Belichick Doesn’t Want To Be The Main Character

…She’s a footy fan, too. During a concert in Dublin, Sab hit the Erling Haaland special aka the lotus pose. Unclear if she did it to pay homage or to troll, but now we’re inclined to think she wrote Espresso about the USWNT trio. 

Say it isn’t so. Around The Horn, one of ESPN’s (and sports TV’s) longest-running shows will air its last episode on May 23. If you need to talk about it, call our hotline: 1-800-Goodbye-Sweet-Prince-Tony-Reali. 

Josh Allen may be trading in his playbook for Meisner’s book. He’ll partner with Skydance Sports (which sounds kinda fake but isn’t) to create scripted and unscripted content. Don’t worry, he doesn’t actually have any plans to stop playing football. He’s a very close friend of ours and he told us that. 

This show will heal the nation. We’re finally getting another Tina Fey x Tracy Morgan joint—or at least a pilot, for now. Morgan will play a disgraced football player who aims to fix his reputation in the NBC pilot. Consider it greenlit. 

New Barbies just dropped. US gymnasts Jade Carey and Jordan Chiles got their very own mini-thems and they rock. Flips and bends and twirls not included. 

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It’s a hard knock life for NFL Films, the creative team behind ‘Hard Knocks’, who swung for the fences on featuring their first college team, but alas, missed. First-year North Carolina coach Bill Belichick was rumored to have allowed Max’s candid cameras inside the Tar Heel locker room this offseason, but it appears the two parties were unable to come to an agreement. 

What does an agreement mean here, exactly? We don’t have a clue. You’d think the conversation would go something like this: “You want to be on ‘Hard Knocks: Offseason?’” “Yes.” “Great, so we agree.” But after the debacle of the New York Football Giants last spring, we’ve learned that main character energy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. 

The fact that the featured NFL team(s) for the 2025-2026 season have not been named yet is a little troubling. ‘Hard Knocks: Offseason’ could cease to exist if executives decide they’re too afraid of how it makes them look—one anonymous agent called last year’s season “embarrassing” to Rooney and Kate Mara’s family name. Ok, they didn’t name Rooney, or Kate, but still…

This begs some important questions: If teams are loath to put themselves out there in the name of image preservation, are we ever getting authentic content again? And if the subjects of these docuseries want too much control over the content, what are viewers getting out of it? With imperfections and flaws comes intrigue and better stories. Like, you know, a viral one-minute phone call we can’t, and won’t, stop talking about for … ever.  

The other side of the coin: Who would want to be embarrassed? Would you say yes to a show if there was a possibility you might look incompetent in some (or every) way? Like, let’s say you knew your one-minute phone call cutting loose the best running back in the world would go on a yearlong viral bender. Would you want all of America to see that? No one cares for you a smidge, when you’re an executive.

Anyway, we don’t have answers, we’re taking more of a Socratic perspective here. But it’s all very interesting nonetheless. Maybe we can all agree to be nice to whoever agrees to be on the show. Otherwise, what the heck are we gonna watch? 

AJ Dybantsa is not your grandmother’s Jimmer Fredette. First off, he’s much taller. Despite being the no. 1 recruit in the country, the 6’8” 18-year-old phenom and Massachusetts native—who moved to Utah for hoops—is cooler than a polar bear’s toenails.

From working out with LeBron to chopping it up with his favorite player KD (whom he claims he could beat 1-on-1), he barely cracks a smile—he’s very serious about his future plans. First and foremost, to do a quick one-and-done at BYU and head to the league. And to stay in his bag with gigantic brands like Nike and Red Bull. His presence alone is a moneymaker for everyone involved. His high school, Utah Prep—which offered him a nice package to enroll, says his dad, Ace—sells his jersey for 85 bones per. 

We can all discuss the “Face of the League” until our faces turn royal Cougar blue, but Dybantsa is next year’s Cooper Flagg until he isn’t. (If you want to feel old, the new generation has a harder time choosing between Ant, SGA, and Luka than MJ, LeBron, and Kobe.) 

Dybantsa isn’t the only recruit BYU has. Apparently, Latter Day Saints love basketball (who knew they had hoops inside their churches?!) and aren’t hesitant to fire their vaunted money cannon in the name of Basketball’s Next Big Thing. 

Our money is on The AJ Dybantsa Show as next season’s biggest Mormon reality show, even more entertaining than this one.