Sports media Coverage of Brett Favre and Mississippi’s welfare scandal and Ime Udoka’s suspension. A conversation with Yahoo Sports NFL writer Shalise Manza Young and Front Office Sports senior reporter A.J. Perez

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Episode 245 of the Sports Media Podcast features Yahoo Sports NFL writer Shalise Manza Young and Front Office Sports senior reporter A.J. Perez. In this podcast, Young and Perez discuss Mississippi’s sprawling welfare corruption scandal that has ensnared several people, including retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre, and the sports media coverage surrounding it; companies enabling Favre; Perez’s reporting on Favre; whether any game broadcast would discuss Favre; the language on television surrounding Deshaun Watson; Kim Mulkey’s non comment on Brittney Griner; how they viewed coverage of Ime Udoka’s suspension; the thought posited by sports writer Sean Highkin that sports reporters and sports media personalities who have an agent should be required to disclose it when reporting on a player or coach repped by the same agency as them, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:09.8	My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:11.6	Two guests this week.
0:12.6	Both have been on the podcast before.
0:16.4	Shalise Manza Young is a Yahoo Sports NFL writer, one of the best out there, a long, long resume
0:22.1	with Shalise, including the Boston Globe.
0:25.4	A.J. Perez is a front office sports senior reporter.
0:29.5	Another excellent reporter here and again, a very, very long resume.
0:32.4	You may have read AJ's work at USA Today prior to front office sports. And we're going to get to a lot of
0:40.1	media topics here. And I think you're going to enjoy this conversation. And I am pleased to be
0:46.0	joined by Shalise Manz Young and AJ Perez. Welcome to the sports media podcast. Thanks as always,
0:51.8	Richard. Thanks for having me. Yeah, I've had more elegant
0:55.3	intros, but let's get to the stuff right away. Okay, for the listeners who did not hear
1:02.6	this previous podcast, I will just give you a heads up. Anna Wolf was on this podcast on September
1:08.5	21st. She is the fine investigative reporter at Mississippi
1:13.9	today who has really been, along with Ashton Pittman, in front of the sprawling welfare
1:22.5	scandal that has ensnared Mississippi. It's the state's largest ever public corruption. I would say listen
1:29.3	to that episode if you want sort of a primer on what this welfare scandal is about. And she also
1:36.0	explains the involvement of Brett Farv and where he stands in all this, you know, for the sake of putting the other side out there.
1:50.2	Brett Farb's attorney has said his client has no idea where the money, that money that he
1:56.6	grabbed for his pet projects were earmarked for the impoverished. Farrve has not
2:03.5	been charged criminally. There is a civil case and we'll get to the, we'll get to
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