Richard Deitsch

SOME PROFESSIONAL NEWS:

NEW: I spent a couple of weeks reporting on @jasonbenetti, who I think is the best working MLB play by play broadcaster today. Here is my @SBJ feature on Benetti, just out this morning: sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2026/…

@JoeBuscaglia This is your Citizen Kane moment, Joe.

First punter off the board at No. 211. Bills have three shots at it now at 220, 239 or 241. Don't overthink it. The #Puntapalooza awaits.

I haven't seen anything move this fast since I saw Usain Bolt win gold in London.

Here's @kiki_rice0 when asked if she has definitive or specific goals for her first @WNBA season:

Some photos from Day 6 of @TempoBasketball practice.

NEW: Can Mike Tomlin be impactful as an NFL studio analyst and our follow-up discussion on the Mike Vrabel-Dianna Russini story. Sports Media Roundtable with @paulsen_smw. @Armand_Broady and @derekfutterman: TO LISTEN: swap.fm/l/4apy5A6FmakG…

@easyout Thank you for sending, Ian.

@richarddeitsch Richard, 500 former journalists have signed a petition urging the WHCA publicly vow to fight back against Donald Trump's systematic attacks against press freedom and the First Amendment. whcamessage4-24.tiiny.site

This is good and I know a lot of people who followed UCLA basketball (and Kiki Rice specifically) follow here so a heads up. This is the longest profile of KR so far from a Toronto writer who writes often about basketball.

@TarHeelHitch I'M TALKING ABOUT OVERREACTING ON THIS SITE. THAT'S WHY IT'S IN QUOTES, MY GUY.

@richarddeitsch No. He’s not the Goat because he is dragging a mediocre team into competition against an injury-decimated and incompetently coached Rockets team in the first round to provide absolute roadkill in the next series. Sheesh.

This site over the past 120 seconds, "LeBron old. "LeBron washed as fuck." Then "LEBRON!!!!!!!!!" "THE GOAT!"

More than eight years later, same opinion.

Piers Morgan asked Russell Brand which passages were relevant to him when he brought a Bible into court.

Again, there is nobody better on the nexus of legal and sports than McCann. Really interesting stuff, which we cited on the next Sports Media Podcast (w. @paulsen_smw, @Armand_Broady and @derekfutterman) coming out tomorrow.

That’s correct. You did miss it.

Early in his career, Jason Benetti sent his play-by-play tape to Bob Costas, who later called with feedback and a potential writing opportunity 🎙️ Years later, Costas introduced Benetti on NBC’s Sunday Night Baseball pregame show, marking a full-circle moment. Read more: ow.ly/JPvE50YP3pf

@JimmyTraina Dude is now the best broadcaster in the NBA.

@richarddeitsch Maybe he blocked me because he doesn’t like me always making fun of your tweets.

I am shocked that some of my former Republican colleagues on the Oversight Committee are supporting pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell. The Epstein survivors are adamantly against her receiving a pardon as she was one of their main abusers next to Jeffrey Epstein and they say she is a serial liar. If Trump gives her a pardon, it sets up a very potential quid pro quo. She will owe Trump and she will lie to protect people he ask her to. Instead the DOJ and local prosecutors with jurisdiction should be prosecuting the rich powerful elites who raped and trafficked these brave survivors when they were just teenagers and young vulnerable women. Why is this so complicated???

At the bottom of the piece, Joe Buck, Dan Shulman, Joe Davis and Ian Eagle all offer thoughts on what makes Benetti an excellent broadcaster.