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Richard Dyche, the sports media writer at The Athletic, joins me to talk about the

Tony Romo backlash, the state of ESPN, the future of our beloved business sports writing,

and much, much more. That isn't five minutes, but first, let's do weekend headlines.

Headline one, The Athletics Big Spending. A story that your favorite sports writers have been

chattering about in DMs and text messages is Diana Rossini leaving ESPN, where she was an

NFL reporter for The Athletic. Going to the New York Times Company website for what's

probably a pretty hefty salary, at least in terms of print. As Peter King writes in his column,

to think Diana Rossini will almost certainly make more money than Maggie Haberman or David Brooks

Times legends, and crazily, might make more than them combined is a sign of the strange sports

journalism times we live in. Stars who cover the NFL make crazy salaries compared to the money

people make, covering news that truly matters. Now, here's a pro tip. In media writing,

when something is declared a sign of the journalistic Times, you should always rear up,

because it's almost always happened before. Go back, and I think Peter knows this,

to any newspaper during the 80s and 90s, and you will find that the star sports columnist

was one of maybe the highest paid people on the entire newspaper, making more money than reporters,

even star reporters, that were covering what truly matters. Now, those columnists were being

paid the big bucks because, to quote the great Tony Shivani, they were putting butts in the seats,

and Peter King does ask exactly the right question next. Will the Rossini brand translate into

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