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In the 44-minute sports media podcast, Bomani Jones explains how the “stick to sports” crowd won, the lack of vision in ESPN’s current content plan and athletes taking over sports media.

Jones is the guest on “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.

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The Rundown ….

* Why Jones says that sports media is utterly confused

* How the “stick to sports” crowd won

* Athletes are taking more of the media jobs

* Does sports gambling money continue

* Nick Wright & Peter Schrager have grown in their careers, but it is more athletes who have broken through

* The news breaking space is not easy to break through for young people

* The problem with the “stick to sports” crowd is everyone is different

* Why talking politics repel more sports fans than it attracts

* When Jones does CNN hits, he is very aware of the other panelists

* The difference between the Jimmy Pitaro era and the John Skipper era

* Jones doesn’t see the vision for ESPN’s content

* ESPN used to be MTV, creating new stars, but not anymore

* Does ESPN need all these other things besides the games

* People have such a connection to ESPN

* What Jones would advise young people trying to get into the business

* Joe Rogan is very popular, but do people think it is good

* Erin Andrews and working on holidays’ headline

* How YouTube is incentivizing putting out three-hour podcasts

* Why Jones won’t do three-hour podcasts

* What does Jones think of Pat McAfee on ESPN

* How Mike & Mike always got the big guests first

* McAfee is the go-to for guests now on ESPN

* Jones thinks McAfee is excellent on GameDay

* What does Jones think of his old TV partner Pablo Torre’s podcast

* Why Jones blames Netflix for anodyne sports documentaries

* The opinion space is disappearing, but is needed to scare people

* The issue with the Jordan documentary

* Jones pitched a documentary …

* The way to cut-through in the opinion space is making people mad

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