ESPN Bets on Itself and the Orioles’ Massive Blunder. Plus: The New York Post’s Mike Vaccaro on Two Decades of Column-Writing

The Press Box

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Sports

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Bryan hits on headlines from the week from ESPN’s new billion-dollar deal with Penn Entertainment to the Orioles’ miscalculation with announcer Kevin Brown. Then, The New York Post’s Mike Vaccaro joins to discuss his career as a sports columnist for 20+ years. He talks about the power of a sports columnist, writing about sports in New York, and his relationship with Adrian Wojnarowski and experiencing his first Woj Bomb. Host: Bryan Curtis Guest: Mike Vaccaro Producer: Erika Cervantes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Destination MBA, a G-League Odyssey.
0:04.2	It is available to stream on Prime Video on Tuesday, August 8th.
0:09.0	It is produced by a religion of sports and ringer films.
0:13.6	Oh yeah, this is our documentary about the 2022-23 G-League season.
0:19.6	We immersed ourselves.
0:21.4	We followed five future stars or possible stars who are competing in the G-League,
0:27.2	the MBA's development league as they try to achieve their lifelong dream of making it to the MBA.
0:32.4	It's an awesome documentary.
0:33.9	Again, August 8th, go check it out on Prime Video.
0:40.0	Hello media consumers.
0:41.2	Welcome to press box final edition.
0:43.6	Brian Curtis of the ringer here,
0:45.4	along with producer Erica Servantes.
0:48.3	Five minutes, I got a treat for you.
0:50.7	It's a chat with the New York Post might
0:52.6	with a caro about the art of the tabloid sports column and the end of the sports page era.
0:58.6	But first, we're trying out a new feature here at the press box,
1:02.0	where we catch you up on three big headlines from the week.
1:04.8	Folks Chris Hays isn't walking through that door.
1:07.3	It's me with Weak-in headlines.
1:12.2	God, I love that music.
1:14.0	You know, some reporters, they put their favorite songs on when they sit down on the computer to write.
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