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USA Today
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Bill Simmons rips Pablo Torre after Jordon Hudson reporting in NSFW rant
Bill Simmons rips Pablo Torre after Jordon Hudson reporting in NSFW rant It's safe to say Bill Simmons isn't a fan of the fallout from Pablo Torre's reporting on former New England Patriots legend and current North Carolina head coach Bill Belichick and girlfriend Jordon Hudson. Torre used his podcast, Pablo Torre Finds Out, to report on Hudson's involvement with Belichick that goes beyond their romantic relationship -- there was talk that she forced her way onto a Belichick commercial, how UNC officials might feel about her and beyond. JORDON HUDSON AND BILL BELICHICK RELATIONSHIP TIMELINE: A look back over the years But Simmons scoffed in a recent Ringer podcast at Torre doing a bunch of interviews after the news he broke (WARNING: NSFW LANGUAGE AHEAD): 'I've never seen anybody dine on a stupider story for a week and a half while pretending you're a journalist. What the [expletive] was that? Seriously. 'Oh, Belichick's dating a girl. Oh, let me do nine shows about it.' Settle the [expletive] down. ... You don't need to do a media tour about a [expletive] podcast." The part about "pretending you're a journalist" is unfair. Torre's reporting was legitimate and necessary given the fact that maybe there might be consternation in North Carolina, which pays him a sizeable amount of money.
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Pablo Torre threatens UNC with lawsuit amid his Bill Belichick-Jordon Hudson investigation
Podcaster Pablo Torre has quickly become one of the foremost experts on Bill Belichick's relationship with Jordon Hudson, breaking a number of stories related to it, and the ex-ESPNer said he's willing to take the University of North Carolina to court if they fail to comply with public record requests related to the football program. Torre, who has dedicated two episodes of his show 'Pablo Torre Finds Out' to uncovering details around the relationship, said during an appearance with Mike Florio on 'PFT PM' that UNC owed him a response to multiple public records requests by Friday. Advertisement And he hinted that he would be willing to sue the university to 'hold them to account.' Bill Belichick and Girlfriend Jordon Hudson at the Nantucket Christmas Stroll. Instagram/@jordon_isabella 'These are public records requests,' he said. 'I don't know why this should be vague or ambiguous. If you're listening, like, it's not like, 'Show me your emails,' as if there is no expectation of it. It's, 'You get as part of the pact between a public university and the federal government, you get things in exchange for what feels like a reasonable level of transparency.' So we can tell what is this public money going towards? It's standard operating procedure, and if we don't — if we feel like they are not obliging their legal obligations, we will certainly pursue avenues to make it so.' Belichick, 73, is headed into his first season at the helm of the UNC football program, marking the first time he's coached at the collegiate level. Advertisement Coaching at UNC does open Belichick up to more public transparency. The school is a public institution, making him a public employee subject to having his emails fair game for open records requests. Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson attend the 14th Annual NFL Honors at Saenger Theatre on February 06, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Getty Images Torre did not indicate what these specific records requests were in reference to. The Athletic, The Assembly NC, and Torre have successfully had requests responded to earlier this year, which has led to some interesting revelations. The Assembly NC that first reported that Belichick had directed North Carolina officials to copy the 24-year-old Hudson on messages sent to him. The reporting by Torre over the past few weeks has come under attack from Hudson, who posted and then deleted a response on her Instagram page after Friday's episode investigating the Ring doorbell cam footage of the ex-Patriots coach that made headlines in 2023. Advertisement 'Pablo Torre's 'findings' have been nothing short of factually incorrect, slanderous, defamatory and targeted,' she wrote in the Instagram story that was taken down a short time after it was posted. Pablo Torre spoke with 11 sources who have dealt with Bill Belichick's girlfriend directly. Pablo Torre Finds Out Others have also questioned the reporting and interest in the relationship, which Torre himself pushed back on during the interview with Florio on Tuesday. 'I've seen enough reporters who love to suck up to coaches who are like, 'Look, the Jordon Hudson story was wildly exaggerated from the start,' and all I can tell them is that, 'You guys got to do some reporting if you think that that's plausible that we are overestimating the impact here,'' Torre said, 'because it's verified, documented, now increasingly public. 'They're missing the story, and that's what's also darkly humorous about this.'
New York Post
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Pablo Torre threatens UNC with lawsuit amid his Bill Belichick-Jordon Hudson investigation
Podcaster Pablo Torre has quickly become one of the foremost experts on Bill Belichick's relationship with Jordon Hudson, breaking a number of stories related to it, and the ex-ESPNer said he's willing to take the University of North Carolina to court if they fail to comply with public record requests related to the football program. Torre, who has dedicated two episodes of his show 'Pablo Torre Finds Out' to uncovering details around the relationship, said during an appearance with Mike Florio on 'PFT PM' that UNC owed him a response to multiple public records requests by Friday. And he hinted that he would be willing to sue the university to 'hold them to account.' Advertisement 3 Bill Belichick and Girlfriend Jordon Hudson at the Nantucket Christmas Stroll. Instagram/@jordon_isabella 'These are public records requests,' he said. 'I don't know why this should be vague or ambiguous. If you're listening, like, it's not like, 'Show me your emails,' as if there is no expectation of it. It's, 'You get as part of the pact between a public university and the federal government, you get things in exchange for what feels like a reasonable level of transparency.' So we can tell what is this public money going towards? It's standard operating procedure, and if we don't — if we feel like they are not obliging their legal obligations, we will certainly pursue avenues to make it so.' Belichick, 73, is headed into his first season at the helm of the UNC football program, marking the first time he's coached at the collegiate level. Advertisement Coaching at UNC does open Belichick up to more public transparency. The school is a public institution, making him a public employee subject to having his emails fair game for open records requests. 3 Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson attend the 14th Annual NFL Honors at Saenger Theatre on February 06, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Getty Images Torre did not indicate what these specific records requests were in reference to. Advertisement The Athletic, The Assembly NC, and Torre have successfully had requests responded to earlier this year, which has led to some interesting revelations. The Assembly NC that first reported that Belichick had directed North Carolina officials to copy the 24-year-old Hudson on messages sent to him. The reporting by Torre over the past few weeks has come under attack from Hudson, who posted and then deleted a response on her Instagram page after Friday's episode investigating the Ring doorbell cam footage of the ex-Patriots coach that made headlines in 2023. Advertisement 'Pablo Torre's 'findings' have been nothing short of factually incorrect, slanderous, defamatory and targeted,' she wrote in the Instagram story that was taken down a short time after it was posted. 3 Pablo Torre spoke with 11 sources who have dealt with Bill Belichick's girlfriend directly. Pablo Torre Finds Out Others have also questioned the reporting and interest in the relationship, which Torre himself pushed back on during the interview with Florio on Tuesday. 'I've seen enough reporters who love to suck up to coaches who are like, 'Look, the Jordon Hudson story was wildly exaggerated from the start,' and all I can tell them is that, 'You guys got to do some reporting if you think that that's plausible that we are overestimating the impact here,'' Torre said, 'because it's verified, documented, now increasingly public. 'They're missing the story, and that's what's also darkly humorous about this.'
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Pablo Torre will sue UNC if necessary over Bill Belichick, Jordon Hudson public records requests
Pablo Torre of Pablo Torre Finds Out has been finding out plenty about North Carolina coach Bill Belichick and his 24-year-old girlfriend/handler/publicist/idea mill/creative muse Jordon Hudson. And Torre's effort to find out even more could, in theory, result in him getting sued. But it also could result in Torre doing some suing. During a Tuesday visit to #PFTPM (full interview is here), Torre explained that North Carolina owes by Friday responses to multiple requests for public records relating to the football program. And Torre stands ready to do whatever needs to be done, if UNC fails to comply with its obligations under the applicable laws. Torre was asked whether he's willing to take North Carolina to court if it fails to comply. "I plan to hold them to account," Torre said. "These are public records requests. I don't know why this should be vague or ambiguous. If you're listening, like, it's not like, 'Show me your emails,' as if there is no expectation of it. It's, 'You get as part of the pact between a public university and the federal government, you get things in exchange for what feels like a reasonable level of transparency.' So we can tell what is this public money going towards? It's standard operating procedure, and if we don't — if we feel like they are not obliging their legal obligations, we will certainly pursue avenues to make it so." It's one of the most basic realities of Belichick taking a job with a public institution like North Carolina and not a private university like Duke. Belichick's official records (most notably, emails) become fair game for public inspection. And, to the extent that Hudson was (and perhaps still is) unofficially working for UNC, hers are fair game, too. Actually, Hudson's status as a non-UNC employee could provide a certain degree of freedom to circumvent the relevant freedom of information laws. Regardless of whether Belichick intentionally used a non-employee to create a public-records buffer, it could be argued that emails she exchanged with, for example, NFL Films over the ill-fated Hard Knocks project can be concealed. That argument becomes harder to make based on Belichick's effort to blame her de facto P.R. work on the fact that UNC didn't have anyone in that role. And it's moot unless North Carolina stiff arms Torre. By Friday, UNC will either give Torre what it is required to surrender or Torre will potentially pursue legal action. Put simply, UNC can eff around, but Torre will still find out.
NBC Sports
27-05-2025
- Politics
- NBC Sports
Pablo Torre will sue UNC if necessary over Bill Belichick, Jordon Hudson public records requests
Pablo Torre of Pablo Torre Finds Out has been finding out plenty about North Carolina coach Bill Belichick and his 24-year-old girlfriend/handler/publicist/idea mill/creative muse Jordon Hudson. And Torre's effort to find out even more could, in theory, result in him getting sued. But it also could result in Torre doing some suing. During a Tuesday visit to #PFTPM, Torre explained that North Carolina owes by Friday responses to multiple requests for public records relating to the football program. And Torre stands ready to do whatever needs to be done, if UNC fails to comply with its obligations under the applicable laws. Torre was asked whether he's willing to take North Carolina to court if it fails to comply. 'I plan to hold them to account,' Torre said. 'These are public records requests. I don't know why this should be vague or ambiguous. If you're listening, like, it's not like, 'Show me your emails,' as if there is no expectation of it. It's, 'You get as part of the pact between a public university and the federal government, you get things in exchange for what feels like a reasonable level of transparency.' So we can tell what is this public money going towards? It's standard operating procedure, and if we don't — if we feel like they are not obliging their legal obligations, we will certainly pursue avenues to make it so.' It's one of the most basic realities of Belichick taking a job with a public institution like North Carolina and not a private university like Duke. Belichick's official records (most notably, emails) become fair game for public inspection. And, to the extent that Hudson was (and perhaps still is) unofficially working for UNC, hers are fair game, too. Actually, Hudson's status as a non-UNC employee could provide a certain degree of freedom to circumvent the relevant freedom of information laws. Regardless of whether Belichick intentionally used a non-employee to create a public-records buffer, it could be argued that emails she exchanged with, for example, NFL Films over the ill-fated Hard Knocks project can be concealed. That argument becomes harder to make based on Belichick's effort to blame her de facto P.R. work on the fact that UNC didn't have anyone in that role. And it's moot unless North Carolina stiff arms Torre. By Friday, UNC will either give Torre what it is required to surrender or Torre will potentially pursue legal action. Put simply, UNC can eff around, but Torre will still find out.
