Tag: Norby Williamson

"Forget criticism. McAfee sees enemies in other people simply not praising him"

"There’s somebody in ESPN, and we know who it is. He knows we know who it is. He knows, you know, we all know. Everybody knows who it is. Listen up, you little rat. This is the future"

“It’s just a wild thing to have paths cross yet again.”

"We’re reinventing the business and the way we do production and technology."

"The platform’s unique combination of valuable local sports rights with powerful, forward-looking content and distribution partnerships provides an incredible foundation that I am eager to build on."

"In September 2025 we'll celebrate 10 years in business. I never expected that when this journey began, and I'm damn proud that we've survived this long and continue to grow."

“There can’t be two top dogs up top pulling in opposite directions. If Norby wasn’t sold on the path forward, it was time to move on.”

"...Pat McAfee and Stephen A. Smith have now some sort of unprecedented power in the history of the place to call out an executive by name who runs the place and shortly thereafter, the executive is gone."

The report states that ESPN president of content Burke Magnus decided the two executives did not share the same vision for the long-term strategy for the network.

"Let it go, you're making $85 million dollars or whatever you're making. You can't get that wrapped up when somebody writes something that's not so much in your corner, you can't come out swinging and bury everybody."