Dave Portnoy makes surprising admission after Sam Ponder’s ESPN firing
If you expected Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy to be popping a bottle of champagne over the news that Sam Ponder was fired from ESPN , guess again. Portnoy, 47, has made a show of opening a bottle of champagne when a person he feels has slighted him gets let go by their job but did not do so this time, despite the
“Everyone’s like, ‘Prez, where’s the Sam Ponder bottle?’” Portnoy said in the roughly 1:35 long video posted on X from his Montauk home. “No Sam Ponder bottle, can you believe that? Listen, I took the first shot at Sam Ponder. Was it joking? Yeah. Do I think she and ESPN overreacted? I know so. But I’m fair. And I’ve said this about Ponder, buried the axe, buried the hatchet. I have no champagne bottle for her.
He later continued: “Sam Ponder, no grudge. I said some things, she held onto them, she played her card, I have no grudge with that. It’s when people come out of left field and start fights with me, and they come at me first. Ponder is not one of them. So, good luck to her in her next step.
Portnoy added in a follow-up post that he had gained respect for Ponder after they got into a face-to-face argument at a restaurant. “Also Sam Ponder once ambushed me at a restaurant and got right in my face. We argued for an hour. Gained a ton of respect from me as opposed to people who hide in the shadows,”Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson break up, call off engagement after 7 years together: report
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