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"sam borden" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"My guess would be that the kind of pressure you face is a player is a little different than the pressure you're facing now, this time of year as an analyst, right? Yeah, I think so. I mean, for me, as an analyst, there's definitely less pressure. I mean, I still feel the adrenaline rush when I'm about to go on camera. We're about to start a show or something like that. And then everything is just natural and instincts and you go back to your habits. So for performance wise, I would say it's similar just because of the adrenaline and the excitement, but pressure wise, I feel way less pressure as an analyst because if I say something wrong as an analyst, I'm just going to fix it in my next sentence. You get a turnover in basketball. Well, you might have a chance to fix it. You know, that's two points on the board. So I think the pressure is a little different, but I'm glad my experience as an athlete keeps everything in perspective for me. All the pressure is on South Carolina. The clear favorite in this women's NCAA tournament, but that doesn't mean another championship is a done deal. Especially when you consider the looming threats in Caitlin Clark in Iowa, a Yukon team that might be getting healthy at just the right time and SEC powerhouse. LSU led by Alexis Morris. So today, Andrea Carter is here to tell us why women's college hoops is bigger and better than ever and which teams and players you really should be paying attention to this march. I'm Sam Borden in for Pablo Toure. It's Friday, march 17th,
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"sam borden" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"And I guarantee Mark view, Mark views message is, these guys are tough. Bryce drew grand cave. This is the third team he's taken to the NCAA tournament to valpo where he played. He had the infamous shot in 1998 against old myths, right? Then he led Vanderbilt to the intelligent tournament. And now he's taking Grand Canyon. And this Grand Canyon team is fascinating. They shoot a lot of threes. Almost 41% of their shots are three point attempts. And they make a lot of threes. They've made 38%. Sometimes you'll see high volume three point shooting teams, but they're not very good at making them. They just figure if we shoot a bunch of them, things will work out in our favor. That's not Grand Canyon. I mean, they really let it fly, and once that happens, they're just kind of tough to deal with. Gonzaga is sort of this sexy pick to make it out of that region, but I guarantee you, on film, a Grand Canyon team that's lost one day to the Valentine's Day I believe, making their threes, they're gonna be tough. Myron, you did as we talked about, 12,000 words on March Madness and this bracket. But can I ask you to just boil it down to this? Who's going to win? Passage your question. I will go with the team that I think has been the most consistent. They have veterans and that's the same formula that Villanova and Baylor and Kansas last year at North Carolina before them. Again, one and done teams don't win national championships. That's a lot. So that's the case. I'm going to go with the experience group. I'm going to sue Marcus satcher can tell. And I'm picking Houston to win it all home. In Houston, which will be a remarkable story. It's going to be hard to rattle that group after everything they've experienced. I spent Houston to cut down the net. Just like Tom Brady and the bucks winning the Super Bowl in their home stadium, you think Houston is going to get it done in their home city. Myra Metcalfe 12,000 words written and some time for us to really appreciate the insight. Thank you all for having me as always. I'm Sam Borden, and this has been ESPN daily. I'll talk to you tomorrow.
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"sam borden" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"Okay, so I just want to be very fair. There should be an asterisk on that 5th place finish. And the asterisk is simply had been attacked by a bear. Had also faced the number one seed. Of all creatures on the planet. Before facing the number one seed in this tournament, it'd also be in very small font there too. Yeah, I mean, he tied a bear, you know? Like he got out of there, you know? That's right. So he is an unbelievable, unexpected all American with a final season record of 5 and 6, by the way. You know, and he survived a bear attack about a 125 days before that. And it was a little bit later that he found out that the coaches had voted. And he had won the NJ CAA sportsmanship award. The coaches come together and vote who they want it. They only give one word away. And coaches came up to me and just told me after the season, you know, I was there with my team the whole time and it was the coolest reward I probably ever wanted was that sportsmanship award. Yeah, deserved. I would say just on the merits, having again, the whole bear attack thing, part of the resume. As always, is this how the sun is finally setting on our two protagonists here? This chapter of their lives was a tough one, but they both recently went and they got tattoos that you would never expect them to get, you know? Their bodies are still healing up and they still decided to go and get tattoos and Brady asked for the face of a grizzly bear on his chest. And Kendall got a small bear paw print on his. What are we doing? What is this story? Yeah, it's unbelievable. These guys are superheroes, man. It's just like, I can't handle the way that these guys have proven to be beyond normal human comprehension. Well, it's an interesting thing they described, which is like, you know, when you think about some of the real bad moments that life throws at you, you can either run from them or like lean in and grab those things and say, what can I learn from this? And that's kind of what the tattoos are. They overcame something and they don't want to forget what it took to overcome. And the fact that they both kind of did this together, it's also, you know, it's a way to bond them. Those two people, not just Brady with the event that happened in Kendall with the event that happened. It's a way that Brady and Kendall will forever be intertwined. And did they ever go back into the world of the outdoors? Because I will tell you, Ryan, as someone who relates more to your side of the ledger, on the scale of humanity, I'd be done. I'd be out. Yeah, permanently, yeah. They're outdoorsman Pablo and we are endorsement. You know, one of the things that's real interesting as they talk was neither one of them puff up their chest like they're superheroes. Both of them admitted that they were so scared and they had moments when they attack was happening where they thought about running off. Like they don't pretend they're not human. And one of the parts to this that they began to realize as their bodies healed up was if we're going to push ourselves past this, we need to go back out into the Woods. And we need to go back out there together. It's kind of our getaway place. It's our happy place that I've always gone to the Woods. And so we knew we were going to get back into it. It's just kind of a way of life. Like Brady said it's a way of life. I'm glad that I'm still get out and enjoy it and not be totally worried all the time. They did not go back near the bobcat houlahan trail. Neither one of them thinks they will go back to that exact spot. So they found a different spot and they walked into the brush that day and they had the same basic goal of finding some horns and they did, but the biggest thing they found was some peace going forward. Ryan hawke and Smith, my fellow proudly indoor person. Thank you for telling us this story. Thank you, Pablo. Remember, move forward, buddy, move forward. I am Pablo Torre. This has been ESPN daily, and our show is produced by Bradford Craig, Alexander Hyatt synth, Mike Johns, Heather lombardo, ryann antel, Mike philbrick, Andrei Soto, Andy tennant, Chris two manella, and they're unveil. Special thanks this week to Deontay eps, Kendall, Frank saracino, Garrett Lang, and Jackson, Angelo. Sam Borden will take the reins here next week. I'm gonna take a bit of a break starting on Monday, but yeah, stick with us.
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"sam borden" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"As it often does in journalism in the tiniest of places. So where does it start? It starts in the fine print of a footnote of a financial report of the Washington commanders that was delivered in April of 2020. The footnote discusses a $55 million credit line that the team had taken out 16 months earlier and it was done without the knowledge or the required approval of Dan Snyder's minority partners. These are three men, all billionaires who own about 40% of the franchise, they read the footnote and were like, what is this? This is news to us. And it turns out now that that loan has become a primary focus of federal prosecutors in Virginia who are investigating the allegations of financial misconduct by Snyder and the Washington commanders who have had multiple sources with firsthand knowledge of the inquiry, telling me that and this inquiry is being led by a team of FBI and IRS agents. FBI, IRS agents, this sounds really serious and we're talking about a $55 million line of credit that you say was obtained without knowledge or required approval from Snyder's minority partners. Now, why is that significant? It's significant Sam because the minority partners were on the board of directors of the Washington commanders, any new debt taken out by the team had to be approved by these three men. Their names are Robert rothman, Dwight schar and Frederick W Smith. And once they discovered this loan, they began looking even more closely into the team's finances and found what they described as Snyder using the team as they put it his personal piggy bank. One of the things they discovered is that Snyder was charging the team four and a half $1 billion to put its logo on his private plane. Now these are all allegations that they alleged in an arbitration petition that was filed with the NFL. Mostly what the partners were upset about is that Snyder obtained a loan without their knowledge or approval and it very quickly became the most contentious issue in their very bitter yearlong clash between the partners and Dan Snyder. So Donna sounds like things were pretty intense between Snyder and these minority owners. How bad did it get? How intense was it? I was extremely intense and it was a dispute that was fought in sealed motions filed in a federal lawsuit in Maryland in 2020 and it ended up in confidential proceedings led by an NFL arbitrator and eventually got before commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL lawyers in closed doors mediation. But I had a source tell me, Sam, that what really was going on here is an allegation, a very serious one was made against Dan Snyder by his three minority partners and at the NFL was uninterested or disinterested in really investigating it. And here's the quote that was given to me by a source with firsthand knowledge. Three billionaires, not a few whistleblowers, alleged to the NFL arbitrator that their partner had possibly committed bank fraud. This is jail time type of fraud. The NFL owes the partners as much of a fair shake as it owes Snyder and the league had no interest in finding out what happened. They buried it and didn't investigate it and covered it up. And just a few months after that mediation occurred, led by the NFL and commissioner Goodell with Snyder and the three partners to try to resolve this dispute, it resulted in Snyder paying his three partners $875 million for their 40% stake in the team. Now, that looks like chump change when you compare it to the amount of money Snyder is now seeking to sell the team for. He's looking for up to $7 billion just two years later. So at that price tag, the former partner's stake in the team had they not sold it two years ago under the mediation would be worth $2.8 billion. And even for a billionaire, leaving 500 or $600 million on the table that gets their attention pretty quick. So you could be forgiven for thinking that the list is getting pretty long. Allegations of sexual misconduct. A toxic workplace environment. Changing the team's controversial name, not to mention the federal investigation into the team's finances. No NFL franchise has endured more public turmoil in recent years than the Washington commanders, and their owner, Daniel Snyder. But now there are new serious claims centered on potential fraud by Snyder in connection to how he treated his own business partners. As well as allegations that top NFL officials helped him cover up the behavior in question. So today, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Don van natta delivers his latest investigation into Snyder and the commanders. It's a staggering story about a hidden loan that led to Snyder's fellow billionaires crying foul. Forcing the Lee and even Roger Goodell to step in. I'm Sam Borden in for Pablo Toure. And this is ESPN daily. For the ones who get it done, Granger offers high quality supplies and solutions for every industry, as well as access to product specialists who have the knowledge and experience to answer your toughest questions. Plus, their commitment to being your safety partner can help you keep your facilities safe and your people safer. So call, click ranger dot com or just stop by. All right, Don, so you have produced a series of huge stories involving the Washington commanders and their owner, Daniel Snyder over the past year, but this most recent story, the one that's out today, its centers on something that played out behind the scenes. And this is like, this is in the back room side of sports. This is an area of sports that most fans don't understand, and most probably don't even think about. And it involves Snyder's former minority partners with this team. Can you start Don by just explaining what minority partners are and who these guys were in particular? Yes, and most fans probably think Dan Snyder is the sole owner of the Washington franchise. But for most of his tenure, since he bought the team in 1999, he's just been the majority owner with partners. Actually, it began in 2003 until as recently as 2021 that Snyder had three minority partners. Robert rothman, Dwight schar and Frederick W Smith. Together these three men own 40% of the team, all three are billionaires. Smith is the founder and executive chairman of FedEx, rothman is CEO of black diamond capital and char is chairman of nvr incorporated a publicly traded home construction company. And behind the scenes, they made up half of the team's 6 member board of directors and under the team's bylaws. It's very clear. They needed to approve all major financial decisions made
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"sam borden" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"You know, I should very clearly disclose at the very top here that corporate synergy thing Sam just mentioned. Because if you did not know this important fact, ESPN is owned by The Walt Disney Company, which means, by the way, that yes, I do consider the whale from Avatar 2. My coworker. But it also means that today we are able to uncover the answer to a question that I like Sam Borden have also been contemplated about how and why a very specific phrase became an institution unto itself. I'm Pablo Toure. It's Wednesday, February 15th. And this is ESPN daily. For the ones who get it done, Granger offers high quality supplies and solutions for every industry, as well as access to product specialists who have the knowledge and experience to answer your toughest questions. Plus, their commitment to being your safety partner can help you keep your facilities safe and your people safer. So call, click ranger dot com or just stop by. So Sam, you've been working on a story for SU featured all about this phrase. The phrase that we hear this time of year every year, what is the origin of the phrase? Where does this all start? You know, Pablo goes back to January of 1987. Just a few days before Super Bowl 21 between the Denver Broncos and the New York Giants. A whole bunch of Disney executives are at a dinner that has nothing to do with the Super Bowl. It's actually a dinner with these pilots. Jenna Yeager and dick rattan and these pilots had just circumnavigated the entire world. So at this function are these pilots and among others, Michael eisner, who at the time was the CEO of Disney. And he just, you know, he's making conversations so he asks Jenny Yeager, you've just done something so amazing. You've gone around the world. What are you going to do next? I said to them, you've just flown around the world. You've just done something so unbelievable. What are you going to do next? And she said, we're going to Disneyland. And she says to him, oh, we're going to Disneyland. And Jane eisner, Michael eisner's wife, you know, is sitting there listening to the conversation and Jane, my wife said, that's a good slogan. Hey, you know what? That would be a good slogan. So this is not a mad men scenario. Like ad men are not sitting around and smoke filled room at Madison Avenue trying to come up with like this genius basically Proto meme of a phrase, instead it's off of Jenny Yeager's lips that they get. This thing that with now Super Bowl 21 just days away causes the Disney marketing team to come up with a plan, it sounds like. I think what you just said hits on one of the things that I think is really intriguing is that this phrase, this idea wasn't workshopped. It wasn't white boarded, you know, there was no going around the table. It really did come from something organic. I mean, Jenna Yeager, she was going to Disney World. It was actually happening. And so after they realized, hey, this maybe could be something because Michael eisner's wife suggests it. We talked to Sally Connor, the vice president of Disney global content, partnerships, marketing, and she basically explained what they came up with off of that. Here's the concept. It's either the Giants quarterback Phil Simms or the Broncos quarterback, John Elway. When they win the game, one of them is going to look into the camera and say, I'm going to Disney World. So in order to make this happen though, Pablo, they need to ask the people involved ahead of time, like you can't just assume you're going to run up to one of the players on the field and they're going to know what to do in the chaos after the Super Bowl. So they have to go up to the quarterbacks before the game and get them to agree. Hey, if I win, I'll do this. I'll look at the camera and say, I'm going to Disney World. You know, it seems so natural now because it's been going on for more than three decades, but at the time, Phil Simms, who was the quarterback of the Giants, he was not into the idea. That was approached and told about it, and I said, wow, that's crazy. And I want no part of it. And I said, that is just putting a big jinx on myself. He was nervous. I mean, he was like, well, what do you mean? You're talking to me about what I'm going to do if I win the game, I haven't even played the game yet. He thought it was definitely putting a hex on him and the Giants if he agreed to it. Ultimately, in the end, Sims reluctantly agrees and he says, okay, fine. If we win, I'll do it. And so what happened in Super Bowl 21? Well, the Giants won, Sims wins the Super Bowl, wins the MVP award, and you can see footage on the field of him asking, wait a minute. What do I say? What am I supposed to say now? Again, it seems so weird to think that anybody would not know what that line is supposed to be. But at the time, no one had ever said it before. And so Sims is like in the middle of this celebration and you've got this producer and camera running up to him and he's kind of
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Boban Marjanovic Is Your Favorite NBA Player's Favorite Player
"Sam borden you've just published this profile of boban mariano vich of the dallas mavericks and you titled it. Why bobin is your favorite players favorite player so after getting quality time with them. What's he actually like. You know pablo is funny. Like i've been fortunate to spend some time with a number of athletes with amazing personalities. Samborn is a global sports correspondent for espn zlatan. Ibrahimovic comes to mind. Martellus bennett comes to mind. But i have to be honest. I have never spent time with an athlete. Where i have come away feeling better about myself about the world about everything in general than the time that i spent with bovine on the bench i to speak with everybody in man of the people to be friendly giant. This is a guy that just positivity is like exploding out of him and that was what everybody that i had spoken to about him said. These has the loved this any player in the nba by his team's. Yes anybody about volvo. Like man dude you know. And after spending time with him myself it is one hundred percent true. This is a guy that basically lights up the world feel amazing. You know first time on. Tv throws it down town. The young
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"sam borden" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"Sports story you'll hear all day today on ESPN Daily, one of the biggest heists in Super Bowl history was engineered by a Patriots fan. Who just happened to be a master thief. Sam Borden joins the show to take us inside the mind of Sean Murphy. We made off with Super Bowl rings intended for the 2007 New York Giants. Listen and subscribe. We're up, you get your podcasts. Tonight. Steph Curry is the best suit of all time nets are loaded. It is must see TV cabinet. The rent is winning Everything. Just some stuff is he loves these moments. You're looking at arguably the greatest pairing of just raw offensive talent that this league has ever seen. That's really what Kevin Durant James Harden represent. It's Saturday prom time. It's MBA on ABC Time. Nets Warriors at 8 30 Eastern Tonight on ABC. Presented by 80 85, chief coming up on the Max Kellerman Show. All right, this is the off season of quarterback. Musical chairs. Tune in the Max Kellerman show weekdays to Eastern on ESPN Radio and ESPN plus ESPN and top ranked boxing present the world Junior lightweight championship. Oh Mexico Showdown. WBC Chapman Gilbert Shelf, defends his title just in absolute tidal wave of punches against undefeated Challenger Oscar Val Day. This is about heart this'd is about Shit, and they come from member and shelter versus Val Days. Saturday, February 20th and 10 P.m., eastern on ESPN and ESPN plus telecast presented by draft case this'd is spark and hard. I turned 40. I'm old. I'm letting it go. I'm letting go of the rope. It's over. And you're watching the game last night. You watch like he don't look 43. You know 45 people. He don't look for the green. And she said that to you, fellas. I want to tell you all Google a picture yourselves that you don't look like her. You. How about that? How about that? You want a break on that spoke to me that's not cast over the glass out baby bar and hard weekdays at noon Eastern on ESPN Radio and on ESPN plus You're listening to college basketball on ESPN Radio and the ESPN APP thirst season's hottest collection is dropping to a dinner table near you Meet the new Golden Standard Church's New Texas tenders accessorized with Butterfly shrimp. Snag your Texas tenders and shrimp meal for just five bucks churches, bringing that down home flavor offer valid participating locations..
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Why Lionel Messi Wants Out of FC Barcelona
"Sam borden six years ago we were in Brazil together and my facial hair situation was not good. I mean that isn't what stands out for me Pablo but. I think I. Think we all have different memories of experiences. SAMBORN is a global sports correspondent for ESPN and kind enough to forget the unfortunate beard I grew for five weeks while we were covering the two thousand fourteen World Cup it's actually kind of funny right I mean now World Cup in Brazil Lionel Messi was a big part of the story there and obviously is a big part of the story today to. We got to see Leo Messi in a World Cup final Sam and you fast forward six years and I bring you here today because Messi announced last week that he wants to leave F c Barcelona after a nearly seventeen year stint. Tell me why this is a big deal. The obvious answer is that Messi is the most famous athlete on the planet may be one of the most famous people in the entire world. He is not just a generational star he is a star that defines a sport. When you talk about people that are known all over the world for being absolute craftsmen absolute artisans at what they do messy is that guy? Governor. From the magical. Curiel who knows? He's a little guy from Argentina, who is an absolute wizard with a soccer ball? Hey, just tonsure. RIP UP OF REASON A perennial. He's magical. He's calculating. He's one of the most creative players with sport has ever seen. I said. I think one of the things that has always made him even bigger than just. As, see and other sports these his diminutive stature, he's not a giant he's not the one of these massive bodies. I've been in front of him several times and I'm five ten and I looked down on him quite a bit. To me that's what makes him during and beloved by so many people is that he kind of Rome's among giants and somehow finds a way to succeed in a way that no other player ever has coming up with gold medal messy. He made Barcelona. The juggernaut that it is today and him moving on that say massive seismic shift, not just in soccer but in sports.