How Tom Brady became the Super Bowl’s $375 million star
The winter of 2022 was the greatest frenzy of sports broadcasting talent in history, with hundreds of millions doled out for NFL commentators. ESPN poached Fox’s top team, Joe Buck…
Marchand: NBC’s Mike Florio is wrong in his Fox criticism about Tom Brady
Everybody wants to cover sports media, but maybe everyone shouldn’t. Mike Florio, “Pro Football Talk” aggregator/insider/gadfly extraordinaire, is on the most watched pregame show, NBC’s “Football Night in America,” every…
Predicting the Oscar Nominations in a Wild and Wide-Open Season
Sometimes, when I poll Oscar voters about the films and performances they plan to nominate, they turn the tables on me. “What do you want to happen?” they ask. Maybe…
Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Philly snow, Tom Brady and more NFL divisional TV analysis
Thirteen media-centric thoughts, notes and takeaways off NFL divisional weekend: 1. Joe Buck’s oldest daughter is getting married in Mexico this week, so the ESPN broadcaster was understandably juggling quite…
How Tom Brady handled his ownership-analyst conflict on TV: Key takeaways
The good news for Tom Brady the Television Analyst is that Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson is now free to be hired by Tom Brady the Minority Owner of…
NFL imposed no additional restrictions on Tom Brady this week
To those who would insist Tom Brady has no conflict of interest between his job with Fox covering all teams and his position as an owner of one of them,…