Jul 23, 2025

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Beyond the play-by-play

Eliana Dockterman

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Pablo Torre, once host of the ESPN Daily podcast and a regular on Pardon the Interruption, is trying something new in sports podcasting. Instead of analyzing games or speculating about trades, he takes a meandering look around the sports world, unearthing stories that make headlines instead of following them. His show did just that recently with episodes on former Patriots coach Bill Belichick’s much younger girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, examining how and when the two became entangled and how much control she has over Belichick's post-NFL career. (Whether you think Belichick's love life is newsworthy or just fodder for gossip, Torre is doing journalistic work here, combing through absurd amounts of fan cam footage at a Patriots game and traveling to an Airbnb to prove an early connection between the two.) In another couple of episodes, he dives into the story behind the Prince documentary filmed by Ezra Edelman, the Oscar-winning director of O.J.: Made in America, that we will probably never get to see because of objections raised by Prince’s estate. Torre got to watch the film before it was scuttled and invited the New York Times' Wesley Morris on the pod to discuss details from their screening before talking to Edelman himself about his frustrations. He’s profiled a trans teen athlete in Ohio at the center of the culture wars and unearthed a long-rumored secret tape made by the New York Knicks in 2010 to try to recruit LeBron James to their team. The podcast, which launched in 2023, is still finding its footing in some ways—the Greek chorus of co-hosts reacting to Torre's reporting falls into a podcast trope I do not love—but there's no denying Torre's ability to sniff out a good story.