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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Steelers announce Pat McAfee Show is headed to training camp: here's what fans should know
The Pittsburgh Steelers just announced that one of the most entertaining sports talk shows is heading to Latrobe. On Friday, the Steelers announced that The Pat McAfee Show is headed to training camp on July 30 — a spectacle fans won't want to miss, with the gates opening at 11 a.m. EST. A little over a month ago, Aaron Rodgers invited and implored McAfee to host his show at training camp — and after some discussion with the crew, he agreed. McAfee, a born and raised Yinzer, turned the Steel City upside down with his successful Big Night AHT show back in April — captivating Pittsburgh sports fans with surprise appearances from legends like Steelers' Ben Roethlisberger, Penguins' Sidney Crosby, and even Pirates' phenom Paul Skenes. Fans should expect a heavy dose of hilarious Steelers interviews from the training camp edition of The Pat McAfee Show — and arguably the most entertaining appearances would be Rodgers, Mike Tomlin, Cameron Heyward, or the new highest-paid non-quarterback, T.J. Watt. For up-to-date Steelers coverage, follow us on X @TheSteelersWire and give our Facebook page a like. This article originally appeared on Steelers Wire: Steelers announce The Pat McAfee Show is headed to training camp
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Steelers GM Omar Khan open to Aaron Rodgers staying in Pittsburgh longer than one year: 'He's a young 41'
Aaron Rodgers is 41 years old. He's entering his 21st NFL season. The four-time league MVP said on "The Pat McAfee Show" last month that he's "pretty sure" 2025 will also be his final season. At the time, Rodgers said he didn't ask Pittsburgh for more than one season, hence the one-year deal he signed ahead of Steelers minicamp. But recently-extended Steelers general manager Omar Khan said Friday on "The Rich Eisen Show" that he'd be open to Rodgers staying in Pittsburgh longer than just one season. Eisen asked, "Do you envision any scenario in which this could be a longer stay in Pittsburgh, if [Rodgers is] so inclined?" Khan replied: "Obviously we have to see how the season goes, but absolutely. He's a young 41, and we're obviously taking it year-by-year, and that's where we're at. "But we're obviously not closing the door on anything." While earning 10 Pro Bowl nods and a Super Bowl ring, Rodgers spent the first 18 seasons of his Hall of Fame-caliber career with the Green Bay Packers, who drafted him No. 24 overall in 2005. It looked like he'd end his illustrious NFL playing days in New York, but his two-year stint with the Jets didn't go according to plan. Rodgers tore his Achilles on the Jets' fourth snap of the 2023 season, which he then missed while recovering from the heartbreaking injury. Last year, he posted a 28:11 touchdown-to-interception ratio and threw for 3,897 yards while completing 63% of his passes. But his 90.5 passer rating was just below the 92.3 league average and far below his 102.6 career average. His 6.7 yards per attempt were the fewest he had averaged in a season since 2015. His return, and subsequent durability, at his age last season was impressive. His team's record was not. The Jets finished 5-12 and didn't sniff the playoffs. There was a long wait this offseason to see if Rodgers would come back for another NFL season, either with the Jets or with another franchise. Eisen asked Khan how he remained so patient for Rodgers to make a decision. "Somebody asked me about that the other day, and I can say we don't really view our patience as a weakness," Khan said Friday. "I view it as a strength. And we had some conversations, and we were engaged with him and just felt really good about our chances. And we went through the evaluation process early and felt like he was going to be the right guy for us if we could land the plane. ... He did a great job of communicating with us. I don't know what the narrative was out there." But that's when Eisen cut Khan off. Eisen asked for the fourth-year Steelers GM to clarify what he meant by Rodgers' "great job of communicating." Eisen asked if Rodgers was reaching out to the organization. "It's just open dialogue," said Khan, who was working in the Steelers' football operations and player personnel department when they won two Super Bowls in the 2000s. "We knew where he stood, what was going on with him. And he knew where we were, and it just felt really comfortable with the process." Rodgers took what longtime Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin called a "productive" visit on March 28. At the spring owners meetings the next week, team president Art Rooney II was asked if Rodgers would sign with the team, and Rooney indicated Pittsburgh was on that trajectory. In mid-April, though, Rodgers went on the "McAfee Show" and mentioned that retirement could still be a possibility while noting that he wanted to focus on his personal life at that time. The Steelers waited until the sixth round to draft a quarterback — Ohio State's Will Howard — and ultimately came to an agreement with Rodgers in June. Rodgers is hard to read and has been for quite some time. Whether he plays beyond this year is anyone's best guess. But Khan is open to the idea. He, of course, wants to see how this season goes first.
Dominion Post
4 days ago
- Sport
- Dominion Post
Pitt's Pat Narduzzi strong advocate for yearly Backyard Brawl
MORGANTOWN — The biggest game on West Virginia's schedule isn't a Big 12 conference game. It's the third game of the season against Pitt in the 108th Backyard Brawl. That's not an opinion; looking at the ticket prices, WVU's priciest home game is the Backyard Brawl, which is as low as $260 right now. Speaking with former players and fans, the Week 3 matchup is the must-see game. ESPN's Pat McAfee and Kirk Herbstreit even talked about potentially having College GameDay from this year's Backyard Brawl if everything goes right. After this year, the Backyard Brawl is shelved. The rivalry won't return until 2029. It's a lot less of a hiatus than the 11-year gap from 2011 to 2022, but still, the season will feel incomplete. Pitt's head coach, Pat Narduzzi, has been vocal about regional rivalry games with West Virginia and Penn State, and talked about the importance of the regional games at ACC Media Days this week. 'With the way the college landscape is going, conferences have kind of exploded, and we have teams from the West Coast in the Atlantic Coast Conference,' Narduzzi said. 'I think those regional rivalry games are critical.' However, the regional rivalry games are becoming harder and harder to occur. With conference shuffling, rivalries have been lost. Oklahoma State vs. Oklahoma was a yearly thing, but once Oklahoma left the conference, it's harder to make the game happen since it's used as an out-of-conference game. There's also the issue of money, and how out-of-conference opponents are scheduled years in advance. WVU's three out-of-conference games are set up until 2030, and already have one opponent for 2031. Narduzzi said during his press conference that he wanted to play West Virginia every year, and still does, even with the Mountaineers not being on Pitt's schedule until 2029. The players and fans want to see it, but with all the outside factors, it's hard to make it happen. 'Our players look forward to playing West Virginia every year,' Narduzzi said. 'That's a rivalry game that'll end after this year. In three years, it picks back up. So, we do have a four-game stretch. If you guys have any power to see if we can get them in the next three years, we are willing to make some movements in our schedule and try to get that done. I would love to play them every year.' Due to scheduling issues, Narduzzi's wish won't happen. The two schools could technically fit the Backyard Brawl into their schedules, but WVU already has a couple of big games in its place, and the pay-to-play game with smaller schools, which those smaller institutions rely on financially. They'd need to cancel one of the games. Then there's the required nine Big 12 games, so realistically, it's a longshot. At least for WVU, the three years without the Backyard Brawl won't be a snoozefest. WVU has a home and home with Alabama over the next two years, and plays Virginia in Charlotte in 2026. Then in 2028, WVU plays Tennessee in the Duke's Mayos Classic. WVU definitely has entertaining games on its schedule in place of the Backyard Brawl. However, those games don't have the same lust as the Backyard Brawl. What's positive is there's mutual interest in keeping the rivalry a yearly game, and so far, it's scheduled in three of the four years starting in 2029. It's only a couple of years of a break, but the Backyard Brawl will be missed by fans, players and coaches. 'That's what the game is all about, those regional rivalries,' Narduzzi said. 'It brings fans in. The fans love it, the players love it, it's intense. There's no love lost. That's what it's all about. That's college football.'
New York Times
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Pat McAfee apologizes to Ole Miss student months after amplifying false rumor
Pat McAfee apologized to Ole Miss student Mary Kate Cornett on 'The Pat McAfee Show' Wednesday, months after amplifying an unsubstantiated rumor involving Cornett in February, and the subsequent fallout, which forced her to switch to online classes and move out of her dormitory. The rumor, which involved a false claim involving Cornett's romantic life, started on the anonymous messaging app YikYak, before making its way to X and later the sports talk world, including posts by Barstool personalities KFC Barstool and Jack Mac, a discussion by ESPN radio hosts in St. Louis and a mention on McAfee's show. Advertisement 'I have since learned that the story was not true and that my show played a role in the anguish caused to a great family and especially to a young woman, Mary Kate Cornett,' McAfee said on his show on Wednesday. In an interview with The Athletic in April, Cornett, who was 18 at the time, said that after the rumor took off, she had vile messages slipped under her dorm room door. Campus police told her she was a target, and she switched to online classes and moved to emergency housing. The Athletic has reached out to Cornett and her lawyer for comment on McAfee's statement. Once Cornett's phone number was posted online, she told The Athletic that she received degrading voicemails and that someone created a cryptocurrency memecoin with her name attached to it. Police showed up at Cornett's mother's house, her boyfriend faced online bullying and her grandfather received a taunting call in the middle of the night. 'I would like people to be held accountable for what they've done,' Cornett said in April. 'You're ruining my life by talking about it on your show for nothing but attention, but here I am staying up until 5 in the morning, every night, throwing up, not eating because I'm so anxious about what's going to happen for the rest of my life.' In April, weeks after first discussing the rumor, McAfee alluded to the situation during a live event in Pittsburgh, saying that he 'didn't want to add any more negativity as it was taking place' and would try to 'make some sort of silver lining in a very terrible situation.' KFC Barstool, Jack Mac and Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy also apologized for the situation. McAfee refrained from naming Cornett specifically at the time. He said on Wednesday that he waited to discuss the situation in detail until he could talk with Cornett and her family directly. Advertisement 'I recently got to meet Mary Kate and her family, and I got a chance to sincerely apologize to them and acknowledge that what I said about Mary Kate was based solely on what others were saying on the Internet or had been previously reported by others, and that we had no personal knowledge about Mary Kate or her personal life.' McAfee's show and its guests have a reputation for pushing the boundaries and are proud provocateurs. Despite that, McAfee has apologized for language in the past, such as when he described WNBA player Caitlin Clark as a 'white bitch.' The opening to his show includes the disclaimer that 'it is meant to be comedic informative' and that 'the opinions expressed on this show do not necessarily reflect the beliefs of their peers, their boss, or ESPN.' 'I deeply regret the pain that was caused,' McAfee said about Cornett on Wednesday. 'I hated watching what our show was a part of in our interviews and reading about it. And my hope is that this can be something that we all learn from going forward. I know we certainly have.'
New York Times
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Rich Eisen to take over ESPN Radio's noon slot: Sources
'The Rich Eisen Show' will be the new centerpiece of ESPN Radio, with its program airing nationally from noon-3 p.m. ET beginning Sept. 2, sources briefed on the move told The Athletic. In May, The Athletic reported that a strong possibility existed for Eisen's program to be a staple of ESPN Radio. It will also appear on Disney+ and ESPN+, as well as ESPN's full direct-to-consumer app that is set to debut in the fall. Advertisement The show that is currently in the noon slot, 'Joe & Q,' featuring Joe Fortenbaugh and Qiant 'Q' Myers, will be disbanded. Fortenbaugh, a sports betting guru, will focus on his TV and radio spots, while Myers will be a Monday-Friday late-night host on ESPN Radio 'GameTime.' The rest of the lead-in lineup, including its morning drive show, 'Unsportsmanlike,' hosted by Evan Cohen, Chris Canty and Michelle Smallmon, and the 10 a.m.-to-noon show 'Clinton & Friends,' centered on Clinton Yates, will remain the same. 'The Rich Eisen Show' will be on at the same time as 'The Pat McAfee Show' and will be available on ESPN, the forthcoming ESPN DTC and YouTube. Meanwhile, Stephen A. Smith is beginning a new SiriusXM program that will compete directly with Eisen. Smith remains the star of 'First Take.' The Rich Eisen Podcast Network will also be on ESPN's platforms and will include a new, yet-to-be-named podcast that will have Eisen, a former SportsCenter host from 1996-2003, interviewing colleagues from his run behind the desk.
