Conversations with three sportswriters: Judy Battista and Jenny Vrentas on women covering the NFL, and with Jonathan Jones on the ownership change with the Carolina Panthers.

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Conversations with three sportswriters: Judy Battista and Jenny Vrentas on women covering the NFL, and with Jonathan Jones on the ownership change with the Carolina Panthers. Judy Battista of NFL.com, a veteran of 18 years covering the NFL, and Jenny Vrentas of The MMQB, who has covered the league for 11 years, on the state of women covering the NFL, on the advice they have for aspiring female journalists and female sportswriters, on how they have dealt with harassment in locker rooms, and on whether women are making healthy-enough strides in denting the male fraternity of NFL media. Jonathan Jones of The MMQB on hedge-fund billionaire David Tepper, likely to buy the Carolina Panthers from franchise founder Jerry Richardson for $2.2-billion, on why Richardson picked him, on how Tepper made his money, on the team he wants to emulate as he puts his ownership stamp on the Panthers, and on the virtual certainty that owners will approve Tepper's bid.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Peter King. Welcome to the MMQB podcast with Peter King, where I take you
0:07.6	inside the minds of the biggest influencers in the NFL.
0:13.7	This week a conversation about women in the locker room and women covering the National
0:20.0	Football League.
0:21.4	I'll be joined by Judy Batista of NFL.com, formerly of the New York Times,
0:27.0	and Jenny Verntis of our staff at the MMQB, some enlightening discussion with both of those fine reporters.
0:36.4	Then we're going to discuss with Jonathan Jones of the MMQB a change in ownership in Carolina, a franchise that Jonathan has long
0:47.3	been familiar with formerly covered, the Carolina Panthers and their new owner David
0:52.4	Tepper who has bought the franchise
0:55.8	for 2.2 billion and agreed to keep the franchise in the Carolinas
1:02.2	which was something that I think turned out to be very in the former
1:05.0	former owner, which was something that I think turned out to be very important to Jerry Richardson, the former owner.
1:09.0	But before we start, there was an earthquake in sports this week and that earthquake
1:16.6	centered around the Supreme Court basically paving the way for states to run sports gambling if they so choose, starting with the state of
1:29.0	New Jersey, which brought this lawsuit before the Supreme Court
1:33.4	and has been battling
1:35.1	uh... major professional sports leagues for a decade
1:38.8	to try to get legalized sports gambling in the state of New Jersey. Reports this week are that this
1:47.0	could begin, this sports gambling could begin as soon as two weeks from now, which means that by the end of
1:56.4	May you may be able to place a legal bet on a baseball game, a basketball game in the NBA finals, a Stanley Cup finals game in
2:06.1	hockey, and this fall obviously the National Football League, which everyone views a major
2:11.4	cash cow.
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