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WTOP 24 Hour News
ESPN Removes Rachel Nichols From NBA Programming, Cancels 'the Jump'
"Evening. ESPN is pulling Rachel Nichols off its NBA pro Granting. It follows The New York Times report last month. The detailed critical comments the nickels made about another on air personality, Maria Taylor, who is black. Nichols had sat on a hot mic. The Taylor was picked to host NBA finals coverage last year because ESPN quote felt pressure on diversity. Nichols had been an integral part of ESPN's NBA coverage since she returned to the network in 2016.
Wendell's World & Sports
"maria taylor" Discussed on Wendell's World & Sports
"A real life local to adulthood it. It's it happens quite sure. When you go to envy's nbc sports maria and guarantee you there's going to be someone black white asian hispanic. Somebody is going to be awesome shit about you. It's going to happen now if they're going to be irresponsible and not to get caught saying it on film or recorded saying that type of stuff will. That's on them. But i i thought the i thought the And i mentioned it before. My podcast thought that the reaction. Let's head over the top and when she comes out on twitter after a couple of days and talks about in these dark times like all right all right until someone was caught talking bad about. You believe me it happens to me. It happened to you. What happens to everybody. I talk shit about people behind their back all the time. Also give me a fucking break. Just you know the rachel nichols didn't come to your house and break into your house and defecate in your band right. You know get lost nigger on the walls and damaged your things or anything like that. She wasn't conspiring to get you fired or anything like that. Rachel rachel nichols had a bad moment. She had a weak moment. She made a bad choice. In terms of voicing her opinion that are thought patterns get caught. It happens welcome the real life. Nobody's perfect so i mean you know. Maria wants to go ahead and play that for the play the victim card. So that okay. Whatever that's your choice deadlocked your good luck. You know what anger noticed any other book. Leuchter does well. You will do well. She the very talented person in the venture before she beautiful. She's intelligent so there you go but so days after covering gained six of the nba finals for the spn. She made her. Nbc debut past friday ahead of the networks Nbc's prime time. Replay of the opening ceremony for the tokyo olympics anchor mike thereto. The guy who didn't realize that he was black growing up true statement. I could make something up like something up like that. Introduced taylor at the top of the networks telecasting. Taylor's job at nbc is going to be something to where she is going to be doing on reporting and she'll be doing the olympics and she'll be hosted contributor for nbc Sunday's nfl pre-game. Show monday night Football night in america the network super bowl coverage in the years. It airs on nbc. So you know she's got she's got a really really good situation there. And i wish i wish you nothing. But the best of luck in the she states happening g becomes the next robin roberts. What she wants to be. But i was reading an article which was written by gibb weber awful announcing it was handicapping. The candidates to replace maria taylor on. Espn's college game day and you know espn..
The Gerry Callahan Podcast
"maria taylor" Discussed on The Gerry Callahan Podcast
"The angry purple haired Lesbian who just can't get an even break you know she's making like millions literally millions in endorsements and all she does is complain about how. Oh this country just will not a treat her and her kind fairly She'll be going against countries that you know. Throw gay people off buildings at the olympics. But you know let's not get bogged down in the details. Let's just give meghan rapid more money and more awards. Speaking of ingrates big big media news yesterday turtle boy big news. Maria taylor a left. Espn a contract and choose the middle of a very contentious negotiation where she proved to be one of the most ruthless cutthroat Negotiators i've ever seen. She set up her Former colleague rachel nichols released. A someone her on her team released a private conversation That rachel had with her friend. Lebron james agent which made ritual look bad and made maria taylor gave retailer some leverage. The last we heard espn. They initially offered a five million a year. she wanted eight. We don't really know what how the whole thing ended but according to i don't know who broke the story yesterday but our guy bobby burke from outkick wrote about it she left. Espn for nbc. And she'll be hidden to tokyo. I believe to cover the olympics And she'll be making who knows what five six million a year. A person that ninety eight percent of sports fans have no idea she is but she. The timing was right she was. She was young and she she is young and attractive and checked a lot of boxes so she Played her hand played it out to the end and got i think. A big deal from nbc. We don't know the details. But congratulations maria taylor. Now the question is which twenty four year old young black woman will take place that's I'm sure they have a number candidates. I'm sure none of them were over thirty. And and none of them are are white and none of them have a penis. That's we know but we don't know all the names I'm gonna get yeah. This andrus could be this feeds right into the nbc olympics. Thanks to because know their ratings are going to be so low there. They probably are trying this hail mary to try to get them a little bit. More juice and more watchers k. Tell me who would ever watch something. Just because maria taylor. I think they're trying to do something because they know the ratings are just gonna be. Does that affect ratings ever anywhere. Maria taylor is not a household name. She's not. As i agree i agree. It's he's been in the news lately so they think that there's some juice Associated with her now. I don't know what we'll see if she does. If you turn on and turtle boy for turn onto watch gymnastics swimming. You won't even know she's there. You'll hear her. Maybe you'll see her but you won't see somewhat masculine voice. Don't you think that's always a little bit masculine. Is it that you don't think it's a little deep for a woman What are you saying turtle what do you say. There's other wrong with that. Jackie mccullough anyway any way you can get by in this field under saying she has a very distinct voice so people will recognize voice but again. It's not her job. Like i just feel like whoever has her job. You pay the minimum wage. Because it's the least important job ever. Your job is to stand there. Ask stupid questions that nobody cares about and just looked pretty. That's it that's all you gotta do not be fat. It's a. It's a hell of a job now. I would add something else to that. Just not be male or white or over thirty over thirty five. I would say that but the the woman who will be a candidate to replace probably not rachel nichols because she's been banished. She has been kicked off the island because she questioned uae. Maria taylor went was promoted why she went up of food chain so quickly and said you know might be identity politics which was rich coming from a woman who probably benefited from similar criteria at. Espn she said she had been held back by. Donald trump voters who are in espn management white conservative men who voted for donald trump. Held her back so when she got Exposed the private conversation went public. There was no sympathy for because she sounds like a winner who is biting the hand that fed her but anyway maliki andrews is the twenty six year old woman who covered the nba lashed here but never took up for masks. No one ever saw. She's there now and she sat down with whoever genus or chris middleton whoever after they wanted said How how special is this or how wonderful. How do you feel about winning a championship just as you said as innocuous questions Fawn all over the players which was fine. That's what you do. Espn but it wasn't really notable it wasn't really special adam schefter tweets out. This is this is by the way the Bleep was george. Bush george w bush who called it. The low The the soft bigotry of low expectations up maliki andrews. If she didn't show up and stick the microphone upper knows she was going to get rave reviews all she had to do. It's joe up and ask questions at someone. Wrote a no cut for adam schefter tweets after the nba finals. Very impressive to watch a twenty six year old maliki andrews interview the world champion milwaukee bucks on national tv and handle it as smoothly and as professionally as she has thirty one thousand likes and thirty the three thousand retweets of that adam schefter saying his colleague and espn.
AP News Radio
Maria Taylor Leaves ESPN After Failing to Reach Contract Extension
"A change in the reporting line up at ESPN Maria Taylor is leaving ESPN she bolts from the sports channel after she and the network were unable to reach an agreement on a contract extension Taylor had been with ESPN since twenty fourteen a contract expired on Tuesday Taylor got dragged into what became a racial intramural battle at ESPN when colleague Rachel Nichols made comments about her a year ago Nichols who is white suggested that her boss is all for the NBA finals host job to Taylor who is black to Polish up its overall record on diversity Nichols griping didn't get her her job back when the comments went public she also lost her gig as sideline reporter for the NBA finals I'm Oscar wells Gabriel
Channel 33
"maria taylor" Discussed on Channel 33
"Story on this tape last summer. Speaking of one year ago now they got only four. Minutes of the video of rachel nichols talking on the phone. But they weren't on the story and this is the headline they came up with. Espn creep used the jump video feed to secretly record. Rachel nichols in her hotel. Room video got sent to us. This isn't this feel like an algorithm has just has digested like a decade of old deadspin and started trying to cobbled together headlines based on that. If was like that's been karaoke doesn't it like i. I read the old ass kicking deadspin. Now i've got the mic and let me see if i can Let me see if i can do it away to it. Didn't come out just like the knew desmond did that. And then they had another piece this week where they came back and they said well. We're gonna explain everything that happened in this. I want to just quote one line from the peace. So grab a seat in a drink. Because i'm about to tell you how all this how this all went down. Now whenever i read stage directions and a piece i start to assume that they're not actually going to have the goods want and in fact after reading this piece. I'm like i still don't understand what happened. And there was no reckoning with. How did we get to story. A as opposed to the correct and far superior story. Be i just i just completely do not understand dan. Diamond reported the washington post emails. Us this the original deadspin screed was awful. But somehow the dead's been pieces actually more bizarre news outlets sometimes right how we did it after a big story. This was a textbook. How we didn't do it. But i'm grateful for desmond's follow a post. Occasionally i get to speak to journalism students about investigative reporting. I can't think of a better example of one news l. at showing the benefits of putting in the work and another revealing how poorly equipped. They were to handle a scoop at some dan diamond. I mean in some ways. Like the the how we missed a scoop. Tick-tock does have a weird echo too late stage. Deadspin legs age old debts or late-stage gawker usually they were fleet-footed enough to be the ones getting the scoop and giving the tick-tock of how we the world almost got a scope that no one else was reported or something But again you totally missed the point. The only reason you could I'm sure every. I i can't read any minds but the only reason i can imagine that you would see that video at report the way they did was part partisan sort of political calculus right that you were like chew that you thought you were choosing one argument over another that one thing that you that you you way the way the gravity of several different things and certainly like you know working as a kind of pr outlet for espn or for. Whoever ito sent them the tape him. Sure is is a piece of that but that you would like way these things in decide that one was more important for whatever your reasons were again. You're totally missing the point. Because honestly i don't know the answer why they came up with it because again the what was supposedly the lettuce. Tell you everything that happened. Story was so opaque That it didn't it didn't answer. The question was beta. Grab a seat in a drink okay. I'm sitting down. I have my drink. I'm ready to find out what happened. And i still don't know by the way defector aka old deadspin transferred to place wrote about this yesterday too that that's bins old editor or i should say an editor of old deadspin. Tommy crags was an arthur conan. Doyle guy yeah so. I think he would appreciate this. New deadspin is what would happen. If sherlock holmes was replaced by the baker street irregulars. We solved the case away wrong murder. It's it's actually the other guy. Sorry about that. yeah actually. that's probably insulting. To the baker street irregulars my apologies. If any of the irregulars were because they were actually good at tracking down information patrol. Come this is like the media story inside the media story inside the media story and this analogy is. Espn is noted homes villain espn creep like rotting in jail by the time that they identify real killer. Yeah he got taken by the by the by scotland yard. He's he's in. he's in prison just again and again. I think we could probably in here but an amazing quality of the story a mind-blowing quality story. This was all all this stuff was a year ago tape recorded and leaked a year ago. Deadspin story a year ago and here. We are on the brink of the end of maria. taylor's espn contract and this richly reported new york times piece that all of this is the rust before. I don't think i've ever seen anything quite like that. Really having i mean it's an incredible just totally in a vacuum. It's it's an incredible media story right. I mean it's a sort of russia. Nesting dolls media. Stories are so many layers to this and that it's happening like you said on the as retailers contractors about to run out it's it's it's There's so many just like unbelievable aspects to this and that is happening during the nba finals though we started with mean it's like that's the whole aspect to it right. The whole weight is going to have an issue. Here is going to be happening on tv. A story this insular is not supposed to be so well timed. Write a story. That's this particular to the media. World is rarely on the sports schedule. And i think that's partly why everybody's just so we're paying so much attention to it but it's a good thing they are because this is a is not an easy story but it's an important one. Yeah usually we don't have the mission. Impossible countdown clock. Are those shot clock if you will happening on. The media story attached the media story. That's.
Channel 33
"maria taylor" Discussed on Channel 33
"If we're going to get here in the future. Yeah it's important. It's important just as a sidebar that we're talking about the question of whether or not maria taylor leaked the tape to the media. Someone at espn. One hundred percent leaked story about maria. Taylor being a diva and asking for stephen. A smith money in the contract negotiations like less than a week before this leak was written about. It's like win. They knew kevin draper was writing this story. The new york post a piece about how about maria taylor. Unreasonable contract demands something like that. That one million percent came from. Espn headquarters so so as long as i just want to get that on. The table is unger talking about leaking things to the media. I'm so glad you brought that up. I'm so glad you brought that up. Because wasn't that interesting just a few days. Before we get this bombshell story of all media stories we read a story about how maria taylor is turning down a lot of money you know putting a figure on it. What was it up to a contract that would have paid up to five. Million dollars was at the figure on it. Destroy that they offer. I believe they offered her five million dollars some time ago. And that and that now in all the layoffs. That number is no longer on the table. Oh yeah the offer had been pulled. Yeah you know. I always resist doing the. I'm gonna figure out who the sources are the story. And i'm going to figure out what the sources intent was when they were giving a figure because i've had people try to do that to me and they're they're often wrong when they do that but come on. This comes out of view days before and it says maria taylor is asking for all this money and you know what we offered our fair contract and now it's off the table. That sure sounds like somebody in espn management and as you point out somebody in espn management. Who is very aware of what is about to drop this whole thing of of the espn. The espn employee. Salaries also coming out. This also happened with kenny. Mayne do you remember this. Oh yeah kenny. Mayne announce like look. Espn offered me a pay cut. I think i'm worth more than i. I'm i'm gonna go bet on myself because of the ultimate high road exit and then like ten minutes later. We found out what kenny mayne salary had been. Espn and you know what's funny about that david whenever these salaries league so glad you brought this up that i mentioned that. What's so funny is when the espn salaries league. I get all these messages. Get him on my phone. Get them on. Dm's and everything and the messages are from other sports media people who are furious that espn the people turned down a lucrative offer They're not from regular readers. David regular readers. Assume that everybody on television makes a ton of money. It's from other sports media. People who are jealous who are angry. Who have been riled up because they read a salary figure that they themselves do not make an who who is that person to turn down all that money over there at. Espn now again. again. I don't want to resist the urge to try to guess what people mean when they talk to report on all that stuff the idea of putting salaries out into the world was a diabolical plan to turn nonmanagement sports people against other nonmanagement sports media people if frigging worked. Yeah it worked. It reminds me those stories remember when they didn't publish the the athlete. Salaries and management would sometimes put out a salary to make all the athletes on the team mad at each other instead of using their power collectively dog. Oh get more money together That's what's happened here. People and people you know are mad. We're mad at least for five seconds. That maria taylor turn down a million. They were mad. That kenny mayne turn down. Whatever was sixty percent of whatever he made before. Funny how that happens. Howdy how that happened. Well you know readers and fans will get mad about professional athletes. Doing that. you're right. It makes its there is the presumption of the people in espn or making a whole bunch of money. Anyway i but. I do think that it's again. The forest for the trees saying that a lot in this podcast. But like it's the presumption of all the fans that people are the. Espn folks are already making a lot of money. i think you know that might not be entirely widespread. But i do think that it's that everybody who's paying attention. The story would agree that it doesn't make any sense that espn would lose out in a bidding war for any of their talent right that they that regardless of the cuts or whatever like maybe the craziest part of this whole story is that maria. Taylor's contract is going to be up at like seventy two hours and she's not going to stay at. Espn you know again. The absence of a statement that like because of this stuff that happened. i'm leaving which we have no reasonably. That's point of view that they couldn't come to an agreement. I mean like like unless you. I know we're in a world where like amazon could like walk in and offer somebody twenty million dollars a year or something just for the hell of it but like that the the person who i was just calling the generational talent in terms of like hosting and reporting on television. There's just going to walk because you can't come to terms. I mean the wild. I understand there could be hardball negotiations. But if she does indeed leave. Wow yeah absolutely. Richard h always says he's like when the networks often espn's been in this period of cost cutting but when they want to keep somebody they can keep somebody. Yeah stephen smith the contract of seeing reference. If i'm if i remember correctly signed in the midst of cost cutting has changed into this world instead of where lots of people were. Broadly paid a lot of money based on like nineties and audits cable salary figures where we're a small number of people are paid a whole lot of money. You're stephen as your greenies kirk herbstreit street. Whoever you want to put on the woge on that list there's no reason retailer can't just join the list. She just she becomes one of the people. They're paying a lot of money to if they want to keep her. By the way with with nichols being pulled off the sidelines. Maybe my brain is adult. And i'm sure someone has has made this Reference at some point. I don't know if you remember. But the i'm going to take you back to the nineteen ninety nine world series. Remember when jim gray. Had that interview with pete rose whereas asking pete rose although stuff questions yeah well at the ninety nine world series game. Three chad curtis hits a walk off home run..
Channel 33
"maria taylor" Discussed on Channel 33
"I think when you look at this when you look at the whole situation thirty thousand feet. Espn management thought. They had to problems last year. Two very separate problems problem number one was a very normal almost. Just just depressingly normal television problem. Which is rachel nichols an employee. They like didn't get the job she wanted. This happens in television all the time right so. Espn says well. What can we do to fix the situation. We have given maria taylor the hosting job. What can we do for you. Rachel nichols and again from talking to people at espn last couple of days. What i heard is essentially that you know they they were. Espn was like okay. What what what can we do. How can we help you. One person told me they went to her contract and said okay. Well can we you know sidelines at the finals. Okay can we. Have you do the trophy presentation at the end of the finals. Something by the way. Doris burke had done in previous years and i think presumably still could've done even as she was doing color commentary on the radio which is what she's doing now so i think it's worth noting. Espn was working to fix that. Very banal problem of television. Which is we had to pick one person for a job. The other person was inevitably going to be disappointed. Okay problem number two. Which was the comments on. The tape was the actual problem. They didn't do anything to solve it as far as i can tell. I mean there's just nothing to circle back to what you said a minute ago quote draper one more time. The only person known to be punished was kayla. Johnson a digital video producer who told espn human resources. That she had sent the video to taylor. Johnson who is black was suspended for two weeks without pay and later was given less desirable tasks at work johnson later left. Espn so for the better part of a year. Espn sees this comment. And they punish one person who is involved in sending it around the network. But that's it and it's almost david like there's this attitude that they just thought it went away in fact they were banking on it going away. Would this this thing that's happened this this this comment is just going to disappear to say it'd be pointing out that it happened a year ago. It's important to to spend a second just to to focus on the fact that kylie johnson leaked his tape a year ago and think about where we were a year ago. This isn't some vague period. Time this is appearing time and listen we all can have whatever sympathy for just like you know the the faceless white men in the corner offices if we choose to but a year ago. This was a time of incredible. Upheaval end like widespread activism in our country. And the fact that this employee regardless of position or anything else thought it was important for this state to be seen..
Channel 33
"maria taylor" Discussed on Channel 33
"To sing them. It's also by the way insane as anyone who has seen maria taylor work on. Espn would say oh. Yes retailers a great television host. Would you not agree absolutely. Yeah i mean if you watch. nba countdown. We haven't talked about her on the show at least not that. She really is a unbelievably talented broadcaster. And i think that doesn't quite do it justice. I mean if you watch if you just watch five seconds of if you just watch one segue bit they do. You can see that. It's sort of like the evolutionary. Tnt postgame show is in. It's related more to that hurt. Their talents are more related to that and they are the traditional studio show or this traditional pregame postgame show. It's like as stilted as those things used to be and sometimes still a lot of sports just her personality and her skill has turned it into you feel like you're dipping in for fifteen seconds of a running conversation and then maybe that doesn't sound like much but it used to be so stilted and with her her her show is so comfortable and so it you you actively want more and more of it not just because it's brief but because it feels like an like an intelligent conversation that you're a part of and you almost feel like a generational shift and listen. I'm not going to compare it to anybody else in the story but from the people that came before her as paint with a broad brush. It's almost a generational shift between people who were great studio hosts and maria taylor who is just sort of a like a human like like an incredible like force of nature personality that it's so yet that's so powerful reserved at the same time. I'm overstating it may be. But she's really really like the best. There is at what she does. Think you. i think you hit it when you talked about the comfort of being on television There are lots of their lots of really talented. Broadcasters never quite mastered the idea of looking like they're comfortable being on tv that that they're just completely at ease and they're ready to go and that that is what they're doing. And i and i think she i think that is yes that that is one of the qualities among many that comes out for me to her so i just you know whether whatever she's doing she's on a whole bunch of different things that that network this call. David was supposed to be private. As we said those words were never supposed to be heard by people at espn. That rachel nichols hussein but that of course is also what made those words particularly damning inside. Espn yeah because as draper writes multiple. Blackie has been employees. Said they told one another. After hearing the conversation that it confirmed their suspicions that outwardly supportive might maple talk differently behind closed doors. Yeah that sounds about right. That was like the first sentence from the piece that i like. you know. Underlines am i right. Quick sidebar wizar- was it twitter fake news. Or am i gonna correct in believing that the person whoever it was that responsible for leaking video was punished a year or two ago whenever it initially happened. Oh we're oh yeah we're gonna we're gonna get there okay. I just want to make sure that that's stroup of going into much because it's ended. It's real news. That's real news so again like you like you point out before this happened. Some time to go and they dealt with it presumably heard the tape and doe that to their to their satisfaction sometime ago. But i wonder but i want to talk about specifically but that new york times quote that sends that you just reading the times and i say this look in the mirror a little bit too because if you think like you mentioned that this reinventing goes on a lot and it does venting is a human thing. We all as human say things that we would hope would not be circulated around the internet. I wanna say general venting minus minus layering of race and diversity and everything but yes vent venting is a is. A is a right of sports television sports media in basically every business in the united states. When when when that hogan tape came out years and years ago or whatever and everybody was kind of happy to kick him out of pro wrestling history. And i was you know lined up as one of those people. I did want to make the point. That if you're you know if you're if you're if you can no longer be a fan of any professional wrestler from the eighties. Who has said they said the inward in their life. You don't have. You're not gonna have many people to be fans of anymore. This sort of conversation probably goes on a lot. That's the point of the suspicions right. I mean the suspicion that that that black espn employees had was well-founded. I don't think anybody would dispute it in the absence of this tape. But that's not exculpatory and that's not really the point right if you find yourself if you find yourself like pursing nichols quotes detained for lucidity for like you know subtle points that might be made and i admit i can be guilty of this kind of thinking but if you if you are doing that you're the point entirely because this is a much bigger issue the rachel nichols is now the sort of paradigm of. She's the symbol of this and she is both justifiably. The target of this story of the the unease at espn and of the Whatever feelings that people are having around the world and it's also a an issue that much much bigger than her so it's not about how she couched it and it's not about whether or not this stuff goes on. This is a much bigger issue of which she is now. Justifiably the focus absolutely absolutely. She apologized on tv on monday She says in draper story that she tried to directly apologize. Maria taylor she's quoted. Same retailer has chosen not to respond to these offers which is completely fair and a decision. I respect. I wanna dig in. I got five things thing number. One is let us dig into the corporate. Espn response to was. I cannot underline enough that this happened one year ago one year ago and the comments is draper. Reports were circulated very quickly. Espn even up to the executive level..
Channel 33
"maria taylor" Discussed on Channel 33
"L. o. Media consumers bryan curtis and david shoemaker of the ringer here along with erica savante. This is a special edition of the press box devoted to the espn story. That everybody's talking about david is aaron. Nba finals. Actually going on right now. Because i don't know about you but i've just been watching the pre-game show on the sidelines. That's that's where my attention has been focused because as kevin draper reported in the new york times earlier this week espn host. Rachel nichols who is white. Made a disparaging comment about espn host. Maria taylor who is black last year when that came to light nichols was pulled from sidelined duty for the nba finals and replaced by maliki andrews nichols's daily tv show. The jump did not air on tuesday. It was back on wednesday. And you. And i talk about a lot of minor. Grade media tempests and little bits of intrigue at newspapers and tv stations win. Somebody is being yanked off the air during a marquis event like the nba finals. That's when you know this is an incredibly big story and what was said was incredibly wounding because man. That does not happen very often. Yeah i think you know with the espn. Sometimes it's most informative with any big company like that but espn is. We'll be talking about a lot sometimes. It's informative. I frankly to look at what they do in the in a vacuum it actually look at what they do in the absence of them really having a point of view because it's hard to imagine them having a real strong point of view on a lot of stories such as this and what they're doing is reacting to what other other people's reactions right. I mean. they clearly felt pressure from inside the house. Tim take this kind of step. Which is like you said. Really extreme and and frankly a little bit surprising. Yeah i just think we will get to this as we as we kind of go through the various details of this but one thing people should remember as everything we're talking about here happened last year in terms of the comments made one year ago and it's now in twenty twenty one summer of two thousand twenty one that we're seeing the reaction which is goes to your point about espn reacting to what's in public more than what actually happened within their own building or should we say on a server inside their own building all right. Here's the backstory. If you've not followed this go for july thirteen. Twenty twenty rachel nichols is sitting in a hotel room in orlando florida or around. Orlando florida because this is back. When the nba was doing its postseason. Bubble and nichols is on the phone with adam. Mendelson who is lebron james's media adviser and by the way. I think we should talk about him before. This podcast is over. Now on this phone call nichols is not happy because she's just gotten some bad news from espn management. She's not going to be hosting the pre and post game shows during the nba finals. That gig is going to go to maria. taylor a rising star at the company. Okay so nichols wanted to host. The nba finals be the host which is basically the second best job other than calling the nba finals. That job went to somebody else to maria. Taylor now nichols is in the hotel room. And she says this to atom mendelssohn. I wish maria taylor all the success in the world. She covers football. She covers basketball if you need to give her more things to do. Because you are feeling pressure about your crappy longtime record on diversity. Which by the way. I know personally from the female side of it like go for it. Just find it somewhere else. You are not going to find it for me or taking my thing away translation. Espn had given maria taylor the job of hosting the nba. Not because of her talent nichols is saying but because they were feeling pressure about their crappy record on diversity now david nichols was saying. This privately. A lot of venting that goes on in the sports media world in private the catch is that nichols had a video camera in her room that she was using to do remote hits on. Espn because again. This is the bubble. We're not supposed to see anybody. And his kevin draper writes in the new york. Times quote. Unbeknown to nichols. Her video. camera was on and the call was being recorded to a server at espn's headquarters in bristol connecticut. Private call is suddenly on a server back at corporate. Hq now someone back at espn watches downloaded video of nichols talking about a colleague. They record it with their own camera. And now this comment that nichols made about retailer is being passed around the company so i really five things. I want us to attack but we should probably say something about the comment itself before we go on it. I know it's obvious. But i just want to make sure we do.
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
"maria taylor" Discussed on Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
"I think first and foremost i for all the money at maria taylor. Frankly like i mean you should believe that. She deserves the dollar figure. Whatever it is that she's requesting because she does but at a very baseline level. I paid to try and make this problem. Go to go away. I think over the next couple of years though there needs to be there just needs to be a much deeper commitment to supporting the maria taylor's at espn and to making because we. I don't think we have this conversation. I don't think rachel nichols necessarily feels the way that she does. If this doesn't seem isolated or strategic to a moment in time when a commitment to diversity was good business and so to have that happen over the course of a couple of years with more than one person of maria. Taylor's talent level i think is is really important to at least at least presenting the image that that you are actually committed to these things that you say you're committed to and that you are learning from mistakes that that lead to a situation like what we have now general question you know. I think you hit on this too In one of these other topics that like you know for for as good as espn has been about giving giving women up gene women of color opportunity. There also still in many ways. Don't you think trapped in the paradyne of woman moderator and then two males on the left and right evading ex. I remember talking to you like how long it seemed to take for a woman to be a multiple women to.
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
"maria taylor" Discussed on Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
"If they if a company like that once you they will pay you sort of whatever it takes to get you. If a company like that want certain rights they just paid the nfl billions of dollars like they'll they'll get it all this money sort of fungible and and and you can sort of you know put it into the style and then really quickly as far as each. I'm with you guys on this I think i would. Honestly i would try to rake them for as much cash as i could and i would go to work every day Being a good teammate sort of you know and like sort of in person but in the back of my mind i would always sort of basically think that nobody in managing really has my back here and so i would just do my job to the best of my abilities with the larger sort of thought that like ultimately i have no invested. You know i'm. I'm not invested in this place beyond just being worker and then i would have my agents or or thinking. Maria cases manager Look elsewhere in the next two to three years for the the next. I don't think i could ever. If i'm a retailer in particular i don't think i could ever trust. Espn management again. I'll just be honest. Like i would take. I would take their money for sure. But i could never. I can never truly trust them. That's sort of how i look and the other thing. Richard is the story in the new york. Post said that she was they were going to offer her between one two million dollars a year. I believe she's worth a hell of a lot more that very honestly i don't i don't like on the first to admit i don't know what her current contract is. I don't know what she is honestly offered. I just know that again. Town office has a lot of discretion. And there's always money to be had. Sorry jane now. That's that's that's just what i wanted to say the other thing. I wanted to say if she weren't a black woman in this industry but she you know i think i. I don't think there would be a question as to her worth. I think she that she would be getting that. This wouldn't be the story that it is. I you know i always wonder whether or not race and identity are going to make it. Feel like she doesn't deserve as much as she actually deserves and so i'm always on guard about that. You're worth what they'll pay like. You know like some people will say like. I'm not worth what the athletics paying me. You're probably right. Like i don't know or some people will say you're underpaid. Yeah you're probably right. I mean like it but you have to but you realize also jet though. It's it's it's it's subjective based on based on either the company or the person evaluating what the salary as the country's seem to believe in free market principles until it comes to paying talented players. But i also think that you have to take into effect that black women and women of color have particularly been devalued in the market. Have you look at the way. People have been paid traditionally. You're gonna you know. Oh well she doesn't have a family. He has a family so we have to pay more. we are still dealing with the tendrils of those inequities particularly comes into play. When you have a young woman like maria taylor who is a black woman in this industry she is going to be fighting against not only the upper management her colleagues for a place of espn. She's also going to be fighting against all of those traditional ideas about what a black woman is worth. And so i just wanna point out. She's worth a hell of a lot more than one to two million dollars. And i hope he has fan peyser. That's why it was also like that's why also so pernicious i know that mendelssohn doesn't actually have any power when it comes to contract negotiations from the management side of espn. But that's some of his comments to rachel in that tape. Were were so pernicious. Just the dismissive -ness of him having to deal with me too and black lives matter. The idea that this is an inconvenience. Instead of something that systemically we need to correct both industry and in this country and both of those movements can speak to how people women and black women like maria. Taylor have been devalued. So i think that it's it's it's just really. It's really unfortunate but it's also not like we shouldn't be surprised that this is the conversation we're having because this is just this is just where we are. Yeah and again. the. I think they'll here's what i would say from my experience and again my experience as a white male in this business needs absolutely nothing to this conversation just quite frankly does the only thing perspective i can add is in most of my jobs. I've had to sort of negotiate salary if that's even the white word. I benefited from the person on the other side Being someone who sort of vouched for me or vetted for me Usually that person was a in in the circumstance negotiate. A white male for instance. When i took the job in canada i had at the time. The co host of my show co host of my show bomb accounts most famous scattered sports broadcaster in canada. He was the one who told management to like. I want this guy. Get the sky pay and what we have to pay like. Those are the kinds of things that like. you know. that the mandelson's a world ser- no that that's the reality of the situation and if you have you know somebody in management who has the power to pay you like. This is where. I've talked about. Jane like all those dollar figures are bullshit because ultimately someone can make the decision to go over budget. You know someone can make the decision to pay you x. an quite frankly jimmy Taro decided that. Maria taylor was where ten million dollars she would get ten million dollars. There is no. There is no such thing as cost cutting in that situation. You know what i'm saying like it's all our it's maybe arbitrary is not the right word but it's all subjective is all ultimately decided by on human beings could be bellamy. Let's end with this if you were. Espn management and god. Help you if you are on thinking user. Yeah well i'm saying. I don't know if can meet them. Wants to summer summer in connecticut all the time on the beach. She always strikes me as new york city. So like what do you think could be done here to on no to to to to to do your best over the next two to three years to within the nba circus to make this work. Like even someone who writes about this like me like i don't know what the perfect solution is like. You're gonna split india countdown again. Like who's going to get the the studio hosting like how is there. Do you see a way out of this to like at least calm the waters here and to maybe get to a better place with all these towns. I mean even before this entire controversy. Espn put itself in a difficult position. By splitting countdown and the jump rate. So so that in itself is a problem that they do have to reconcile..
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
"maria taylor" Discussed on Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
"More and you get to know them a little bit more but i think also that you know it. Journalism has become much more of an access game than you and richard might be comfortable with Where it is very much about trading information. You know adam mendelssohn by knowing what the political jesse like i'm certain Good adamson gets a lot of value out of knowing who the players are already. Espn right and he's got he's got. He's got major figures that he wraps. And that's that's how he makes his living. So i you know there's there's value and again i'm i'm i'm a realist here. Like this stuff happens. But there's value on both sides here like average someone both both sides of this equation of getting something out of this. Yes but none of it has to do with journalism and none of it has to do with being reporter. And so i mean again i can. Can i go through my index of every conversation. I've ever had an agent and say for sure that nothing like that has come up now. I could. I couldn't say that for sure but at the same time i recognize that it is that is a gray area when it comes to a conversation that you're having with a source because it's not about them it's about you and you're giving them information that is i mean it seems like it's not something that. Espn would want her to talk about and you know what he is. Being wants is not necessarily the beginning of the end of your job as journalists but at the same time you know there that is proprietary information when it comes to the chessboard. At espn one. Ask you In the new york times piece In espn spokesperson declined to make jimmy petar available for an interview. What what's jimmy petar owes role here in terms of speaking out and I mean nobody is required to speak to the new york times. But that's a strategic decision by the head of espn not to Publicly sort of say something here or publicly sort of indicate. Like here's here's our you know. Here's our plan for this. Here's what we think about this That was i. Don't wanna say interesting sort of such a boring word but it's it's a. It's a strategic decision by by disney. I don't even know if it's espn this but disney public relations not to make the person who ultimately is responsible for this mess in my opinion that. That's that's your job is to is to figure out how to make these sort of talents work a strategic decision not to talk publicly. I wonder how you saw. Yeah it's it's certainly a choice and you're right that jimmy guitar is an obligated to comment on this but i think to me it says a lot about either him or espn or disney pr. Not knowing quite what to say or quite how to handle this what the correct play here would be. I also think about kind of the juxtaposition of jimmy Taro and john skipper his predecessor. Who was rightfully lauded. For years. For being a champion of women and black women and people of color on camera and at espn. And it's it's interesting. Jimmy doesn't have that same reputation and it's interesting that he wouldn't want to come out and kind of firm himself as that champion or as an ally or at least just to clean up a little bit of this mess like you said. He's he's responsible for is the person at the top so Yeah i think that this just kind of the decision not to comment on this screams of not having any idea what the right play is or what you know what would assuage all all the sides here instead of really just what would be the right thing to do or say. Can i just add to that. Espn management had a year to try to figure out how to manage the situation and they did not do it. Up to the point of the end of maria taylor's contract in the middle of the nba finals. I mean this is a situation that much. Like naomi asaka not wanting to address the media at roland garros earlier this year. This is a situation that should have been caught much earlier and its solution. Found negotiation made to make sure that all parties were comfortable at a so that when the crucial moment arrives it doesn't all blow up and that is exactly what's happened and i think it's interesting that this is gonna look bad for both rachel nichols as we say. It's not gonna do. Maria taylor any favors in future contract negotiations. Even though i think the public is much on her side. And but who isn't gonna look bad in this i mean espn management it's a faceless entity. Those guys are still going to be able to get their tee times at their golf courses. They're still going to be able to get the reservations at the rest of their still going to be able to make their mortgages to people who are the decision makers are going to face no real consequences going forward and listen. You've you've made a great point. I mean the the consequences. They'll face are just bad optics. But here's the reality of this. How catastrophically bad have you handled the situation where you had a year to sort of figure something out and it ends up on the front page of the new york times website like that is just so that is such a horrific management where you allow the situation to start to fester like leading talent like i mean i am a as pro talent as as gets you know probably to my detriment because i think you see where a lot of management leaks go But how do you at a certain point like your job is to like sit people down in a room right like just say like we're going to make this work. What's iron out all our differences here in this room. So it's on the top of espn's management jimmy Taro in norby williamson level. It's on the nba coordinating producer level. And then. it's it's on everybody. Who sort of is is part of this bleep. Show to be very honest to like sort of let it get to wear like this story gets to you know the most influential newspaper arguably in the world and this probably interesting debate that all three of us could add is as to whether like you know. Is it a story. Is you know what i'm trying to say. No is the tabloid story but the fact that it got there is just is is. I can't say it's mind boggling. Because a lot of times. Espn is very reactive. As you guys know as opposed to proactive. So there's a couple more things i wanted. hit on.
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"maria taylor" Discussed on Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
"This is true of all businesses. Where the relationship between you and someone with juice often matters more than your own talents. That didn't new sort of your own merits but let me get to Something jane roe which which draw on twitter. Which kind of struck me. And she wrote about kerry champion michael smith and jemele hill and she said all three thriving outside of the espn and here is the point that that Thought was really interesting. Should all spoke honestly about race when it served the network and after found their career trajectories their diminished having been at. Espn fiber taylor. It'd be very aware of this especially as it came time to sign a new contract. She at espn's back at a crucial time last summer. But it's a question of whether providing a real voice in reporting will be rewarded when the crisis passes jane. What where you're thinking about when you tweeted that out. Yeah i think that you know. I look around at the black colleagues that i've had at. Espn who are some are still at the company and many are not and you know many of them you know journal Michael and kerry but then also just seeing andersen our jim. Trotter mike kill has has Did video yesterday talking about his experience. And i think all of them felt like their willingness to speak out when the company needed to have a credible black voice on cultural issues for different things that were being covered whether it was colin kaepernick. George floyd or anything like that That they were willing to do that. And they used their credibility for the company and then when it came time for that loyalty to be returned or at least or even that respect to be returned that really kind of wasn't and You know and that the the political winds of change and that people had move to a different issue and so putting yourself out there. Which i think it's in some ways kind of an unnatural you. I think you know or at least my experience. I can speak in my experience. I knew when i was talking about domestic violence and covering those issues that it was helpful for espn to have a woman in that position. And i also knew that it was point. I also suspected that it was going to damage career for all that i'd become defined by that issue and that it would be difficult for me to move on and i very much tried to cover other things and and continue to do the work on domestic violence. But i found that once. Espn decided it wasn't so interested in covering that anymore. That affected my trajectory. And i think so. I'm extrapolating a bit. But given the conversations that i've had with carrie michael jamal and just seeing a And others there. I get the sense that that there's similar feeling that That espn doesn't doesn't that again. It may maybe it's the you know the next it becomes somebody else's espn right and that the new prevailing ethos is not interested in elevating those voices any. But nobody ever tells you when you're at espn. They all tell you you're doing a great job. And i kind of think that we can see this a bit with maria taylor and rachel nichols and i imagine that both of them have people who are telling them that they're going to be the host or that they deserve this position or that you know something is coming for them. All they have to do is xyz or otherwise. Why would someone feel like they're entitled to a position. And i do think that's where people kind of get hitting one another is this idea of you. Don't know everything that's happening is happening behind closed doors. You don't have access to and so it's very difficult to know where you stand or where you're going to stand in six months even though you get the sense very much that people are already making those decisions. They really good point. The commute them. What you just respond to jane but again the one thing that i've always noted When it comes to espn. And i think this is probably true of other sports. Networks is honor talent who have direct communication or direct paths to the decision makers in that company have longer more fruitful bigger contracts Times those lines can be direct. Where the town on. Air talent has a direct relationship with the bullets. Hit the president or they have a very powerful agent who Who a direct relationship with you know the inner leaders of espn and and that's how they almost manage up. They underserved do a really good job of a managing above them. And i know. I respect with james coming from because you're just sort of a even a well paid on air talent who just doesn't have those lines of communications. You're almost sort of playing in a in a different world than than those other people but But i did. Mitch be what your thoughts are to what changes said. Yeah i mean to your to your point about access in about those kinds of connections. I mean i learned that after the fact. And that's one of those things where i remember very vividly when i first joined. Espn having i was reached out to by an agent at a and i didn't know anything about this world. I didn't know really what an agent did whether it was necessary whether it was worth the cost all of that and i asked one of my colleagues who was a white woman on air personality at. Espn no longer at the company. And she basically said that agents are necessary. You don't really need one or not worth the price all of that. She had an agent. And i later found out. She was negotiating her contract at the time so there was a little bit of a conflict in the advice that she gave me but it does. It does make a huge difference to have that person in the room like when you work at. Espn having an agent pays for itself just by having someone in the talent office for you. a nobody really tells you that when you get there so i do think that that you know. That's a huge part of these conversations. Another thing to what to what jane said is that. Espn is such a sprawling place and has such high level talent across the board that it can trot out you know a bunch of very respected black voices when diversity matters and when they need to When they need to present this front of having this commitment to diversity they do this. They do the same thing with high level women's talent especially when it comes to tennis coverage for example you know rightfully so. Espn is praised for having a lot of women who cover tennis and who cover other sports as well. But that doesn't it can't stop there. I think that that's really what what this kind of issue is coming down to two. Jane's point you know you talk about jamal and kerry and michael smith and going down down the line. I think one of the things that we've seen is not just that you know some of these voices are brought out to present this front but also that there just isn't institutional support or protectionism when you when you know that you're you're you're bringing out you know black voices to talk about race or to talk about colin kaepernick or something like that that there's going to be some kind of pushback some kind of backlash from the from the public and that they deserve to have some kind of institutional support and i always think about when the six when jamal and michael debuted on sports center and be immediate reaction from from from viewers was. Oh this is black sportscenter or you know this is this is this is just part of. Espn being the wo- crowd or something like that. And i. i don't know. I didn't hear any kind of pushback from espn or any kind of commitment to what this show could have been or was supposed to be beyond that. 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"maria taylor" Discussed on The Tim McKernan Show
"Want is weird as it is to say you want him to leave because that means that he has had great success yeah and inevitably take your pick of whomever i mean. You could probably rattle off the ten schools. That would be paid him something that missouri has can't and also missouri just isn't and hasn't been yet. Yeah so that's but yeah. I hear what you're saying whereas if he's leaving that's giving mizzou g. that means mizzou did something. And that's the top spot would be if he left for not analysis you alabama kind of thing south carolina and saw the exactly. Yeah that's a lateral move with. Actually that's that's the kind of alec the detrimental whereas a forward move would be possibly think if you were so. This is the the stock buying things. I think people get confused when i start talking about buying stocks part of buying stocks. Also where they're priced. So i think if you ask the people on the sec network college football coach and the sec who you would buy right now. I think they would all say eli drink quits. They might go. What about nick. Sabin nick sabin is like you know if this were draftkings like fifteen thousand dollars on top of it five years from now nick saban's not coaching was likely. So you know no that's that's a projection of the value and it's also what you can acquire the asset for any lie. Drink wits. relatively speaking has a great deal of projected value and is relatively speaking in the sec. Inexpensive and And i think people see him for what he's doing on the recruiting trail which is a huge part of the job and also engaging fan base and going this guy is going to be a star that oh to me. That's the answer but with that is a missouri fan. And you're in the sec. I think we'd all acknowledge not in the top tier of the sec. Football programs would love to see somebody who would argue that point. But whatever maybe we'll chiming with gangster pete and we might be able to find that that That that's you know. That's that's the that's the cost of it but like you said it's the lateral move. It's the south carolina. That kind of thing i think in some way missouri fans would be. You know like you know like okay. Well shit we lost. Somebody went to alabama it again. i'm keep using alabama. I don't think that's georgia ellison kind of thing. Oh man yeah. I don't know about the ole miss thing. I don't know about the illness thing. I don't know about the illness thing but georgia lsu alabama four. Burn florida just get it. It's still going to smart but you get it and then you know. Inevitably these coaches are asked. What are you going to. you know. Be new units. Stay gonna stay. What can they say. They're always in that weird spot canton not. I mean they're in this tough spot. And if they're in a position to increase their income by like third or fifty percent and they're going to see if that's their gold coach. A place of that caliber with the history. Missouri can't do that now. You can create your own history. And i think that's what he's selling right now and i think that's why he's having the success that thing exactly that. Yeah you can just be a guy in tuscaloosa or a guy in gainesville guy and athens or yeah in baton rouge or a guy in college station but you can be a legend. Yeah you can. Because essentially what joe madden was selling to free agents in two thousand sixteen with the cubs or twenty fifteen with the cubs new era exactly and so i get that so i listen i wanna make it clear. I don't want to be right But i'm going to be right so you have to understand that so if anybody wants the action i just we just have to have an independent arbitrator Determine the wager. i will take all action on this. I guess i'll cap it at a certain half starting boy. I don't think we're gonna get to that elvis and get to that point. I need to have some liquidity. Can't be jokai. But i but but up to a certain point i really will take the action because as far as i'm concerned it's a sure thing but i just know missouri fans don't like to hear it and it's not coming from a place of like i don't want it. I want him to have success. I want him to have success. And i think there's a great chance based on the recruits. He's getting he's going to have success. The problem is when you start getting the caliber of recruits that he is getting to come to columbia missouri around the sec. Who's this guy. And then if he can get a signature win and there is a chance that they get out of september undefeated. Yep and now they're in the polls plus they got the recruiting thing and they're talking about them you know and you know you're getting high-profiled opportunities on sec. You know they're talking about you on finebaum the and he's the guy and inevitably not. Everybody can have a great year in the sec in particular the sec west tennessee can only hire so many football coaches so they try. So it's probably going to be the sec west. I suppose it could be clemson. Swinney went to tuscaloosa. Know if you wanna go to glamorous program that wouldn't be in the sec for day. i don't think he's going big ten I don't think he's going pac ten. No no he winco right. Isn't striking right exactly. So i'm trying to stem trying to stick and where i think the reasonable plays would be. and so. that's what i'm saying. I think but it's a cost you. It's the it's a problem you want to have. It's just a problem that you fear missouri. Fans were not freaking out about frank. Eighth going anywhere you know but after they got to. The elite eight with mike anderson was the suitcase mike anderson thing they were freaking out about quin snyder. You know But pinkel just always came off as the guy. He's just not going anywhere. And that's that's that's what his personality was. Andy wasn't going anywhere so there. It is wrapping up on that. We just talked sports. We really did talk sports awesome. We broke it down. I guess we can talk sports. That's the nice thing too. That's a nice thing to know that we have in our whole star. I'd send in some poor next week. That team at inside st l. Dot com tmc k. e. r. n. a. n. at inside st l. dot com. Thank you to all of our sponsors for making it. Possible ryan kelly. The home loan expert dot com mark hanna. Evergreen wall strategies evergreen s. t. l. dot com. Seth gold camp designer heating and cooling designer service dot com james. Carlton called state farm insurance agency. Carlton insurance dot net Who've i left out. Jamie burke cards And achiever card and clayton patterson among saint louis acura dot com alton toyota dot com and jim rogers restoration. One of central. Saint louis dot com. Thank you all. Thank action jackson for action jackson. 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"maria taylor" Discussed on The Tim McKernan Show
"Soon yeah doors. you're on yeah a little high. I think he would actually be more while respecting columbia if he like shat the bed and didn't do well then if he is super successful. Moves onto another sec school. Like if he just didn't do great as a coach and they fire them be like like. No one hates anderson. I realized mizzou basketball isn't the same but it didn't you went to missouri. Yeah people hate bury odem. No i don't think they sam looking at drink which is like a more glamorous mike anderson You know that's how i'm i'm looking at it. As obviously mike anderson didn't have the personality drink was has And the way mike anderson actually did exit specifically made it all worse That was that was a bad situation right. So but but that's what i'm talking about with it and i think right now. Missouri fans are on this high albeit not from games but from recruiting and then the stuff he does on social media Which i guess is the game. You have to play now. Which is you know it's just it's it's selling if you don't necessarily believe the salesman and i don't believe the salesman and it's just it's yeah you know i don't believe the salesman i for the moment i met and gary pinkel. I was like and i wasn't expecting it. I remember when we were covering the the coaching search back in guest. Two thousand two thousand one whenever it was. And i'm like who the fuck led a beat penn state at. I was his thing that god had to settle for coach toledo anise. But i met my. I remember coming back. Came over in saying that people came v safar doug volun- our editors and produce i go. I don't know this guy. There's something different about this one hundred percent but just but that's a different guy that doesn't mean there's only one way to get into the end zone so drink which thing might be thinking i gary pinkel wasn't going anywhere. I remember asking him about that. I remember asking him about by like he was so still torn up about having to say goodbye to his players at toledo toledo to go to a big twelve school at the time. I'm like there's something different about this guy and by the way people being ambitious and eli drink. What's if he were offered at ron's job in a year or two and taking it. I wouldn't be like what's he doing. Yeah i get it. Man budget that they're working with and baton rouge versus colombia. Operation is different deal. I get it. But i do think sometimes fans and this isn't limited to missouri missouri may be a little more high on the hypersensitive side of the scale. Get their hearts. Ripped out when coaches leave because not only did the coach who you're buying into left but then it also is kind of a holding up the mirror to the state of the program and if the one i use last week or two weeks going over we talked about it was bielema going from wisconsin. Arkansas show every wisconsin's going were better arkansas. What the fuck is he doing. Yeah you know. I think there was more to it than just straight wisconsin. Arkansas my premise. I mean like the haith tulsa thing totally different deal. Yeah considering all the circumstances. So that's i want to reiterate what my premises. Yeah and i also want to say make this crystal clear. I hope i am wrong. Because of his if he is still viewed in july twenty twenty six as he's viewed in july twenty twenty one. then that means some great shit has happened. No doubt you know what i mean. Yeah no doubt. But i i mean god if there was a place i could bet it if anybody wants it i'm in. We'll even give some semblance of odd. It's not like ten to one. But i'll give something i'll give you know. I'll make you buy plus one twenty or something So bet like a thousand twelve hundred. And i realize it's like tough to determine i suppose i think we would. All agree mike. Anderson is not well respected by missouri. Fans right now. No okay so i think that this is something we all be able to to come away from but he just one. What would anymore conference saint. John's is in right now. But i think he's coach of the year in that conference today. Yeah i think they are they. They might be ten a big. The big east has changed about. I know that was a big time. I will say to play devil. Go do it do it for you. I is the one thing where people are like buying into away did last year. I can put it down to one moment it stopping. Lsu four times on the goal line to win the game to me that you can't take that away to me. That means the players have bought into what he's preaching like guys who do. Maybe i never played football my life. I know from any sport. I play if you're gonna dig deep like that because it is so difficult to stop teams from right there one yard. Yeah it's so difficult. But if you especially in a season where you kind of know yara lost alabama. You got a bunch of other. Sec schools coming down the pipe. His isn't necessarily make or break anything. But if you believe in your coach and you believe in what he can do and you go stop. Lsu four times to win this game not only. Does the players feel that. But i think the fans feel it and from that moment on people like okay. Maybe this drink guy can be. He was also kinda came in underplayed because people probably heard the higher like who. Who's the drink with. But then when they see something like that like a a definable moment like that. I think they're tune changes a little bit. I'll accept that. I get it i you can't you have not okay. They they could have been playing one of their random. September opponents september punches like most college football programs by the way and done that first and goal from the one doesn't matter do it against lsu yeah Even though that wasn't the twenty nine hundred. Lsu was incredibly impressive. The issue i have is the way that thing finished because it did have great momentum even lsu wasn't you know what else he was eight months earlier. It's like then how do you. How do you explain away. The way the thing wrapped up in it wrapped up really poorly. But i know there are a lot of injuries and obviously had people in and out with covert. It was just a different deal. Is my my my premises. It's not that he can't coach. i wanted it. I don't know what he has done yet for me for me. Anyway as a coach to make people like this guy is an i. I don't to me. I haven't seen that yet But that doesn't mean that it's not there. He might be an incredible coach and maybe he will be is gone a shed. I'm gonna. I'm gonna spot where i'm worshiped in the state of missouri. Yup and i go to alabama. And i gotta replace nick. Not say that he's going alabama place nick sabin but i go to. Lsu and the expectation is national championship than in the sec west. Yeah with alabama and auburn and one of the others might have a decent team and you could lose to them and now you're am and holy shit the seek it's a lot hotter a lot quieter absolutely and those just depends on what you want. Itis he strikes me. I don't even think the guys. I think said this last week. He's not forty ed I just think he's a guy who's who's climbing. Which by the way. There's nothing wrong with it. It's just it's kind of like quinn when quinn had equity. I know the the history now. Is you know the disaster. That was the end of the quin thing but initially it was all he's going to be gone he's going to be gone. Which is why. I think i asked pinkel about it. And shit quinn was only. I can one in one or two seasons at that point. It's only been around while you know and so there was a little bit of insecurity amongst missouri fans at that time. And that's why and he's like that's not yeah and he wasn't an but that's him. Those guys are rare. He also was older when he was hired. Different deal had a family. You know not the drink with doesn't let's young family so that's where i'm coming from so but it's the it's the cost of having success. You.
The Tim McKernan Show
"maria taylor" Discussed on The Tim McKernan Show
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At some point there will come a time where i will go into more detail on a bunch of these things And he's just really is is a plus and i'm glad that you're working with objects and so as we as we were sitting here talking about the rachel nichols retailer. Espn situation literally jackson This happened to at the elliott camper thing just has some about injury marchand with the story within the last half hour Espn Has removed rachel nichols from the sidelines for the nba finals. The network has announced the move was made in the wake of a new york times report about demeaning comments that nichols made around a year ago about network host. Maria taylor during a private conversation nichols did not realize that the video was being recorded. The video is then disseminated by espn employees in her place. The network will have maliki andrews on the sidelines for the finals nichols will continue to host the jump quote. We believe this is the best decision for all concerned in order to keep the focus on the nba finals and espn set statement. So there is out. So i think this will be the beginning of the phase out for rachel nickell. She'll be going away. I think she'll be phased out slowly. I mean the jump is trump is not good. John jump stacks. You're about to take smith real that in. I mean the jump is not very good paul. Pierce wasn't very good on it. He laughed. I mean there's a lot of people who kind of see the writing on the wall i feel for. Espn just not high on the on the content that they're putting out so they're taking off the size line that wonder what they can. Do you talk about specific there but espn in general to like up. I mean 'cause 'cause success was was the by product of something that isn't relevant anymore in sportscenter. Yeah so just in. I mean sometimes things just change and sometimes peop- and i you know i you know to be saint louis centric. I think i talked about this with baseball a week. Or two ago on the podcast I also another example. We'll be downtown. I think the downtown saint louis like. I think we can still have a great region even of downtown. Isn't you know a hotbed of activity. Like lower manhattan. I you know. I mean downtown. La exactly the bee's knees. So i just. I feel like sometimes you try to force things to hold onto him so much. Saint louis about what was supposed to what's going to be People are living on what was done with. Their families did As opposed to you know what they're going to do or what they are doing. And and so along those lines now taking it to the national discussion what we were talking about with. espn rachel nichols retailer. I don't i feel like it can work. But maybe i'm wrong. Maybe it can't maybe it. Can't i think part of it is. Espn is a disney company is owned by disney. And so much of what's popular in sports right now is kind of more like what we do on tma. Wow in. it's counter to what disney shareholders and disney board. Not disney buttoned up deal. It's interesting that's a nice observations and american pie company and so when you take something like. Espn you're not going to be really able to do kind of what they do on inside the nba. Or what they do with the fox show on sunday or like what our signature show right now as we speak on july six twenty twenty one. Sports are with sap. I have to thank out. I think that. I think i think for those who are aware of it. I would say yeah. I would say and i might be wrong. You might immediately poke a haunted. I would say college game day. Yeah probably that and with nfl countdown. Probably those two just because they can. Nfl countdown. i don't think so. I don't think that's got the juice that college game day does house game day has juice. But that is a kind of like a seasonal deal. I get it. But i mean. Ntc's my i guess my premise. I needed to find what i'm talking about is what is the thing that even when there are other options people are going to make sure that they tune in like tries to college football show just a fox does their nfl show and it's still the you know the game day or just i get sports background thing now it is. I'm just trying to figure out and you might the disney thing that i've heard that in maybe a bunch of people said it and i know that immediately some people to make political say. It's woke you know i. Just when it gets down to it. People could be woke or they can be conservative or whatever if business works people exit like chick-fil-a for example. You know i'm quite confident. That if i applied to own a franchise chick-fil-a. I wouldn't even make it through the first minute of them reading through you know my operation but i love the chicken sandwiches and so i'm fine with that now. I just because i am like that. That doesn't mean that everybody is like that Premise being. I think a lot of people who consider. Espn woke still excited. If espn i-it's sec. Is in there ours. On campus for game fishy. What i'm saying. But that's because they have great product there yes so the product isn't good so then when the product isn't good people than tach reasonings to it to fit their if they're really into the political thing that consumes them that this is the reason why this is the reason why the product isn't good the product. Isn't you go of your way. You know in by the way college game day would work whether it's on. Espn or not. That's that to me is the sign of pardon. my take would work whether it's on barcelona. would it have gotten as big without barstool. no but now. It's just like college game day. I don't think they've gotten as good or being with without. Espn but now. It's a standalone thing. locally i would say you know i think. Tma job which i know is self indulgent but the ratio dave glover show those kinds of shows we have followings and they'll follow wherever glover went from ninety seven one to cam wax rx is always been one of five seven and i think we've been on every am radio station.
The Gerry Callahan Podcast
"maria taylor" Discussed on The Gerry Callahan Podcast
"Would wonder that. Would maybe accused them of that. It happens a lot we see. God knows it's you see it on. Tv and a network seat and whatever newspaper jobs. i mean. I want sat with a editor. The boston herald going through resumes. And all he wanted to do was hire a black guy really know he is way he was a good guy. His i was in the right place. He was a good liberal. Said i really want. But you know i gotta find. He was trying to find one and we were sitting around him and he was going through it all and saying we got and there was nothing no one objected to it. We decided offensive. It's the way the world i mean there's actual laws affirmative action in place at big companies. They want to hire minorities for certain positions at at certain compass. Hell at most companies. They want to do it. It's it's i guess you can't you're not supposed to say it it. Just post to quietly. Acknowledge it but you can't say it out loud. She said it out loud it this call that she made mendelssohn. Yeah it must have been extremely uncomfortable for her. When she found out it was recorded it was being passed around the espn offices for close to a year. Everybody was waiting for it to get sent to a media outlet a news outlet to help maria taylor and hurt rachel nichols she must have had some sleepless nights wondering what exactly she said how she said it and when it would appear and what effect it would have. Its tawdry to think you take private. Call the woman who did it. They got the women who admitted she leaked. It recorded it and pass it around the office. She was dismissed by espn. Maria taylor is smart. She didn't her fingerprints on on it. Clearly i'm just gonna come to my conclusion. She's behind this. It helps her immensely. In fact. I think it wins the negotiation for her. Well her mom her agent. You know that so she. Her mom probably did the leaking. That won't right someone close to where it's probably covered a tracks. She denied she denied. She leaked it. Nobody believes her is a cold blooded. Move this private call with. Rachel nichols and adam. Mendelssohn was leaked to the new york times just as maria taylor negotiations with. Espn hit the eleventh hour. She's contracts up at a couple of weeks. It's i think our contract's up when like the night of game. Six of the final so she. She's got good timing. She's got real leverage. She's got the the current climate cultural climate working in her favor. And maybe she had a bad day in negotiations. As you said that's it let's leak it. They call the new york times. They sent them the tape. It's a private call. It's uncomfortable to hear it's uncomfortable to listen to. It's really. I'm going to say it's not great. Not a great look for rachel nichols or for mendelssohn by the way lebron's asia who says he's sick of metoo and black lives matter visit lebrons guy. That's not good for him. Either but i have to say there were call between then were called with me like a friend of mine or even me and you. It'd be much worse. i'd be swearing every other word. We'd be making fun of people would be. I mean that's what you do when you talk to your friends and we'd be saying you know of course. Maria taylor is getting promoted and featured partially because of her race. of course. why are we denying that why we pretending that's not the current way of the world. She didn't say anything irrational unreasonable. Insane offensive i mean. It's it's uncomfortable because she's kind of snappy and snow yet but is there anything there that you'd say god that's -rageous she's a fraud she's a phony she's a liar. I mean i could think of much worse thing. Someone could say in a private call. Yeah this isn't so bad. You wanna let's do it. Let's hear it. Yes is that's her them retailer said she's good. She's covers football and she says you know good for good luck you know. Find it somewhere else in other words. You're not coming after my job. Unfortunately she was she is. She got her job but this maria taylor is such a premadonna again. She's thirty four years old. Nobody i mean. Ninety eight percent of the american public doesn't even know she is and she's demanding eight million not only that she won't allow rachel nichols. The most prominent nba sideline reporter at the network to appear on the show with her. I mean again. I mean you got to you have to like rachel nichols is probably the only threat right so you got to cut that off. You gotta make sure that there's no one there threat. That's fine if she doesn't want to but why doesn't he boss say too bad maria she's going to appear on the show. Just suck it up. You can hate her if you want. Lots of people hate l. I know lots of radio shows where they had two people on the show and they hated each other and they succeeded together for years Mike francesa and chris russo hated eddie. Dale hated each other. I mean and they had a great show together and it was four hours a day five days a week. This they want. Rachel nichols to appear with maria. Taylor for like a minute and a half two minutes. And she says no. He has the leverage they have showed she's featured on the show occasionally but it's recorded. Yes not allowed to appeal. Live so maria taylor is demanding eight million dollars a year and she's calling the shots on who will appear on her show. It's like it's like she's ellen degeneres she's you know some big star. She's whatever barbara. Walters or something mentioned making the call. The shots maria taylor. Yeah i don't know why. But she has more leverage. I don't i don't know but she war against Rachel nichols she's awesome was she hasn't yet but you're she's about to his were. Rachel nichols loses. Be on this call. And i think you know where i'm going i mean i have no sympathy for rachel nichols at all. She's still got a job she's probably making whatever couple of million i. It's a good time to be. You know she she she. She complains about the treatment of minorities including women at espn. What hell you talking about. You're a big star. You're making a lot of money. And you're saying that they have some bias against females or against african americans. What what even a year ago. That was that's crazy even a year ago. That that's that's nuts but anyway you know it's like the number one criteria the number one qualification. Now is you have to check some box whether you're female or african american or they want that they really want to celebrate diversity. Espn that's one of the reasons. Rachel nichols has been advanced has been promoted now. She's getting lapped by the gold medal winner. The woke olympics. And she doesn't like it. So i have no sympathy for but he was talking about what she's talking about the climate espn and the way they treat women and minority. She said those same people who are like generally white conservative male trump. Voters is part of the reason. I've had a hard time at. Espn basically finally just outworked. Everyone for so long that they had to recognize it. I don't want. I don't want to then be victim of them trying to play catch up for the same damage that affected me in the first place. You know what. I mean. So i'm trying to be nice so this woman this again. Why she's got no real support in this is blaming white conservative male trump voters at espn for holding her down. The people who are now about to sign rich assign maria tail rate million a year and make her a star. The people who are who are not going to fire ritual nichols or suspend or anything white. Can i just tell you toronto. How many white male conservative trump voters work in bristol bristol at..
The Dan Patrick Show
"maria taylor" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"Espn made the decision to move. Maria taylor into the host of countdown. And of course rachel nichols was not happy. That was her job And so in the bubble rachel nichols was inner hotel room and of course you have cameras in your room that you do. Your hits from and rachel nichols was off camera but didn't realize camera was recording in the feed was live and she was on the phone with someone who you know is in i can i say. He's in lebron james's circle. I think he runs. I don't want to say pr for lebron's group. But he is his name. Is adam mendelssohn. He's a longtime advisor of lebron and rich paul. So he's in. That crew and rachel nichols talking to him about the situation retailer and you know she makes some comments that depending on your point of view and robin. I have discussed this. We kinda see them slightly different. But this is what rachel nickell said. I wish maria taylor all the success in the world. She covers football. She covers basketball. If you need to give her one more thing to do or you need to give her more things to do because you are feeling pressure about your crappy longtime record on diversity. Which by the way. I know personally from the female side of like gopher it just find it somewhere else. You're not going to find it for me or taking my thing away so she sang a lot there right. She saying yeah. Espn you guys have screwed up and been done diversity very poorly over the years i get it. Just don't take. Don't give them retailer something out of my plate. Don't have her eat mine and of course that's what he is being did. And depending on how you view the comments you either think rachel nichols is racist or rachel nichols hates maria taylor or something else now i guess my big takeaway is. It's a shoulder shrug no big deal but the problem is that you know she was being recorded. 'cause they're camera was live multiple people. I guess saw the feed coming through it. Espn somebody put on the record on their phone and then they started to senate around. Somebody sent it to maria taylor people send it to. Espn heads blah blah blah and. It's like whoa. Nellie and all of a sudden is just these to hate each other and Maria taylor felt like she was being aggrieved and rob. I guess from there..
The Dan Patrick Show
"maria taylor" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"Where you big time and us now not doing. July fourth holiday podcasts. What's up with that. Well you know i. The plan initially was maybe to do one robin. We're talking about it and then your boy had a few too. many vodka. Sodas on sunday ended up taking a nap in the middle of the afternoon. Little too much sun and dry day drinking hadn't done it in a while. Post to why tied to chill back with the alcohol and start to work out harder to get back on that summer grind and just a little too much drink was kind of took a nap then went to see some fireworks and i was texting robin like listen. I don't know man can we can we. Can we not do one. He's like it's a holiday man. of course we don't have to do. And i was like yes. They you know. Sometimes you just need to take a day and do some day drinking so We had a fun safe. July fourth was actually a pretty great weekend. All around. i will say this. I do have my mind on something else besides the nba finals and Boys and girls both my kids start summer league basketball this week and We meeting the teams tonight. Yes tonight very excited for that. I i think i've talked about this. I'm not coaching for the first time in a summer. I want my kids. You know. I didn't been doing some coaching throughout the pandemic. We called a pandemic buckets at my house out here in california and i'm just a little drained from it and let someone else take the reins. I'll be the the geographer slash assistant to the assistant regional manager. What's corner guy. Who's always pumping up the truth call. We got this. We got a very connected so Went out and got my daughter a new basketball. You know very excited for the league. So i'll be focused on that endless. There is a bit of a brain drain on the nba finals. Like people are checked out. You know. I talked to rob about potential guesses again. That guy's on vacation sky. I think he's on vacations like bro. It's the nba finals. Oh wait it's the sons and bucks so we will do a little preview more gambling centric than anything. Because you.
SportsCenter AllNight
Zion Williamson, Lakers And NBA discussed on SportsCenter AllNight
"The future of the NBA draft came Thursday night with the New Orleans pelicans zoning. The top pick fresh off their megadeal with the Lakers off loading, Anthony Davis with the first choice. They hope they found their new face of the franchise with the first pick the two thousand nineteen NBA draft the New Orleans pelicans Zion Williamson. Yes, we all expected, and it happens. I Williamson de sensation out of Duke average better than twenty two points in eight boards. Game shot, sixty eight percent in his lone season with the blue devils e was your first overall choice. He is the new franchise icon in the big easy, and he joined Maria Taylor. Well as on the moment we
College Football Live
Bill Snyder, Holly Rowe and Brett Farve discussed on College Football Live
"Slide efforts here. That was Marie is that's all that. Oh, oh, yeah. Holly sold out. Maria. Maria was weeks. All's that was. Holly winds job Ali. Yeah. Ruffling. Gentlemen, effort,
SportsCenter AllNight
Cavaliers take Alabama point guard Collin Sexton with No. 8 pick
"To the magic seven ten wingspan long in the nba this coming season nearly four blocks game a season ago all big twelve all defensive team needless to say he was with our maria taylor let's talk through being the hometown guy the first draft you ever watch was urban new jersey guy coming through and now it's the guy from harlem what does it mean the world's media comeback to the city and the right where i started everything is just surreal i mean words can't describe all right now what does the orlando magic organization told you about the role they would like for you to play on their team they want be to contribute right away i'm i'm just i'm super super happy and i just can't wait to get down there i give me a wingspan one good time stand up show it to go ahead you got to loosen up there it is orlando magic fans get used to that and now with the seventh pick in the two thousand eighteen nba draft the chicago bulls select wendell junior yes another dookie goes in the top ten this the third time to do players were drafted in the first ten selections wendel carter junior to chicago sixteen double doubles last season named all acc freshman now it's the eighth pick in the draft and it's the cleveland cavaliers who had it the two thousand eighteen nba draft the cleveland cavaliers select colin sexton jackson the highest drafted alabama players since nineteen ninetyfive helped tied to their first ncaa tournament win since two thousand six set alabama single season freshman scoring record six hundred and thirty two points and had this plea for lebron two years ago you were an unranked high school player now you're a lottery pick what does that mean it just shows omaha work paid off i'll just grind it from start at the bottom came back up onto the top thousand biggest thing just to show people what i can do make your pixel lebron james to stay in cleveland with you lebron let's do it as i see you need a few pieces pieces past season let's do let's go back to the finals doing all right lebron young bull it's called you out he wants you to stay with them in cleveland congratulations pick in the two thousand eighteen nba draft the new york knicks select kevin knox there's one for the locals nixon.