Sports Media Backhaul Galen Clavio

Rapid changes are happening in the sports world as leagues and networks grapple with the idea of how to handle coming back from COVID-19...or not coming back, as the case may be. In this episode of the Sports Media Backhaul, I touch on the NBA potentially Force Majeuring their season out of existence, the Dish Network trying to mess with the ESPN bull, and more.

On this question-driven episode of the Backhaul, I tackle some queries from the folks on Twitter, including:

- What do I think of "enhanced" radio broadcasts with interviews interspersed
- Will eSports capitalize on the quarantine?
- What would College Hoops 2k8 look like in 2020?

Talking on the podcast today with Jacqueline Coleman (@historyandwine) about how quarantine life in Miami is going, the impact of COVID-19 on the restaurant and hospitality industries, and fielding some questions from the audience about the long-term impacts of this situation on how people interact and conduct their daily lives.

Zach Osterman of the Indy Star joins me to talk about the impact of COVID-19 on college basketball, the response by the NCAA, and what a sports writer does when there's no sports to cover.

New Sports Media Backhaul --- an all-reader question version! We tackle the question of what SI will look like in three years, whether Barstool would work as a Cable TV network, whether the NFL's Thursday Night game would actually work better on Fridays, and the dumb social media outrage over the Peloton ad.

Galen brings longtime podcast partner Brian Moritz onto the Sports Media Backhaul for the first time, as we discuss the mess around SI's Maven site for USC, their reporting about Clay Helton's job, SI's national writer denouncing an SI-enabled announcement, and how to parse the entire situation from the perspective of sports journalism, social media, and digital reporting.