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It was reported on April 1 that the Baltimore Ravens and Dallas Cowboys would meet in Week 3 of the 2026 season for the first-ever NFL game in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Ahead of the Baltimore Ravens’ second-round pick during the 2026 NFL Draft on Friday night, the league confirmed the news with an official…
The San Francisco Giants are having a rocky start to the 2026 season, heading into their weekend series game against the Miami Marlins at 11-14 and just one 1.5 games out of last place in the ultra-competitive NL West. A large part of the Giants’ struggles can be attributed to the slow start from star…
Fernando Mendoza was the consensus number one pick heading into the NFL draft, and went first overall to the Las Vegas Raiders on Thursday night, but ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky wasn’t convinced he was so obviously the best quarterback in the class. The longtime backup quarterback turned analyst went as far as to stamp Alabama’s Ty…
New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel and former The Athletic reporter Dianna Russini have been in the eye of the storm since April 7, when Page Six published photos of the pair, who are both married to other people, hugging, holding hands, and lounging in a hot tub at the adults-only Ambiente hotel in Sedona, AZ. Although both…
Jason Kelce has been willing to try just about everything since retiring from the NFL and making his long-awaited foray into the media. The latest project, according to the New York Times, is a “YouTube show” that is in the works with Amazon through its new Creator Services division. As the Times reports, that division for now…
For the past several years, Fox’s Jay Glazer has given fans unique insight into NFL head coaches’ personalities by posting content from the poolside drinking party he hosts at league owners’ meetings each spring. And as the apparently long, winding saga around Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel continues to reveal new chapters, a new report…
One of the staples of College GameDay these days is the smorgasboard of local cuisine that the analysts devour during the show. But not everything on the platter is worth potentially messing up your suit over. ESPN’s premiere college football showcase acted as one of the studio desks during Thursday’s presentations of the 2026 NFL…
Perhaps one of the more surprising moments of Thursday’s NFL Draft coverage came before teams even began selecting players. As is typically the case prior to the Draft, Roger Goodell sat down with ESPN for an interview. These sit-downs are usually pretty basic; it’s rare to get any notable insights from the commissioner or for…
As more live sports events migrate from broadcast to streaming services, the Justice Department is delving into whether professional sports leagues, and especially the NFL, are upholding the terms of the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, which grants leagues an antitrust exemption to negotiate television rights packages on behalf of their teams. The DOJ has…
Sean McDermott isn’t going back to coaching this fall, and he might be spending the season on television instead. The former Buffalo Bills head coach appeared on The Rich Eisen Show on Wednesday and said he has multiple media suitors for the 2026 season. “Looking into that,” McDermott said of a potential broadcasting role. “We’ve…
Stephen A. Smith has no issues telling people how he really feels, and he really feels a certain way about Chiney Ogwumike speaking French. Ogwumike opened First Take’s segment on the Minnesota Timberwolves, taking a 2-1 lead over the Denver Nuggets by speaking French as a sort of ode to Rudy Gobert, who is from…
At a time when the New York Mets are in search of reinforcements, their broadcast booth is about to get a big one with Keith Hernandez. Hernandez underwent back surgery on Tuesday, April 10. And according to Anthony Rieber of Newsday, the Mets Hall-of-Famer is due back to the broadcast booth Monday, May 4, where…
You’re probably wondering how a group of WFAN hosts got here. Well, this is what it looks like when the Knicks, Jets, and Mets provide a trinity of wild sports moments in 60 seconds. WFAN took a page out of the Barstool book Thursday night, getting its full lineup of hosts in a room with…
Ty Simpson had never spoken to Sean McVay. Not during the pre-draft process, not at the combine, not a phone call at any point between February and Thursday night. When Rams scouts showed up to Alabama’s Pro Day, Simpson shook some hands, and that was roughly the extent of it. He told reporters after the…
Nick Saban accidentally told the world how he really felt about the Dallas Cowboys selecting Malachi Lawrence in the first round of the NFL Draft. The NFL can look down on pick tipping all they want, but if fans want to know who’s being drafted before Roger Goodell announces the pick, it’s not hard to…
Thursday night’s NFL Draft broadcast in Pittsburgh was supposed to be the most watchable version of the event in years. The NFL trimmed the first-round clock from 10 minutes to eight back in December, convinced that a leaner show would keep viewers through the back half of the first round rather than losing them to…
Amazon’s Prime Video has technically been a WNBA broadcast partner since 2021, airing the championship game for the league’s Commissioner’s Cup in-season tournament and select regular-season games. But as part of a new, expanded 11-year broadcast rights deal with the NBA and the WNBA, the streamer is airing 31 national games and portions of the…
If you were watching to see how ESPN and NFL Network covered the drafting of Fernando Mendoza by the Las Vegas Raiders with the top overall selection, you may have thought you were seeing an optical illusion. Mendoza was unanimously expected to be the first pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. And instead of attending…
The Patriots have finally encountered a scandal they can’t control. For two decades, Bill Belichick stonewalled the press and the team’s allies on the airwaves created enough doubt and clouded the narrative. There was never any hard evidence of malfeasance, and besides, Tom Brady won every big game imaginable. Though the Patriots are back in…
The Philadelphia Eagles made a trade with the NFC East division rival Dallas Cowboys that ruined the Pittsburgh Steelers’ plans during the first round of the 2026 NFL Draft on Thursday night. Dallas sent pick No. 20 overall and a 2027 seventh-round pick to Philadelphia in exchange for the No. 23 selection and two fourth-round…
WWE and ESPN, we thought we had a deal. You guys have a $1.6 billion arrangement for ESPN to promote WrestleMania and other major events. That’s fine. Do what you need to do. Is it a bit much to inundate ESPN programming for an entire week to promote a pro wrestling event? It is. But…
All Times Eastern Australian Rules Football AFL Men’s — Round 7 Hawthorn Hawks vs. Gold Coast Suns — FS2/Fox One, 10:20 p.m. Essendon Bombers vs. Collingwood Magpies — Fox Soccer Plus, 1:18 a.m. (Saturday) Port Adelaide vs. Geelong Cats — FS1/Fox One, 4:25 a.m. (Saturday) Fremantle Dockers vs. Carlton Blues — FS2/Fox One, 6 a.m.…
The Miami Dolphins traded up from the No. 30 overall pick to No. 27 in a deal with the San Francisco 49ers during the first round of the 2026 NFL Draft on Thursday night. With that 27th overall pick, the Dolphins selected San Diego State cornerback Chris Johnson. ESPN host Mike Greenberg had no idea…
Shortly before the 2026 NFL Draft began on Thursday night, ESPN’s Mike Greenberg interviewed NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. And in a bit of a surprise, Greenberg asked Goodell about the apparent affair between New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel and NFL reporter Dianna Russini, though Greenberg did not name Russini. “I’m going to ask…
