1. For some reason, ESPN seems unable to stay away from bizarre and needless controversies.
The latest dust-up: The Worldwide Leader is accused of keeping its talent off Pat McAfee’s popular SiriusXM radio show. This isn’t a new type of ban for ESPN. For many, many years the network kept its employees from appearing on Mike Francesa’s radio show on WFAN in New York.
The logic, I assume, is that ESPN is trying to protect its own radio shows. But that didn’t make sense then and it doesn’t make sense now.
You can make the argument that many ESPN personalities need McAfee’s show more than McAfee needs them.