The most recent book from Mark Levin, The Democrat Party Hates America, has rapidly risen to the top position on Amazon’s bestselling list just a few days before its launch.
In surpassing several renowned authors, including Oprah’s latest self-help publication, a fresh novel by Stephen King, and Walter Isaacson’s highly talked-about biography of Elon Musk, Levin has achieved a remarkable feat.
Mark Levin told Breitbart that this book is a departure from his previous books because he delves into the Democratic Party’s autocratic historical reluctance to embrace American ideals fully.
“It is an evil and poisonous party and always has been. I unravel all the lies and propaganda Americans have been fed by the party’s press and surrogates for more than a century. And it’s leading a revolution to fundamentally transform our country into a one-party tyranny,” he said.
The book is scheduled to be released on Tuesday. Earlier this year, Target informed the book’s publisher that it would not sell the book in its stores. In response to this, the author, Levin, urged his supporters to pre-order the book and stand up against what he called “corporatist left-wing censorship.”
“Target has informed my publisher, Simon & Schuster, that it will not carry my new book when it is released on September 19. It claims that certain customers might be offended by the title. Imagine that! So, the corporatist leftwing censorship begins,” he said at the time.
Michelle Beadle loved watching and playing sports in her youth, but she was an inquisitive dilettante of law and foresaw a career in the courtroom. From the time she was 6 years old, she began telling everyone that she would attend Harvard Law School to become a corporate lawyer, albeit without having a genuine understanding of what the job entailed. The same can be said for sports media, but Beadle found a way to gain erudition in the industry that has led her to a multi-faceted role, including as the co-host of a new SiriusXM Mad Dog Sports Radio program.
When Beadle enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, she immediately began majoring in political science and pre-law, participating in extracurricular activities to enrich her studies. Volunteering at the Texas State Capitol helped her make connections and gain practical experience, but she quickly became enraptured by other activities and began neglecting her academia.
“I went to one of these pre-law meetings and looked around that classroom and I just thought, ‘I don’t have anything in common with anyone in here,’ and I was listening to them tell their stories about how they wanted to be lawyers and what they wanted to do, and I thought, ‘This isn’t for me,’” Beadle said. “I literally left Austin not that long after that moment because I was killing my GPA by not going to class. I knew I didn’t want to be a lawyer but I had zero idea of a backup plan – and back then when I would start to lose things as any bad sport would do, I just quit – and so I quit.”
Departing the university just a few classes short of attaining her degree, Beadle chose to travel across the United States, going to cities where she knew people from an internship with a local minor-league hockey team to work a variety of different jobs. She officially gave up on law and started to wait tables at restaurants in order to make ends meet. From San Antonio to Pensacola, Beadle did not have any bonafide direction and eventually decided to leave the country entirely.
“Going from sort of being an overachiever who thought they had their whole life planned out to having zero plans and your parents mad at you was a little bit jarring,” Beadle said, “but staying busy helped because I don’t do well with a bunch of idle time.”
As the clock continued to push forward, she eventually felt an impetus to return home and was greeted by her father, Valero Energy executive Bob Beadle. Normally abstaining from scrutiny, he decided to ask his daughter what her plans were. As if by happenstance, Beadle’s father knew R.C. Buford, an executive with the San Antonio Spurs, her favorite basketball team, and was able to set up a meeting with him.
“The Spurs was the one team; the one thing that I always loved since sixth grade,” Beadle said. “[My father] sent me to another adult so that adult would yell at me so that he didn’t have to. I didn’t know that at the time.”
Beadle enrolled at the University of Texas at San Antonio to study broadcast journalism and continuously contacted Mike Kickarello, the Spurs’ director of broadcasting, to beg for an opportunity. She had been given his contact information in the meeting with Buford, but it still took several tries for her to receive a call back.
Beadle offered to be an unpaid intern and perform whatever menial tasks necessary to get her foot in the door. Kickarello opened the door to a realm of possibility, a life-changing occurrence that propelled Beadle forward.
After some time logging tape and assisting on the team’s local children’s program, Beadle asked to try her hand in front of the camera but initially struggled. Recognizing the difficulty, cameraperson Eddie Ray Rodriguez pulled her aside and provided a sagacious recommendation that has guided her ever since.
“[He] sat me down and gave the simple advice of being yourself and ignoring the camera and that it’s a three-person conversation – you; subject; audience,” Beadle recalled.
Beadle landed a fill-in role with The Nashville Network (TNN) as a sideline reporter for competitive bull riding while still in school. Two weeks into the role, TNN wanted to hire her full time, which then led to additional opportunities for various networks.
Over the next several years, Beadle balanced hosting roles in sports and lifestyle media. Additionally, she was brought on by the YES Network to anchor studio coverage of New Jersey Nets basketball and host ancillary programming, such as Yankees on Deck and SportsLife NYC. Two years later, she was informed of an opportunity to audition for a new show on ESPN.
“You hear ‘No’ a lot more than you hear ‘Yes,’ and eventually that just calms you down and you kind of lose any sort of neuroses that you might have in the beginning and just accept it,” Beadle said. “Maybe you’ll get it; maybe you won’t – probably won’t.”
During her audition, Beadle remembered well-traveled media executive Jon Walsh being in the room. In a subsequent conversation, Walsh requested that Beadle compile a list of 10 things that she would do to improve the show, an assignment that confounded her since the program did not yet exist. Assuming that she would not land the role anyway, she opted to put together a list of satirical items instead. To her surprise, she received a call back from the “Worldwide Leader” anyway.
“I can’t remember who reached out first, but they brought me in and they were like, ‘Hey, we’re serious about you doing this. You have to put together an actual list of 10 items,’” Beadle recollected. “I was like, ‘Guys, it’s not a real show yet. I can’t improve something that doesn’t exist; I have no idea what you want from me.’”
Eventually after some assistance, Beadle received the job and began working alongside Colin Cowherd on SportsNation. The show was one of Cowherd’s early forays into television. Although there were long hours and plenty of bad ideas, being able to co-host the program with him represented a stroke of good fortune.
“The people left us alone; the suits kind of didn’t know what to do with us, so we were allowed to try things out,” Beadle said. “Some of them worked and some of them didn’t, but just getting to try it was the whole game. It was the perfect entrance for me because it didn’t take itself too seriously.”
During Beadle’s stint at ESPN, she thrived in the SportsNation role and began working in radio as the anchor of SportsCenter on 1050 ESPN New York’s signature afternoon program, The Michael Kay Show. Additionally, she hosted her own podcast and co-hosted Winners Bracket with Marcellus Wiley, but discrepancies in contract negotiations resulted in her exit from the network.
Having been pitched an opportunity to cover the 2012 London Olympics and expand her skillset by serving as a correspondent on Access Hollywood, Beadle departed ESPN to work for NBC Sports. While her early days with the network were saccharin – including hosting a new program, The Crossover – the feeling rapidly bittered and left her displeased.
Beadle’s absence at ESPN turned out to be more of an abeyance, as the network reinstated her on SportsNation after her NBC exit, which was facilitated through a quid pro quo. This time around, she co-hosted the program with Max Kellerman and Marcellus Wiley, a duo that hosted a radio show together in Los Angeles. She moved to the other side of the country and established strong on-air rapport with the cast, informing and entertaining fans in innovative ways about the world of professional sports.
Just before the start of the 2017 NBA Playoffs, Beadle received another role as the full-time host of NBA Countdown on ABC and ESPN. Joining award-winning journalist Michael Wilbon and former NBA stars Chauncey Billups and Paul Pierce behind the desk, she fulfilled a dream of being involved in national coverage of her favorite sport.
During her time on the program, the show did well in the ratings and challenged Warner Bros. Discovery’s staple studio program, Inside the NBA, an institution she refers to as the “gold standard.” Reflecting back on it, she affirmed that it was difficult to make her own because of the concentration of certain kinds of content, but enjoyed going on the road.
“I think sometimes it was being used as a vehicle for females – Sage [Steele] did it; and then I did it; and then Maria [Taylor] did it – and it was almost like a dangling carrot for which woman was going to get that job next, which is gross,” Beadle said. “You don’t want to have that hanging over you, but things happened behind the scenes, and it became not a great place to be or a great place to want to go to work, and that was the end of that. I couldn’t be there anymore.”
Beadle entered into a buyout with ESPN to precipitate her final exit from the company, ending a tenure that included her speaking out against injustices on several occasions. In 2014, she criticized Stephen A. Smith for heinous implications pertaining to domestic violence, ultimately resulting in a one-week suspension for the First Take star. In her first few months on Get Up! with Mike Greenberg and Jalen Rose, she revealed that she lost interest in football and had not been watching the sport for three years. Something she views as an innocuous remark ultimately led to her removal from the morning program, which ended up diverging in a different direction than was originally planned.
“I hate to tell everybody how the sausage is made, but not every talking head there listening to and watching on TV are spending their hours watching sports when they get home,” Beadle said. “Now, it’s a job – you can talk about a lot of things and not watch every second of all of it – but I didn’t want to be the one to burst the bubble for a bunch of people and say, ‘I don’t want to tell you this, but they’re not all watching.’”
After her time with ESPN ended, Beadle remained out of sports media for nearly two years and moved back home to San Antonio amid the global pandemic. In September 2021, she launched a podcast with The Athletic with the apropos title, What Did I Miss?, and made her return to television one month later from the place her career effectively began in “Mission City.”
Spurs Chief Executive Officer R.C. Buford asked Beadle if she would be interested in returning to work with the team, an offer that she immediately accepted. The team then officially announced that she was returning as a special correspondent on the team’s local television broadcasts, a seminal moment in her broadcasting career.
“I love them so much, [and] I’m so grateful,” Beadle said. “Nothing that I have done since 1999 would have happened had the Spurs not given me that internship in the first place; I am 100% aware of that. For me, I consider them family.”
For the last month, Beadle has been on the air on SiriusXM’s Mad Dog Sports Radio with Cody Decker. The pair, working on the new afternoon show Beadle & Decker, stands out for their chemistry, acumen and collective efficacy.
“There’s no way I could go on to ESPN and say, ‘Hey, I think this topic sucks and I don’t want to talk about it,’ and then turn it into an hour of television,” Beadle explained. “Radio, for me, is the perfect combination of getting to talk sports but having a little bit more freedom than you would otherwise.”
Collaborating with Decker has provided a welcome contrast since he is a former baseball player. Spending 11 seasons in the minor leagues before a brief eight-game stint with the San Diego Padres in 2015, he understands what it means to work hard and stay persistent.
“That dude is just energy personified, and it’s kind of nice because I don’t have to come in and be sort of [a] crazy energy person,” Beadle said. “I wouldn’t even describe myself as being that, but I think a lot of times when I’m the host of something, it is my job to set the vibe of the tone on the television side and to kind of be [the] quote-unquote ‘lower energy person’ of the two is great.”
Once basketball season tips off, Beadle will balance her radio hosting obligations with a job on FanDuel TV as the co-host of Run It Back. Last season, she worked with Chandler Parsons, who is returning for the second season, and broadcast the program three days per week from the company’s New York-based studios. She respects the fact that her TV partner still wants to work, considering he earned an estimated $127 million over his nine seasons in the NBA.
As time goes on, Beadle hopes to make an impact in radio and host for as long as possible, strengthening her commitment towards the medium. Even so, she does not want to give up on television entirely and is also working on a variety of podcasts. Later this year, she will launch a podcast with Wondery titled Beadle Royale, a project that will adopt an elimination-style format in deciding which story from sports or pop culture dominates the day.
“I know you’re thinking, ‘Well, thank god another podcast,’” Beadle said. “Yeah, I get it, but at least it’ll be fun for me doing it.”
Even though most of her work takes place in New York City, Beadle looks to make herself available for as many Spurs games as possible for the 2023-24 season. It certainly does not hurt that the team has a young phenom joining the team looking to make the NBA playoffs for the first time in four seasons.
“We have [Victor Wembanyama] now!,” Beadle exclaimed. “You don’t leave just when Wemby gets there; that’s the dumbest thing you could possibly do. I’m looking forward to it; the town has taken on a new excitement and it’s nice to see.”
A week after being announced as “Coming soon” to the PHLY Sports team, Anthony Gargano has been sued by 97.5 The Fanatic parent company Beasley Media Group for a contract violation.
Attorney and sports law reporter Jason Morrin on Monday night tweeted a screenshot of a civil lawsuit filed by Beasley in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia against both Gargano and PHLY and ALLCITY Network parent company BSN Live Inc.
NEW: Beasley Media Group filed a lawsuit against Talk Show Host and employee Anthony Gargano and All City Network.
Beasley, the owner of 97.5 The Fanatic, alleges that Gargano has accepted employment with All City, its competitor, in violation of Gargano's employment agreement. pic.twitter.com/PRBBa0WIEP
Gargano isn’t the only person with ties to Philly sports talk radio that was announced. Former 97.5 assistant PD Eric “Coach” Camille, former hosts Devon Givens and Jamie Lynch and Bill Matz, formerly of 94WIP, have all been hired.
AllPhly is part of the AllCity Network, which launched in 2014 and has expanded from its home base in Denver to Phoenix and Chicago before opening in Philadelphia.
Reporting last week in the Philadelphia Business Journal indicated that talks to bring Gargano into the fray at PHLY Sports and getting the outlet off the ground has been a year in the making. Gargano was introduced to AllCity VP of content Ryan Koenigsberg through an investor. Anthony was credited by AllCity CEO Brandon Spano as being instrumental in PHLY launching.
Spano was quoted in the story saying they’re working to figure out how to get Gargano in the mix given his contract situation with Beasley. A breach of contract lawsuit seemed like an inevitability.
“At the moment we’re trying to determine exactly what that involvement looks like as we navigate his contractual situation with the Beasley Media Group,” Spano said. “And I think the only thing that we can promise is that Anthony will be involved in many aspects. The network and fans will be able to watch him and listen to him. We just don’t know when that will be.”
ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro is all-in on continuing to make the network the leading source of sports news, and the company is committed to investing in journalism.
Speaking at the IMG Summit in London last week, Pitaro said there’s no room for error when it comes to reporting.
“Quality journalism has never been more of a priority at ESPN,” Pitaro said via The Athletic. “I really do believe we’re the place of record. When something happens in the sports industry, people look to ESPN. We have to get it right, we can’t get it wrong.”
Pitaro recognized there’s an immense level of trust in the work ESPN journalists do, and what’s most important to him is that his people are present and able to get the facts and get them correct. Breaking news before anyone else is great, but it’s not the end goal.
“We like to be first but don’t need to be first,” he said. “We have to get it right.”
“Enterprise journalism, investigative reporting, incredibly important to us,” Pitaro added. “We have a fantastic team out there that’s breaking news. There’s always been a question how important it is to ESPN, especially with its league relationships and as rights fees get more expensive, is it sustainable to be breaking news that is sometimes not flattering to partners? It’s a huge part of our DNA, investigative reporting. We are not going to be pulling back there at all.”
Not every professional sports franchise in a given city is going to be good every season, and while good times make for plenty of sports talk fodder, so do the bad times.
97.1 The Ticket host Mike Valenti knows all about the bad times as a host in Detroit. The Tigers are perennial losers, the Red Wings haven’t made noise as a playoff team in over a decade, the last time the Pistons were relevant Ben Wallace, Rip Hamilton and Chauncey Billups made up part of the starting five, and the Lions are the Lions.
But last week, Valenti said in an appearance on The Ringer’s The Press Box podcast with Bryan Curtis that something feels different about this year’s Lions team. They have galvanized their fanbase which yearns for success. He said there’s a good mix of hype, optimism, reservation and pessimism among Lions fans.
“Half the fans are ready to roll and ready to book tickets for Vegas for the Super Bowl, and the other half are sitting in the corner going, ‘You just wait, they’ll ruin it again,'” he said. “And you’re like, alright let’s find a middle ground here.”
While it’s easy for sports radio hosts to dunk on bad teams, that’s not going to get people to tune in with some regularity or carry the torch forward in Valenti’s eyes. It’s imperative that hosts keep those creative juices flowing.
“I always find it funny people think you want to be negative,” he said. “Or people think that that’s what sports radio is for. And yes that’s a part of it, but that’s not fun for me and that’s not good for business.”
“As a host I want games to talk about. I want moments,” Valenti added. “Those moments of tension, drama – the high-leverage moments in sports – you want those because that’s organic response for your audience. And so when your town has been as bad as Detroit has been, yeah creativity has to happen. Because if you just get on the air every day and say, ‘This team is bad,’ well yeah water’s wet.”
Mike said in terms of his own professional growth, having to stay creative given the lack of success from local pro teams has been supremely beneficial.
“I think for me, I can only speak for myself, I think what’s been great for my development as a radio host is you have to keep reinventing you and how you approach your show,” he said. “And then the elements you bring to it, the things you do, versus staying the course. You can’t get stale when your teams are bad. You must be creative, you must bring in new elements.”
After more than two months, Nexstar Media Group-owned stations returned to the channel lineups of DirecTV subscribers across the nation on Monday as the companies came to an agreement on a new distribution contract.
“DirecTV and Nexstar greatly appreciate the patience of their subscribers and viewers during this negotiation,” a joint statement from the companies read Monday.
The Nexstar blackout on DirecTV began on July 2. This came on the heels of months of negotiations that didn’t result in a deal right away. Financial terms of the agreement were not made public.
The two sides had a preliminary agreement in place on Sunday according to the LA Times, and DirecTV worked to get signals restored just in time for kickoff of Week 2 of the NFL season.
Last week Disney and Charter Communications reached an agreement on a new carriage deal. The dispute there left Spectrum customers without access to ABC and ESPN for both college football and the first Monday Night Football game of the 2023 season.
Monday marked the publication of the final edition of The New York Times sports section, commencing a move that will shift all local sports coverage to The Athletic. After news of the company’s decision was announced in July, members of The New York Times Guild filed a grievance against the move. The organization vowed to fight the decision with “every tool” at its disposal for a variety of reasons, one of which pertains to employees at The Athletic not being unionized.
On Monday at the company’s New York City office, sports staffers and guild members participated in a demonstration to express their displeasure towards the decision. While near the main atrium, they recited the names of nearly 150 sports employees, past and present, that have proved integral to the outlet’s coverage. Those involved referred to it as a “vigil,” honoring the vertical while displaying their indignation regarding the directive passed down from company chairman A.G. Sulzberger.
The New York Times Company purchased The Athletic in early 2022 as part of an all-cash transaction of $550 million. The two publications have been separated up until this point, but are now going to work together because of the changes in distribution methods and consumption. Adjusted operating losses at the sports journalism subsidiary decreased to $7.8 million last quarter amid burgeoning advertising revenue that more than doubled to $5.6 million.
Protests persisted outside of the company headquarters and featured a brass band to amplify their sound, conveying the magnitude of the decision that some feel serves as a microcosmic warning to the rest of the sports journalism industry. The Athleticlaid off 4% of its newsroom earlier this year, but the entity has hired various former sportswriters for The New York Times, including Matt Futterman, Oskar Garcia and Tyler Kepner. Garcia will work as a liaison between the outlet and its parent company, officially starting his role during a time of turbulent transition both internally and within the industry at large.
“The people who run The Times let our department twist in the wind, either purposely obscuring their plans for the future of sports coverage at [the] Times or spending $550 million on another sports publication without an editorial plan,” sports investigative reporter Jenny Vrentas voiced to those at the rally. “The way they’ve chosen to handle this has been unfair to workers at both The Times and The Athletic.”
Although The New York Times has bid farewell to its individual sports section, the company still plans to cover sports – and more adequately and broadly than ever before. The company will implement insightful enterprise reporting within The Athletic, focusing on quality journalism more so than a certain quantity of stories. Moreover, the company will launch a podcast tailored to sports business in the future, featuring reporters Ken Belson, Kevin Draper and the aforementioned Vrentas.
Dan Patrick recently inked a new four-year contract with iHeartMedia’s Premiere Networks and NBC Sports, a deal that is expected to be the final one of his storied broadcast career. The former ESPN SportsCenter anchor decided to leave the company after 14 years to operate his show independently. Over the last 16 years, he has augmented the reach of his brand through deals with distribution partners and radio affiliates and is one of the preeminent voices in the industry today.
When Patrick had his epiphany and subsequently declined a contract extension with ESPN, he operated his program out of the attic of his house for three years. Patrick and his show cast, known as the “Danettes,” bring listeners the latest sports news, debates and insights on a daily basis and also welcome newsworthy and intriguing guests to the program. Over the years, he has given out life advice to callers, a differentiating factor when compared to sports media personalities who confine the limits of what they are able to do to just the primary genre.
“I don’t do a sports show; I do a show,” Patrick said in a recent interview with GQ Sports. “Women will say, ‘My husband has your show on, and you’re talking about things that I actually enjoy or I can relate to.’ My goal is just to have a show and talk about whatever’s going on. I promised that I would not get political, but I will give you opinions.”
Patrick is a father of four and devoted more time to his family upon leaving ESPN, which he calls the “Mothership,” in 2007. In determining when to leave a career in sports media behind, he revealed that he spoke to Amazon Prime Video play-by-play announcer Al Michaels about longevity and when it is time to step away. Even though he will not be hosting his daily simulcast program in four years, he does not foresee himself ever truly being retired because of the broadcasting school he has at Full Sail University.
“I had to set a hard date because if not, I would continue to do this,” Patrick said, “and I worried that I wasn’t going to be sharp.”
The reason he decided to sign the contract extension before retiring was to remain invested in the daily grind of sports radio. There are certain times of the year when it becomes more difficult to find stories, but it is a challenge that he genuinely enjoys embarking on each day. Additionally, Patrick does not want to talk about things that may seem interesting on the surface, such as the specific performance of one player or team. Instead, he is more focused on finding the subjects rooted within these headlines to dive deeper into an issue and provide listeners with other viewpoints and more extensive conversation.
“You start and you go, ‘Hey, we’re going to do this,’ or, ‘Nope, this just happened. Now we’re changing this,’” Patrick described. “And there’s only 12 of us with my entire group on air and off the air. The guy who’s my cameraman mows the grass. The guy who’s the director – he set up the sprinkler system. Everybody has to do a lot of things.”
Once his retirement becomes official in four years, he says he will think of something new to do that will be scheduled but dissimilar from what he is doing now. Until then though, he is going to enjoy the remaining time hosting The Dan Patrick Show and being part of the daily routine of listeners, their interest in sports notwithstanding.
“I’m not a voice in your radio,” Patrick said. “It’s like that guy is talking to me. Every time, I feel like I’m talking to one person. It’s just there are a lot of them in the audience that I’m talking to. I hope I’m touching on things with these people that they can take with them or remember.”
A new forecast published by Borrell Associates claims local advertising in the U.S. will grow 4.4% in 2024 to a whopping $157.1 billion.
Digital advertising is expected to grow by 6%, which trails this year’s growth of 7.1%. Non-digital advertising is forecasted to grow just under 1%, which compares to a decline of nearly 5% this year.
“I wouldn’t exactly call it a return to traditional media but there does seem to be renewed interest in it,” said Borell’s chief forecaster Corey Elliott. “That may be because local businesses are gaining more marketing experience and see the possibilities beyond simple, inexpensive digital campaigns.”
Digital video and audio advertising is expecting a 9.3% and 7.7% growth, respectively. Local broadcast television is forecasted to grow by 9%.
“It’s a slight but noticeable shift for traditional forms of print and broadcast media,” Elliott said. “It may be due to the fact local businesses have been gaining marketing expertise over the past several years, handling their own websites and social pages. Our surveys consistently show that, the more marketing expertise someone has, the more likely they are to use print, broadcast, or outdoor media.”
Longtime sports journalist Howard Beck has found a new home, joining Bill Simmons at The Ringer ahead of the 2023-24 National Basketball Association season. The former Sports Illustrated writer and podcast host confirmed the news, first reported by actor Kelly AuCoin on X, formerly known as Twitter, and shared that he was elated to be joining the outlet. He shared that he has been a fan since the outlet’s inception in 2016, and now will have its platform to report on basketball news, rumors and other pertinent sports topics.
Beck was hosting a podcast with Locked On Network and serving as its NBA playoffs and offseason insider in addition to writing stories for GQ Sports over the last several months. In February of this year, he was laid off by Sports Illustrated as one of 17 staffers to lose their jobs. Three years earlier, Beck was let go by Bleacher Report after the digital media outlet ceased publication of its B/R Magazine. While with Bleacher Report, he hosted The Full 48 podcast and welcomed several guests onto the program for interviews, including the aforementioned Aucoin.
The University of California, Davis graduate is widely viewed as a reputable, credible source of news and information. Beck will now be utilizing that experience in his new role as a senior NBA writer, joining a platform with written and audiovisual work disseminated through digital platforms. Founder Bill Simmons headlines “The Ringer Podcast Network,” which features a wide array of content offerings that appeal to wide varieties of sports fans, and could choose to include Beck in its vast portfolio.
Beck’s announcement also elicited several congratulatory messages on X from former colleagues and NBA fans, coinciding on the same day as the final publication of The New York Times sports section. There will likely be more news to come regarding the type of role he has agreed to with the digital media outlet ahead of basketball’s tipoff next month.
