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ESPN Daily ESPN
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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings
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Wake up to the best sports story you'll hear all day. Monday through Friday, we bring you an inside look at the most interesting stories in sports, as told by ESPN's top reporters and insiders. The breaking news of SportsCenter. The deep dive storytelling of 30 for 30. Get the very best of ESPN. Daily. Hosted by Clinton Yates.
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Ben Solak on the NFL’s Young Quarterback Landscape
We’ve seen how a good quarterback can change everything for an NFL franchise nearly overnight.
Brett Favre started a chain of succession that is looking to anoint its third champion in Green Bay. Tom Brady turned the Patriots into the greatest dynasty the sport has ever seen. And Patrick Mahomes is looking to three-peat in Kansas City.
And in today’s NFL, it seems like the path to becoming an iconic signal caller is happening faster than ever before.
So today, with the NFL season just around the corner, ESPN’s newly cemented NFL Analyst Ben Solak tells us what we can expect from this rookie class of QBs, and how ready this new generation is to take the league by storm.
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Volleyball legend Jordan Larson’s quest for peace
From a national title with the legendary Nebraska Huskers to bronze, silver and gold with Team USA in the Olympics, Jordan Larson has won every volleyball honor imaginable.
For many people that is a complete resume, but for Larson that was never enough.
What she sought from the game was an emotional connection to her peers, her hometown and her family. And as her career winds down she often finds herself reflecting on those lost connections of what could have been and – since the loss of her mother – what should have been.
Today, Aishwarya Kumar shares the time she spent with Jordan Larson and reveals an intimate portrait on one Team USA’s Olympic legends.
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Jeff Passan’s MLB Trade Deadline Post-Mortem
The dust has settled, and the MLB trade deadline is behind us. The rosters are more or less set for the stretch run of the MLB regular season.
And what a deadline it was. 30 deals were struck on Tuesday alone, to say nothing of the moves that happened in the weeks leading up to July 31st.
So Jeff Passan joins the show today to breakdown the comings and goings across the league.
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Can anyone stop Team USA’s quest for women’s basketball gold?
With the Olympic games well under way, so is the quest of the US women’s basketball team as they go for their eighth-straight gold medal.
And with names like Diana Taurasi, A’ja Wilson, Nepheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart in tow, the odds are definitely in their favor.
But who's got next for this juggernaut? And more importantly, when will the rest of the world catch up with Team USA?
Today, Alexa Philippou joins us to break down everything we will see in Paris and beyond as Team USA continues to write their own elite history.
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Bill Barnwell on the 49ers Contract Conundrum
The NFL season is almost upon us. Training camps are open and preseason games start on Thursday, but in many corners of the league, the action is already well underway in the negotiating room.
Like in San Francisco, where the 49ers are trying to figure out how to pay their Mr. irrelevant QB Brock Purdy the huge money he has coming his way while also trying to keep the rest of the Niners stars in town. And out in Texas, what will the Cowboys, and their checkbook, do about Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb?
Today, Bill Barnwell breaks down all these decisions and more as he gets us ready for another year of America’s favorite TV Show – the NFL
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A Look at the New College Football Landscape
It’s not hyperbole to say that this may be the biggest shake-up college football has gone through in decades. The Pac-12 is extinct, the Big Ten stretches from coast-to-coast, the Big 12 and ACC are fighting to stay alive, and the SEC just keeps on gaining steam.
Oh, and the College Football Playoff is expanding from four teams to an even dozen.
So ESPN senior college football writer Heather Dinich, fresh off trips to both SEC and Big Ten media days, explains how things are going to work in college football’s new chapter.
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Customer Reviews
Clinton
Keep up the great work Clinton! I appreciate your thoughtful and insightful approach to the silliness of professional sports.
Not as good
Another day, another episode about basketball. This pod tends to follow the ESPN ratings formula, which seems to be that they talk a lot about the NFL anytime there are games or news that are football related but at certain points in the year they take a hard turn towards basketball and for the spring and the dog days of Summer, the show is almost entirely basketball. Which might be great if you like basketball. This pod is still in my feed and I still listen sometimes but not as much as in past. I skip a lot of the episodes because it’s always the same old thing.
Bill Walton
Thank you for the loving episode on Bill Walton. Sports can harbor the most interesting people. He will sincerely be missed.