After time in jail over burglaries to fuel an opioid addiction, Leaf has gotten clean and started working in the sports media. He worked for the Pac-12 Networks and Sirius XM last year, and now he'll be calling college football games for ESPN.
Pasch told Walton "Take a bite out of it while it's lit," and Walton did exactly that.
Lightning in the area wasn't close enough to shut down the game entirely, but it did lead to ESPN having to use cameras in safer spots.
The vertical box is now a horizontal box, and the italics (previously seen only during College Football Playoff games) are back.
"'With all the information I'm privy to in college basketball, wouldn't you want me leading the charge on this?' And instead it was almost like 'Well, don't ruffle any feathers with the relationships you have.'"