Quick Hitters Brees won’t return for NBC’s NFL and Notre Dame coverage
drew Brees is officially done at nBC sports after one year.
nBC sports chairman Pete Bevacqua said in a phone interview with The associated Press that Brees will not be a part of the network’s nFL and notre dame coverage this year. The new york Post reported last month that the former quarterback would not be coming back as a studio or game analyst.
Following that report, Brees took to social media and said he had not decided his future.
Bevacqua said conversations with Brees have centered around him wanting to spend more time with family.
“The unbelievable busyness of an nFL career and then really not taking a break at all and launching right in with us with both notre dame football and the nFL, it was certainly an around-the-clock assignment,” Bevacqua said. “This was definitely a lifestyle choice for him, which is totally understandable.”
Brees signed a multi-year contract with nBC in 2020, before he completed a 20-year nFL career with the san diego Chargers and new Orleans saints as the record holder in passing yards and touchdowns. he was an analyst for notre dame games with Mike Tirico and was in the studio most sundays for “Football night in america.” Brees and Tirico called the wild card round game between the Las Vegas raiders and Cincinnati Bengals where Brees noticeably struggled.
Report: DeChambeau, Reed to join Saudi-funded league in US
Major champions Bryson deChambeau and Patrick reed plan to sign up with the saudi-funded LIV Golf Invitational series in time for the rival circuit to start playing in u.s. cities, a British newspaper reported Wednesday.
The daily Telegraph says Greg norman and his staff that runs LIV Golf Investments plan to announce the latest two defections from the PGa Tour on Friday.
The inaugural LIV Golf Invitational at Centurion Golf Club, which features dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and sergio Garcia, is set to begin Thursday.
deChambeau was among the early recruits to the saudi league in January. That changed when Mickelson brought unwanted attention on the nascent league with interviews that disparaged the PGa Tour and the saudis who are funding the LIV Golf Investments.
Johnson was the biggest name to announce his support for the PGa Tour in February, and deChambeau followed suit.
“While there has been a lot of speculation surrounding my support for another tour, I want to make it very clear that as long as the best players in the world are playing the PGa Tour, so will I,” deChambeau said in a February statement.
asked about his interest last week at the Memorial, deChambeau said, “I personally don’t think that at this point in time I’m in a place in my career where I can risk things like that.”
“I’m loyal to my family that I’ve created around me with sponsors and everything. and as of right now, the golf world is probably going to change in some capacity. I don’t know what that is. not my job to do so. I’m just going to keep playing professional golf and enjoy it wherever it takes me, play with the best players in the world.”