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No Black Friday Game For The NFL In 2022

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Forget the NFL’s plan to take over Black Friday. Well, forget about it for 2022 anyway.

Peter King tweeted yesterday that the league feels like there are too many obstacles to make the game happen this season. Instead, expect the league and Amazon to be ready for 2023.

According to King, there were two major factors that lead to the decision. The first was the notion of giving the week seven nationally televised games. The other was that while the league would have to compete with college football on Black Friday in any year, in 2022 there is also a World Cup to worry about. The United States is scheduled to take on England on Black Friday.

It is definitely fair to think that an NFL game could outrate either of the other options. The problem is that there are people that would choose the novelty of the USMNT playing in the World Cup. The ratings win may not be big enough for the NFL to justify the cost of staging the game.

The decision seems like the right one for the NFL. It is also good news for CBS, ABC and FOX. Those networks routinely carry college football games on Black Friday. By waiting until 2023, the NFL has given those networks time to figure out their strategy for the future when the NFL will almost certainly be taking a big chunk out of the ratings they have become accustomed to.

NBC News Addressing Multiple Instances of Plagiarism

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NBC News Addressing Multiple Instances of Plagiarism

NBC News is reportedly taking steps to address multiple instances of plagiarism. According to Mediate, the company said articles written by an unidentified reporter did not meet quality standards. 

“The articles contained passages from other news organizations that were used without attribution,” the statement read. 

The network did not identify the reporter who allegedly committed the acts, but the reporter was named by a source as Teaganne Finn. The network said Finn is no longer with NBC News. 

According to her LinkedIn, Finn has served as a political reporter at NBC News and boasts of being an alumna of Bloomberg News. 

NBC News said passages from the plagiarized stories “contained supplemental or background material that did not represent original reporting.” 

“An editor’s note has been placed on each of the articles, and the passages that were plagiarized have been removed,” the statement read. 

The network reiterated that the trust of readers and viewers is essential to its success. “Our work must always meet the highest standards of our profession.”
The source said that this was the “first known instance of an incident of this nature occurring at NBC News.”

Piers Morgan: The Promo to Sell the Interview with Donald Trump Worked

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Talk show host Piers Morgan is reacting to recent comments made about him by former President Donald Trump regarding their recent interview on Morgan’s brand-new show. The “Uncensored” host appeared on Monday’s “Fox & Friends” with Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, and Brian Kilmeade.

“President Trump, it was a fantastic interview, everybody that I know who watched it thought that he came out of it well. Why you’re going completely crackers for a 30-second promo, I don’t know.”

In a statement, Trump criticized Morgan for his interview style and the narrative he tried to create.

“Ratings for the Piers Morgan interview with me were great! Unfortunately, after that interview, his show bombed completely because of the fake narrative he tried to portray. The fact is, I got a new close-up glimpse at Piers, and he no longer has what it takes,” Trump said. “It’s over for him!” 

Trump was reportedly unhappy that Morgan promoted the interview under the guise of him becoming unhinged regarding questions about the 2020 election. “I simply used a promo to sell the interview to get people to watch. It worked! Everybody watched!” Morgan said.

Morgan went on to say that the most interesting thing about the interview with Trump is how many people are willing to have Trump address some of the most pressing issues.

“To be fair to Donald Trump, he does generate a lot of heat for this stuff,” Morgan said referring to the discussion about election integrity. “To get 64 million different views from different platforms, it’s fascinating to me that you can create a massive audience from this stuff.”

Vice Denies Dark Side Of The Ring is Cancelled

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Vice Denies Dark Side Of The Ring is Cancelled

On Monday, MovieWeb reported that there would be no fourth season for Vice’s most popular series Dark Side of the Ring. The site cited the facts that the show was not part of what was presented for the network’s 2022-23 schedule and that Vice has not ordered new episodes of the show.

Tuesday morning, Vice issued a statement on Twitter saying that report was false.

There have been three seasons of Dark Side of the Ring. Each one set viewership records for the network. The number of episodes ordered increased from six for season one to ten for season two and fourteen for the final season.

The statement seems to indicate that there are bigger plans for the franchise. Vice has already presented Dark Side of Football and Dark Side of the 90s. It will be interesting to see where the network decides to go next and just how long we will be waiting for another season focused on professional wrestling.

Peter King: A Lot Of People Missed John Clayton At The Draft

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There was no shortage of tributes to the late John Clayton at the NFL Draft. As part of this week’s edition of his “Football Morning in America” column, NBC’s Peter King highlighted a number of conversations he had about the beloved NFL reporter that passed away in March.

King mentioned that he had a conversation with ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio. Sal Pal told King that Clayton’s death was hitting him particularly hard at the moment.

“He was talking about how often he’d talk to John, particularly in the leadup to the draft, and this year, after Clayton’s untimely death this spring, he missed those chats,” King wrote.

Los Angeles Chargers GM Tom Telesco was also thinking about John Clayton. He did not speak to King directly. His comments to local reporters in Los Angeles were reprinted in the “Football Morning in America” column.

“I know how much John loved the draft, and he was a big part of our NFL community too,” Telesco said.

John Clayton was 67 years old. He is survived by his wife Pat. A memorial fund was set up in his name by Seattle Sports 710 and Bonneville International, where he hosted his radio show.

Paul Finebaum: ‘I Don’t Believe College Football Is An Honest Game’

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Paul Finebaum visits with Cole Cubelic and Greg McElroy every Monday morning on Jox 94.5 in Birmingham. During this week’s appearance, McElroy asked Finebaum why so many people are talking about NIL deals for college athletes and the NCAA Transfer Portal as if they would be the end of college football.

Finebaum’s answer sure sounded like he was calling out, not only fans that talk that way, but some of his own colleagues as well. His point was simple. You may not like what is happening, but it isn’t actually hurting college football.

“I’m tired of hearing it because it’s not true,” Finebaum answered. “You’re 100% correct. On Saturdays this fall, there will still be, depending on the game, millions of people watching. Cumulatively the numbers are massive. And there will be 90,000 people, 100,000 people in the stadiums and there will be millions of people around the country betting on football, which is really what drives it.”

Last week, Paul Finebaum was in Las Vegas as part of ABC’s coverage of the NFL Draft. He said that he had a conversation off-air with a coach that had come to college football after a career in the NFL. This coach told Finebaum that the NFL can orchestrate a level playing field in a way that can’t be done with college football players now.

There was no reason to think the coach was lying, but Finebaum said the point was irrelevant to the popularity of the sport.

“All the conversations that we hear, really don’t matter. Yeah, there will be people that leave college football to go back to the NFL. There will be people that say ‘You know, I’ve had enough of this. I’m retiring’ or ‘I’m moving to something else.’ That’s fine. That’s not going to effect the number of people interested.”

Finebaum was blunt about what he disliked about what he has heard. He said he did not want to contribute to a conversation he did not agree with.

That wouldn’t have always been the case though. He told McElroy and Cubelic in the morning that when he was in the early days of his radio career, he may have been one of the people predicting that the changing landscape of college football spelled doom and gloom for the sport. Now, he is a little more skeptical of that kind of talk.

“I spent so much time early on looking into illegalities, and I was passionate about it. I believed college football should be run honestly,” he said. “I don’t believe that anymore. I don’t believe it is an honest game. I want to vomit every time I hear an administrator talk about student-athletes because that’s not what they are anymore.”

Mike Golic Jr: You Feel Like ‘A Product Of The Machine’ At ESPN

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Last week, it was announced that Mike Golic Jr. will be co-hosting a daily podcast for DraftKings called GoJo with one of his former teammates at Notre Dame, Brandon Newman. The first episode of the show launched on May 2. 

Recently, Golic Jr. was on The Dan LeBatard Show with StuGotz and he asked why he decided to join DraftKings.

“I think for me, it was the right time, right opportunity. I had seen what the partnership with DraftKings had done with you guys. I had seen that this was starting to bear legitimate fruit. They came through with the right amount of time and money to be honest, that always helps. There’s an opportunity here for maybe a little better work-life balance. There’s an opportunity here to do something that’s got more flexibility both creatively and schedule-wise.” 

Golic made it clear that he does not have any ill will towards ESPN. However, he did say that he was interested in creating his own content and identity outside of Bristol.

“I didn’t leave with a bad taste in my mouth at ESPN. Obviously, there’s the stuff relative to dad that will always tick me off a bit. In my case, I know what that place did for me and the opportunities it was affording me. It was a hard decision, but one of those where I just looked and said ‘when am I going to have an opportunity to maybe go and get in on the ground floor of something, go and actually build and create something?’

“Inside the four letters, with very few exceptions, for the most part you end up feeling kind of like a product of the machine. You’re never quite sure how much does someone enjoy me, how much does someone just enjoy the safety and security that ESPN and the four letters provide? If not now, then when?”

NFL Network Producer: AJ Brown Trade Is The Draft At Its Best

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NFL Network Producer: AJ Brown Trade Is The Draft At Its Best

If you ask NFL Media Executive Producer Charlie Yook when his team shines brightest during the NFL Draft, he will say that it is in the moments you cannot prepare for. He told Richard Deitsch that a perfect example of that during the 2022 NFL Draft came when the Tennessee Titans traded AJ Brown to the Philadelphia Eagles.

“We’re all reacting, just like everyone’s reacting, and A.J. Brown is a representation of that. We don’t feed the analysts anything in advance,” Yook said. “Their reaction is natural. I don’t want to use the word scrambling, but we are moving as fast as we can because the body of the draft is still going on.”

That spontaneity was perfectly captured when Rich Eisen announced the trade to the panel. Daniel Jeremiah responded with a simple “Wow!”

There was plenty of action and reaction that added to the atmosphere of the moment, and Yook and his crew tried to capture it all. Among them was a shot of a Titans fan dancing in celebration of getting the 18th overall pick. Eisen was quick to note that fan probably had no idea about AJ Brown. Also, when the Titans used that pick to select Treylon Burkes out of Arkansas, Jeremiah showed on screen that the NFL player the Arkansas receiver was most comparable to was Brown.

Yook explained that trade and moments like it present a challenge. The broadcasters have to acknowledge the huge news that has just broken while also focusing on the Draft itself. There is another team on the clock after all.

“In the truck it is controlled chaos, and those are things I watch back later,” Yook said.

NCAA Allows Members To Sell Player Data To Sportsbooks

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The NCAA has opened the door to another revenue stream for its members. According to Sportico, a memo went out last week that made it clear that schools and conferences can sell player data to sportsbooks. The only caveat is that the information sold to sportsbooks must also be available to the general public.

Professional leagues have been selling data to sportsbooks for some time now. Those deals often come along with a big check to make a sportsbook or clearinghouse “the official data partner” of the league involved.

Two NCAA conferences are already taking advantage of the ruling. The Mid American Conference is the one that asked for clarity as it shops for its own deal. It is pursuing a partnership with Genius Sports. The PAC-12 already has a data partnership in place. It has no yet begun selling data to sportsbooks.

Many NCAA schools already have sportsbook partnerships in place. The University of Colorado has a five-year, multi-million dollar deal with PointsBet that also pays the school $30 every time someone opens an account through its referral.

Bill Maher: Twitter Will Remain the Same After Elon Musk Takeover

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HBO host Bill Maher discussed Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter during the “Real Time”  show Saturday. According to Decider, Maher referred to Musk in his monologue and talked about the platform’s takeover in a panel discussion with MSNBC host Ali Vashi and former Alabama Democratic Senator Doug Jones.

“Some people like it, some people don’t. Elon said everybody is worrying about nothing; Twitter is going to remain a place where something you brain farted when you were in high school,” Maher joked.

Maher joked about Musk’s tweet, which said he would purchase Coca-Cola and add the cocaine back into it. “Sure, it’s all fun and games until Hunter Biden gets his head stuck in the vending machine.”

During the panel discussion, Vashi insisted that it’s time Big Tech gets honest about its effect on democracy.

“Russian bots don’t have a First Amendment privilege,” countered Jones.

Maher argued that Twitter failed in its responsibility to allow parties from both sides to have an opportunity to share stories. He said the censoring of the Hunter Biden laptop story was a perfect example of how the platform can influence the outcome of a story.

“This is well within what satire has always been,” Maher said of the Bee’s work. “Flagging shows a complete lack of judgment. You have failed.”

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