MIllman leaving ESPN for Barstool Sports Parent Company
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Chad Millman, ESPNs editorial director of domestic digital content, reportedly is leaving the company to take a position with the Chernin Group, the parent company of Barstool Sports.
Millman has been a vice president in his current position since February and oversees daily editorial content, planning and creation for ESPN.com and the ESPN app, the company says. Citing two unnamed sources, The Big Lead reports that he is expected to oversee what it says will be an information and personality-driven gambling content platform. TBL add that there could soon be an announcement about an acquisition of one or more sites.
Millman, who started as a reporter at Sports Illustrated and as a correspondent for CNNSI, previously had been editor in chief of ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. He arrived as an associate editor at the magazine in 1998 and became its editor in chief in 2011, holding the same position for ESPN.com from 2014 until being promoted to editorial director in 2016.
Besides creating ESPNs gambling beat, Millman is the author of The Odds, a book about three gamblers and oddsmakers in Las Vegas. He also has written about gambling and worked on gambling podcasts at ESPN.
Millman has been a vice president in his current position since February and oversees daily editorial content, planning and creation for ESPN.com and the ESPN app, the company says. Citing two unnamed sources, The Big Lead reports that he is expected to oversee what it says will be an information and personality-driven gambling content platform. TBL add that there could soon be an announcement about an acquisition of one or more sites.
Millman, who started as a reporter at Sports Illustrated and as a correspondent for CNNSI, previously had been editor in chief of ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. He arrived as an associate editor at the magazine in 1998 and became its editor in chief in 2011, holding the same position for ESPN.com from 2014 until being promoted to editorial director in 2016.
Besides creating ESPNs gambling beat, Millman is the author of The Odds, a book about three gamblers and oddsmakers in Las Vegas. He also has written about gambling and worked on gambling podcasts at ESPN.
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Great book and true. One of those guys was Alan Boston
Agree 100%. I was going to use squeeze bag but asshat has a better ring to it. He's condescending and square as hell, 2 great qualities. Tried listening to a couple of the podcast's and never made it through them.
Ed, did you know Frank Vincent the actor from your area? He just passed away.
RIP Frank Vincent the one time we met you were a gentleman.
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In your years working the pit have you ever caught a player/cheater trying to put a 'cooler' in? IOW, " die down", and your boxman checks for the marking"?
Thirded. He's had his nose up RJ Bell's ass forever and is also responsible for bringing us one of the most clueless touts I've encountered, Patrick Donovan "The Sports Boss" . Millman somehow got him on the Sloan Conference a few years ago. A summary of that hilarity is here:
http://www.vegaswatch.org/2014/03/ssac14-betting-panel-patrick-donovan.html
My first encounter with "Sports Boss" was him claiming on Twitter it was better to bet some soccer team to win in 90 minutes, in extra time, and on penalties rather than just bet on them to advance. He made the common error forgetting when you bet those three, by definition you'll always lose two of those bets and he forgot to subtract the losses. No big deal, but when I politely corrected him, he called me "trash" and blocked me on Twitter, following up with "But seriously tweeps its little things like that doing MATH when gambling that makes diff btwn winning & losing - so many cannot do it." That performance won him either 1st or 2nd place in the 2014 "Degen Tweet of the Year."
SportsBoss's other claim to fame was that year he proclaimed his "Sports Boss Power Index" made Incarnate Word the #1 team in college basketball after they started the season 12-1 while not beating a single team in D1, beating such power houses as "Open Bible" twice and "Our Lady of the Lake." Apparently strength of schedule is not important when you are "The Boss of All Sports."
Anyway Millman apparently wasn't phased and somehow convinced himself this clown is actually a winning tout.
i didnt know Stu was still around. A sucker born every minute i suppose. Is he the " I will go 3-0 or u get a week of my service ABSOLUTELY FREE" GUY?
It's the best thing in the world that he's gone. Doug K, was three times the host he was. Let's hope Doug k takes over. If the company millman is going to is publiclly traded, its time to short the stock.