"The feeling seems to be he’s not interested in staying beyond the end of June” – Sportsnet’s Damien Cox, on reports that MLSE was trying to convince President & CEO Tim Leiweke to stay beyond his June 30th departure date (SPORTSNET.ca, 1/10).
“I’m allowed to be a fan. I’m not going to pretend to hide from that. But when I go on the air, I’m going to be fair and objective and just analyze the game” – ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit, who played at Ohio State, on calling tonight’s CFP title game (DENVER POST, 1/12).
“Of course it’s sports betting. It doesn’t mean that it’s subject necessarily to the same laws. You’re risking money on something of an uncertain outcome, and to me that sounds like gambling” – Sports gambling firm William Hill CEO Joe Asher, on daily fantasy sports (USA TODAY, 1/12).
“At some point in time, you’re going to run out of money. You can’t in any business keep adding things to it and expect to continually grow and grow. At some point, it will stop” – Univ. of Minnesota wrestling coach J Robinson, who feels autonomy in college athletics will lead to non-revenue sports being cut at many schools (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 1/11).
“We don’t know where Roboduck is. We lost touch with him over the years” – Oregon Senior Associate AD Craig Pintens, on a muscular iteration of the school’s mascot introduced in ’02 and shelved the following year (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 1/12).
