QB carousel overshadows NFL combine. Plus, MLB’s post-ESPN future
New York TimesThe Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. ESPN was seeking to lower its $550 million annual fee, while MLB raised its own grievances about ESPN’s “minimal” non-game coverage. Maybe there’s a lesson for baseball to learn from the two biggest leagues to make that call so far this century: The NHL left after a season-long lockout canceled the 2004-05 season. When the NHL came back after a year away, it received scant coverage in the network’s daily programming. I asked Dan Shanoff, the author of our new-ish sports business newsletter, MoneyCall, if MLB’s post-ESPN future will more resemble the NHL’s fade or the Big Ten’s power move: 💬 The key to the Big Ten’s transition was that it took over arguably the premier position on Saturdays: the CBS late-afternoon window that fans had come to associate with the best of the SEC.
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