"One day you get a phone call, and I thought it was a return to work plan again. I was cleared, my [doctors] cleared me to do that. They went the other way, and they chose to terminate that contract."
Shares of Penn National Gaming fell by approximately 14% amid Portnoy indicating that the decision to move on from Mintz could represent a “death blow” to the company.
"ESPN has the talent, the access and the rights to own that conversation every day. Rather than treating the 2 p.m. hour as a seasonal football play, the network should turn it into a year-round destination for football fans."