Pablo Torre Finds Out

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.

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 | pablo.show | Pablo Torre

This edition of The Sporting Class is the most Rich Guys OnlyFans it’s ever been. A few topics on the docket, with Meadowlark co-founder-turned-podcaster John Skipper and Nothing Personal’s David Samson…Media’s Spinoff Era is upon us. Who’s to blame? What do consulting firms even do? (And why do they keep getting hired?)Do you know your credit score off the top of your head? PLUS: Widow’s peaks, hondling, and resumés. YOUTUBE SPOILER ALERT:Indebted,Pablo

2 weeks ago | pablo.show | Pablo Torre

You don’t need to care about basketball in order to understand why I became so consumed by reporting this episode. But if you are at least passingly familiar with the NBA, then maybe you already get why Sam Presti — the league’s highly secretive Executive of the Year, the general manager responsible for one of the two teams in these NBA Finals, the Oklahoma City Thunder — does not want you to hear this.