Al Michaels: ‘It would be embarrassing’ to have farewell tour
"When you make yourself the story, you do a disservice to the business."
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Skip Bayless: Stephen A. Smith has ‘greatest gift of gab in the history of television’
"He is gifted beyond gifted."
Skip Bayless: ‘I stand behind every word I have ever uttered on live television’
Bayless still won't give an inch.
ESPN’s Chris Fowler calls Rafael Nadal ‘most admired athlete’ he’s ever covered
"You can't be a very happy person if you hold yourself to a standard of perfection."
Michelle Beadle on lesson from Bill Walton’s death: ‘I really need to live more’
"It's weird that our brains work that way, where we attach it to someone we barely know, maybe we've met a few times."
Michelle Beadle on the outrage to her Harrison Butker take: ‘I still got it.’
"My mentions were a cesspool."
Ramona Shelburne opens up on burden of eulogizing Kobe Bryant after career covering him
"I felt like Kobe let in, he let himself be known by me, or at least he tried. And it is now my job to tell the world about him."
Stan Van Gundy opens up on sudden passing of wife Kim: ‘Kindest person that I have ever known’
"I never, ever envisioned that I was going to live another day in my life without Kim."
Stan Van Gundy rips ESPN for laying brother Jeff off: ‘They s*** on him’
"I thought ESPN was absolutely miserable to him after what he had given them for 17 years."
Alex Rodriguez thinks issues with Derek Jeter were overblown: ‘Negativity sells’
"The media was obsessed with our relationship in New York. It was a very meaty story, and negativity sells, and big names sell."
Rachel Nichols opens up on post-ESPN career, escaping ‘Stockholm syndrome’ of cable TV
"When you're in that ESPN world, there is a lot of sort of Stockholm syndrome of, this is the only thing that matters."
Joy Taylor shares the life-changing advice Dan Le Batard’s brother gave her early in her career
"I don't want to say hyperbolic when I say it's the most important conversation I've ever had."
Katie Nolan’s heartbreaking interview illustrates the emotional cost of a career in sports media
Katie Nolan reveals vague contract and lack of clarity led to disconnect at ESPN
"It should've been a red flag."
Katie Nolan responds to MLB fan vitriol over Apple TV+ gig: ‘I was so shocked by how much everybody hated me’
"I can tell you from reading the words that were written, there was at least a little bit of misogyny in it."
Dan Le Batard wanted to turn ‘Highly Questionable’ into ESPN’s answer for ‘The Daily Show’
"The format is you talk on television, and people don't want something new all the time."
On Michael Jordan’s advice, Michael Wilbon turned down newspaper job that went to Skip Bayless
"They offered me the world."
Mike Breen hates what sports coverage has become: ‘Journalism has become criticism.’
"Why do you have to crush people while you criticize them?"
Ernie Johnson on the Inside the NBA crew: ‘We love each other…this is as close as I’ll ever come to having brothers’
"I’m in the fortunate position of getting us from point A to point B to point C with three guys who have been in every conceivable situation in a basketball game."
Dan Le Batard to Mina Kimes: ‘You had to earn it’
"You have gotten so strong. Like, I don't think people listening to this have any earthly idea, the degree of difficulty of what you have done to get to where you are."
Reporter Sara Ganim discusses Jerry Sandusky scandal, ‘The Mayor of Maple Avenue’ podcast with Dan Le Batard
"I wasn't a sports reporter; I was a crime reporter."