Big business Quote by Dave Zirin

There are some times when sports rises to the level of news and when sports broadcasters acquit themselves as well as the best news…

— Bob Costas

Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word…

— Jane Leavy

The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between…

— Gary Ackerman

Journalism is the entertainment business.

— Frank Herbert

Journalism is straying into entertainment.

— Drew Curtis

I think one of the innate challenges that comes with being on ESPN is that it is a sports network. It is an entertainment…

— Jemele Hill

Every person working in sports journalism today owes a tremendous debt to Howard Cosell. His greatest contribution was elevating sports reporting out of daily…

— Roone Arledge

ESPN truly is a game changer and has the ability to unite the world through sports, which is something I'm incredibly passionate about.

— Victoria Arlen

The one thing that has gotten worse for sports media is access. We hardly get to see, talk to and most of all get…

— J. A. Adande

The media circus surrounding Sports Direct... only proves that whatever progress Sports Direct makes, it will always be subject to disproportionate scrutiny and misrepresentation.

— Mike Ashley

“This is the very structure of sports journalism: deification and damnation, death and resurrection, failure and redemption. You succeed so you can falter so…

— Will Leitch

Sports is a huge entertainment now, and we need to provide that entertainment for the fans because that's what they're looking for.

— Victoria Azarenka