Tag: Fox Sports

"Far too many were eager to mock a staged wrestling angle, a promotional appearance, or a calculated branding move that they overlooked what was actually happening."

"He is psychotic. I'm not using it as a pejorative. He is unwell. He requires this adulation because there is nothing he's coming home to."

"It almost feels to me there is this push from the networks that have been losing to the streaming services. The number, they're just pumping out false stuff to make it seem like they're winning over the streaming services."

"We had the World Cup for two decades and it was a big part of ESPN’s identity and DNA. Of course we’re interested."

"The World Cup also reminded us that presentation matters. Every knockout match felt enormous because television treated it that way. The music. The entrances. The crowd. The anticipation. Nobody needs to convince viewers Spain versus Argentina matters. The broadcast simply gets out of the way and lets the occasion breathe."

"Being a Northern American sports fan makes us losers. Last night's a prime example of it. What's the first thing we all talked about? Oh, the game was boring. Boys To Men sucks. Patty La Belle's old."

"When it’s my time to go, I don’t want people looking over, as the proverbial story is, to see all that talent that was unused in the grave."

The World Series, the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, and the Stanley Cup Finals are where every pitch, possession, and decision carry enormous weight. That's where players become legends, and fan bases either celebrate forever or spend the next decade asking what went wrong. The All-Star Game isn't trying to be any of that. It's baseball's family reunion.

"I’ve talked to Eric Shanks at Fox, I’ve talked with folks at Amazon, I’ve talked with Turner, and all of them are really happy with what’s going on right now and feel the momentum in the sport."

The strongest local market was Kansas City.