Fox Sports and Barstool Sports announce partnership

Fox Sports activities and Barstool Sports activities introduced a complete partnership deal Thursday that can embody a brand new two-hour each day studio present on FS1 and collaborations throughout faculty soccer and basketball programming and different properties.

Barstool Sports activities founder and proprietor Dave Portnoy will be part of Fox Sports activities’s “Large Midday Kickoff” faculty soccer studio program on Saturdays. Dan Katz, generally known as “Large Cat,” can be among the many different Barstool personalities showing on the present.

“Large Midday Kickoff” can be joined on location by the “Barstool Faculty Soccer Present” for choose video games in the course of the season. The present will air from 9-9:45 a.m. on Saturday’s throughout Barstool channels, in addition to Fox platforms Tubi, the Fox Sports activities app, and foxsports.com.

Barstool additionally will contribute to Fox Sports activities’s faculty basketball protection within the coming season, together with the Faculty Basketball Crown, a postseason event launched by the community in April.

The brand new two-hour FS1 program, that includes Barstool personalities and visitor appearances from Fox Sports activities expertise, will air weekdays. Particulars of the launch date and window can be introduced at a later date, as will details about digital collaborations between the businesses.

“We’re excited to welcome Dave Portnoy and Barstool Sports activities to the Fox Sports activities household,” stated Eric Shanks, Fox Sports activities CEO & govt producer, in a press release. “Dave has constructed a one-of-a-kind model that connects with a brand new era of sports activities followers — genuine, daring, and unique. Their distinctive voice and constant fan base makes them a pure match for our evolving multiplatform content material technique.”

Stated Portnoy: “Everyone at Barstool is tremendous excited to associate with the Fox Sports activities household. In our two-decade historical past, we’ve by no means had the prospect to work with a lot expertise and sources. We are able to’t wait to collab and produce our voice to Fox Sports activities’s airwaves. See ya quickly in Columbus [for the Ohio State-Texas season-opening matchup Aug. 30].”