College Football Wars, Netflix’s Live Headaches, Outdoor Voices Postmortem

Happy Friday and welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon compilation of Puck’s best new reporting.

First up today, Matt Belloni jumps on the line with warring UTA and MediaLink executives Jeremy Zimmer and Michael Kassan to hear their first-hand accounts (and eloquent barb trading) regarding the spiraling, he-said-he-said legal fracas that’s the talk of Hollywood.

Plus, below the fold: Tara Palmeri gathers the Mar-a-Lago chatter surrounding a hypothetical Trump cabinet. John Ourand circles the coterie of sports executives aiming to shape the future of college football. Lauren Sherman presents an incisive financial postmortem on Outdoor Voices. On The Town, Matt and Julia Alexander discuss the snags in Netflix’s early foray into live sports streaming. And on The Powers That Be, Dylan Byers joins Peter Hamby to unpack the new media title fight between Don Lemon and Elon Musk.

MATTHEW BELLONI

I spoke to the warring UTA and MediaLink executives to get to the bottom of the ugly legal mess, why the acquisition failed—and figure out if, or when, Kassan will next be choppering back to the Croisette.

TARA PALMERI

Unsurprisingly, Mar-a-Lago is alight with gossip and prognosticating about who might fill a second Trump administration: will it be the starched collar crowd, the old standbys, or the MAGA die-hards? You might be surprised by what people are saying…

JOHN OURAND

A group of 20-odd executives have banded together to unofficially explore the further migration of college football into a more professionalized and exploitable realm. It’s the latest micro-escalation in what increasingly seems like a foregone conclusion.

LAUREN SHERMAN

A financial postmortem on the implosion, bailout, and sudden demise of the indie millennial athleisure brand.