David Samson says Jimmy Pitaro now a ‘eunuch’ after Disney CEO succession
"Everyone wanted to be ESPN. Those days are over."
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Amid losses and defections, David Samson thinks ‘the LIV tour is over’
"I violated my own rule of American capitalism, which is, who's going to run a losing business interminably? Nobody."
David Samson says Charles Barkley ‘pissing against the wind’ with NFL rant
"He gets a talking to by Disney, because you just don't want to make enemies with Roger Goodell."
David Samson predicts WNBA could ‘fold’ if ‘players get too greedy’
"If the players' association believes that Adam Silver is going to cave, they are wrong."
David Samson continues to beg Jordon Hudson to sue Pablo Torre
"If she files a lawsuit, I will make it my second life’s work to make sure all attorneys’ fees are paid by Bill Belichick."
David Samson responds to Jordon Hudson’s lawsuit threat to Pablo Torre: ‘Bring it’
"Please do me a favor and do it. It would make me so happy."
David Samson shaves head in show of support for ill daughter
"When you go to a hospital every day to get treatment and your hair starts falling out and you recognize what hair means in terms of vanity, you realize that vanity takes a step behind living."
David Samson: NBC could have saved face on Michael Jordan interview with a ‘costume change’
"All you do is change clothes, put a green screen for a different background, and it looks like he sat down a second time, and no one’s saying a word."
Netflix’s ‘Who Killed the Montreal Expos?’ focuses on suspects and raw emotion
David Samson reflects on daughter’s sudden illness: ‘I can’t find the meaning right now’
"I don't have control over anything. Nothing. I can't make my daughter better. I can't put my family back together."
David Samson says Derek Jeter chewed him out during Hall of Fame run-in
"He has a problem of aptitude. He has a problem in everything other than being a shortstop."
David Samson returns to show following family crisis: ‘I wasn’t ready to talk about it’
"There is life before the phone call and life after the phone call, and there is never going back."
David Samson sat 9 hours for Montreal Expos doc interview without realizing he was the villain
"I was doing the interview, thinking to myself while it's going on, 'I'm doing great.'"
David Samson dismisses Bob Iger’s comments on ESPN DTC bundling other sports channels
"Does that not sound like cable to you?"
David Samson questions ESPN’s ability to cover NFL honestly after equity deal
"Do you think ESPN is going to spend hours of programming each day criticizing the NFL, bringing Jerry Jones to task?”
David Samson, John Skipper duke it out over potential WNBA work stoppage
Meadowlark Media's David Samson and John Skipper get into a heated debate over WNBA owners and ominous labor negotiations.
David Samson says he’d sign Ichiro Suzuki at 51-years-old
"If I were still running a team, he'd be one of 26."
Ichiro’s Hall of Fame joke gave David Samson ‘PTSD’ over Marlins ridicule
"You hear the Marlins joke and I immediately thought, 'My God, anything other than that,' because you could just tell that people were going to think that was serious."
David Samson skewers MLS after Don Garber reveals lackluster viewership
"How do you spin the fact that Messi is not providing the sort of increases that one would have expected?"
Ichiro Suzuki shades Marlins, David Samson during Hall of Fame acceptance speech
Who knew that Ichiro Suzuki’s Hall of Fame acceptance speech was going to turn into a roast? While...
Stan Van Gundy wishes LeBron James was appreciated
"What’s the biggest off-court controversy you’ve got on this guy...I have never understood the negativity around him."
David Samson predicts WNBA players will lose in CBA talks unless Caitlin Clark gets involved
"What the players in the WNBA don't realize is they're too early for this."
Andrew McCutchen calls out David Samson in baseballs mess: ‘Stick to ur lil channel’
"Whoever Andrew McCutchen is speaking to, that person doesn't know squat about squat."
David Samson rips Stephen A. Smith, ESPN for NBA Finals presentation
"Stephen A. isn't the story. He's supposed to be the presenter of the story."
Dan Le Batard jokes about Pablo Torre’s ‘greedy and needy craving for attention’
"Who likes being the center of attention more, you or Pablo?"