Awful Announcing

The Los Angeles Rams suffered from regrettable late-game execution in their baffling 30-26 loss to the Denver Broncos on Sunday Night Football. Rams head coach Sean McVay also regrets how he executed his postgame press conference. McVay followed a dejected Matthew Stafford at the podium and, according to the Rams’ official YouTube stream, took questions…

The New England Patriots fell to 1-2 on Sunday after an embarrassing 35-6 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. In three games, the Patriots have looked nothing like the team that made it to last year’s Super Bowl before falling to the Seattle Seahawks. A large part of the early-season struggles can be attributed to the poor play of…

Tom Brady has considerably improved each season as an analyst for Fox Sports, and this year appears to be no different. During the Chargers-Bills broadcast on Sunday, Brady became the most high-profile commentator to highlight Los Angeles’s offensive shortcomings. As the Chargers puked up a 16-point performance to move to 0-3, Brady hammered the team…

For reasons unknown, Pat McAfee released an album entitled The Diary Of A Polarizing Figure on Aug. 14. For a few days afterward, McAfee’s ESPN colleagues glazed him to high heaven, while the rest of the world recoiled. It can all seem like a fever dream now, but it happened, and Johnny Knoxville revived The Diary Of A…

The writers of Veep are somewhere shaking their fists at the sky, cursing themselves for not thinking of this first. Welcome to the latest example of reality beyond parody. Despite rampant speculation, President Donald Trump did not appear on ESPN’s College GameDay, but he did attend the college football game between the No. 1 Texas Longhorns the…

For all the controversy, narratives, and right-wing meddling happening off the court, the WNBA had another stellar season of fans tuning in to watch the action on it. ESPN announced Friday that for the third straight year, the stretch of WNBA games broadcast across ESPN and ABC this season was the most-watched in its history.…

Ian Rapoport thinks he had a pretty good working relationship with Nick Saban back when he was covering Alabama football. Saban, however, seems a little less certain. While on The Pat McAfee Show Friday afternoon, Rapoport’s appearance came to close when he was informed Saban was waiting for his turn. “@RapSheet was full of shit…

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is a polarizing figure because of his controversial opinions and contentious relationship with the media. He plans to disappear into the ether after this NFL season, but for now, Rodgers, 42, remains a hot topic. Under new head coach Mike McCarthy, who took over for Mike Tomlin, now a media star, in January,…

On this week’s episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast, host Brandon Contes is joined by former ESPN host and reporter Suzy Kolber for a wide-ranging interview. They discuss Kolber’s new show with Scripps Sports, her ESPN layoff, sideline reporting, Joe Namath, Arch Manning, Charissa Thompson, and more.  Here’s the full breakdown: -02:34: Leaving sports…

By the fourth quarter of Monday night’s game between the New York Giants and Los Angeles Rams, the highly anticipated matchup had lost its steam. But announcer Kevin Harlan was still having a great time. That is because, as listeners to the Westwood One broadcast of the game heard, Harlan’s booth was seemingly fumigated with…

It turns out, Lane Kiffin’s highly anticipated return to Ole Miss was just one of two notable reunions to happen on Saturday evening. The other: ESPN star Pat McAfee and Mary Kate Cornett, the Ole Miss college student who threatened legal action against McAfee last year after he helped spread a false and salacious rumor…

A staple of ESPN’s men’s college basketball coverage has passed away unexpectedly. Chris Spatola, a veteran college basketball analyst for both ESPN and SiriusXM for over a decade, passed away unexpectedly over the weekend. He was 47. Spatola was a four-year starter for Army during his collegiate playing career from 1998 to 2002. Upon graduation,…

Aryna Sabalenka entered Saturday’s U.S. Open final against Elena Rybakina looking to threepeat, but ultimately fell short as Rybakina won 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 (3), taking both the U.S. Open title and the WTA world No. 1 ranking from Sabalenka. Sabalenka, who has had a somewhat frustrating tournament, let everything boil over in the moments after…

Peter King may be retired, but he’s still writing about football. The longtime NFL reporter and insider’s new book, The Game, is coming out Oct. 13. In it, he reveals previously untold details from his time covering the league, including stories about some of the biggest stars. King takes you behind the scenes with Reggie…

It was a night of debuts in Fargo, North Dakota, on Saturday. On the field, the North Dakota State Bison were playing in their first game at the FBS level, hosting the Jacksonville State Gamecocks at the FargoDome. Meanwhile, up in the CBS Sports Network broadcast booth, former Notre Dame and LSU coach Brian Kelly…

Bob Ryan has seen a lot of sports in his more than five decades as a reporter, and there is apparently one particular aspect of broadcasts that he has seen enough — the in-game interview. On Friday night, Ryan posted on social media that he believed it was time for the in-game interview to end…

Enhanced replay was a welcome addition to ACC broadcasts last season, and the league is expanding it for the 2026 college football season. As noted by ESPN’s David Hale, the ACC became the first league to give viewers behind-the-scenes access to the conference’s replay center in Charlotte, North Carolina, during in-game reviews. Last year, the…

Broadcaster Jacques Doucet, who was the radio voice of the Montreal Expos for 33 years, has died at the age of 86. His daughter Martine confirmed on social media that Doucet passed away Thursday evening. The Montreal native began his sports media career as a journalist in 1959 at La Presse Canadienne, covering the Major…

Roxanna Scott is out at ESPN. Scott, who was hired to oversee the Worldwide Leader’s TV and digital news-gathering operation, lasted just eight months in the newly created role, according to Front Office Sports. As SVP and editor-in-chief, a title designed to consolidate ESPN’s editorial leadership under one person for the first time, Scott oversaw…

Andrew Siciliano feels as if he never left. Earlier this week, he returned to NFL Media as the host of The NFL Report. It’s a homecoming for Siciliano, who was an on-air host for NFL Network from 2011 to 2024. The NFL Report is available on NFL Channel on FAST platforms, NFL+, the NFL’s YouTube channel,…

Al Michaels was back in the booth on Thursday night for Amazon Prime Video, and while it was preseason on the field between the Cleveland Browns and New England Patriots, Michaels’s attitude was in midseason form. One of the highlights of the night came from Michaels’s extremely clear frustration with the NFL’s virtual measurement system.…

Tony Romo is facing three more citations related to his OWI arrest in Wisconsin in July. According to a report from TMZ Sports, Romo was cited for first-offense operating while intoxicated, unsafe passing on the right side, and possessing open intoxicants in his vehicle. Romo was pulled over on July 23 and arrested after failing…

Al Michaels, Kirk Herbstreit and the Amazon Prime Video broadcast team had a warm-up on Thursday night ahead of the coming NFL season, carrying the preseason game between the New England Patriots and Cleveland Browns. With Cleveland hosting the game, exterior shots of the city that the broadcast used to come in and out of…

One of the more unique podcasts in the sports space is headed to a new home, as the hosts of The Sports Gossip Show announced this week that they are leaving The Athletic. The show is hosted by Charlotte Wilder, a former host and writer at SI, Fox Sports and Meadowlark Media, and entertainment industry…