David Folkenflik reported Tuesday that contrary to statements from Houston Astros' assistant GM Brandon Taubman and from the team, Taubman was targeting a specific female reporter who'd tweeted about domestic violence.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnOct 22, 2019 4
Norby Williamson

ESPN cancels daily Outside The Lines, changes it to segments and a Saturday show, and Norby Williamson claims they’re ‘expanding’ it

"We’re taking away ‘OTL’s’ linear half-hour daily presence and expanding it. If you compare that 30 minute weekday show from 1-1:30 to the amount of impressions that I’m going to get, we’re going to impact more people."

By Andrew Bucholtz OnOct 22, 2019 13
The Rockets' James Harden and Russell Westbrook at a press conference in Japan.

Rockets’ PR staffer shuts down CNN reporter asking players about China, says “basketball questions only” (updated)

"Basketball questions only" was a bad look here.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnOct 10, 2019 4
Tony Wyllie pulling Colt McCoy away from an ESPN Deportes interview in 2014.

Redskins’ PR boss Tony Wyllie exits after nine years with the team and a whole lot of controversies

Wyllie was involved in a whole lot of headlines over the years, including breaking up on-field interviews, sending statements that proved completely false, and comparing Daniel Snyder's lawsuit against The Washington City Paper to the Arab Spring protests.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnSep 19, 2019 5
Cubs' VP Julian Green.

Cubs’ VP claims tweet on them influencing Russell coverage was “egregious,” reveals he tried to influence FanGraphs over it

Contacting a site to demand that one of their writers take down a tweet doesn't seem like the best way to prove that you can handle critical media coverage, but that's what Cubs' VP (communications and community affairs) Julian Green did.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnMay 2, 2019 1
A Michigan State sign on campus.

Michigan State paid a PR firm over $500,000 in January to “monitor” social media activity of Nassar victims, journalists, others

Weber Shandwick billed Michigan State $517,343 in January, more than the school paid football coach Mark Dantonio or basketball coach Tom Izzo that month.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnMar 28, 2018 0
The 2018 NHL Winter Classic.

2018 NHL Winter Classic was lowest-rated ever, NBC promotes it as better than indoor games

Yes, this may have been the 12th-most-watched NHL broadcast on NBC ever, but it's still the least-watched Winter Classic.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJan 3, 2018 9
Papa John's got dunked on again over a non-apology apology.

Papa John’s tweets non-apology to those who thought NFL comments were “divisive,” two weeks after the fact

Two weeks after stirring up a hornet's nest with criticism of NFL protests, Papa John's tweeted out an odd non-apology.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnNov 14, 2017 0
Tony Wyllie pulling Colt McCoy away

Redskins PR man Tony Wyllie rips Pete Mundo for Colt McCoy question

Teams’ public relations staffers sometimes takes issue with particular lines of inquiry from journalists, but it’s unusual to...

By Andrew Bucholtz OnAug 17, 2016 2

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