Pablo Torre

4 days ago | pablo.show | Pablo Torre

I love a little friendly competition. Especially with someone like Mike Florio, whom you probably know from NBC’s Football Night in America and ProFootballTalk, the preeminent online clearinghouse for NFL news. Which is where Florio has been publicly calling for any reporter out there to be dogged enough to find a secret artifact that neither league ownership nor the players’ union wants you to see. And so I did.

4 days ago | contrarian.substack.com | Pablo Torre

Pablo Torre joins Jen to discuss why golf as a sport is a humiliation ritual, the social politics of Kaitlin Clark’s rise to WNBA fame, and the Dodgers’ $1 million donation to support immigrants in L.A.Pablo Torre is an American sportswriter, podcaster, and television host. He contributes to various programs at ESPN, including Pardon The Interruption and Around The Horn. Keep up with Pablo on his Substack and podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out .

5 days ago | pablo.show | Pablo Torre

The sad reality of my schedule these days is that it’s been hard to devour television the way I used to. Which means that I hadn’t watched Season 2 of Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal until my old friend Mina Kimes told me that she was brimming with thoughts about it. I’m extremely glad that she did. In our former lives, Mina and I spent years studying the art of the magazine profile. Which, to me, means interviewing and access and big ideas and breadcrumbs and, always, structure.

1 week ago | pablo.show | Pablo Torre

So if you have zero idea who Lina Khan is — or what any of this has to do with sports, which we’ll get to — you should know something very important:There is an almost inspiringly bipartisan coalition of people who hate Lina Khan’s guts. This roster of critics includes Elon Musk and, yes, Republican senator Mike Lee, as well as Republican congressman Darrell Issa. But it also includes billionaires Mark Cuban and Reid Hoffman and Barry Diller — all noted Democrats.

1 week ago | contrarian.substack.com | Pablo Torre

Over the weekend, J.J. Spaun shocked the golf world with a wild finish at the U.S. Open. Today, Pablo and Jen discuss what his underdog story says about the changing face of golf—and what it means when sports reflect the world around us. They also discuss the teams standing up in solidarity for their communities and those whose silence speaks volumes. Pablo Torre is an American sportswriter, podcaster, and television host.