Roundup: Aloha Means Goodbye; Too Many Oreo Flavors; Dolly Parton Having a Moment
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Justin Herbert s 6-foot-6 inch frame comes in handy on game-winning sneak. [OC Register]
The Los Angeles Lakers are going to lean on Kyle Kuzma more this year. [Sports Illustrated]
Anthony Fauci expected the Moderna vaccine to begin to be administered by next week. [Today]
Is Dolly Parton the voice of America? [New Republic]
The case for the media going cold turkey on its Trump coverage post-inauguration. [Washington Post]
This rhino gets it.
This rhino had a blast rolling around in the mud at the Cincinnati Zoo on a rainy day. https://t.co/B5wAl9YYDZpic.twitter.com/OlYBWLty5Q ABC News (@ABC) December 17, 2020
On today s episode of The Bridge, Mike and Marc discuss:
- Grading National Signing Day
- Tom Rinaldi leaving ESPN for Fox Sports
If you missed any of The Bridge, you can listen to it below:
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As usual, Naomi Osaka’s postmatch interview struck an emotional chord.
It was two years after she had burst to the fore with a moving win over Serena Williams in the 2018 U.S. Open women’s singles final, where she had stood small and unguarded, crying in front of an audience that had been rooting for her opponent.
Now, in September, after winning the U.S. Open for a second time, the Japanese star was asked by the ESPN analyst Tom Rinaldi to explain why she had entered each of her seven matches wearing a face mask bearing the name of a Black victim of racist violence.
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Another well-established ESPN figure is heading to Fox. There have been plenty of moves in that direction over the years, from Skip Bayless and Colin Cowherd through Marcellus Wiley through Adam Amin, Emmanuel Acho and Jonathan Vilma (with those latter three coming this year). The latest move is Tom Rinaldi, known for his features on ESPN’s
The New York Post, Rinaldi is now headed to Fox, and will appear on many of their different sports properties:
Tom Rinaldi, one of ESPN’s top on-air reporters, is leaving for Fox, where he is expected to be featured across all of its major events from the Super Bowl to the World Series to the World Cup and college football, according to sources.
Tom Rinaldi Is Telling the Emotional Story of ESPN Right Now
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When Willie Mays would drive a double or a triple in the gap, Giants announcers whether from the shores of the Harlem River or a California bay would say that the only man who could have caught the ball, hit it.
Tom Rinaldi, an unassuming dynamo who slowly but surely reshaped the role of on-air sports reporters through emotion and minor chords struck in production bays, is the latest in ESPN s exodus. He s the Willie Mays in this narrative. The person most suited to handle the delicate and depressed reaction at the Worldwide Leader, to offer hope with a nod of resilience, is out on Jan. 1, bound for the fast-charging Fox where he ll add to a steady trickle of what s become a trendy kinetic energy pipeline. There s no doubt the power balance is shifting with ESPN appearing more outwardly vulnerable than it has in a long time.