Rob Parker Archives

What’s next when hot-take culture infects academia?

Rob Parker and USC's attempt to create a micro-farm system of future TV hot-takers is depressing

Rob Parker leads ‘hot-take boot camp’ for former players: ‘It’s okay to be wrong’

"If we all agree that LeBron is the greatest player ever, what conversation are we having? No one’s going to watch."

Chris Broussard ‘stunned’ by Shannon Sharpe’s exit, calls it a ‘huge loss’ for FS1

"I thought that he and Skip Bayless had at least gotten to a point where they could coexist, but apparently not.”

Rob Parker rips Draymond Green for claiming athletes are the new media

"I cringe every time I watch a player interview another player."

Rob Parker wonders why Black broadcasters aren’t getting high-paying NFL gigs

"I got a problem with why there hasn’t been to this point, a Black analyst on a major primetime broadcast."

Detroit sports talk station WDFN goes off-air after 26 years in format change by iHeartMedia

WDFN was Detroit's first all-sports talk radio station, debuting in 1994.

This Week In Hot Takes: Michael Kay blames Phil Jackson, who wasn’t with the Knicks in 2013, for missing on Giannis Antetokounmpo

Giannis Antetokounmpo was drafted in 2013, and Phil Jackson was hired in 2014. The only way to blame Jackson is if you think he has a time machine.

This Week In Hot Takes: Rob Parker says Tom Brady “will become Lance Armstrong without the bike”

"I still believe that when it's all said and done, and that disgruntled person who wasn't taken care of comes out and writes that book and lays it all out on the table, that Tom Brady will be looked at the same light as Lance Armstrong. He'll be Lance Armstrong without the bicycle."

This Week In Hot Takes: Matt Walsh’s Kareem Hunt take is “She hit him too: what happened to gender equality?”

This week's hottest take came from Matt Walsh using the Kareem Hunt situation to make a dumb gender equality argument.

This Week In Hot Takes: Trent Dilfer calls thrilling Chiefs-Rams game “bad ball”

Former ESPN analyst Dilfer was not a fan of Chiefs-Rams.

This Week In Hot Takes: Doug Gottlieb bashes Tennessee fans over Greg Schiano, argues Larry Bird was better than LeBron

"Do Tennessee fans who are taking delight in Schiano getting passed over for Interim tag realize that their outrage over his hiring has forever tainted him? Congrats?"

Undisputed congratulated Rob Parker on “NABJ Journalist of the Year,” an award that went to Jemele Hill. (He got an award from the...

Parker was actually named the NABJ's Sports Task Force's Journalist of the Year. But Undisputed stated it wrong on-air, and then repeated that on social media.

This Week In Hot Takes: Rich Lowry calls soccer “fundamentally flawed,” says baseball’s “purest” because…it’s not subjective?

"In this sense, baseball is the purest sport. It relies less on subjective umpire calls, especially now with replay."

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