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NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders is leaving the NFL network but he’s not leaving for a competitor. After 15 years Sanders is giving up TV for a Barstool sports podcast.

Sanders is also expected to launch a new Sunday morning football show. But what to make of this move. James Brown has more.

Barstool sports is a small but growing fast, best known for huge sports podcasts like Call Her Daddy or Pardon My Take. It also has a repetition for being vulgar and attracting herds of young men. 

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Regis Philbin has died. 

Philbin literally spent more time on tv than anyone else. so says the Guinness book of world records. 

The New York native launched his career in the nineteen fifties working as a page for NBC’s Tonight Show

He went on camera in the early sixties but it took more than twenty years to find his way to the top in mornings on live with Regis and Kathie Lee.

Philbin retired from that show in 2011

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ESPN's late SportsCenter to broadcast from Washington DC  Fox gives up on broadcasting Golf

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Mark Zuckerberg stands his ground amid ad boycott

Facebook gives up on its TicTok clone More Apple Stores close because of coronavirus

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Amazon hires staff for a live tv operation World News Tonight leads all TV shows CBS This Morning returns to the studio Apple News and the New York Times get divorced

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Podcast listening reaches an all time high in the US Reddit bans the Donald and Chapo Trap House

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Conan O'Brien is expected to film his show in front of crowds this week. The Rolling Stones threaten to sue President Trump. Wal-Mart gets in the drive in theater business.

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Hugh Downs is Dead.

Big Brother is Back?

Lift Every Voice and Sing before NFL games

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For the first time ever Fox News Channel was the most-watched network in prime time, counting both broadcast and cable, for three out of four weeks in June.Chris Matthews will be replaced by Joy ReidCNBC is searching for its own Prime time path

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Marv Albert will not go into the bubble. Turner’s lead NBA announcer, told the New York post that he was getting fired up to take part in the NBA’s plan to restart its season in July but “had second thoughts” after coronavirus cases spiked in Florida. 

The NBA is planning to sequester teams, reporters, announcers and related staff  on Walt Disney World’s campus until a champion is crowned in the fall. Aside from increasing COVID-19 cases critics say staff who will have the ability to come and go as they please will pop the bubble before it inflates.

Delegations capped at 35 people per team for the 22 clubs that have been invited to the N.B.A.’s planned restart 

The idea is to limit traveling back and forth among their assigned team hotels, seven practice facilities and the three arenas used for games at the complex

A 33-page player handbook sent to teams In June also details about entertainment options, recreational activities and personal services  inside the bubble.

The players were facing $645 million in lost salary if the games didn’t resume. all 22 teams in the bubble will play 8 games before the postseason begins. These 88 games reduce the salary loss by $300 million.

If successful, the two teams that reach the finals will be there for three months.

In other Basketball news

LeBron James and Maverick Carter have secured $100 million to form SpringHill Co., which will combine their three existing businesses: SpringHill Entertainment, Uninterrupted and Robot, Bloomberg's Jason Kelly reports.

The $100 million will allow James and Carter to vastly expand a media business centered around diverse content creators, as well as athlete empowerment.

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