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Mike Evans: Rest of 104.3 The Fan Staff Spent Tuesday Coming After Us

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Mike Evans: Rest of 104.3 The Fan Staff Spent Tuesday Coming After Us

Mark Schlereth and Mike Evans are not panicking enough for their colleagues at 104.3 The Fan. The morning duo said Wednesday that they spent most of Tuesday being bashed on air for saying that there was some good to take out of the Broncos’ first preseason game. 

They pointed to Brandon Stokely in particular. The midday host went on a rant, calling the morning duo “got soft” and their standard for celebration has dropped because they are not worried about results.

Schlereth pointed out that the Broncos were far from alone in scoring less than 20 points in their first preseason game. That inspired Evans to sarcastically declare that it will be the most boring year in NFL history and he and Schlereth can spend Sundays on the golf course instead of watching football.

“I don’t even want to give you credit by calling it logic, but that is so flawed,” said in response to audio of Stokely’s critique. “So let me ask you, when Sean Payton took over, what was everybody’s immediate reaction as to what his biggest job was this year? Change the culture and fix Russell Wilson, yeah? Okay, at no point when everybody on the text line, on our shows, when everybody was out there saying, ‘Yeah, you know, you got to fix Russell Wilson, right? That’s what Sean Payton is here to do first.’ I at no point ever, ever heard Stokely or Zach or D Mac or Nate Jackson, ever, and please guys, if you did say it, I want to make sure you get your credit where they came out and said, ‘Oh, yeah, I expect it to happen week one or two of training camp. I expect this to be an offense that’s just mowing them down. Yeah, I expect it. I believe it and I demand that’ll happen.’ Did anybody ever say that?”

In his rant, Stokely said that the rest of the station only is asking for improvement. He said that no one was demanding the 2023 Broncos be on par with the 2004 Indianapolis Colts, one of the NFL’s most prolific offenses in history.

Schlereth pointed out that in the first game of the 2004 preseason, even the Colts only scored 7 points. That drew a hardy laugh from Evans.

“This is why occasionally the wolfpack needs to flex their muscles and just remind the sheep that they are sheep,” he said.

Robb Holloway Departs Mornings at 1120 KPNW, Gerry Snyder Takes Over

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Robb Holloway Departs Mornings at 1120 KPNW, Gerry Snyder Takes Over

After 15 years, 1120 KPNW morning host Robb Holloway has exited the Bicoastal Media news/talk station.

Holloway co-hosted The Wake Up Call on the Eugene, Oregon station alongside Bill Lundun.

“It’s been a great run and I think the show we put on was pretty kick-ass,” Holloway said in a Facebook post announcing his exit last week. “I would’ve listened if I wasn’t paid to. Bill will continue with (The Wake Up Call) brilliance and it will continue to fly to new heights. Of that, I have no doubt.”

In total, Holloway spent 17 years with Bicoastal Media.

His replacement comes from inside the cluster, as Gerry “G-Man” Snyder shifts the company’s country morning show after it reshuffled its lineup.

“I’m super excited to announce that I am joining News Talk 1120/93.7 KPNW Wake Up Call to co-host the morning show with radio legend Bill Lundun,” said Snyder in a Facebook post. Snyder will host the news/talk morning show before hosting middays on the company’s country station.

Bret Baier: Trump Said Interview Was ‘Tough But Fair’ Before Trashing Me Publicly

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Bret Baier: Trump Said Interview Was ‘Tough But Fair’ Before Trashing Me Publicly

In June, Fox News anchor Bret Baier sat down for an extensive interview with former President Donald Trump after being indicted on 37 counts connected to his mishandling of classified documents.

In an interview with Women’s Wear Daily, Baier says the former President told him the interview went well for both sides, before ultimately trashing him in a subsequent interview.

“Immediately after the tape stopped, he said that he thought he was strong in the interview. And he said it was tough but fair,” said Baier. “I made sure to get some of that on camera. He has since (said) it was nasty or not nice.”

Trump told Newsmax host Eric Bolling he thought “there was nothing friendly” about the interview with Baier before calling it “nasty”. He later called Fox News “a hostile network” because of Baier’s demeanor during the conversation.

As the 2024 Republican presidential campaign hits full stride, many have questioned if Trump will participate in the first debate scheduled for next week on Fox News. Baier believes its likely the former President will be in attendance.

“It’s hard for me to believe that the former president is going to walk away from that stage,” concluded Baier.

OutKick Reaches New Heights in July

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OutKick Reaches New Heights in July

OutKick saw its highest year-over-year growth in July, with more than 6 million unique visitors coming to the conservative sports site.

That figure is a 119% increase compared to the same time period in 2022. In total, the outlet saw 24 million multiplatform views.

“It’s always great to see OutKick’s strong growth every month. We continue to distribute engaging content on topics that reach beyond sports and add talent to our roster that embrace common sense reporting,” OutKick founder Clay Travis said.

The company also touted more than 13 million video views across Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, making it the eighth-highest month on record.

During July, the company added a show featuring former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines. Gaines for Girls debuted on July 12th and is centered on being an advocate for biological women competing in women’s sports.

DBL Down Media Rebrands as Disrupt Media, Adds Brock Huard, Daniel Jeremiah and More

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DBL Down Media Rebrands as Disrupt Media, Adds Brock Huard, Daniel Jeremiah and More

It was a gamble for Lance Taylor, Jim Dunaway, and Ryan Brown when they left Jox 94.5 in Birmingham to launch their own digital company. On Wednesday, DBL Down Media celebrated its second anniversary by with some major announcements and a rebrand on the trio’s show The Next Round.

“We finally have the vision we want,” said Taylor.

DBL Down Media will now be Disrupt Media. The trio is cutting an hour off their own show to make room for a whole lot of new content and there are some big names attached.

Peter Burns will partner with Ryan Brown for a weekly show called The Burn Out. The SEC Network star told The Next Round hosts that he has been a fan of theirs for a long time and often tunes in when his own show ends.

“I love the idea because it is what I did almost a decade ago,” Burns said. “I didn’t like the job I was doing, and I was like ‘Okay, I gotta bet on myself and do it’ so I have been champing you guys since day one and any opportunity to get on board, and here it is!”

Tom Luginbill is also coming on board. The ESPN college football analyst will host three shows each week for Disrupt Media. Monday Morning Live with Tom Luginbill will air at 7 AM central time each Monday during the football season and feature Jim Dunaway. Luginbill’s other shows will be the more nationally-focused Spittin’ Loogs and the scheme-heavy Ball.

Dunaway will also be hosting Unlocked with FOX Sports’s Brock Huard. Dunaway said that it felt like a full circle moment for him, considering that when he was in college he used to read the weekly column Huard wrote for USA Today when Huard was a coveted recruit.

The new additions to the lineup are not all about college football. Daniel Jeremiah of NFL Network will have a show too. DJ Football will focus on the NFL each week.

“Learning more about the lineup, and I won’t say any names here, I think I’m hitting in the eight hole with this set up here,” Jeremiah joked. “I’m just trying to get us back to the top of the lineup!”

Neil McCready and Tyler Siskey are bringing their McCready & Siskey podcast to the company as well. It will run three days per week.

Brown says that the company has so many announcements as the lineup expands, that there is not enough time to reveal them all in a single day. The company will add more details on Thursday’s edition of The Next Round.

Mark Levin: Facebook Won’t Accept Ads For My Book Because of Title

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Mark Levin: Facebook Won’t Accept Ads For My Book Because of Title

Mark Levin is currently promoting his book The Democrat Party Hates America, and has seen another roadblock. This time, the problem rests with Facebook and Instagram.

During The Mark Levin Show Monday, the author and radio host claimed the social media platform has refused to accept advertisements from the book’s publisher due to its title.

“My publisher has attempted to do really something that’s awful,” Levin said, sarcastically. “Take the cover of my book and put it on Facebook and on Instagram. The video you see on Twitter and Truth Social and the other non-Facebook sites, all over the place except without the music. They said no.

“And in fact, they did more than that which I’m not at liberty to say because the publisher wants to get along with Facebook. I understand that. And I’m not interested in making a big issue out of this. But I’m not going to deny to you what I already know.”

Levin then argued that his book isn’t out of the ordinary with other content posted to the social media sites.

“I don’t know why it’s so controversial to put on a social site or on Instagram, the cover of the book, The Democrat Party Hates America when you see the filth and the scum and the stuff that they put on Instagram and yes on Facebook,” said Levin. “If somebody had written a book The Republican Party Hates America, I guarantee there would be no issues.”

This isn’t the first pushback Levin has seen while promoting his book. He claimed last month that Target had declined to carry the book in its physical locations, choosing to offer it as an online exclusive. However, the retailer has since said it would offer the book in stores. Levin credited his audience for the strong pushback against Target as reason for the reversal.

The Democrat Party Hates America is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, September 23rd.

Peter Schrager: My Information has to Differ From Adam Schefter & Ian Rapaport

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Peter Schrager’s travel schedule gets very busy during the NFL season between his roles at Good Morning Football Monday-Friday on NFL Network in New York City and on FOX NFL Kickoff in Los Angeles every Sunday. When he is on FOX NFL Kickoff, his role is a little different because he is looking to give you information that is different from other NFL insiders. 

Schrager was a guest on the SI Media With Jimmy Traina podcast this week and he mentioned that the scoops he looks to give has to be different than what Adam Schefter might report on ESPN or Ian Rapaport on the NFL Network. 

“I think if you are a self-motivated individual in the competitive world that we are in, you don’t want to get stomped on and have Schefter and Rapoport and all these guys have 6 new things to bring to the table and then I come on at 11 AM and I’m like what they said a hour ago, I’m going to tell you what’s happening too. You can just read Twitter.”

Schrager said that he has different relationships than what other NFL insiders might have, which leads him to finding information that they might not necessarily get, such as the big news about Kliff Kingsbury late last year. 

“I’ve got a different kind of role through GMFB and FOX where I might have some information that I know they are not going to have. One of them last year was Kliff Kingsbury telling me last year after he got fired that he was going to Thailand on a one-way ticket. I sit on that for an entire week, get to FOX on a Sunday and I drop that bomb and it was the biggest story in sports for a week.”

With everyone looking for any NFL news they can get their hands on, what kind of news could Schrager be looking for?

“The personal stuff,” he told Traina. “What Dan Quinn said to his team the night before, what footage of an old boxing match did he show his Cowboys defense? No one else is going to have that. I’ll have that.”

Boog Sciambi, Jason Benetti Blast Kevin Brown Suspension on 670 The Score

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Although he has made his return to MASN broadcasts of Baltimore Orioles baseball, the suspension of play-by-play announcer Kevin Brown is still being talked about in baseball circles. The decision was made after Brown made a relatively innocuous remark on the air about the Orioles’ record at Tropicana Field against the Tampa Bay Rays.

Appearing on 670 The Score’s live broadcast from Gallagher Square ahead of the Chicago Cubs matchup against the crosstown rival White Sox on Tuesday, play-by-play announcers Jon “Boog” Sciambi and Jason Benetti shared what compelled them to speak out on the plight of Brown. In fact, as Danny Parkins was preparing to ask the question, Sciambi said, “Here comes the Kevin Brown question.”

“I thought it was very cool that so many of your colleagues came out in support of him,” Parkins said. “I do not think that is something that is entirely common across other sports and other professions.”

Sciambi said the situation with the Orioles does not depict how most of the industry operates.

“In my experience, it’s happened nil,” Sciambi said. “Even though you can have a perception of an owner and you can have a perception of a play-by-play guy that works for that team, the idea that they get connected very frequently – again, it’s my experience and it’s not like we don’t talk to one another – it doesn’t happen very much. I would say what happened with the Orioles is a serious outlier.”

Benetti said that someone from the White Sox asked him whether or not discussing the situation with Brown was decided in a mass meeting of MLB play-by-play announcers.

“It was just so egregious that they decided because of that insistence – and I’ve heard nothing about any other insistence where Kevin was told to be more positive – you know him,” Benetti said. “He’s the most positive person doing this; he’s not here for hot takes or anything. It was ridiculous. I don’t think they would have done that with somebody who’s been doing it for 15 years either, and that made me mad personally.”

Recognizing the innate talent of Sciambi and Benetti, the show pushed for them to try to broadcast a game together – despite working for different regional sports networks. Benetti divulged that he and Sciambi, in fact, did call two KBO baseball games together during the 2020 height of Covid. Both seemed interested in the idea of working together; however, they know the complications involved in collaborating such an effort.

FOX Sports Radio Brings Back Countdown to Kickoff for 2023 Football Season

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FOX Sports Radio is bringing Brian Noe back for its pregame football show in 2023. Countdown to Kickoff returns for a second year with Noe hosting a college version on Saturdays and an NFL edition on Sundays.

Countdown to Kickoff will make its 2023 debut on August 19. The NFL edition will debut the following day.

Noe will partner with San Diego Sports 760’s Rich Ohrnberger and betting analyst Jared Smith for the college show. Sundays will see Noe paired with Geoff Schwartz and professional sports bettor Bill Krackomberger. 

The show will be available on FOX Sports Radio affiliates across the country. It will also be available as a podcast after airing live.

Ken Carman: ‘NBA In-Season Tournament Feels Forced’

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Ken Carman: ‘NBA In-Season Tournament Feels Forced’

The National Basketball Association announced the schedule for its inaugural in-season tournament yesterday, which divides teams from each conference into groups to compete for the NBA Cup. Regular season games on Tuesdays and Fridays starting on Nov. 3 will count towards the tournament, which will culminate in the semifinals and finals to take place from Las Vegas, Nev.

Ken Carman and Anthony Lima are discussing the Cleveland Cavaliers as they prepare to make strides after a successful regular season last year. With championship aspirations in mind though, Carman finds it hard to believe that he is going to be interested in the in-season tournament as opposed to the regular NBA Playoffs. In short, he is more interested in seeing the team compete for the Larry O’Brien Trophy rather than winning a competition that may or may not prove to be insignificant in the future.

“I don’t like things forced down my throat – most things. This feels forced,” Carman said on 92.3 The Fan on Wednesday morning. “An in-season tournament with the NBA feels forced. I saw the schedule, and I know it’s group play but I’m just going, ‘It’s just basketball games.’ We’re all talking about this being a tournament – it’s just a schedule.”

The games that will count as part of an in-season tournament were unveiled yesterday on a special edition of NBA Today on ESPN. The network, along with TNT, is broadcasting 14 of these games on the national stage leading up to its move to Las Vegas.

Commencement of the in-season tournament comes two seasons before the expiration of the NBA’s national media rights deal, and there is a chance it could impact the negotiations if it is successful. League Commissioner Adam Silver has voiced that the league is looking to amalgamate linear and digital platforms in its next deal, potentially opening a pathway for over-the-top (OTT) streamers such as Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV to enter the negotiations. ESPN is working towards developing a direct-to-consumer product, which reports indicate could launch as soon as 2025.

Carman, however, just does not see the point, leading Lima to point out that he felt similarly about the pitch clock in Major League Baseball. This season, the sport is seeing an approximate 9.5% bump in attendance, leading to more enthralling and engaging action. These developments caused Carman to walk back his previous resistance and admit that the innovation was a positive development for the sport. As for the NBA In-Season Tournament, he foresees himself being correct about the situation and it playing out much differently than some people would expect.

“I can’t see myself doing it,” Carman said of changing his tune. “I don’t think there’s any bit of a difference whatsoever.”

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