The Sporting Class: Affairs, Private Eyes and the All-Seeing Eye
4/24/202645 min
What are the business ethics of sh*tting where you eat? Can you be a journalist and an "insider" at the same time? And what happened after the Knicks' owner doxxed the man threatening his arena's beer? David Samson — the Marie Kondo of sports infidelity and the watchful eye of Florida baseball — helps Pablo decode the messy stories of Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel... and James Dolan versus his enemies.
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First 90 secondsPablo Torre· Host0:00
Welcome to Pablo Torre Finds Out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're gonna find out what this sound is.
Jay Glazer· Soundbite0:06
All right, we have our annual NFL coaches hay drink of day. No, just doing a little hey, hey, hey.
Pablo Torre· Host0:12
Right after this ad. [upbeat music] We're gonna call this a sporting class today, just you and me.
David Samson· Guest0:25
Really?
Pablo Torre· Host0:26
Yeah.
David Samson· Guest0:26
Are we gonna tell John?
Pablo Torre· Host0:28
Well- Feels like we're cheating. I know. Well- But that's okay ... I think you've just given us the most organic segue to how I wanted to start this [laughs] because I have been inundated, as the guy who does investigative journalism, with calls to investigate Diana Russini. And this is a story that, as I put on Twitter at some point, I have been making calls about, and you've addressed this on your show at length. Dan Le Batard, our friend and our boss on some level, he is deeply uncomfortable with talking about this because he has disclosed a friendship with Diana. But I also, in this attempt to be transparent, I wanna disclose my conflicts. You're talking, David, to me on a show that is a part of The Athletic Podcast Network. Diana, until she resigned recently, was of course an employee of The Athletic, their NFL insider. I am represented at CAA, where Diana is represented. I worked with Diana at ESPN. I don't really know her that well. I've run into her a couple of times.