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Adam Schefter will moonlight as an NBA reporter in new contract with ESPN

As part of a new contract extension, ESPN's Adam Schefter will also add NBA reporting duties to his NFL schedule and work select regular season games as a sideline reporter. The NFL insider is a huge NBA fan and will get the opportunity to transfer his gridiron reporting skills to the hardwood.

“I went from knowing nothing about the NBA a couple of years ago to knowing every player on every roster,” Schefter said. “It’s become a side hobby and the bosses are aware of that.”
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Showtime to premiere Lawrence Phillips documentary on Dec. 16

The life and career of former Nebraska star running back Lawrence Phillips is the sort of sad, troubling story worth exploring in a documentary. Premium cable network Showtime and famed sports documentary producer Ross Greenburg will chronicle the circumstances and events that influenced Phillips’ frequent tendencies toward domestic violence in a film titled Running for His Life: The Lawrence Phillips Story, which premieres on Showtime Saturday, Dec. 16 at 9 p.m. The film includes interviews with several of Phillips’ former coaches and teammates, including longtime Nebraska coach Tom Osborne, **** Vermeil, Steve Young and Nick Saban. Many others who played with Phillips or knew him in his personal life, including one of the women he assaulted, also spoke to filmmakers.
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ESPN reveals details for Ric Flair 30 For 30 documentary, including director Rory Karpf

Directed by Rory Karpf, who made the I Hate Christian Laettner and The Book of Manning films in the 30 For 30 series, the documentary will be titled Nature Boy. The film could be released in the spring or summer of 2017, but that is not yet confirmed. Nature Boy is expected to run 90 minutes with commercials.

The interview subjects for the film already banked include multiple interviews with Flair, all three of Flair’s living children including daughter Ashley, who wrestles in the WWE under the name of Charlotte, and a host of retired or active wrestlers including Sting, Triple H, The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, Mick Foley, Ricky Steamboat, and Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard, the pair with whom Flair and Ole Anderson formed The Four Horseman. Other interviews include Hall of Fame announcer Jim Ross, former WCW head Eric Bischoff, as well as Flair’s first wife, Leslie. Karpf said his production group had interviewed 43 subjects as of this writing.

Karpf said the 1980s will be the main era of the doc to coincide with the prime of Flair’s career, as well as the explosion of pro wrestling into the pop culture. “We want to take the time to get this right,” Karpf said. “We want it to appeal to wrestling and non-wrestling fans alike. I want to make sure I do Ric’s story and the sport of wrestling justice.”
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ESPN Films’ 30 for 30 “This Was the XFL” to Premiere in February

Three days before Super Bowl LI, ESPN Films will premiere the 30 for 30 documentary “This Was the XFL,” directed by Charlie Ebersol, chronicling the short-lived, ill-fated pro football league. The documentary, airing on February 2 at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN, tells the story in fascinating, candid, and often rollicking fashion featuring fellow television legends and close friends – **** Ebersol and Vince McMahon.

“Catholics vs. Convicts" Up Next

The next 30 for 30 film scheduled to debut on ESPN is “Catholics vs. Convicts,” immediately following the Heisman Trophy presentation on Saturday evening, Dec. 10. Directed by Patrick Creadon, the film explores the 1988 college football game between Notre Dame and the University of Miami that sparked far more than just a controversial t-shirt.
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That Schefter thing is pretty cool.  I always love NBA getting more attention from talented people.  We all know it's the league of the future anyways.
 
Guess that 30 for 30 will skip over when flair allegedly sexually assaulted a flight attendant. I think that case got settled.
 
frshstunna said:
It's lit ...welcome to the NBA Schefter
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When is the man supposed to sleep?!?! Good for him, though.
 
******* Crine at this Alan Thicke interview [emoji]128557[/emoji][emoji]128557[/emoji][emoji]128557[/emoji]
 
Watch "SWV [emoji]9829[/emoji] with Chris Webber "Weak" ((Live)) [Video LP September 1993] #2" on YouTube
 
Jesus.. jalen must be trying get in on some of his businesses or something
 
Two more 30 for 30s...

SI.com

ESPN to air 30 for 30 on NBA's storied Celtics-Lakers rivalry

With the 30-year anniversary of the 1987 NBA Finals coming up—that series was the third time in four years the Lakers and Celtics met for the title—ESPN Films has commissioned a two-part documentary to examine the famed rivalry. The film will be executive produced by Jonathan Hock, a multiple Emmy Award winning producer and director whose previous 30 for 30s include “The Best That Never Was” (2010), “Unguarded” (2011), “Survive and Advance” (2013) and “Of Miracles and Men” (2015). Hock recently signed a two-year first-look deal with ESPN for all his non-fiction sports-related programming ideas from Hock Films. That means ESPN has the first option for Hock’s work.

Hock said the Celtics-Lakers documentary will air in two parts on ESPN, running either at 90 or 120 minutes per episode. The film will likely air next June around the time of the NBA Finals.

In an interview with SI.com last week, Hock said the main focus of the doc will be the rivalry of the 1980s but the film will also examine the history of the NBA through the prism of the rivalry.

Hock said this will be the most people he has ever interviewed for an ESPN project.
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John Calipari 30 for 30 will explore all angles of polarizing coach

Few college basketball coaches are more polarizing than Kentucky's John Calipari, which makes him a tremendous subject for a documentary. There have been previous reports of ESPN working on a 30 for 30 on Calapari—including this Louisville Courier-Journal piece from last May—and this week the network will announce the premiere date. The documentary is titled One and Not Done and will air on April 13, 11 days after the conclusion of the college basketball season and two days before the start of the NBA playoffs. The film will be produced and directed by Jonathan Hock.

In an interview with Sports Illustrated last week, Hock called Calipari (whom he met on a previous project) the most complicated subject he has ever dealt with for a project. He also said few subjects have ever given him better access. Hock and his crew made 10 visits to Lexington in 2015 for the documentary, which included watching seven games and many Kentucky practices. The premise of the film is to weave the 2015–16 season around Calipari’s larger life story.

The film is expected to run two hours and chronicles Calipari’s life, from growing up in a suburb of Pittsburgh, to his assistant coaching jobs at Kansas and Pitt, to top jobs at UMass, Memphis and Kentucky.
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the ringer nba podcast is awful. vernon and o'connor both stink

zach lavine on mannix was ok, not a fan of his interviewing style either. gotta check out crawford on woj
 
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