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Outkick The Show with Clay Travis

Failing ESPN Is Destroying The Future Of Sports

Outkick The Show with Clay Travis

Outkick Sports

Sports

4.42.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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0:00.0

I'll now hand you over to my best man, Eddie.

0:04.0

Wow, wow, wow, second time's a charm, eh, Billy Boy?

0:09.0

Oh God.

0:10.0

Substitution, courtesy of Paddy Power, embarrassing Eddie, makes way for sensible Samuel.

0:15.0

Cool, that was close.

0:16.0

You might not always pick the right starter, but your sub can still deliver.

0:19.0

Because with Paddy's super sub, your bet rolls over to the player coming on. Panny Power. Valid on selected leagues and markets only. Pre-match and in-play bets on qualifying player outcome selections only. T's and Clusions apply. 18 plus scummelaware.com. Welcome in to Outkick the show. I'm your fearless leader, Clay Travis. I hope all of you are having fabulous Wednesdays.

0:38.9

Wherever you may be across the country, had to think there for a minute. Last show of the

0:41.8

week, I'm taking my kids out of town to go to Atlanta Braves games over the long weekend.

0:48.4

And so I will be back with all of you on Monday. But we got a lot to dive into here.

0:55.2

And right off the top, third dildo has landed in L.A.

1:01.0

Hit Sophie Cunningham in the leg after she said, be careful, an incredible aim.

1:06.8

We will discuss.

1:08.1

We've got ESPN announcing a deal with the WWE. Also yesterday's event that I talked about with all of you, which was the fact that ESPN was going to be buying basically the NFL network, all of the complicating factors associated with that. I probably need to write long form on it. We had a bunch of different stories that are out there. But I want to start

1:30.3

with the soon-to-be launch of about two weeks from now, the new ESPN streaming service.

1:39.4

And this was a paramount attention because the WWE and ESPN announced a partnership that will see

1:47.0

premium WWE events. That's WrestleMania, SummerSlam. If you're a WWA fan, now be produced by

1:56.1

ESPN. And it seems to me that ESPN is in a really tough spot, but I think it's illustrative of the

2:03.7

larger issues associated with streaming and sports fans in that we're all getting screwed and we're

2:09.9

paying a lot less, sorry, a lot more to get a lot less quality. And so I want to start with this

2:16.6

big question on streaming.

2:18.2

And I think ESPN, because their new streaming service, starts in two weeks, is really a

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