"We try our best to respect the game and showcase and display it in a fashion that might be a little bit more appetizing for a different group of people that are watching alongside the best play commentators on Earth."
"If you were working in a smaller market, making 50K per year, and your salary got reported in the press and discussed in media circles, how would it sit with you?"
Luis Silberwasser has worked with CEO David Zaslav before and will now be in charge of the company's television rights that include the NBA, NHL and MLB, as well as March Madness college basketball.
"Stephen A. Smith is not a middle of the pack talent who executives would need to be convinced to hire. If ESPN doesn't give him a lucrative deal, someone else will."
"We look forward to honoring the content that moved audiences in 2026 and continuing the Gracies’ long-standing investment in the people who will shape what comes next.”