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The first coordinated schedule leak of the week promotes a big time matchup between two of the NFL’s most iconic brands. On Monday morning, the NFL announced the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants will face off during the first Sunday Night Football game of the year on NBC. The game will kickoff at the standard…
Get ready for the biggest FIFA World Cup ever. Soccer’s greatest international spectacle kicks off next month, and its format is unlike anything we’ve seen before. For the first time, the tournament will be hosted by three countries (the United States, Canada, and Mexico). The field has expanded from 32 to a record 48 teams.…
All Times Eastern College Basketball The Hoops HQ Show — Fubo Sports Network, 9;30 a.m. Inside College Basketball — CBS Sports Network, 1 p.m. College Football Authentic ACC: Virginia Tech Spring Football — ACC Network, 3 p.m. Always College Football — ESPNews, 6 p.m. All-Access: Oklahoma Spring Football — SEC Network, 9 p.m. Ross Tucker…
The Philadelphia 76ers have some soul-searching to do after being swept out of the 2026 NBA Playoffs by the rival New York Knicks. Adding insult to injury, Knicks fans completely took over the Sixers’ home arena, Xfinity Mobile Arena, despite players pleading with the Philly faithful not to let that happen. And if getting swept…
If you can’t take the heat, stay off Instagram. On Friday, NBC Sports Boston’s Michael Holley expressed doubts about the Boston Red Sox’s honesty regarding Roman Anthony’s ongoing injury situation. “I understand why all teams do it, but let’s just be honest. All teams lie. They lie about injuries, they just do,” said Holley. “Tell me…
For many years, access to professional athletes inside locker rooms after games was an integral part of the media process. For journalists, being able to speak directly to players when the decisions and outcomes of the game are still freshest offers the potential for key insights, or at the very least a juicy quote to…
Gender reveals don’t sit well with everyone, but if you’re gonna do one, you might as well try to be super creative about it. It might be hard to top how Baltimore Orioles pitcher Anthony Nunez just did it for his brother in the middle of a Major League Baseball game. Nunez put in an…
The NFL’s effort to renegotiate media rights deals early has only become more uncertain in recent weeks. The league, which earlier this year reportedly set out to ink new deals with all five of its current primary broadcast partners before the 2026-27 season begins in September, almost certainly will not meet that goal. The reasons…
Things are going from very bad to whatever is worse than very bad for LIV Golf. The rogue golf tour soon to be de-funded by its Saudi benefactors played the final round of its tournament from Trump National Golf Course outside Washington, D.C. on Sunday. But it seems the broadcast missed one of its biggest…
UPDATE [5/10/2026, 5:48 p.m. ET]: ESPN content president Burke Magnus responded to Awful Announcing’s initial story categorically denying the report by Tim Kawakami of the San Francisco Standard. “We have too much respect for Coach Kerr. We were not even going to engage until he made a decision on coaching,” Magnus said. Our original story is…
ESPN will be without one of its top analysts for a pivotal Game 4 between the New York Knicks and Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday afternoon. Prior to tip-off, ESPN lead NBA play-by-play announcer Mike Breen opened the telecast with just one person, rather than the usual two, standing next to him courtside. Breen was joined…
The Atlanta Dream has found another way to get its games in front of fans at no cost. The team announced earlier this week a new partnership with Victory+, a free, ad-supported sports streaming service, to stream all locally broadcast Dream games live and on demand. Games will remain available on Atlanta News First, the…
Pickleball has claimed its first MLS casualty. Nashville SC fans who tuned into FS1 for Saturday night’s match against DC United were greeted with paddle sports instead of soccer. The club’s national broadcast window was bumped to FS2 because the PPA Tour Finals in San Clemente, California, ran long. “The start of our match can…
The Department of Justice opened an investigation into the NFL last month over whether its media distribution practices violate antitrust law, essentially asking whether the league has been systematically pushing games behind streaming paywalls at the expense of fans who can’t afford them. It’s a legitimate and important question for America’s most-watched sport. That’s why…
The NFL Live cast has stopped doing production meetings altogether, according to Ryan Clark. Clark, who co-hosts The Pivot alongside Channing Crowder and Fred Taylor, was joined on the podcast by NFL Live co-host Laura Rutledge. During the conversation, Clark revealed that the NFL Live cast — himself, Rutledge, Dan Orlovsky, Mina Kimes, Marcus Spears,…
It’s difficult to reach a consensus on anything in America. However, almost everyone reacted with dismay to the news that the NCAA Tournament will expand to 76 teams in 2027. One of the most popular sporting events will be altered in a way that the majority of fans and the media vehemently oppose. Change is…
First Things First co-host Nick Wright attended David Benavidez’s knockout win over Gilberto Ramirez in Las Vegas last Saturday, and by the end of his trip in Sin City, he had placed a massive bet with a potential profit of $2 million. It all started when Wright, who is a big-time poker player and hosts…
The NBC Sports Philadelphia broadcast booth had a very special guest during Saturday’s Philadelphia Phillies game against the Colorado Rockies. Sesame Street star Elmo was in attendance at Citizens Bank Park for the “Strike Out the Stigma” event in support of mental health awareness. And Elmo joined Phillies announcers Tom McCarthy and John Kruk in…
The UFL has come up with innovative features and unique access on broadcasts that have left fans wondering if we could see such additions to future NFL broadcasts. But something that happened on Friday night’s Fox telecast of a UFL game between the Columbus Aviators and St. Louis BattleHawks that probably won’t carry over to…
In April, Investigative sports journalist Pablo Torre partnered with Wired’s Noah Schactman to publish a report that New York Knicks owner James Dolan was using Madison Square Garden’s security team to surveil the online activity of people who were critical of him across the country. “There’s this one teenager in Colorado, who said something on…
Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green is never afraid of a verbal altercation, whether that’s on the hardwood or in a broadcast studio. While filling in for Shaquille O’Neal on Wednesday night’s edition of Inside the NBA on ESPN, Green went viral for a moment he had with Charles Barkley after the Hall of Famer…
The St. Louis Cardinals and San Diego Padres are in the middle of a four-game series at Petco Park this weekend. And, in a perfect sign of the times, all four games are on different television networks or streaming services. As the Padres’ X account showed ahead of the series, Thursday’s Game 1 was on…
After an upset win in Game 1 of its Western Conference semifinals series against the San Antonio Spurs, the Minnesota Timberwolves have found themselves in a 2-1 hole after dropping two straight games. Tensions normally rise among players over the course of a series, but Friday night’s Game 3 saw things get tense between Wolves…
Dana White is used to getting his way and ruling the UFC universe with an iron fist, controlling media coverage and creating and forwarding his own narratives. And he finally got an actual dose of reality in an appearance on The Breakfast Club in an interview with Charlamagne tha God. Dana White has gotten very comfortable over…
