The biggest sports stories of 2022 with Kavitha Davidson and Jane McManus — and ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger on income-tax avoiders among the ultrawealthy sports owners

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Episode 173 of the Sports Media Podcast features three guests. First up is a roundtable with Kavitha Davidson, a correspondent for HBO’s Real Sports and a longtime sports and business writer, and Jane McManus, the Director of the Marist's Center for Sports Communication and a Deadspin sports columnist. They are followed by Jesse Eisinger, a senior editor and reporter at ProPublica. In April 2011, Eisinger and a colleague won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of stories on questionable Wall Street practices that helped make the financial crisis the worst since the Great Depression. In this podcast, Davidson and McManus discuss what they see as the biggest sports stories for 2022 including athletes continuing to talk about mental health publicly; the prospect of a major gambling scandal in sports and potential corruption of college players for information to aid bettors; NILs and market creativity forcing the NCAA to completely reevaluate revenue structure; F1 continuing to balloon in the States;women’s sports finally getting their financial due; Amazon becoming more of an NFL presence; leagues are going to have to deal with the China question; a total reimagining of what the role of coach is and much more. Eisinger discusses his recent piece on real estate and oil tycoons avoiding paying federal income taxes including Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross; how widespread are income-tax avoiders among the ultrawealthy sports owners; how one goes about doing this kind of reporting; the lack of congressional oversight for tax loopholes; how sports owners use their teams to avoid millions in taxes; why the sports public does not revolt, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify 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. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:12.9	Today's episode, two segments, three guests. First up, we have a roundtable with Kavitha Davidson.
0:19.2	A correspondent for HBO's Real Sports,
0:21.1	and obviously someone has been on this podcast many times.
0:23.7	And Jane McManus, the director of the Marist Center for Sports Communication,
0:28.7	Deadspin Sports columnist, obviously longtime ESPN writer and an analyst there.
0:36.5	Jane and I obviously also know each other for many, many, many years,
0:40.2	one of my longtime friends and just one of the great people in the business.
0:45.2	We are talking about their biggest sports stories of 2022,
0:50.1	what they think will be most impactful.
0:52.7	And it may be a little bit of a change-up from what you're used to.
0:55.1	Athletes talking about mental health publicly and that continuing.
0:58.7	We get into what the sports gambling sort of rush has meant and the potential for corruption there.
1:06.3	F-1 ballooning in the U.S.
1:08.6	Women's sports finally getting some of their financial due, Amazon becoming
1:12.7	more of an NFL presence, leagues having to deal with China, or leagues should be dealing with
1:17.9	China much more.
1:19.4	And so, and when I say dealing with China, dealing with the China question, basically,
1:24.7	you know, not speaking out more on human rights issues that are happening
1:30.2	in that country. So a really interesting discussion between Kavitha and Jane. They're
1:36.4	followed by Jesse Isinger, a senior editor and reporter at ProPublica. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner
1:43.3	for stories on questionable Wall Street
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