"One top sports executive telling Jon Ourand that the assuming is the merger could be a "bloodbath" with more sports rights than the newly merged company needs."
"None of them are going to say a damn thing about it. They're all afraid if I go after Stephen A. [Smith], he'll have my job. If I go after him, he'll get me fired. What a shame that is."
""So when you try to understand the context of where we are today by understanding where we've been in the past, I think it makes it easier for many people to realize that, whatever you feel about the current political environment, this too is going to pass."
"The numbers are only going one direction, and you're just going to be the last person blamed. I don't understand the whole effort. I think it's spinning wheels, it's embarrassing, it's brand-damaging, and it's a pointless waste of time."
"Because you don't like the coverage that you're receiving, you're going to try and ban people from covering you? You can't go for that as a member of the media. You can't go for that."
"None of them are going to say a damn thing about it. They're all afraid if I go after Stephen A. [Smith], he'll have my job. If I go after him, he'll get me fired. What a shame that is."