Kelvin Washington replacing Chris Broussard on Fox Sports Radio’s ‘The Odd Couple’
"Rob, let’s make some noise!"
"Rob, let’s make some noise!"
The show will continue with Parker, but what that looks like and whether Broussard will be placed with permanent or rotating guests of co-hosts remains to be seen.
"I’m devastated that I couldn’t deliver this for our culture."
For the time being, Broussard plans to focus on First Things First.
"I'm starting to think they're treating these motherf***ers as some special-ed kids."
"I'm dead serious when I say that."
"Just four years ago, there were no Black full-time sports hosts on the radio in Detroit."
"I am convinced that Caitlin Clark should play for an NBA team, not a WNBA team."
"It will be young people getting opportunities and former athletes, from Detroit or with ties to Detroit."
Rob Parker and USC's attempt to create a micro-farm system of future TV hot-takers is depressing
"If we all agree that LeBron is the greatest player ever, what conversation are we having? No one’s going to watch."
"I thought that he and Skip Bayless had at least gotten to a point where they could coexist, but apparently not.”
"I cringe every time I watch a player interview another player."
"I got a problem with why there hasn’t been to this point, a Black analyst on a major primetime broadcast."
WDFN was Detroit's first all-sports talk radio station, debuting in 1994.
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.
"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's hottest take came from Matt Walsh using the Kareem Hunt situation to make a dumb gender equality argument.
Former ESPN analyst Dilfer was not a fan of Chiefs-Rams.
"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?"
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.
"In this sense, baseball is the purest sport. It relies less on subjective umpire calls, especially now with replay."
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"I'm getting sick and tired of the Boston Celtics. I've seen enough. They're overrated. They got exposed in Game 3 and exposed in Game 4 for what they were."
Moody's argument that the United States Olympic Committee is trying to fill "quotas" with diverse athletes topped the Feb. 2-8 hot takes.