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The signature studio show, a weeknight fixture on NFL Network since its inception, has ended its run. The final show was tonight.
Questions first swirled when the show disappeared from the schedule for a full week earlier this year. More recently, reports emerged based on a recent round of layoffs that the show was being shuttered.
At one point, it would have been inconceivable. Total Access was NFL Network. However, as the media landscape changed, the relevance of a nightly studio show diminished significantly. And, frankly, the show was never the same after Rich Eisen left.
The closure of Total Access happens at a time when Good Morning Football is two months into a bizarre hiatus, driven by the even more bizarre decision to uproot the show from New York and send it to Los Angeles.
These cost-cutting moves are happening against the backdrop of the league's ongoing effort to unload NFL Network, presumably to ESPN. It never became what the league thought it would be, and it's most valuable property — live regular-season games — could be sold to the highest bidder, likely generating more profit for the league than the network realizes by keeping the games..
It's still unclear why ESPN would want NFL Network. The best reason could be to deepen the relationship with the league, making it inevitable that ESPN will continue to have a broadcast package when the next round of bidding happens, likely in time for the 2030 season. Having the league acquire equity in ESPN as part of that transaction would bolster that reality.
Regardless of whether future developments will propel NFL Network forward, it is in the midst of taking several conspicuous steps back. The human toll arising from the gutting of the network is, frankly, a bad look for a wildly popular and financially viable sports league.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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