Episode 245 of the Sports Media Podcast features Yahoo Sports NFL writer Shalise Manza Young and Front Office Sports senior reporter A.J. Perez. In this podcast, Young and Perez discuss Mississippi’s sprawling welfare corruption scandal that has ensnared several people, including retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre, and the sports media coverage surrounding it; companies enabling Favre; Perez’s reporting on Favre; whether any game broadcast would discuss Favre; the language on television surrounding Deshaun Watson; Kim Mulkey’s non comment on Brittney Griner; how they viewed coverage of Ime Udoka’s suspension; the thought posited by sports writer Sean Highkin that sports reporters and sports media personalities who have an agent should be required to disclose it when reporting on a player or coach repped by the same agency as them, and more. 

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