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Tom Brady is likely heading into his last season. When the 2022 NFL schedule is announced, act accordingly and consider it a farewell tour. We know, you’ve heard that before. For years, any slip or struggle would translate into some proclamation that this was finally it … only to have Brady turn it all around when it mattered most, either by winning a Super Bowl or showcasing a level of play that recalled some of the very best years in his long career. The epitome of that circle happened… Source link

Tom Brady is still playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but he’s already got a job lined up when he decides to hang up his helmet. During an earnings call on Tuesday, Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch announced that Brady will be joining Fox Sports when he retires, taking the role of lead NFL analyst. He’ll be calling games with Kevin Burkhardt, who is replacing Joe Buck this season after Buck and his broadcast partner Troy Aikman left for ESPN earlier this year. With Burkhardt in the Buck seat, Brady… Source link

With Hasbro’s stock (HAS) hovering at a 52-week low, the battle with its new activist investor Alta Fox Capital is heating up. Alta Fox founder Connor Haley tells Yahoo Finance his firm — a 2.5% holder in Hasbro — has been rebuffed in its effort to reach a settlement. “We’ve got a world class slate of advisers, and they are all collectively stunned at the level of entrenchment of the current Hasbro board. I think we went well out of our way to offer a beyond reasonable settlement,” Haley… Source link

A seismic shift may be going down in the world of NFL broadcasting. Troy Aikman, currently the top NFL color commentator for Fox Sports, is deep in negotiations to leave the network to become the lead analyst for ESPN’s “Monday Night Football,” according to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post. The deal will be reportedly be for five years, with a salary in the neighborhood of Tony Romo’s $17.5 million per year contract with CBS. It’s a good time to be a former Dallas Cowboys starting… Source link

Fox News host and right-wing commentator Dan Bongino won’t be able to upload anything to his YouTube channel for a week, according to Forbes and The Hill. The website has temporarily suspended his account over COVID-19 misinformation, specifically for saying masks are useless in preventing the coronavirus’ spread. YouTube updated its rules in 2020 to prohibit “content about COVID-19 that poses a serious risk of egregious harm.” It doesn’t permit videos with medical misinformation that… Source link

SACRAMENTO — Sacramento Kings guard De’Aaron Fox’s name is circulating throughout the league as a big-time player who can potentially be moved by the Feb. 10 NBA trade deadline. The Philadelphia 76ers canvassed the prospect of a Fox-Ben Simmons trade package as recently as a few days ago, but dialogue remains exploratory due diligence, league sources told Yahoo Sports. The Kings have received an abundance of interest in Fox and second-year guard Tyrese Haliburton, but the internal plan… Source link

Dr. Anthony Fauci says he and his family continue to receive death threats amid inflammatory statements made by critics including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent anti-vaxxer whose new book is filled with wild claims attacking the nation’s top infectious disease expert. “It’s very unfortunate because I don’t think he is inherently malicious,” Fauci said of Kennedy in a wide-ranging interview with Yahoo News on Tuesday. “I just think he’s a very disturbed individual.” The… Source link

As a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows received text messages from multiple Fox News hosts and the president’s son, urging him to convince Trump to issue a statement condemning the violence, according to the House select committee investigating the attack. The text messages are among thousands of documents Meadows has turned over to the committee, according to Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who revealed the… Source link

In the latest roundup, several companies added lawyers to their compliance departments, and a New York senator has proposed candidates to head the federal prosecutor’s offices in Brooklyn and Manhattan. To read more Subscribe to Global Investigations Review Subscribe and start… Source link

ESPN reportedly wanted to lure Skip Bayless back, but all that did was make the pundit an even richer man with Fox Sports. Bayless has signed a four-year, $32 million deal to remain at Fox despite a similar offer from ESPN. Per Andrew Marchand of the New York Post, ESPN offered Bayless somewhere in the range of $26.5 million to $31 million as part of a planned reunion with former “First Take” partner Stephen A. Smith. Bayless famously left ESPN back in 2016 when Fox Sports, as part of a new… Source link