a newly rebranded\u00a0Sports Central live show<\/a> from Barstool\u2019s New York studios. And in the opening moments of the episode, McDowell reiterated his remorse for the situation and called the treatment he received \u201ca much-needed thing that had to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m super happy to be back, been a minute. Everyone that\u2019s watching I\u2019m sure saw the video, saw that I left. I just had to go away to get some help,\u201d he said. \u201cI never meant to harm anybody, never meant to cause any problems, just had a problem that I needed to take care of. I appreciate all the guys in here holding me down \u2026 letting me go get help.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
McDowell\u2019s previous show,\u00a0Picks Central, was one of Barstool\u2019s more popular gambling-focused podcasts and aired on the Barstool Gambling YouTube channel. The revised version of the show is also no longer sponsored by DraftKings, which has a major partnership with Barstool.<\/p>\n
The rebrand away from such a clear betting focus would seem to be indicative of McDowell\u2019s continued recovery. An emotional McDowell said he was glad to be back and looking forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is what I love to do. I love to talk sports,\u201d McDowell said. \u201cI feel good. It was a much-needed thing that had to happen. So I\u2019m glad that it happened so that I can be in a better spot now and move forward with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barstool personality Evan \u201cBig Ev\u201d McDowell is officially back in his regular role at Barstool Sports, co-hosting a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[192380,301550,236,88,301552,309938],"class_list":["post-720197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-barstool","tag-big-ev","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-picks-central","tag-sports-central"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}