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Sports Media Supports Fantasy Football Waffle House Bet Loser
“Sports media pros from different companies and different platforms weighed in to marvel at the challenge and Sanderlin’s endurance.”

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There’s been a long-standing theory that everyday there is a main character on Twitter. On Thursday, that main character was a man named Lee Sanderlin.
Sanderlin is a reporter covering politics for the Clarion Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi. All Twitter cares about though is that he is very bad at fantasy football. His punishment was to spend 24 hours in a Waffle House.
For every waffle that Sanderlin consumed, his sentence was was cut by an hour. That sounds easy to those that haven’t spent time in the South. Waffle House waffles are each the size of a dinner plate. It would be hard to believe he would be able to cut a significant number of hours off his sentence.
I am coming to you live from a Brandon, Mississippi Waffle House. I, a total loser, came in last place in my fantasy football league. As punishment, I spend 24 hours in a Waffle House. Every waffle I eat shaves an hour off the clock. It’s 4:07 Central. pic.twitter.com/oRugzU7rQT
— Lee Sanderlin (@LeeOSanderlin) June 17, 2021
Waffle House employees didn’t have faith in Lee Sanderlin.
2 down. That means two hours down. 21.37 hours left roughly. Already my stomach is rumbling. Gonna be a long one.
— Lee Sanderlin (@LeeOSanderlin) June 17, 2021
The staff does not believe me that I’ll be here that long… little do they know
The internet was very different. Sports media pros from different companies and different platforms weighed in to marvel at the challenge and Sanderlin’s endurance.
So interested to see how this ends.. because there's no way it ends well, right? https://t.co/caEf3En7yR
— Michael Eaves (@michaeleaves) June 18, 2021
I’m sorry how is this supposed to be a punishment? https://t.co/nIeQPZ4V6X
— Mike Golic Jr (@mikegolicjr) June 18, 2021
Best thread you’ll read today https://t.co/EgVBhIJYix
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) June 18, 2021
You're a winner, Lee 🧇💪 https://t.co/T3mBRhwDwr
— Sports On Prime Video US (@SportsOnPrime) June 18, 2021
So if my math is correct, you could just eat 24 waffles and leave? I’m not sure I see the challenge here. https://t.co/5OzFXHfXHl
— Andy Staples (@Andy_Staples) June 18, 2021
I am pulling for you, Lee. #toughness https://t.co/3JYdiY19Xo
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) June 18, 2021
Here for this. https://t.co/isBCKN8bLJ
— Jane McManus (@janesports) June 17, 2021
I think you mean you won https://t.co/eJaGKbs4sE
— Chris Vannini 🇮🇹🏴 (@ChrisVannini) June 18, 2021
This is the best drama on TV right now. https://t.co/zwZaqYvbbB
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) June 18, 2021
Odysseus. Luke Skywalker. Beowulf. None of those heroes faced a terror in their journey quite like those my man Lee here now faces. Godspeed, sir. https://t.co/BBFiiFDFeD
— Jay Busbee (@jaybusbee) June 18, 2021
Lee Sanderlin noted that he stacked up episodes of his favorite college football podcast, Shutdown Fullcast, in order to kill some time.
I saved three weeks worth of @ShutdownFullcas for this. Feel like there needs to be a Waffle House Disasters episode
— Lee Sanderlin (@LeeOSanderlin) June 17, 2021
Hosts Spencer Hall and Ryan Nanni reached out to show their support.
Lee we are all pulling for you https://t.co/rYTwcllZa2
— BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL (@edsbs) June 18, 2021
The Official Podcast of Well, Choices Were Made https://t.co/UKzcI7zlzL
— Ryan Nanni (@celebrityhottub) June 18, 2021
Sanderlin likely had a night he will never forget. He certainly gained some fans and followers. It sounds like he had some good conversations too.
The cook this evening is telling me about the time he got shot in the chest — and also that he really likes working here. Anyways, ordering 2 more and getting on with it
— Lee Sanderlin (@LeeOSanderlin) June 17, 2021
After 15 hours, 9 waffles, a few visits from friends, too many bad TouchTunes selections, a little vomit and a lot of stomach pain, Lee Sanderlin completed his mission and was free to leave Waffle House. The radio voice of fantasy football players everywhere immediately celebrated.
He finally made it! #WaffleHouse https://t.co/wvYXgnpuL1
— Fantasy Sports Radio (@SiriusXMFantasy) June 18, 2021
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Bomani Jones: Chris Canty Made Me Rethink How I Look At This Job
“You’ve heard me say this before. I have a particular respect for former athletes that get in and treat this job with care like in the same way they would the other job.”

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February 3, 2023By
BSM Staff
The Right Time with Bomani Jones has been one of ESPN’s most successful podcasts recently. Part of the appeal is that the conversations can go anywhere. Jones and his guests talk plenty about sports, but they will venture into pop culture, current events, and more. When it is “Foxworth Friday”, there is a good chance that the show will give some insight on other ESPN personalities.
On the most recent edition of The Right Time, Bomani Jones and Domonique Foxworth discussed how hard it can be to come up with a unique view on a topic every single time you are asked to talk about it. When Foxworth said that ESPN Radio’s Chris Canty makes it a little easier for him to be entertaining in those moments, Jones added to the praise.
He discussed a conversation he and Canty had at a Halloween party hosted by FOX’s Nick Wright.
“You’ve heard me say this before. I have a particular respect for former athletes that get in and treat this job with care like in the same way they would the other job,” Jones said. “Chris was like ‘Hey man’. You know, he’s got a Super Bowl ring, but he’s like ‘I didn’t get a gold jacket. I wasn’t great at that. But this? I have a chance to be great at something else.’”
Bomani Jones was impressed by that attitude. He admitted that it was eye-opening.
“That really made me look back at how I do my job and was like ‘Yo, I need to be looking at this in a very similar way.’”
Foxworth agreed. He said that it isn’t hard to believe that Chris Canty wants to be great on TV and radio. It is easy to see when he is making an effort to get better.
“He works at it and he doesn’t rely on just one move,” Foxworth said. “Using the basketball analogy, he’s adding new stuff to his game.”
Chris Canty clearly has fans in Bristol. ESPN keeps finding ways to use him across multiple platforms. In addition to his daily ESPN Radio show with Chris Carlin, he also makes regular appearances on Get Up with Mike Greenberg.
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Dave Portnoy Drops Appeal Of Lawsuit Against Business Insider
“In dropping the suit, both Portnoy and Insider have agreed to pay their own legal fees according to Awful Announcing.”

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February 3, 2023By
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Dave Portnoy is done with his legal fight against Insider. He filed an appeal after a judge dismissed his initial defamation suit in November. That appeal has been dropped.
Nich Carlson, the Global Editor-in-Chief of Insider, took to Twitter Friday to announce that the legal standoff had come to an end. He also notes that Insider is not surprised by the decision. The company stands by the reporting in the initial story, in which multiple women alleged that sexual encounters with Portnoy turned “violent and humiliating”. It was one of two stories the site published featuring these kinds of accusations against Portnoy.
Both sides will move on. In dropping the suit, both Portnoy and Insider have agreed to pay their own legal fees according to Awful Announcing.
In November, a Massachusetts judge ruled that Portnoy would have to prove that Insider acted with “actual malice” in publishing the stories. That was going to be a high bar considering that Dave Portnoy is a public figure.
Neither he nor his legal team have publicly commented about the status of the lawsuit.
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Nick Wright: Majority of Media Got Tom Brady Retirement Story Wrong
“I don’t think people understand that these are not easy decisions.”

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February 3, 2023By
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The news of the retirement of Tom Brady wasn’t the most shocking development, but FS1 host Nick Wright believes the way some of media coverage around Brady evolved wasn’t handled correctly.
During his What’s Wright? with Nick Wright podcast, Wright argued that those who have been given tremendous talents are put in different situations than those who weren’t, stopping just short of saying Brady had a duty to continue to perform his craft. He later added that those joking about Brady’s marriage failing for an extra season in the league weren’t viewing the entire picture, and that the divorce wasn’t something worth joking about.
“I see a lot of stuff people are saying about Brady, and I think it’s bullshit,” Wright said. “‘Oh, you sacrificed your marriage to 8-9’. And I don’t think people understand that these are not easy decisions. These are not easy things, and people know we know we are at times putting yourself first, in a selfish way that you’re not supposed to as a parent.”
The First Things First host then said the situation is similar to one he experienced as a child, but grew to realize there were bigger things than simply being a parent.
“It’s what I learned from my own dad. My own dad — who I have massive admiration for — absolutely put me and my sister — at times — on the backburner to negotatioting the best bargain possible for the Kansas City Firefighters. His legacy — he’s a great dad, who I adore — (but) his life’s legacy is not the things he did for me and my sister, his real legacy is the things he did for those firefighters and their families. You have those push and pull things and you make decisions and you deal with the fallout of it. It’s really sad that he and Gisele didn’t make it.”
I think the majority of the media has gotten the Tom Brady retirement story wrong. I greatly empathize with what he was going through, and I got quite emotional when discussing my own similar family struggles. We discuss it here. pic.twitter.com/Mx5vJIga9K
— nick wright (@getnickwright) February 3, 2023