Report for Tuesday, Feb 28th

Hottest scoop of the day, there was a meeting yesterday at CNN all about whether or not to fire Don Lemon. Stay tuned.

Haven’t done a where are they now department in a while. Today, Lance Armstrong who just last week insisted again his 7 Tour de France Championships were 100% legitimate, with out drugs. He currently lives between Austin, where he owns a coffee shop, and Aspen. He is cancer free and was married for a second time just 5 months ago to Anna Hanson who worked for him on a charity event. His cheating scandal hasn’t hurt his finances any, Lance was one of the original investors in Uber and Lance Armstrong’s net worth is $125 million. Who says cheaters never prosper. 

Sports Shorts: Floyd Mayweather is on a exhibition tour, sparring with nobodies while making speeches and showing his boxing highlights and to say it is a bust would be a huge understatement. At a recent European appearance, less than 100 people showed up. … And for the first time, the LIV Golf went head to head against the PGA on Sunday TV. LIV tournament did a 0.2, the PGA did a 2.8. LIV golf may already be dead in the water.

Odds and Ends: It’s not a new story that Tom Brady has always wanted to do stand up, but is it true he tried it a couple times in front of players, a few fans and family and it was a disaster. While Tom had some good material, his delivery was hideous.

Sunday’s SAG Awards was televised on the Netflix YouTube channel and the worldwide viewership was only 411,000 viewers, compared to 60 Minutes that had 10 million. More Award shows, Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has called daily press updates regarding the 30 person crisis team that will be at the Oscars to prevent what he called another incident like the Will Smith slap. Really? There have been 94 Academy Awards shows without a Will Smith incident, can’t imagine there would be another one! 30 person crisis team!? It’s Hollywood being ridiculous.


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