"I found it less than the professional-level standard that I became accustomed to personally at Northwestern, at the Washington Post. Just talking about Bronny James, for what?"
"Do you want me to say it or do you want to say it, as to what we're doing here?"
"There is no accountability in this world."
"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."
"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."
"They want to wave the No. 1 foam finger, drink some beer, and watch football. That's what America does."
"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.
"LeBron has repeatedly made it clear: He wants to be a Laker."
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.
"I don't think that I ever met a nicer man than Louie Carnesecca."
"My Bristol sources insist PTI will continue to anchor ESPN’s afternoon block for the foreseeable future."
"I'm overjoyed that they're on."
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."
"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?"
