We’re NOT the happiest we’ve ever been. Baseball pants are bad, prop bets are messing with athletes’ lives, and we haven’t even heard a single off of Tortured Poets Department yet. A pop music fan and a football fan discuss the relationship between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. What happens when a billion-dollar corporate sports league meets a billion dollar person... and all of media explodes? Culture critic Zan Romanoff and journalist and Scamfluencers producer Sarah Enni discuss how a decline in cable subscriptions led to a rise in sports gambling endorsement deals and break down the Shohei Ohtani betting scandal. Plus, we wrap with a story about butts.
Liner Notes:
If you want to see the swoosh on Adolis Garcia’s briefs… (Twitter)
Andy Reid throws first pitch (TikTok)
Travis Kelce’s First Pitch Redemption (SB Nation)
Watch Jason Kelce and Fletcher Cox throw out first pitch (YouTube)
Sports, Jobs, & Taxes: Are New Stadiums Worth the Cost? (The Brookings Institute)
How the NFL Makes Money (Investopedia)
The sky is not the limit: Professional sports teams’ runaway selling prices (Sports Business Journal)
How Cable’s Slow Decline Led to a New Era of Gambling Scandal (Front Office Sports)
Gambling has made ends of games miserable for college basketball benchwarmers (The Athletic)
NBA Investigating Raptors Center Jontay Porter Over Suspicious Prop Bets (Front Office Sports)
Shohei Ohtani, his interpreter and wire transfers: A timeline (ESPN)
Shohei Ohtani says he never bet on sports, interpreter Ippei Mizuhara stole money, told lies (AP)
A ‘high butt factor’ might be an NFL Draft prospect’s most prized asset (The Athletic)
The struggle is real: Why hockey butts, jeans don't mix (ESPN)
