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| ESPN's Adam Schefter admits taking 'a step too far' in emails with ex-WFT president Jack Baer, Yahoo Sports ESPN's top NFL reporter Adam Schefter has responded after getting roped into the growing controversy around the Washington Football Team's emails. Amid negotiations between the NFL and NFLPA on a new collective bargaining agreement in 2011, Schefter sent Allen an entire draft of a story to be published the following morning. Caesars Sportsbook Might Pursue ESPN's Adam Schefter Michael McCarthy, Front Office Sports Adam Schefter's contract is up soon, and Caesars Sportsbook is preparing to go after the industry's top NFL insider as its latest big talent acquisition, sources told Front Office Sports. Schefter's current deal expires in summer of 2022, sources said, and the 54-year-old could draw lucrative offers from sports gambling giants that increasingly want to be seen as sports media companies; not just betting operators. Hockey world goes crazy for Charles Barkley's chaotic 'NHL on TNT' debut Thomas Williams, Yahoo Sports It took just over an hour for Charles Barkley to solidify the 'NHL on TNT' broadcast as must-watch television. The NHL is getting a fresh look with new deals from TNT and ESPN this season and one of the former's biggest stars from their iconic NBA broadcasts joined in the action on the first night. NHL's return to ESPN sets Opening Night mark Sports Media Watch The NHL's return to ESPN has already paid off in the ratings with a record Opening Night audience. Tuesday's Penguins-Lightning NHL Opening Night game averaged 983,000 viewers on ESPN, the league's largest Opening Night audience ever on cable (dates back to 1993). Henrik Lundqvist is back in Rangers family with TV job Andrew Marchand, New York Post Henrik Lundqvist will be part of MSG Network's Rangers coverage this season. Lundqvist will be in studio for around 20 games, joining host John Giannone and analyst Steve Valiquette. ROOT Sports, DirecTV reach deal to broadcast Kraken, Trail Blazers games Geoff Baker, The Seattle Times A deal announced Wednesday will see all Kraken and Portland Trail Blazers games on ROOT Sports carried by DirecTV and its DirecTV Stream service. AT&T Sports Networks, which manages Mariners-owned ROOT Sports, on Tuesday had initially announced a list of carriage partners for the NHL-and-NBA-team-bolstered version of the regional sports network (RSN), and DirecTV wasn't one of them. Scripps National Spelling Bee Shifts From ESPN To Ion & Bounce Dade Hayes, Deadline After airing on ESPN for the past 27 years, the Scripps National Spelling Bee will have a new TV home within the E.W. Scripps corporate fold. The popular tournament will be shown in 2022 on Ion and Bounce, two free over-the-air networks operated by Scripps. |
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| Billionaire NFL Owners Fined Thousands by Judge in Rams Case Tim Bross, Bloomberg A Missouri judge fined four NFL team owners for failing to comply with his July order to turn over financial information as part of a lawsuit St. Louis filed over the move by the Rams football team to Los Angeles. Gruden Fallout Turns NFLPA Focus to 650K Remaining Emails Michael McCann, Sportico In the aftermath of media reports that exposed Jon Gruden's bigoted emails to former Washington Football Team president Bruce Allen—leading to Gruden's abrupt departure as the Las Vegas Raiders' head coach—the NFLPA now wants the league to release more than 650,000 emails and other records obtained from the Washington investigation. WFT offered money in exchange for public silence about workplace, former employees say Will Hobson, The Washington Post Lawyers representing the Washington Football Team offered a financial settlement this year in exchange for the silence of female former team employees who allege they endured sexual harassment while working there, according to two former employees. DeMaurice Smith discusses email trove from WFT investigation, questions whether race a factor in hiring decisions around NFL ESPN NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith says one of the primary reasons for his request that the NFL release emails from its investigation of the Washington Football Team is that he wants to determine whether race has been a factor in hiring decisions around the league and whether teams have been "actively hostile to players that have chosen to self-identify in various ways." Paul DePodesta won't leave NFL for chance to run Mets Joel Sherman, New York Post The Mets are trying to have a subterranean search for a head of baseball operations. But one name that had some recent buzz can be crossed off the list. Paul DePodesta, who worked for Sandy Alderson with the Padres and Mets, told The Post via text he is not leaving his current position as the Cleveland Browns' chief strategy officer. |
| COLLEGE SPORTS |
| ACC's Phillips on athletes unionizing and chance of moving league office elsewhere in Greensboro David Teel, Richmond Times-Dispatch Given June's unanimous Supreme Court ruling against NCAA restrictions on educational benefits for athletes, unionization and collective bargaining feel inevitable, but when I asked Phillips if Abruzzo's memo had changed his opinion, the answer was an emphatic no. "These are not employees, and this is not an employee/employer relationship," Phillips said Tuesday at the ACC's preseason basketball gathering. |
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