Covered NFL and Nascar for sky sports, hosted pro football focus podcast, content creator for BetRivers and play SugarHouse, wsop poker commentator, and I’ve been gambling since I’m 11. Ran an extremely profitable book while in high school If not for some stupid kid who tattled to my partners dad, I might have parlayed …
All right, amidst all this madness in March, I want to pause to celebrate Ryan Fitzpatrick and Trevor Ariza. Fitzpatrick will be playing in his 17th NFL season. Ariza is currently in his 17th NBA season. Two long careers made more remarkable by their two far-flung journeys. Fitzpatrick just signed with the Washington Football Team. …
Jon Gruden, do you understand what a mask is? Do you understand the purpose of the mask during the Covid pandemic? The Las Vegas Raiders coach already was fined $100,000 in Week 2 for not following the NFL’s safety protocols. Doesn’t matter. Gruden’s got a $100 million contract, so he figures, “What’s a 100K?” This …
Follow the Money, Case No. 1: Former NFL running back Marshawn Lynch, famously known for being publicly unfriendly, now wants the public to be friendly with their wallets. Lynch was known as Beast Mode during his playing days. So, naturally, he has opened an apparel store at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. You can …
I never have been to any of Joe Theismann’s three restaurants in Virginia, but I would imagine a visit goes something like this: After you park your car, Theismann greets you and comments on the abundant parking. After you check your coat, Theismann talks about the coat-check area. After you are …
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“I don’t think we’ll see pay-per-view, at least while I’m the commissioner, unless I stay 30 years like Pete Rozelle, which I don’t think I’ll do.” — Paul Tagliabue on ABC Monday night. Sooner or later—maybe even while Paul Tagliabue is commissioner—the NFL will embrace pay-per-view. It will be …
Gerald Riggs fumbled a bit past 4:15 EDT Sunday. Through the magic of television, he fumbled again on CBS at 4:17, twice at 4:18 and at 4:19. Later that evening, he kept fumbling, nearly two dozen times on Channels 4, 5, 7 and 9. He fumbled on all of the Baltimore news stations, …
What does it take to join the new NBC Sports? Its NFL coverage now includes O.J. Simpson (the running back of the ‘70s), Bobby Beathard (the executive of the ‘80s) and Bill Walsh (the coach of the ‘80s). Not exactly broadcast journalists by trade, but Executive Producer Terry O’Neil figures they’re the fresh …
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When Roone Arledge seized the day—or, to be more precise, seized the night—in 1970, Mondays were transformed forever in America. More than just a successful television series, “Monday Night Football” shifted a nation’s habits, altered its cultural landscape and cemented the burgeoning National Football League as the sport of preference from Washington, D.C., …
Bobby Beathard is happy in self-exile from pro football management at the moment. From his home in San Diego, the Redskins’ former general manager said yesterday he will honor his one-year contract with NBC Sports regardless of interest in him among NFL clubs and “wait to the end of the season” to determine …
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