With Sports On Hold, TV Gets Weird

From NBA players playing HORSE to baseball announcers calling MLB The Show video games, it seems just about anything can make it onto the airwaves and pass for sports these days. The Athletic’s Jordan Bianchi joins us to break down two recent broadcasts -- an iRacing event featuring real-life NASCAR drivers, and the recent NBA 2K competition featuring NBA stars -- to help us figure out what’s working for TV broadcasts and what’s not during the strange days of the coronavirus shutdown.

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