Contracts, salary caps. Why do our favorite teams make some of the moves they do?

It's usually the money. It's time for the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand.

Welcome to another edition of The Business of Sports with Andrew Brand, and this will be the Business of Sports media about Andrew Brandt and others.

Sort of while it's fresh in my mind, giving a personal, maybe even intimate account of my separation

from ESPN after six and a half years this week and just sort of sharing it.

And as it relates to what's going on in the business of sports media, which seems to be very much in vogue right now,

and I'll sort of comment on my situation and where I see it going.

So an intimate look at the business of sports media with Andrew Brandt, with ESPN.

I'll let you know that in a minute.

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I've done a lot of different things along with that, where ESPN has been an outlet for me on television while I do my writing the past, well, four years now with the MMQB, Sports Illustrated,

the website with Peter King and others, do the podcast here over the past year and a half,

and do podcasts every week with Ross Tucker on SiriusXM.

And that's on the media side, and then on the academic side,

I taught many years at Wharton and have the past four years run a program at Villanova on sports law and sport business.

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