‘You gave their video a national publicity campaign’: Former ESPN star blames Pat McAfee for Utah outrage

Pat McAfee’s feud with the University of Utah has dominated the sports media conversation this week. And according to one longtime ESPN anchor, McAfee has nobody to blame but himself for how big it got. Linda Cohn, who retired from ESPN earlier this year after 34 years, argued that McAfee turned a harmless student video into a national story by reacting to it the way he did. She said that the whole thing could have ended with “30 seconds of good-natured grief” from McAfee, but instead it escalated all the way to comparisons to Charlie Kirk. McAfee vs.