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Jul 2022
40m 22s

Ethan Strauss

Dan Le Batard, Stugotz
About this episode

Dan talks with Ethan Strauss, who left The Athletic to start his own Substack after he stopped caring about traditional sports writing. They talk about the risk of making that decision, trying to reveal the innards of the transactional sports media, and how Mark Cuban is bit of a fraud.

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