The Upshot Podcast
(Upshot Sports)
The chart-topping Upshot Podcast pulls back the curtain on your favourite sports and dives into all the stuff the major broadcasters wouldn’t touch with a bargepole.
THE BRIEF…
The podcast spilling sport’s most sordid tales
In July, we started the Upshot Podcast with Jack and Zach from the hugely successful newsletter, The Upshot.
The show pulls back the curtain on your favourite sports and dives into all the stuff the major broadcasters wouldn’t touch with a bargepole: drunken antics, dressing room squabbles and simmering sexual tension of the world’s biggest sporting superstars.
From Jermaine Pennant to Tiger Woods, the podcast breaks down the stories of some of sport’s most iconic names, but this show isn’t about what the do whilst the cameras are on, it’s about what they get up to when the eyes of the world aren’t watching them.
The podcast has been an overnight success, going straight to number 1 in the Apple sports charts, and it’s remained a regualr fixture in the top 20 ever since.
Jack tells the story of how Shane Warne was rumbled by a certain Dick Pound.
WELCOME TO THE CRAZY WORLD OF…
Zach recalls how Steve Bruce was Nicklas Bendtner’s match-maker