The Varsity
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Puck Sports Correspondent John Ourand and a rotating cast of industry insiders take you deep inside the executive suites and owner boxes that run the entire sports business. You’ll hear interviews with everyone from players to network execs and everyone in between. The Varsity is an extension of John's private email for Puck by the same name. New episodes publish twice-weekly, every Wednesday and Sunday.
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Reinventing America’s Favorite Pastime
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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ESPNW’s Growth Engine
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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Presenting The Draymond Green Show | Draymond Green Versus Skip Bayless
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Inside MLB’s Netflix Experiment
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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How Broadcast Survives in a Netflix World
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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ESPN's Talent Whisperer
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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The NWSL’s Moneyball Moment
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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An Ex Cable Cowboy on the Future of Sports
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Can the NHL Find Its Groove?
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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Can ParaBros Keep the NFL?
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Can MLS Win the World Cup?
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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MLB’s Netflix Era
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Jay Bilas’s College Basketball Bull Case
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Olympics Politics & LA28’s Epstein Problem
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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NASCAR’s Roadmap to Victory Lane
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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NFL’s New TV Order
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Any Given Sunday With Mike Florio
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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Super Bowl LX Soliloquies
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Belichick’s H.O.F. Snub & Jerry Jones Succession Questions
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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The WaPo Reckoning & TikTok’s Next Act
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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When Sports Media Marries the Sportsbook
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Marchand on the NFL’s Media Chessboard
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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MLB’s Dodger Economics
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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Inside Ratner and Rubin’s Fanatics Content Factory
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Inside the NCAA’s Moneyball Era
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Inside NBC’s Sports-Ad Olympics
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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How Youth Sports Went Pro
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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YouTube’s Sports Takeover & More ’26 Predictions
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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The Varsities: Sports Media’s 2025 Superlatives
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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The CFP Expansion That Wasn’t
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Netflix’s Anti-ESPN Thesis
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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Windhorst’s NBA State of Play
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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USA Sports’ Digital Glow-Up
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Sports Media’s Winners (and Losers) of 2025
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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The MLS 3.0 Blueprint
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Introducing How We Made Your Mother Season 2!
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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The 2025 Sports Media Year in Review
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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College Football Gone Wild
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Marchand, Round 2!
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Matthew Berry’s Sports Media Crystal Ball
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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The Vox-Netflix Podquake & ESPN Détente
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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NWSL’s Big-League Breakout
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Steve Bornstein’s NFL Gospel
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Hans Schroeder’s NFL Media Huddle
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Introducing Free Range with Von Miller
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Disney vs. YouTube & Nielsen’s New Math
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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An NBA Betting Scandal Postmortem
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Inside Amazon’s A-List Sports Strategy
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Rubin’s Fanatics Formula
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Gerry World
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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The Josh Harris Owner’s Manual
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Is the NFL Unstoppable?
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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NBC’s Hoop Dreams Redux
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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NHL Rinkside Revelations
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Can a Billionaire Former NFL Player Fix College Sports?
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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ESPN’s D.T.C. Blitz
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Ellison’s Playbook & NFL’s $100B Bonanza
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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Introducing Simpsons Declassified with Nancy Cartwright
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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The UFL’s Scale-Up Era
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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The Prime Play for Sports Rights
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Mark Shapiro’s Media Rights Cage Match
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Matty Ice Quarterbacks the CBS Booth
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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The Clippers Bombshell & Belichickghazi
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Any Given Streamday
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Any Given Algorithm
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Are the Cowboys Still America’s Team?
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Roger Goodell’s Justice League
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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College Football Embraces the Crazy
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Yahoo’s Big Sports Play
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Does Baseball Need a Salary Cap?
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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A Sports Rights Royal Rumble
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Josh Pate Gets Drafted
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Nick Khan on the WWE-ESPN Deal
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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A Sports Legend’s Second Act
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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The Art of the Sports Collectible
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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A Major NFLPA Fumble
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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The Dark Art of Stadium Financing
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Michael Nathanson’s Sports Media Pulse Check
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Dude, Where’s My NASCAR?
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Matt Berry’s Real Life Sports Fantasy
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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Here Come the Robo Umps…
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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The Caitlin Clark Effect
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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A College Football Power Grab & CBS Sports on Edge
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Tennis’s Next Rafa and Serena?
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Paul Rabil’s Lacrosse Gospel
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Kicking It With Alexi Lalas
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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The Sports Media Multiverse! w/ Alex Sherman
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. Takes the Wheel
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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Who Gets What in the WBD Divorce?
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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The NCAA’s Corporate Makeover
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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Moneyball Meets the F.B.I.
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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U.S. Openings
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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The NFL Owners Summit & More Belichick Blues
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May 28, 2025 |
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CBS’s Goal Standard
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May 25, 2025 |
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Wall Street’s Sportsbook
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May 21, 2025 |
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Can IndyCar Go Global?
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May 18, 2025 |
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ESPN’s Mic Drop & The Athletic’s NYT Afterlife
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May 14, 2025 |
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Introducing: Aspire with Emma Grede
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May 13, 2025 |
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Up Front With Jeremy Carey
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May 11, 2025 |
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Jeff Passan’s MLB Forecast
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May 07, 2025 |
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Connor Schell on the Sports Doc Gold Rush
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May 04, 2025 |
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The NHL’s Thin Ice
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Kornacki After MSNBC
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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The NFL's Trust Issues
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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The Varsity Live From SF!
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Everyone Watches Women’s Sports
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Sports TV in the McAfee Era
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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The ESPN Migration
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Gary Bettman: O Canada!
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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Marchand, Round 2!
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Gary Danielson’s Final Analysis
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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The Sports Streaming Battle Royale
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Can Netflix Outpace YouTube?
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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Do the Wright Thing
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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TNT's Life After NBA
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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LIV and Let Die
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Women’s Soccer’s Billion-Dollar Glow-Up
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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A New D.C. Sports Monopoly?
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Coming to America: World Cup Edition
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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The MLB-ESPN Breakup Song
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Big East Hoop Dreams
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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UFC Rights Fights, F1 Deal Heat & ESPN’s Media Moneyball
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Grant Hill From the Owner's Box
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Shams’ Art of the Scoop
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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NBC Sports in The Big Easy
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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In Goodell We Trust?
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Hoop Talk With Stan Van!
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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The NFL’s Streaming Playbook
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Netflix’s UFC Gamble & ESPN’s Streaming Calculus
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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College Football's Billion-Dollar Gold Mine
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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ESPN's Staying Power & NFL's Global Gridiron
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Iger’s Fubo Curveball & The TikTok Endgame
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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The Golf Revolution Will Be Televised!
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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Hubo? Fulu? Inside a Shock Streaming Mashup
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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The Billion-Dollar Business of the College Football Playoff
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Introducing: Office Ladies 6.0
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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PGA of Arabia
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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SVP!
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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2024 Wrapped: Sports Media Edition
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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The Tao of Talent Management
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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The Belichick Whisperer
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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The ESPN Fantasy Draft
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Stephen A. Breaks the Bank & World Cup Media Limbo
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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No NFL, No Glory
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Marchand!
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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The Live Sports Streaming Playbook
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Media Merger Mania & The Celtics L.B.O.
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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The ESPN-TNT Crossover
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Netflix’s Fight Night & Zaz’s NBA Play
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Getting Up With Greeny
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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NFL Growing Pains
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Trump Merger Mania
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Woke Fox Sports & Locker Room Politics
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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NASCAR's Next Gear
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Amazon’s Crap Shoot & MLB’s Fall Classic Magic
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Smoltz's Double Play
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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College Sports’ Big Money Era
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Manfred’s MLB Magic
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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Jack Nicklaus’ N.I.L Nightmare
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Inside Woj’s ESPN Exit
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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The MLB-ESPN Showdown & Shams’ Side Step
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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OK, Boomer
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Apple’s MLS Gambit & Bezos’ Sports Fantasy
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Gary Bettman on the NHL’s Media Moves
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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The Tao of Woj & More Zaz Woes
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Snoop, Léon & An Olympics Postmortem
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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Charter Martyrs, Zaz’s News Cycle & RSNapalooza
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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The Disney Deal, Zaz’s MFN & Lax God Paul Rabil
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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ESPN Economics & Brady’s Big Fumble
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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The WNBA’s Cathy Engelbert on Caitlin & the $200M Deal
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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The DirecTV Gambit & Bundle Extinction Events
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Jimmy Pitaro on the NBA Deal, Stephen A., Flagship, Venu, McAfee & ESPN’s Future
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Peyton Manning on NIL, Brady, ManningCast, Belichick & More
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Introducing The Varsity with John Ourand
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Aug 13, 2024 |