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Pablo Torre Finds Out has become the go-to destination for investigative sports journalism. His topics range from serious to lighthearted. One of his most recent episodes on the New York Knicks is a must-listen. PTFO collaborated with WIRED on a feature about Knicks owner James Dolan’s surveillance system at Madison Square Garden. In the episode,…
On this week’s episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast, Brandon Contes interviews former ESPN host Trey Wingo. Wingo discussed a wide range of topics, including his time covering the NFL Draft for ESPN, working with Mel Kiper Jr., building NFL Live, ESPN’s merger with NFL Network, LIV Golf, the PGA Tour, Tiger Woods, and more.…
New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel will not be present with the team during Saturday’s third and final day of the 2026 NFL Draft. Instead, the embattled head coach, who is in the midst of a scandal over photos of him with former The Athletic NFL insider Dianna Russini, will be in counseling. “As…
NBA legends Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley had been estranged for years. But they have an unlikely friend to thank for helping them bury the hatchet – former MLB All-Star Vince Coleman. Barkley and Jordan were great friends during their playing days. However, the pair had a falling out in 2012 after comments the TNT…
The long-rumored sale of the Portland Trail Blazers finally went through this season, as private equity investor and Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon took over the team just in time for the playoffs. Almost immediately, Dundon began cutting costs. Reports surfaced on the team’s slimmed-down travel accommodations and its meager budget for its next head…
The New York Mets finally got superstar Juan Soto back in the lineup on Wednesday night as they try to end their horrific 12-game losing streak. But this is the Mets, so not even getting the $765 million man in the lineup is going to lead to positive headlines. Soto hasn’t played since April 3…
ESPN’s first foray into live WWE programming on its linear networks produced some solid returns. WrestleMania 42 coverage on ESPN and ESPN2 last weekend averaged 1.72 million viewers across simulcast windows on Saturday and Sunday evening, per Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports. Those figures do not include viewers watching on ESPN Unlimited, the only…
There’s very few people in sports that would ever be in the position to stop a press conference dead in its tracks because he has to go say hello to a former President of the United States. But you can bet that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is one of them. Jones was treating the…
As the WNBA broadens its reach this season with seven national distribution partners and a record 216 national broadcasts, it is going all-in on its golden goose, the Indiana Fever. With a new collective bargaining agreement in place, two new expansion franchises beginning play, and multiple young stars drawing national attention, the 2026 season is…
Further evidence suggesting NFL reporter Dianna Russini and New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel were alone at an Arizona resort, rather than with a group of friends, has been released by Page Six, the outlet that initially published the bombshell photos implicating the pair. In a set of newly released photos, Russini and Vrabel…
Despite NBC president Jon Miller recently discussing interest his network fielded from streaming services looking to buy the upcoming Big Ten Championship game, it appears as if the network didn’t have much choice in the matter. According to a report by college football insider Brett McMurphy of On3, “NBC had no authority to keep Fox…
Wednesday was media day for the Indiana Fever, and superstar player Caitlin Clark decided to moonlight as a member of the assembled press herself. As she wrapped up her press conference, Clark asked a favor of the more than 30 reporters that had gathered to ask her questions before the upcoming WNBA season. “Can you…
There’s a right way for golf fans to act, and a wrong way. And apparently, American golf fans acted the wrong way at the RBC Heritage, according to Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo. As a group of rowdy, beer-wielding golf fans chanted “USA, USA, USA” at English golfer Matt Fitzpatrick Sunday afternoon during the RBC Heritage…
NBC Sports president Jon Miller offered a candid account this week of how the network convinced Major League Baseball to accept a below-market deal to return to broadcast television. Speaking with Puck’s John Ourand at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas, Miller confirmed that NBC was not the highest bidder when MLB…
Mike Vrabel’s alleged relationship with NFL insider Dianna Russini is big news to just about everyone except longtime Boston sportswriter Greg Bedard. Like most media outlets, 98.5 The Sports Hub afternoon hosts Mike Felger and Tony Massarotti have covered every piece of this story since Page Six published photos of Vrabel and Russini appearing very…
Victory+ is making its first move into the WNBA. The streaming platform announced on Wednesday a multi-year partnership with the Minnesota Lynx, becoming the team’s exclusive local streaming home starting with the 2026 season. Fans in the Minneapolis/St. Paul market will have free access to at least 18 regular-season games, along with preseason matchups and…
Coco Gauff thought she had found somewhere private to fall apart. After losing to Elina Svitolina in the Australian Open quarterfinals in January, she walked into a corridor at Melbourne Park, away from the court, away from the crowd, and smashed her racket into the ground until the frustration had somewhere to go. “I tried…
The NFL loves to talk about player safety. Michael Wilbon would like them to stop. Appearing on First Take this week, Wilbon was asked about NIL and whether prospects like Ty Simpson — who turned down a $6.5 million offer from Miami to enter the draft — are making the right call by leaving college…
It’s one thing to be trolled by the Los Angeles Dodgers, but the New York Mets have been humbled to the point where even the Minnesota Twins are mocking them. The start of the 2026 Major League Baseball season has been a disaster for the Mets. Instead of competing for the best record in the…
As the NFL faces bombardment from seemingly every corner of Washington over its migration of more games to streaming, the league made its first reported response last Friday. According to a report by Joe Flint in The Wall Street Journal, the NFL met with senior officials at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday to justify…
This originally appeared in Tuesday morning’s edition of The A Block, Awful Announcing’s daily newsletter with the latest sports media news, commentary, and analysis. Sign up here and be the first to know everything going on in the sports media world. What was the purpose of Mike Vrabel’s statement given from the Patriots podium on Monday?…
A staple of NBC’s golf coverage is taking on a new role. Cara Banks, who joined Golf Channel in 2015 as a host of Morning Drive and is now an integral member of NBC Sports’ golf team as a reporter, will step into the booth during this weekend’s coverage of the Chevron Championship, one of the…
After posting the worst viewership under its current broadcast deals last season, the NHL had a major rebound in 2025-26. NHL viewership averaged 546,000 viewers across ESPN, ABC, and TNT/truTV this regular season, the league’s best mark since the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season, per viewership data from Austin Karp in Sports Business Journal. Incredibly, the league…
A broadcast production company you likely have never heard of is taking the blame for Amazon Prime Video’s mishap during a crucial overtime period in the NBA play-in tournament. Game Creek Video, a live-broadcast production company that provided mobile production facilities to Prime Video during the play-in game between the Miami Heat and the Charlotte…
