In the 37-minute Everybody Loves Sports Media, Andrew Marchand and Jon Meterparel are on-location from Dallas and hit on these topics:

* How ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro landed Charles Barkley

* Where does the un-signed Shaquille O’Neal fit in

* How TNT Sports made some chicken salad with the NBA

* What’s next for Amazon and NBC on the NBA

* How bad was Netflix for Tyson-Paul

* What does Netflix’s disaster mean for the NFL

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* What do we make of Jon Gruden to Barstool

* How about Drew Brees’ potential comeback

* Why Marchand is de-emphasizing X and why sports media folks should re-evaluate its use

* Dave Sims to the Yanks radio booth reax

* Hijinx as the show is on the road from Dallas

* Sponsor: WSC Sports: Tell them … Marchand sent you

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