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Duke’s recent announcement that three games, including its Dec. 21 tilt against Michigan at Madison Square Garden, will be broadcast on Amazon’s Prime Video does not appear to be as rock-solid as it was initially presented. In April, the school announced a landmark agreement with Prime Video, giving the streaming service broadcast rights for three Duke…
Jim Nantz wants Nashville’s Super Bowl 2030 to be the greatest event anyone has ever attended. He just won’t be the one calling it. Named co-chair at a press conference at the new Nissan Stadium on Tuesday — where Nashville officially celebrated being awarded Super Bowl LXIV — Nantz made clear he intends to be…
Slowly but surely, Netflix is adding more live sports for subscribers. Since one of its biggest acquisitions was the exclusive U.S. rights to the next two FIFA women’s World Cups, the natural question is whether the streamer will pursue U.S. rights to the men’s World Cup after its deal with Fox Sports expires. This summer’s…
Mexican sports journalist Fernando Vargas was robbed at gunpoint while doing a live interview from his car on Tuesday. Vargas, a sports journalist and the communications director of Mexico’s National Professional Basketball League (LNBP), was doing a live interview on Bla, bla, bla deportivo, a Mexican sports commentary show hosted by Ed Martínez on sports…
San Diego Padres All-Star third baseman Manny Machado knows he’s struggling at the plate right now, but just don’t ask him to offer any theories on why. Machado has historically been one of the most consistent Major League Baseball players over the last decade, and that consistency has him destined for the Hall of Fame.…
San Francisco Giants manager Tony Vitello doesn’t speak in clichés. He’s also not entirely sure why. Asked recently by Chris Rose why he speaks so openly with reporters rather than defaulting to the kind of clichés that define most dugout press conferences, Vitello traced it back to his days as a college recruiting coordinator —…
If Cavaliers head coach Kenny Atkinson isn’t capable of making adjustments during the game, then ESPN Cleveland radio host Tony Rizzo would consider making an adjustment at head coach. James Harden and Donovan Mitchell have taken some of the blame for blowing a 22-point fourth-quarter lead in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the…
Road Trippin’ is launching a WNBA spinoff. The podcast announced Tuesday the debut of Girls Tripp, a new show hosted by Allie Clifton and Jordan Robinson. The first episode drops Thursday at 11 a.m. ET and features four-time WNBA champion Cynthia Cooper, as well as ESPN’s lead WNBA announcer, Ryan Ruocco, it would appear. Buckle…
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It’s been an eventful month of May for Boston Celtics superstar Jaylen Brown. After leading their first-round series 3-1, the Celtics lost in seven games to the Philadelphia 76ers. Brown then went off on a Twitch stream about NBA officiating, claiming that NBA referees admit that there’s an agenda against him. The NBA fined Brown…
The official announcement for the 2026 NBA MVP came ahead of Sunday night’s Game 7 between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Detroit Pistons on Amazon’s Prime Video. But the NBA world was already aware of the MVP choice several hours earlier, thanks to a report from ESPN’s Shams Charania. “Multiple sources tell me this morning that…
In one of the most shocking local broadcast shakeups of the last several years, longtime Chicago Cubs play-by-play man Len Kasper left the North Side for a radio job on the South Side with the Chicago White Sox in 2020. Sahadev Sharma reported at the time for The Athletic that the shift was in part…
Longtime New York Mets color commentator Keith Hernandez returned to the SNY booth on May 4 at Coors Field after missing a few weeks due to undergoing back surgery in early April. On Sunday, Hernandez returned to the Mets booth at Citi Field for the first time since the back surgery. And his return was…
The likelihood of a 24-team College Football Playoff seems to continually increase. Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti, with the support of nearly every other power broker in the sport, has spearheaded efforts for massive playoff expansion. But for proponents of the current 12-team format, the last bastion of hope to keep the sport recognizable seems to…
For the first time since reporting came out about Fox’s role in the recent federal attention on the NFL’s antitrust exemption, the NFL has addressed the maneuvering of its longtime Sunday afternoon broadcast partner. Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported on a meeting between Fox Corporation chairman emeritus Rupert Murdoch and President Donald Trump…
The WNBA has returned to NBC for the first time since 2002, with the 2026 campaign serving as the first year in a new media rights deal for the league running through 2036 that will see the network broadcast an extensive slate of games each season across Peacock and NBC. NBC has brought in some…
Finishing last in your division typically doesn’t earn you a premium spot on the national TV schedule. The Detroit Lions are an exception. Coming off a 9-8 season that ended with them watching the playoffs from home for the first time since 2022, the Lions still have eight national windows in 2026, including four primetime…
On Friday, the Associated Press reported on the NBA’s plan to announce the league’s MVP award, largely viewed as a three-horse race between Victor Wembanyama, Nikola Jokic, and Shai-Gilgeous Alexander, on Sunday evening during Prime Video’s pregame show. Turns out, fans didn’t have to wait quite that long. ESPN’s senior NBA insider Shams Charania announced…
The NFL will spread its games out across more days of the week than ever before this upcoming season. With the league’s schedule fully released, it’s now official that the league has added a handful of new standalone windows outside of what fans are traditionally accustomed to. It’s a trend that has continued throughout the…
The New York Yankees and New York Mets played game two of this weekend’s Subway Series on Saturday at Citi Field, and the game was an MLB on Fox telecast with the network’s top crew of Joe Davis and John Smoltz on the call. In the top of the sixth inning, Davis and Smoltz discussed…
Sal Capaccio is out as the Buffalo Bills’ radio sideline reporter after 12 seasons, with the team also announcing a new flagship station and a significant addition to the broadcast booth. Capaccio confirmed the news on social media Friday, thanking the Bills organization and WGR listeners while making clear he is not going anywhere. “I’m…
Dana White didn’t wait for the MVP MMA debut event on Netflix to be over before announcing Conor McGregor’s UFC return Saturday night. On Saturday night, while Francis Ngannou was making his walkout at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood — his first MMA fight under the MVP MMA banner, on Netflix, in front of what…
It was a little surprising when the NFL announced it would open the 2026 season the same way it ended it, with a game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots. The Seahawks’ 29-13 win over the Patriots in Super Bowl LX wasn’t particularly exciting or memorable outside of Seattle, and while both…
Despite the second-highest payroll in Major League Baseball and very high expectations entering the 2026 season, it’s been a rough time for the Mets so far. The Mets entered play on Saturday night in last place in the National League East and tied for the fewest wins in the National League with 18. The season…
