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. It’s corrupted what ESPN is trying to do in terms of entertaining people because they can’t tell stories as well because there is always this neurotic paranoid fear that it will piss off an agent.
Ethan Sherwood Strauss covered the NBA for ESPN and for The Athletic over the course of his career. Now, he is writing about topics that interest him the most on his substack, House of Strauss.
Strauss was a guest on the most recent episode of South Beach Sessions, hosted by Dan Le Batard. He said the reason why he decided to leave The Athletic in August 2021 was because he wanted to write about what interested him and that he thought his sportswriting was getting worse instead of better:
“There’s a not so flattering aspect to it which is I thought I was getting worse at sportswriting. I think a lot of people went through this over the pandemic period where they didn’t feel themselves caring so much about their job as they did in the past. For me at The Athletic, I was covering the Warriors. The Warriors are exceptionally well-covered by The Athletic. It’s not just me over there…I felt like I could keep pace if I was tremendously motivated like we just kicked off the 2018 playoffs together.”
“I felt myself kind of getting worse and I thought that eventually the fans, the readers, they feel it, they know it. They know that you are fraudulent at some level. I had a couple of years left on my contract but was I really going to command some sort of salary after that if I didn’t have a following, if my work wasn’t good anymore? It was inspired by fear and I wanted it to be inspired by a different, better fear. A fear of failure.”
That fear made Strauss excited to start up the substack because he felt he needed to take that risk to see if other people were interested in what he was writing about:
“It excited me to start the substack and just know I can fail. To know that maybe I am going to try to talk about the stuff that interests me and it won’t work and it will be humiliating. It won’t just be an ego failure, but it will be a financial failure on top of that. That’s scary as hell. I sometimes think you need something like that in your life in order to force you to be better and to force you to grow. I wanted that sense of risk.”
One of the topics the two of them got into was ESPN’s coverage of the NBA and Adrian Wojnarowski in particular. Not only does Strauss think Woj is not very good on TV, he thinks that the coverage is being corrupted based on what is going on behind-the-scenes:
“He [Woj] has built this empire on the basis of being first and having the news first. He’s in many ways a savvy businessman. He has tried to set it up where it’s almost mechanized where they are coming to him and he’s sending a social media resume around to different sources, to agents, to GM’s.”
“It corrupts the coverage because if the main focus is breaking a news story on Twitter and being first, that will detract from other focuses such as telling the most interesting story, revealing something that might not be flattering to a team or a player, but is of interest to the fans. It’s corrupted what ESPN is trying to do in terms of entertaining people because they can’t tell stories as well because there is always this neurotic paranoid fear that it will piss off an agent. I think people have this sense that something’s not on the up-and-up when they watch ESPN’s NBA coverage. Those stories have done well.”
Ricky Keeler is a reporter for BSM with a primary focus on sports media podcasts and national personalities. He is also an active podcaster with an interest in pursuing a career in sports media. You can find him on Twitter @Rickinator555 or reach him by email at RickJKeeler@gmail.com.
Rebecca Lowe Signs Extension With NBC Sports
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Lowe took to Instagram to share news of a six-year extension that will take her up to the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.
Longtime NBC Sports soccer studio host Rebecca Lowe has inked an extension to remain with the network. Lowe took to Instagram to share news of a six-year extension that will take her up to the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics, as speculated earlier this summer. “It’s been quite a ride since Paul (Buckle, her husband) & I landed on these shores back on July 1st, 2013, and if you told me then that I’d be with NBC for the next 15 years I’m not sure I’d have believed you,” Lowe said in the post.
The 41-year-old has hosted Premier League Live, NBC’s pre and post-match shows. She has also worked as the daytime host of NBC’s Olympics coverage since she relocated to the United States.
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Mayne later added the genesis of the skit came after former Bills running back Willis McGahee denigrated Buffalo after being traded to the Ravens.
Former Sportscenter anchor Kenny Mayne is making the rounds to promote his new podcast, Hey Mayne, and told WGR’s Howard and Jeremy the favorite thing he’s done in his career. “That’s one of my favorite things we ever did,” Mayne said. “I think it’s the most viewed video in Buffalo. I don’t know if that’s true or not but it’s up there. You can google it.” He later added the genesis of the skit came after former Bills running back Willis McGahee denigrated Buffalo after being traded to the Baltimore Ravens. “Willis McGahee left Buffalo and Marshawn comes in. McGahee kinda trashed the town on the way out saying ‘there’s nothing to do. All they’ve got is an Applebee’s and Dave & Busters. Don’t even start on the women’. We took all that information and made it seem like Marshawn was just the opposite,” Mayne said “He was so fun. He was so young. He was just a rookie. I’m so glad I got to do that story when I got to do it because it started my relationship with him and I got to know him when he was just a young kid.”
"They let me pour my own drink. I love the sound it makes, so much power." Marshawn Lynch sharing his Buffalo nightlife experience is a classic NFL Countdown feature 😂 @ESPNNFL pic.twitter.com/fENJaEGzWD
Mayne, whose new weekly show debuted on June 30th and features ESPN analyst Bill Walton as his guest in the latest edition, went in-depth on the behind-the-scenes work that goes into creating a podcast. “I sit in front of a microphone, as does someone else, and we talk. Someone records it, and they put it out in the universe,” Mayne said.
“I like to remember the fact that when we walked out — and I don’t want to speak for Adam; he has to speak for himself — we shook hands.”
Olin Kreutz was involved in a physical altercation at the CHGO offices earlier this year. He is finally opening up about the event, speaking to the Chicago Sun Times this week.
The former Bears center was fired after reportedly grabbing the throat of his colleague Adam Home during an argument. Kreutz said that he has reached out to Home privately and apologized to others in the building.
“There were some people in their building — obviously, I don’t blame them — that weren’t comfortable with me being there anymore,” he said. “I have my side of the story of what I thought happened. You could tell by what I put on Twitter what I thought happened there; it just inflamed the situation.”
After the news became public, Olin Kreutz took to Twitter. He quoted Mike Tyson, posting a message that read “Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.”
He admits that in hindsight, it made the situation worse.
However, Kreutz says that as far as he and Hoge are concerned, he believes things are better.
“I like to remember the fact that when we walked out — and I don’t want to speak for Adam; he has to speak for himself — we shook hands. Adam actually wanted to continue the podcast. And I said no. I thought my time was done there. I thought that that was enough for me already.”
CHGO said that Kreutz had been fired. He disputes that.
“I had already decided that my time was up at CHGO just because of some things that I thought were unprofessional in the way they ran their business. That was my decision. And like I told my kids, man, you do something like that, you pay the penalty. You take the punishment, and then you try to become a better person and try to learn from every situation.”
In addition to losing his position with CHGO, Kreutz also lost his job at NBC Sports Chicago. He will not return to the network’s Football Aftershow during the NFL season.
Olin Kreutz also contributed to 670 The Score. That station has yet to determine his future there.
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