Behind the Line

Team USA won the gold medal at the IIHF World Junior Championship in hockey this weekend. After receiving their gold medals...the young men from Team USA proudly sang the national anthem. TSN in Canada shared the clip on social media...but ESPN has strangely chosen to ignore the story.

We react to ESPN ignoring the young men from Team USA singing the national anthem. We share two possible reasons...as to why ESPN would ignore this story. We also explain why neither is likely to be true...and provide the real reason that ESPN is likely ignoring Team USA.

Jimmy Kimmel and his colleagues in late-night have experienced severe ratings declines in the last few years. Many people feel like Jimmy Kimmel...along with Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert...are one-sided with their jokes. According to a recent study by MRC Newsbusters...Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night hosts have a strong bias against conservatives.

We reveal and react to this study from MRC Newsbusters. We discuss the problems in late-night television...and how the trio of hosts are the primary source of the ratings problem. We question if the late-night genre can be saved...and whether broadcast networks could potentially eliminate the genre.

Pat McAfee has struggled through his first few months at ESPN. Pat McAfee has underperformed in the ratings...while the Pat McAfee Show has created headaches for executives at ESPN. The latest headache came on Friday...when Pat McAfee unleashed a tirade on ESPN executive Norby Williamson.

We reveal and react to Pat McAfee calling out ESPN executive Norby Williamson. We discuss the possibility of Pat McAfee trying to get fired...by naming Norby Williamson live on ESPN. We also explain why Pat McAfee is struggling at ESPN...and why we believe that Pat McAfee has come to the realization that taking his show to ESPN was a mistake.

ESPN boasts about being the proud home of the WNBA. ESPN generally gives favorable coverage to the WNBA...but that wasn't the case earlier this week on Pardon the Interruption. Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon were discussing Caitlin Clark...and they encouraged Caitlin Clark to remain in college over the WNBA.

We reveal and react to this PTI segment...and the subsequent negative reaction from the mainstream media. We commend Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon for telling the truth about the WNBA. We also discuss this media assumption that Caitlin Clark will remain a big star in the WNBA...and explain why that's highly unlikely.

ESPN announced on Thursday their broadcast rights extension with the NCAA. Although the mainstream media was demanding that the women's tournament be sold separately...both ESPN and the NCAA once again included the women's tournament in the overall package. The value ESPN and the NCAA set for the women's tournament...shows what both organizations believe it's truly worth.

We react to the NCAA renewing their broadcast rights with ESPN. We explain why this was a good decision for the NCAA...to not let the women's tournament hit the open market. We discuss the true value of women's college basketball...and explain why the value set by ESPN could show their hesitancy with women's college basketball going forward.

Pat McAfee opened his show Wednesday morning...by addressing the situation between Jimmy Kimmel and Aaron Rodgers. In a strange...but predictable turn of events...Pat McAfee issued an insincere apology to Jimmy Kimmel.

We reveal and react to Pat McAfee apologizing to Jimmy Kimmel. We explain why Pat McAfee had no reason to apologize...because he didn't do anything wrong. We discuss ESPN promising Pat McAfee to never change his show...and explain how ESPN has already broken that promise. We also discuss the future of Aaron Rodgers on the Pat McAfee Show...and explain why ESPN will use the Jimmy Kimmel situation as an excuse to part ways with Aaron Rodgers.

Jimmy Kimmel has been making jokes about public figures for decades. Over the last few years...Aaron Rodgers has been on the receiving end of jokes made by Jimmy Kimmel. Tuesday on the Pat McAfee Show...Aaron Rodgers decided to make jokes at the expense of Jimmy Kimmel.

We reveal and react to this segment of Aaron Rodgers on the Pat McAfee Show. We also analyze the emotional reaction of Jimmy Kimmel. We highlight the hypocrisy of Jimmy Kimmel possibly suing Aaron Rodgers over a joke...and question why Jimmy Kimmel is so upset about this.

CNN had a rough year in 2023...and it doesn't seem like 2024 is starting any better. CNN will be hosting the next Republican primary debate next Wednesday...and Vivek Ramaswamy is being left off the debate stage. Naturally...Vivek Ramaswamy is upset about it.

We discuss CNN disqualifying Vivek Ramaswamy from the debate...and explain why CNN is setting themselves up for failure. We also show a clip of Vivek Ramaswamy town hall with CNN last month...and question if that's the reason CNN is refusing to give him a platform.

ESPN NBA reporter Marc Spears posted an interesting story this past weekend on social media. Marc Spears was shopping at Anthem Interiors in the San Franciso Bay Area...where he claims he was the victim of profiling. We reveal and react to this story from Marc Spears.

We discuss the owner of Anthem Interiors insincerely apologizing...while also refuting the claims of Marc Spears. We explain why we believe that Marc Spears only revealed this story to generation attention for himself...and the devastating impacts this can have on the owner of Anthem Interiors.

MSNBC presented viewers an interesting theory this past weekend. Charles Coleman was guest hosting Velshi on MSNBC this weekend. MSNBC invited Dr. Uche Blackstock on this show to explain to viewers...how the government is negatively impacting health.

We reveal and react to this segment on MSNBC. We question how Dr. Blackstock draws the parallel from government to personal health and wellbeing. We dispute the claims made by Dr. Blackstock...and explain why it's the responsibility of the individual to maintain their own personal health.