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Big thanks to the great Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports. A rich and fascinating NFL media-heavy episode in this House of Glass.
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Big thanks to the great Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports. A rich and fascinating NFL media-heavy episode.
Thank you also to Bob Adlhoch, Evan Besser, joe, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.


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We’ve got a fantastic House of Glass for you with Front Office Sports ace Ryan Glasspiegel. We begin with the WNBA Finals scheduling fiasco, get heavy into NFL media and emerge with a questioning of Jay-Z as Super Bowl act.
Thank you to live stream joiners George, Teutonia World, Kyle Eliason, and to all of you about to listen to the recorded product. We really appreciate people spreading word of my and Ryan’s exploits.
Topics! Include!
* The WNBA Finals scheduling fiasco.
* Why the Hawks owe the WNBA nothing.
* J.J. Watt, Troy Aikman, and NFL booth musical chairs.
* Does David Ellison care about sports?
* Baseball’s surprising small-market appeal.
* Why going viral doesn’t sell subscriptions.
* Has Mahomes declined—or has defense improved?
* Could Caleb Williams become the NFL’s best QB?
* Tom Brady versus the refs.
* Jay-Z picks himself for the Super Bowl.
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We did another video House of Glass, this time LIVE with Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports. What a great element you live viewers brought. We were heartened by the audience that arrived and encourage all of you to share word of this experiment if you can. I thought it was a great show, in my humble opinion.
Topics! Discussed!
* Why Sophie Cunningham’s politics have inspired calls for the Fever to get rid of her—and why we think that’s crazy.
* The Atlanta Dream’s curious definition of a “sellout”—and what it says about the WNBA’s post-Caitlin Clark reality.
* Braiden Bell was fired by the Blazers over tweets he wrote around age 15. Should teenage social-media posts really cost someone a job 15 years later?
* Bell wants his Blazers job back—and the lawyer representing him has already helped another fired NBA announcer get reinstated.
* Why I believe that the Blazers were not only morally wrong, but acting imprudently.
* Is cancellation culture actually “back,” or does Bell’s willingness to fight his firing show how much the environment has changed since 2018?
* The bizarre Dave Portnoy–Ryan Day feud, and how Ohio State reportedly helped push Portnoy off Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff.
* How much power does Ohio State have over Fox and the Big Ten? Enough, perhaps, to dictate who appears on television.
* What happened to Tony Romo? How an announcer went from revolutionary superstar to losing the very “superpower” that made him famous.
* I express my LOUD SKEPTICISM that the Justin Herbert problem is downstream of Jim Harbaugh or Mike McDaniel incompetence.
Once again, big thanks to Ryan for doing this and by all means, check out his great reporting at FOS.
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