Welcome back to The Varsity, my twice-weekly private email about the biggest stories and personalities in the sports business.

I’m sending tonight’s email from the Costa Rican town of La Fortuna, where I’m on vacation with my wife and two daughters. (My son didn’t have enough PTO!!) Today’s activity was zip-lining through a rainforest, which sounds like the setup for a Marchand joke. Yes, there were shots of tequila at the beginning… and at the end. There isn’t much fútbol around here, which might be a reason why the incredible Wolves-Nuggets game was on almost all the TV screens at the restaurant last night.

Earlier this month, I traveled to New York, where I conducted the first on-the-record interview with new CBS Sports boss David Berson, and tonight you get to read our candid conversation. I’m sure you don’t want to hear about my mosquito bites, or Marchand’s patented home remedy suggestions, so let’s get to it…

1. MLB math: So Roku is paying Major League Baseball $30 million over three years for the rights to its new Sunday morning package of games, The Athletic’s Evan Drellich reports. The breakdown is $8 million for this year, $10 million next year, and $12 million in 2025. The prices aren’t...

But as Berson prepared for his first town hall meeting as president and C.E.O., he realized that...