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Carey Davis Replacing Michelle Smallmon on 101 ESPN Morning Show

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After the Monday announcement that Michelle Smallmon would depart 101 ESPN in St. Louis for a role on SportsCenter All Night on ESPN Radio, the station said they’d have an announcement later this week. Carey Davis was announced as the new co-host to pair with Randy Karraker for a renamed show.

“I am honored and happy to be able to hopefully hold on to the seat that you had and do a good enough job like you did,” Davis said to Smallmon during the announcement.

Karraker revealed when the Rams left St. Louis in 2016 and Demarco Farr departed the station, he lobbied for Davis to be his co-host. “The top of my list has always been Carey Davis, if I was going to have another co-host,” Karraker said. “So I’m beyond thrilled that we get to sit around, talk sports, and laugh.”

“To be able to work with you, Randy, is gonna be awesome. I appreciate you. What you’ve done for my career thus far,” said Davis.

The Opening Drive will debut on Monday, September 12th with Karraker and Davis. A former Illinois running back, Davis played portions of seven seasons in the NFL with six teams, winning a Super Bowl with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2009. Davis, 41, currently serves as the sideline reporter for the Illinois football radio broadcasts and has been a frequent guest host on 101 ESPN.

Mad Dog Sports Radio Replacing Pat McAfee With Dusty Dvoracek, Danny Kanell

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Mad Dog Sports Radio Replacing Pat McAfee With Dusty Dvoracek, Danny Kanell

After the surprising announcement that The Pat McAfee Show would leave the Mad Dog Sports Radio lineup on SiriusXM, the satcaster didn’t have to look for a replacement.

Dog Days with Dusty Dvoracek and Danny Kanell will debut in the 12:00 PM-3:00 PM timeslot on Mad Dog Sports Radio on Tuesday, September 6th.

The pair made the announcement on their current morning show. Sources confirm to BSM that Dusty and Danny will continue to air from 7:00 AM-9:00 AM on ESPNU Radio in addition to their new show on Mad Dog Sports Radio. Dusty and Danny began in August of last year after Dvoracek departed The Sports Animal.

Dvoracek, an Oklahoma grad, was a two-time All-Big 12 performer and played for four seasons in the NFL before launching a media career. He also works as an analyst for ESPN’s college football coverage.

Kanell was the ACC Player of the Year during his senior season at Florida State in 1995. He has since worked at ESPN Radio and FS1. In addition to his show on SiriusXM, Kanell works as a college football analyst for CBS Sports Network.

Keith Olbermann: CNN Humiliated Itself With Joe Biden Speech Coverage

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Keith Olbermann: CNN Humiliated Itself With Joe Biden Speech Coverage

Former cable news host Keith Olbermann criticized CNN during his Countdown with Keith Olbermann podcast for the responses of several of its on-air talent to the speech given by President Joe Biden on Thursday.

During his speech, Biden discussed the ongoing threat to democracy in America from what he called “semi-fascists”.

“People from NBC, and CBS, and ABC, and the AP, and major newspapers all struggled with the newness of Biden’s approach last night as indeed they all struggled with the newness and evil of Trump’s approach,” Olbermann said. “But CNN deserves to be singled out. We know it has installed a hatchet man for Joe Scarborough as its new president. We know its new owner thinks Brett Baier of Fox News is not only not a biased propogandist but a role model for journalism. And three of its correspondents know this as well.”

He then criticized anchors Poppy Harlow and Brianna Keller and reporter Jeff Zeleny by name for their responses before, during, and after Biden’s speech. Harlow said Biden should issue an apologies to Republicans. Keller and Zeleny said the presence of soldiers behind Biden went against decorum that should keep the military apolitical. Olbermann then noted the marines stationed behind Biden during the speech are permanently stationed at Independence Hall, where Biden spoke.

Before leveling his criticism of CNN, Olbermann slammed the entire political news media in the country for their inability to digest any new approach from a political figure.

“Political media in this country is its own industry that only understands its past and its own language. It cannot be flexible, it cannot respond to new threats, it is unable to function without first shoving everything that ever happens into one of the dozen or less templates that are the only things it can comprehend or process.”

Millennials, Gen Z Consume More News Than Expected

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A recent survey conducted by the Media Insight Project reveals a surprising number of millennials and Gen Z consume news.

79% of those surveyed between the ages of 16-40 receive news daily. However, 32% say they don’t find the news enjoyable or entertaining. 53% of respondents in 2015 said they did enjoy or were entertained by the news.

37% said they talk with their friends or family about the news, down from 53% in 2015. 61% said they want news to be fair to all sides, 69% say they want the news to verify and get facts correct, and 57% expect news outlets to be neutral.

Social Media has seen a drop in prevalence as a news source, with 40% saying they get news from Facebook, down from 57% in 2015. Only 32% of those aged 16-24 said they used Facebook for news. YouTube (37%) and Instagram (34%) both surpassed Facebook in that age range.

6,000 people were surveyed in the report.

MLB Wants Local Games On MLB.TV

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MLB Wants Local Games On MLB.TV

According to a story from Owen Poindexter of Front Office Sports, Major League Baseball wants games broadcasted by regional sports networks added to MLB.TV.

Due to blackout restrictions, games produced by regional sports networks are unavailable to subscribers in-market, as are national broadcasts. MLB’s goal is to change that.

MLB Chief Revenue Officer Noah Garden told Sports Business Journal “I hope at one point to have in-market (streaming) available”.

MLB.TV, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary, brings in $430 million in revenue for the league annually. Meanwhile, Bally Sports+, the $19.99 streaming platform offered by Sinclair-owned Diamond Sports, hopes to also add Major League Baseball rights to its streaming offerings. The Rays, Marlins, Brewers, Tigers, and Royals all currently have their games included on Bally Sports+.

Damon Amendolara: Criticism Of Maggie Gray ‘Sounds A Little Sexist’

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Damon Amendolara: Criticism Of Maggie Gray ‘Sounds A Little Sexist’

Maggie Gray of CBS Sports Radio took some heat recently for incorrectly describing the role of various positions across the offensive line in football. While she publicly laughed off most of it, her colleague Damon Amendolara thought at least one comment was especially disrespectful.

Amendolara was asked about WDAE’s Ian Beckles saying that Gray “doesn’t know sports” on the new episode of The Sports Talkers Podcast. He told Stephen Strom that he was not happy about it.

“I know the work she puts in and I don’t think that’s fair to say,” Amendolara said. “I also thought it feels a little sexist because it’s ‘Hey, MAGGIE doesn’t know what she’s talking about.’ There was kind of a tinge there that when I heard him say it, it kinda sounds like we’re telling the women they don’t know sports.”

Damon Amendolara was careful to say that he does not know Beckles and he is not definitively saying the former guard for the Buccaneers and Eagles is a sexist. His problem is with the comment itself.

He added that he understands the frustration athletes have with any member of the media that criticizes what happens on the field, because it has to be exhausting hearing hot takes about yourself and your teammates.

“We’re not subtle enough,” he said. “Everything today is pull the pin on the grenade and throw it and blow it up. I’m not saying Maggie does that, but we as a media do that all the time.”

He added that the attitude some athletes have that if you didn’t play the game you are not qualified to talk about it is especially frustrating. Someone like Ian Beckles should know that. He, like so many other athletes, chose a career in the media when their playing days were over and should see how hard their colleagues work to be informed and understand what they are seeing on the field.

“I relate to athletes in that way because I hear athletes dismiss the media, then go into the media and go ‘well, this is a little bit harder than I thought.’ Randy Moss and all these guys that shunned the media for years and then got into it and said ‘Yeah, this is probably a little harder than I thought.’ It’s like ‘Oh, you think? We’re committed as well to our craft.’”

Pat Narduzzi: ‘ESPN Disrespected Our Fans’

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After a thrilling 38-31 win over West Virginia in the resurrection of the Backyard Brawl, Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi was focused on making sure people knew he, his team, and Pitt fans felt disrespected by ESPN.

Earlier in the week, College Football Live showed a graphic with statistics from VividSeats.com that said 75% of tickets sold to the Backyard Brawl were purchased by West Virginia fans, which Narduzzi took issue with.

“ESPN had some bad facts,” Narduzzi said in the postgame press conference. “They disrespected our fans, and our fans showed up. They were unbelievable all day today.”

Narduzzi’s comments in the postgame press conference came after he levied the same criticism on SportsCenter to Scott Van Pelt immediately following the victory.

Mike Tirico, Cris Collinsworth ‘Already Comfortable’ Together

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NBC’s primetime Sunday Night Football booth is bringing a new look to both its booth and its broadcast as it seeks to become primetime television’s number one show for the 12th straight year. With the regular season quickly approaching, the broadcast team of Mike Tirico, Cris Collinsworth, and Melissa Stark has worked throughout the summer to build a working chemistry with one another.

Mike Tirico enters this role after previously serving as the voice of Monday Night Football on ABC from 2006 to 2015, a role he entered replacing Al Michaels when NBC acquired the Sunday-night rights . Since that time, he has been the host of NBC’s Football Night in America and also continues to be the host of primetime coverage of the Olympic Games.

Now, as Michaels joins his producer Fred Gaudelli at Amazon Prime Video, Tirico will once again take his seat in the booth. While he knows Michaels set a high standard, he is confident that he and his colleagues can continue to reach it, especially following their call of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game from Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio in early August.

“If I learned anything in Canton, it’s that my instincts are to be trusted,” Tirico said. “We’re going to be fine. Everybody communicates; everybody connects, gets along [and we are] similar-minded folks. Sometimes when you look at sports television, I think the most valuable thing is putting together a group that fits and works well together.”

Being just the fourth full-time play-by-play announcer on Sunday Night Football is certainly something Tirico does not take lightly; however, at this stage in his career, it does not profoundly influence his mindset, if at all. With the start of the regular season on the precipice, Tirico is excited to get started and become a weekly fixture during primetime football on Sunday nights.

“It’s an assignment that I’ve worked for,” Tirico said. “I feel like I’ve completely prepared for [it] and I am surrounded by the best people. For me, there’s no angst about being the next person in that chair.”

Cris Collinsworth remains the constant in the broadcast booth as he enters his 14th season as an analyst in the booth. Now as he famously slides in the broadcast open each week, it will be Tirico instead of Michaels on his right. The change is not entirely distressing to Collinsworth, considering he and Tirico have previously called 21 NFL games together since 2016: more than a full season’s worth. With a new host of colleagues joining the team, he understands the importance of developing synergy among team members, but entering this season, he does not feel the previous flow has abated significantly.

“I understand there’s going to be a transition period of time, but we’ve already spent a lot of time together, obviously, getting ready for this season,” Collinsworth said. “There’s a real comfort already to just being a part of the group and being friends and being able to tell jokes about each other and on each other that typically don’t come until you’ve known somebody a couple years at least, and it’s just like a group I’m used to hanging out with already. I hope that’s what comes across on the air.”

Joining Tirico and Collinsworth on the broadcast team from the sidelines is Melissa Stark, a longtime reporter in both sports and news media. Stark had been an NFL Network host for the past 11 seasons following a stint at NBC News and MSNBC. She is set to return to the sidelines for the first time in nearly 20 years, as she previously worked in the role for Monday Night Football on ABC but left it in order to start a family.

“Sports was always my passion, so now here I am coming back four teenagers later,” Stark said. “[I’m] so excited to work with the very best in the business… and excited about all the new resources that we have on the sidelines.” Season 17 of Sunday Night Football on NBC will commence with the kickoff game between the defending Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams and Buffalo Bills on NBC and streaming on Peacock.

Three days later, the first Sunday night matchup of the year takes place when Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers visit Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys, which will include the premiere of a new show open for the broadcast featuring 8-time Grammy Award winning singer Carrie Underwood. Both matchups are set to kick off at 8:20 EST/7:20 CST.

Jason Rantz: Don Lemon Will Play the Victim When CNN Fires Him

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Seattle radio host Jason Rantz ripped CNN host Don Lemon Wednesday for comments that he made about a Trump-backed Senatorial candidate from Arizona.  

Blake Masters has been heavily criticized by left-leaning pundits for speaking out against some of President Joe Biden’s cabinet appointments. In the past, Masters has referred to Biden’s administration as the “affirmative action regime.”

“The ratings-challenged Don Lemon wanted to make a big deal about this. And of course, since it’s Don Lemon that we’re talking about, he does it in a disingenuous and bad faith way,” said “The Jason Rantz Show” host. 

Lemon told his viewers that Masters didn’t believe anything that he told his supporters.

“If you listen to all the people that say the same things as he says, they all sound alike, it’s a script,” Lemon said. “He (Masters) is trying to rile up his base.”

 “Coming from the dude who’s constantly talking about white supremacy embedded in every institution and that’s the reason why the BIPOC community can’t move forward,” said Rantz. “But the white people are aggrieved? Don’t you constantly talk about how evil white people are?”

 Rantz said it’s a matter of time before Lemon gets fired from CNN because the network is clearly going in a different direction.

 “When that happens, he will, I’m sure, play victim,” Rantz added.  

Dana Perino: Karine Jean-Pierre Doesn’t Give Good Answers

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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is taking some heat from right-leaning pundits for her response to questions about America’s fentanyl crisis. 

On Wednesday, “The Five” co-host Dana Perino talked about Jean-Pierre’s response to Fox News White Correspondent Peter Doocy’s questioning about the role the Biden administration’s border policy plays in perpetuating the drug epidemic. 

“The thing that I don’t think that the White House understands is that the reason this issue resonates in places like New Hampshire and Vermont is because they — people can inherently understand that a generation is having to deal with this,” Perino said. 

For the last couple of days, Doocy has pressed Jean-Pierre on border policy questions. Wednesday, he asked her what the president was doing to secure the Southern border. 

“Well, she has to do a job because she got a job to do and she doesn’t have good answers,” Perino said. “So, she’s trying to do her best there. I don’t think there was a lot there for her to work with.” 

“I really encourage people to read this Wall Street Journal piece about the two Mexican drug cartels that are fighting and trying to, well, they get the drugs, the precursor stuff, the chemicals from China,” added Perino.

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