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Daily Mail
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Barstool Sports star responds to accusations he made light of sexual harassment: 'I messed that one up'
A convoluted discussion of sexual harassment within the Barstool Sports workplace spilled onto the air this week, leading popular podcast host Dan 'Big Cat' Katz to admit fault in the exchange. Katz wasn't accused of sexual harassment. Rather, he may have mishandled a complaint from a female employee, who was uncomfortable with some of the BS content and off-camera conversations. That employee, Ella Grif, sent Katz a late-night text with a BS video that contained a conversation in which colleagues discussed kissing her. 'I think it was just a moment of weakness for her,' Katz told the panel before requesting Grif join them in studio. 'Tell her to get in here. I don't want to speak for her.' The conversation in the video only pertained to kissing, but was far more graphic off the air, according to Grif. 'Obviously I was drunk and I probably shouldn't have been texting, but I really thought I was on to something,' Grif said of her late-night text to Katz. 'I was like: 'This was so gross.' Ella Grif believes a conversation that took place off camera crossed a line in the workplace Unfortunately for her, since the clip only contained a discussion about kissing – and not the alleged X-rated off-air discussion – Katz was left confused. 'My heart dropped for a second, like, 'What did I say?' he recalled. 'I realize that and I was mortified the next day,' she said. 'I was like: 'Oh my good I seem like such a p****.' Grif ironed things out with Katz, who was nonetheless called out on social media over the exchange. 'FYI that ella segment on @BarstoolYak was Michael Scott level office management cringe,' one critic wrote on X, referencing a character from NBC's The Office. 'Was like watching a what not to do video when a female employee raises concerns about the office's college fraternity-esque work environment. 'Imagine she was your daughter.' Katz didn't challenge that assessment. 'Yup that was my f*** up,' he wrote on X, adding: 'I messed that one up for sure.' It's unclear if the alleged harassers have been punished in any way.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Portnoy on ‘arrogant' Colbert's cancellation: ‘What did you think was going to happen?'
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy bashed Stephen Colbert on Saturday, calling the late-night host 'ungrateful' after Colbert's show was axed by CBS in what the network claimed was a 'financial decision.' 'For these people, including like Colbert, to be like, 'This isn't really right and we're blindsided' — buddy, you're losing 40 million dollars a year,' Portnoy said in a video posted to the social platform X, citing one estimate of the show's losses reported by Reuters. The announcement of the cancellation came just weeks after the network said it would pay $16 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by President Trump, a decision that Colbert had previously called a 'big fat bribe.' Paramount, CBS's parent company, is currently seeking approval for a merger from Trump's Federal Communications Commission. Lawmakers on the left have speculated that CBS's cancellation of the show might have been politically motivated, an assertion at which Portnoy effectively rolled his eyes. Rather, he asserted, Colbert was losing money and had been 'arrogant' in his criticism of CBS. 'Welcome to the real f—ing world,' the Barstool Sports founder said in the video, which he called a 'rant.' 'And then you have the arrogance to go hammer your own company? What do you think was going to happen?' he asked. Colbert has historically been a fierce critic of the president and previously went after CBS and Paramount for settling Trump's claim, which the host called a 'nuisance lawsuit.' Portnoy said that Colbert should not have criticized his network so strongly, especially if his show was losing money. The New York Times estimated that the show's losses were in the tens of millions of dollars. 'I'd fire you in a f—ing heartbeat. That's not politics. That's just being ungrateful,' Portnoy said. 'This is called capitalism, in the real world. ' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Dave Portnoy Details Specifics of New Barstool Sports Show on FS1
Barstool Sports and Fox Sports are partnering in a deal that includes a new daily show on Fox Sports 1. Barstool founder Dave Portnoy confirmed the deal on Thursday, July 17, which will also feature his appearance on the network's Big Noon Kickoff college football pregame show. Barstool Sports will also be given a daily show from 8-10 a.m., Portnoy revealed on The Unnamed Show. Portnoy will appear on the daily show on Mondays and different Barstool personalities will also be involved. "We are going to do an 8-10 daily show on Fox Sports 1. It'll be like a Barstool breakfast show or Barstool wake-up," Portnoy said. "I'm going to do Mondays, we'll have an office in Chicago, it'll be different characters." Portnoy added that the show will cover whatever is the hot topic at the moment, whether it's sports- or Barstool-related. "So, whatever is happening and relevant to our world, but it'll be like, basically, all of our talent in the show," Portnoy added. "There will be different days people are doing it, I know I'm doing Mondays." The Barstool Sports show, which doesn't appear to have an official name yet, will be replacing Breakfast Ball, the show that was in the 8-10 a.m. time slot on FS1 previously. Breakfast Ball was one of three shows cancelled by the network recently, along with The Facility and Speak. Dave Portnoy Details Specifics of New Barstool Sports Show on FS1 first appeared on Men's Journal on Jul 17, 2025
New York Post
2 days ago
- Business
- New York Post
Dave Portnoy calls out ‘morons' who think WNBA players shouldn't get more money
Dave Portnoy is fed up with those who believe WNBA players don't deserve a higher payday. In the wake of players wearing warmup shirts that said 'Pay Us What You Owe Us' at Saturday's All-Star Game, the Barstool Sports founder and owner made his stance clear with a lengthy post and subsequent video on X on Sunday. 'I don't know how anybody in the world with a brain, and maybe my brain is just bigger than most, can rationally say women don't deserve more money at this point,' Portnoy said in the video. Portnoy went on to reference how Caitlin Clark's rookie salary, $76,000, is less than what Barstool personalities Nicky Smokes and Ben Mintz make per year, calling the disparity 'insane.' As of the 2024 season, the WNBA's average salary was $147,745, according to DirecTV. Portnoy noted how some WNBA critics have referenced reports of the league losing tens of millions of dollars each year, but said the finances of the league are 'a mess, tied in with the NBA and purposely murky.' 3 Barstool Sports founder and owner Dave Portnoy thinks WNBA players deserve a pay raise. @stoolpresidente/X In October 2024, The Post reported the WNBA would be losing $40 million in the 2025 season. But, as Portnoy put it, the league is 'exploding.' 'Franchise values are exploding. Ticket sales, merch, tv rights all exploding. The players have an opt out in their CBA. Of course they took it. It's all about leverage in re-negotiations and for the 1st time in history of [the] league players have power,' Portnoy wrote. 3 Dave Portnoy attends a game between the Indiana Fever and the Connecticut Sun at TD Garden on July 15. NBAE via Getty Images The league agreed to an 11-year, $2.2 billion TV rights deal with Disney, Amazon Prime Video and NBCUniversal last summer, and TV ratings (up 23%), ticket sales (up 26%) and attendance (13%) are all surging halfway through the season, according to NPR. 'The players make virtually nothing while the entire league explodes,' Portnoy added. 'Of course they deserve more money.' Portnoy, who is one of Caitlin Clark's most vocal superfans, also refuted the notion that the league's recent success is unsustainable because it over-relies on Clark's star power. 'This league is so white hot right now, and I know everyone's going to say, 'Well, it's only Caitlin Clark, it's a one-person league,'' Portnoy said. 'Caitlin Clark was 100% the match that lit the fuse…but, Caitlin's not going anywhere. She's year two of a 15-year career.' 3 Fever star Caitlin Clark wearing a 'Pay Us What You Owe Us' shirt before the WNBA All-Star Game on July 19. Getty Images He added that other young stars like Angel Reese, Paige Bueckers and the soon-to-be pro JuJu Watkins mark a bright future for the league, too. Portnoy concluded by writing that if he could purchase a Boston-based WNBA franchise for $250 million, he 'would do it without blinking.' 'That's all you got to know about the WNBA finances,' he added.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Dave Portnoy sold XRP too soon, now he wants to cry
Dave Portnoy sold XRP too soon, now he wants to cry originally appeared on TheStreet. Dave Portnoy, founder of the sports and pop culture company Barstool Sports, has a confession that he says is making him want to cry. On July 17, Portnoy posted a video on X in which he admitted to losing millions by exiting XRP two weeks earlier. He said he sold his XRP when it was trading at a price of $2.40 on the advice of the individual who had recommended him the coin that Ripple, the crypto company whose founders launched XRP, would now face competition from the stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL). XRP's price has surged 60% since he sold it, Portnoy said and added: "I would've made millions, and I want to cry. I don't own it anymore. Even though I was like the leader of the XRP army, I sold it." Notably, both Ripple and Circle applied for national banking licenses with the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency more than two weeks earlier. XRP hit the price of $3.642 late evening July 17, and Portnoy posted the video only a few minutes isn't the first time that Barstool's El Presidente has talked about his crypto trading mistakes. In 2021, he admitted to panic selling Bitcoin in an X post. The king coin recently hit an all-time high (ATH) of $123,091.61 on July 14. XRP hit an ATH of $3.84 on Jan. 4, 2018. The cryptocurrency was trading at $3.36 at the time of writing, nearly 12% lower than its record high. Dave Portnoy sold XRP too soon, now he wants to cry first appeared on TheStreet on Jul 19, 2025 This story was originally reported by TheStreet on Jul 19, 2025, where it first appeared. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
