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Bill Simmons may have put his finger on one of the subtle reasons that Inside the NBA has not worked as well in its first season airing on ESPN. As the show nears its first run-through of the NBA Finals since being licensed by the Worldwide Leader, it has received many complaints from viewers and…
Sean Payton is the only NFL head coach to be suspended for an entire season, but Colin Cowherd thinks the league is still out for even more revenge. It’s been 14 years since Payton was suspended for the 2012 NFL season as head coach of the New Orleans Saints because of his role in the…
The debate over how many teams the College Football Playoff should expand to, if it should expand at all, is currently raging as all signs point to a 24-team bracket coming soon. While the SEC has been championing a 16-team expansion, nearly every other power broker in the sport seems to support the 24-team solution,…
Lane Kiffin doesn’t just leave schools; he burns the bridge on the way out of town and salts the earth as he goes, ensuring there is no path back. That has certainly been the case with his move from Ole Miss to LSU. After building the Rebels into a national title contender, he skipped town…
The relationship between Fox Sports and the NFL is perhaps the most intriguing element of the ongoing story surrounding the rights negotiations that will reshape the modern media world. Fox is leading the charge to keep NFL games on broadcast television. And it’s probably no conicidence that the federal government’s interest in anticompetitive practices from…
It certainly sounded like a hot mic caught Ozzie Guillen in a not so safe for work moment during Thursday’s Chicago White Sox broadcast. With a runner on second and nobody out in the eighth inning, White Sox catcher Edgar Quero struck out just as play-by-play announcer John Schriffen was throwing it back to the…
The Detroit Tigers lost 9-4 to the New York Mets on Thursday after the Tigers squandered an early three-run lead, completing a three-game sweep for New York. The Mets broke the game open with a three-run fifth inning, and Tigers fans may spend a few days lamenting what could’ve been after having their own baserunners…
LSU Tigers head football coach Lane Kiffin is no stranger to controversy, and he had another one on his hands after he touched on the difficulties he had recruiting black players to play for him during his tenure with the Ole Miss Rebels due to the school’s deeply racist past. “‘Hey, coach, we really like…
An analysis of the NFL TV schedule since 2016 shows that the NFL has steadily shifted inventory away from the traditional Sunday regional windows on CBS and Fox and into standalone packages. An Awful Announcing analysis of the schedule data found that, this year, the NFL is scheduled to air 197 Sunday-afternoon games. That’s down…
As NFL Network becomes a product of ESPN, the ability for Ian Rapoport and Adam Schefter to coexist under one umbrella remains one of the more interesting aspects of the merger. Rapoport recently joined Between the Tackles, a podcast hosted by Eric Burgess and former New York Jets beat reporter Manish Mehta. During the interview,…
The Los Angeles Rams will make a bit of history in the 2026 NFL season thanks to the league’s schedule makers. The NFL primetime schedule has become much more flexible in recent years. Sunday Night Football on NBC has had flex scheduling for most of the season for years. And now Monday Night Football on ESPN has limited flex…
The NBA released television details on Thursday night for playoff scenarios that could affect scheduling for Sunday, May 17, depending on what happens in two series on Friday night. The Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers play Game 6 of their Eastern Conference semifinals series on Friday evening, with the Cavs currently holding a 3-2 series…
Chase Daniel addressed his former podcast co-host Dianna Russini and her relationship with Mike Vrabel for the first time. Daniel launched Scoop City with Russini for The Athletic prior to the 2024 NFL season, but episodes stopped in early March of this year, nearly one month before Page Six published the first round of photos…
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A bizarre situation played out in the top of the ninth inning between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Athletics on Thursday afternoon at Sutter Health Park, and A’s broadcaster Dallas Braden couldn’t believe what he was seeing. JJ Wetherholt — a highly regarded prospect who’s having a terrific rookie season — was on deck…
NFL schedule-release night has become one of the most anticipated events of the offseason. And it’s not so much because we learn the schedule and which games are played where and when on what networks. It’s because the teams have turned it into their own Social Media Super Bowl, with theatrical, comedic, and creative schedule-release…
For several years, prominent players and media figures have debated what WNBA commentary should look like as the league rises in prominence in the national sports conversation. First it was the dynamic between Caitlin Clark and the league’s veterans, who sometimes bristled at her popularity in comparison to theirs. Angel Reese faced racially charged commentary…
NFL players are expected to be at peak performance 17 times a season, regardless of what leads up to gameday. That’s a reasonable request when you’re playing a road game, a short flight away, a week after a home game. But what about when you’re playing on the other side of the country a week…
All Times Eastern Australian Rules Football AFL Men’ — Round 10 Adelaide Crows vs. North Melbourne Kangaroos — Fox Soccer Plus, 11 p.m. North Melbourne Demons s. Hawthorn Hawks — FS2/Fox One, 2 a.m. (Saturday) Carlton Blues vs. Western Bulldogs — Fox Soccer Plus, 5:30 a.m. (Saiurday) Baseball Banana Ball World Tour Game 2, Historic…
While Tom Brady has now completed two seasons as an NFL color commentator for Fox, the New England Patriots legend has never been back to Foxborough as a broadcaster. That will change in 2026. The NFL released its full 2026 schedule on Thursday night, and it was revealed that the Patriots will host the Green…
The NFL released the full 2026 schedule on Thursday night, and one of the big questions many people had entering the night related to the relationship between NFL reporter Dianna Russini and New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel. Would any NFL social media teams actually joke about the scandal in videos for the schedule…
The late Charlie Neal was a broadcasting pioneer and a legendary voice for historically Black colleges and universities. Neal passed away on Wednesday at age 80. For fans of HBCUs such as Mississippi Valley State, Jackson State, Alcorn State, and other schools, Neal was the person behind the microphone and in front of the camera…
When you look at the state of ESPN, ABC Sports, and the NFL and how intertwined they all are, you have to look at the impact Howard Katz had on getting both of them here. After beginning his career as a production associate for ABC Sports in the early 1970s, Katz worked his way up…
Rarely do you see a sports story that gets Mike Greenberg riled up enough for a snarky rant, but few discussions have enraged sports media quite like the potential looming expansion of the College Football Playoff to 24 teams. Discussing the clear momentum toward a 24-team postseason for college football on Thursday on Get Up, Greenberg…
