For tons of sports hosts, the calendar flipping to July doubles as an invitation to mail in the content. The long NBA season mercifully ends, and we all start to see football coming on the horizon. This is the time for vacations and fill-in hosts, GOAT debates, and schedule talk.
But on The Domonique Foxworth Show, this might just be the best time of year.
The retired NFL cornerback took a circuitous path to hosting his own show for the four letters, writing features for Andscape before hosting weekend radio and breaking into the new-look Get Up roster. Since 2022, Foxworth has used the podcast to explore all the corners of his own skill set as a commentator. This summer, Foxworth and producer Charlie Kravitz have taken full advantage of the break from big-time sports to reach into their deep toolbag for conversations on labor, media, youth sports, and athlete health.
That these two would create compelling and creative content together is no surprise. Foxworth, beyond his playing career on the gridiron, is an experienced union leader. He was the president of the NFL Players’ Association executive committee, a Harvard Business School graduate, and a former COO of the NBPA. It would be no exaggeration to call Foxworth one of the most interesting and thoughtful people at ESPN.
“They present it as a way to create parity and maximize fan interest in every market…I don’t think that it does that.” – @Foxworth24 walks us through the NBA’s second apron and what some of its unintended consequences are. https://t.co/tPbF7ULqpe pic.twitter.com/uyRdVWViZz
— The Domonique Foxworth Show (@FoxworthShow) June 27, 2025
As hard as it would seem to keep up with a host like that, Kravitz makes it look easy. Coming up in the Erik Rydholm branch of ESPN as a producer on Highly Questionable and then its digital spinoff, Debatable, Kravitz knows how to take the silly and make it serious. But, the Foxworth Show shines because of the chemistry Kravitz has developed with Foxworth and the effort he puts into shaping each conversation.
Their resumes make the Foxworth Show a place where the audience will see a television-worthy breakdown of Minnesota’s stifling secondary, followed by an Ivy League panel discussion on the economics of Caitlin Clark, within a few months. This is what podcasting used to be.
A decade or more ago, podcasts were intended for in-depth discussions and offbeat conversations. The top shows were known for “Half-Baked Ideas,” getting high with Elon Musk, and hardcore history. They were radio’s black sheep younger cousin. You listened to them to stretch your mind out and have a laugh.
The blast of new podcasts in recent years has morphed their identity. Now, podcast is a term that is almost impossible to define. In sports, they are for live reaction streams, sit-down interviews, and bro outs. They appear to be replacing the traditional studio show.
Ultimately, sports podcasts could become something like the Foxworth Show.
The offseason has given Foxworth and Kravitz time to delve into the NBA’s Achilles’ epidemic, the ramifications of Ace Bailey’s potential holdout, the NBA’s new CBA, a Caitlin Clark spinoff league, and the professionalization of youth sports. In previous years, Foxworth has hosted conversations with sports science writer David Epstein and NBA deputy commissioner Mark Tatum during these quiet weeks.
But he can do sports talk too. During football season, the more traditional Sunday night recap episodes with ESPN NFL writer Bill Barnwell are just as great.
Looking through the cracks of megadeals for top talent and the spending spree for live game rights, ESPN does need content. As much as the network might prefer it this way, many fans won’t pay to subscribe to the Worldwide Leader simply for games that they can illegally pirate or catch at a local bar. ESPN needs to establish a brand and a library featuring exceptional hosts.
Particularly at a time when ESPN (and most of sports media) faces the perception that it has backgrounded journalism over loud, messy entertainment, the Foxworth Show can do both. Perhaps the trick of today is to simply Trojan Horse the former into the latter. If so, Foxworth and Kravitz have been playing that trick on the audience for years.
Foxworth is not among the names typically listed among ESPN’s great hosts. Kravitz isn’t a recognizable producer like Stanford Steve, Ty Schmit, or Paul “Hembo” Hembekides. But ESPN clearly believes in the Foxworth Show, giving it ample studio space in D.C. and a primo syndicated spot on ESPN2.
While other shows relax, the Foxworth Show has shown why it deserves that belief and is on its way up.