The Sage Steele Show

Chris Harrison is back! After more than five years away from television, the former host of *The Bachelor* joins Sage Steele to discuss his return with The Vow, a new faith-centered dating series on FOX Nation. Chris shares why he believes modern dating needs a reset, the importance of faith and traditional values in relationships, and why this next chapter means so much to him.
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The Sage Steele Show is a weekly podcast hosted by former ESPN anchor Sage Steele. Each week, Sage sits down with entertainers, athletes, business people, and politicians to have deep dive personal one on one discussions that enlighten, entertain, and engage. There's a whole big world out there that's not just sports, and Sage wants to talk about all of it.
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Ron DeSantis joined Sage Steele hours after the 2026 midterms to give the assessment no one in Washington was willing to give on camera. The Florida governor, who had already called the result close to an extinction level event for Republicans in much of the country, walks through what the midterms actually cost his party: the Senate confirmation math that he says leaves Donald Trump unable to seat a Supreme Court justice or a Defense Secretary his own voters would accept, the down ballot losses in state legislatures that he argues will outlast everyone currently in office, and the reason Florida was the only one of the ten most populous states to hold. He is blunt about the causes, from grocery prices and the Iran conflict to congressional stock trading, and blunter about his own party's communication failures. Asked directly when he will announce a 2028 run, his answer is not the one the prediction markets expected. He also explains the compounding math behind why prices never came back down, why screaming socialism stopped working as an argument, and what he learned about bouncing back from a 17 to nothing loss as a Yale outfielder in March of 2000. Figures cited were still provisional at the time of recording. New episodes of The Sage Steele Show every week.
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The Sage Steele Show is a weekly podcast hosted by former ESPN anchor Sage Steele. Each week, Sage sits down with entertainers, athletes, business people, and politicians to have deep dive personal one on one discussions that enlighten, entertain, and engage. There's a whole big world out there that's not just sports, and Sage wants to talk about all of it.
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Linda Cohn spent 34 years at ESPN, longer than almost anyone, and she left this summer on her own terms with a YouTube show already built. She joins Sage Steele for 76 minutes on what those last years actually looked like: the 2017 suspension after an innocent radio interview, the phone call she describes as bullying, the tweet a boss ordered her to delete, and the 80 percent pay cut she accepted after ESPN closed the Los Angeles studio so that nobody else got to decide how her run ended.
She also explains exactly where she believes the old SportsCenter died, why she was cast aside from NHL coverage after keeping the sport alive on the show for years, and why she never got an answer about any of it. Then the two of them get into what the industry looks like now: why so few women in sports media will speak up on women's sports, why executives who have never sat in the chair keep making the calls, and whether ESPN can ever win back an audience that has already left for YouTube.
Linda Cohn, ESPN, SportsCenter, and life after the worldwide leader. New episodes of The Sage Steele Show every week.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:46 - Linda Cohn Reflects on 34 Years at ESPN
04:50 - The Real Linda Cohn & Finally Speaking Freely
10:35 - When ESPN Started to Change
16:07 - Linda's Suspension & Her Experience With John Skipper
22:52 - Politics, Double Standards & Why ESPN Lost Its Way
26:49 - Linda's Emotional ESPN Sendoff & Her Lasting Impact
31:14 - Advice for Young Women Entering Sports Media Today
34:55 - Women in Leadership & How Talent Gets Chosen
42:18 - Sophie Cunningham & Why Women in Sports Stay Silent
48:18 - Billie Jean King, Title IX & Protecting Women's Sports
52:17 - ESPNW, Hypocrisy & When the Culture Changed
55:52 - The Painful Side of Linda's 34-Year ESPN Career
01:01:08 - NHL Coverage, Being Cast Aside & an 80% Pay Cut
01:08:13 - Linda Almost Gets Into a Fight at SoFi Stadium
01:12:14 - Being Called MAGA for Supporting Caitlin Clark
01:17:42 - Can ESPN Ever Win Back Its Audience?
01:22:35 - Final Thoughts & Outro
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The Sage Steele Show is a weekly podcast hosted by former ESPN anchor Sage Steele. Each week, Sage sits down with entertainers, athletes, business people, and politicians to have deep dive personal one on one discussions that enlighten, entertain, and engage. There's a whole big world out there that's not just sports, and Sage wants to talk about all of it.
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On October 16, the WNBA told Congress that Enes Kanter Freedom is ineligible to play because he is a man. We recorded this before that letter existed, and he had already called it.
Enes has declared himself eligible for the 2027 WNBA draft. He walks me through what he found in Article 13 of the collective bargaining agreement, why he says the league asked for months just to decide what a woman is, the eight other men he says are ready to file if the rules do not change, the one word the league could add that would make him walk away for good, and why he insists this is a pro-women position rather than an anti-trans one.
We also get into the career that ended first. Third overall pick, eleven seasons, more than one hundred million dollars in salary, and it was over at twenty nine because he wrote three words on a pair of Michael Jordan sneakers and would not stop talking about China. What his agent told him on the phone the day he understood it was finished. Why his own teammates asked for a separate bus. And why he has not spoken to his mother in almost fourteen years.
New episodes of the Sage Steele Show every week. Subscribe so you do not miss one.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:46 - Enes Freedom's Journey From the NBA to the 2027 WNBA Draft
05:00 - Why Enes Says He's Eligible to Play in the WNBA
08:42 - Why the WNBA Won't Define What a Woman Is
11:04 - Death Threats, the FBI & Backlash for Defending Women's Sports
16:14 - Why Enes Refuses to Give Up on Women's Sports
19:40 - Locker Rooms, Showers & Following the WNBA's Own Rules
21:42 - Adam Silver, WNBA Leadership & What Happens Next
22:58 - Sophie Cunningham, Natasha Cloud & the Chicago Sky Incident
29:07 - What NBA Players Really Say Behind Closed Doors
33:10 - Kevin Durant, Money & Why Athletes Stay Silent
37:04 - Enes' Lawsuit Against the Chicago Sky
40:58 - How Speaking Out Against Nike & China Ended His NBA Career
45:20 - Slave Labor, China & Why Enes Kept Speaking Out
48:55 - Losing His Career, His Family & Feeling Completely Alone
53:03 - Mental Health, Faith & Surviving the Lowest Point of His Life
56:36 - How the U.S. Government Trained Enes to Deal With Dictatorships
59:23 - LeBron James, Daryl Morey & the NBA's China Problem
01:04:36 - Inside the NBA Bubble: COVID, Kneeling & League Politics
01:09:49 - Marijuana, OnlyFans & What Really Happened in the Bubble
01:12:01 - The Recordings Enes Says Could Expose the NBA
01:15:52 - What Americans Don't Understand About Freedom
01:19:58 - Why Enes Changed His Last Name to Freedom
01:21:04 - Steven Adams, Jaylen Brown & Who Actually Supported Him
01:24:47 - Growing Up Around Anti-Americanism After 9/11
01:27:02 - How Speaking Out Put Enes' Family in Danger
01:29:22 - Why He Hasn't Spoken to His Parents in Nearly 14 Years
01:32:43 - Why Enes Is Single & Who He Turns to When He Has No One
01:38:21 - The Legacy Enes Freedom Wants to Leave Behind
01:40:30 - His Book, His Future & Final Thoughts
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The Sage Steele Show is a weekly podcast hosted by former ESPN anchor Sage Steele. Each week, Sage sits down with entertainers, athletes, business people, and politicians to have deep dive personal one on one discussions that enlighten, entertain, and engage. There's a whole big world out there that's not just sports, and Sage wants to talk about all of it.
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Tony Dungy joins Sage Steele for 100 minutes, nearly three decades after she first covered his Buccaneers as a young reporter in Tampa. He explains what happened at the end of his 17 years at NBC Sports, why he never asked permission before speaking at the March for Life, and what the network told him afterward. He also says plainly what he does and does not know about why the run ended.
Along the way he tells the stories that made him one of the most respected coaches in NFL history. The sign that hung in his locker room for 13 years. The offer he made every new player, to trade anyone who needed to be screamed at, and the fact that in 13 years nobody took it. What Chuck Noll and Dan Rooney told him as a 21-year-old rookie in Pittsburgh that became his entire coaching philosophy. Warrick Dunn winning Rookie of the Year while raising three teenage siblings. Peyton Manning checking the 14-day forecast before the Super Bowl. And what Warren Sapp did in the locker room the first game after Dungy was fired.
Plus: why he was cut from the Pro Football Hall of Fame voting committee, what he will and will not say about the Bill Belichick vote, All Pro Dad after almost 30 years, twelve children with nine adopted, and why he will not run for office.
Tony Dungy, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Indianapolis Colts, and a legacy built on how you do things.
The Sage Steele Show. New episodes every week.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:53 - Sage & Tony Reunite Nearly 30 Years After Tampa
02:44 - Tony Dungy on His NBC Sports Exit After 17 Years
19:44 - Warren Sapp, Derrick Brooks & Building Tampa's Culture
28:10 - Getting Fired by the Buccaneers
32:52 - Watching Tampa Win the Super Bowl Without Him
44:04 - Coaching Peyton Manning & His Obsession With Preparation
50:55 - Mike Tomlin, Lovie Smith & Tony Dungy's Coaching Tree
55:48 - Race, Representation & Becoming the First Black Coach to Win a Super Bowl
01:06:43 - Foster Care, Adoption & Raising a Huge Family
01:12:31 - Losing His Son James to Suicide
01:24:04 - NBC's Reaction to Tony Speaking at the March for Life
01:27:25 - Did His Beliefs Ultimately Cost Him His NBC Job?
01:29:13 - Why Tony Was Removed From the Hall of Fame Voting Committee
01:35:50 - Would Tony Dungy Ever Run for Office?
01:37:36 - Why He'll Never Coach Again & What He's Most Proud Of
01:43:50 - The Story of His Son Justin & Tony's Legacy
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The Sage Steele Show is a weekly podcast hosted by former ESPN anchor Sage Steele. Each week, Sage sits down with entertainers, athletes, business people, and politicians to have deep dive personal one on one discussions that enlighten, entertain, and engage. There's a whole big world out there that's not just sports, and Sage wants to talk about all of it.
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