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Kevin Draper
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Reporter at the New York Times

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Though it isn’t mentioned anywhere in the complaint, according to his attorney, Mickelson has agreed to return all ill-gotten money: Read more

Yeah, whether or not ESPN can convince advertisers that these numbers are real and therefore pay them more money remains to be seen. Read more

Well, we’ll have to see where their subscriptions are at at the end of the year, but generally subscribers make up a much greater percentage of ESPN’s revenue than they do for other cable channels, so they feel subscriber losses harder. Read more

While I agree with you generally about how harmful Wall Street’s short-sightedness is, a. we both know that isn’t going to change anytime soon, but more importantly b. I think they’re right to be concerned. Read more

I’m pretty sure ESPN thinks that 99.9% of their employees are smarter than Curt Schilling, and will just shut the fuck up. Read more

When asked about the loss of some big-name talent lately, here’s what Skipper had to say: Read more

Literally my first blog ever advocated for the Warriors drafting Bismack Biyombo. Five years later, we can say I was only mostly wrong, not totally wrong! Read more

Yes, though that’s always been its official name, so it’s also the most accurate name as well. Read more

Why would the umpire insert himself into the game this way? If the batter doesn’t touch the plate and gets tagged out, that’s on him. Read more

You know, I don’t remember him, but I do remember his name. Read more

I don’t know the answer to your question, because I don’t know exactly what Fox Sports is thinking. But what I will say is that, broadly, in media, resource constraints are good. Not “you’ve got to lay off hundreds of people because you’re losing money” resource constraints, but just the plain idea that not having the Read more

Yes, they would have to charge a shitload if they want to keep up their current revenue/profit (which they do). Sure, everybody knows it’s the future of television, but just like everybody knew the future of newspapers was the internet, you can’t just snap your fingers and move to the future when all of your revenue Read more

Even more saliently, will there be a major court ruling, player strike, or something else that fundamentally guts the NCAA in the next 18 years? I heard this fear as one of the reasons that motivated the NCAA to re-up so far in advance. Read more