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Barstool's Dave Portnoy pulled from Fox's 'Big Noon Kickoff' appearances, AP source says · Best of: Features

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  Barstool's Dave Portnoy pulled from Fox's Big Noon Kickoff appearances, the AP
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  source says. This article is being read by an
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  automated voice generated by Everlett. Dave Portnoy and Barstool Sports will
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  no longer make appearances on
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  Fox Big Noon Kickoff pregame college football show, a person familiar with
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  the situation told the Associated Press. The person talked to the AP
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  on condition of anonymity because the decision has not been publicly announced.
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  The athletic was them. First to report on Fox Sports decision. The
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  Barstool Sports founder said on social media that it was Ohio State
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  and coach Ryan Day who forced Fox
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  Sports to take them off the show. Juice wasn't worth the squeeze,
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  and frankly I'dn't blame them. Huge dollars at stake, and you have
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  Kryan Ryan throwing temper tantrums and making threats every few days on
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  something I said, Portnoy said in his post. Fox Sports had no
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  comment. Ohio started
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  referred all questions about Portnoy to Fox Sports The Associated Press sent
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  Portnoy an email seeking comment. Fox pays the most in a seven-year
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  multi-network deal with The Big Ten that also includes NBC and CBS.
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  Fox also owns 61 of The Big Ten network. Portnoy started making
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  appearances on the show last fall after Barstool and Fox Sports announced
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  a partnership. Big Noon Kickoff also features host Rob Stone and analyst
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  Brady Quinn, Matt Linart, Mark Ingram, and Chris the Bear Fallica. Portnoy
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  graduated from Michigan and has used Ohio State as a punching bag.
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  The Barstool Sports Founder said last year that Ohio State banned him
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  from going inside Ohio Stadium before the season opener between the Buckeyes
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  and Texas. Ohio State said that during planning meetings with Fox, the
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  only talent coming into the stadium would be their main desk crew,
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  which did not include Portnoy. Barstool still has a live two hour
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  weekday morning show on FS One. Sign up for Top 25 Poll
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  Alerts here. Visit the Top 25 here and see the AP's full
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  college football coverage here.