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Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark is preparing to leave his role, according to a report from ESPN’s Peter Thamel. “When I accepted this job, my goal was to put this conference on an upward trajectory and truly believe that the future of the conference could not be in better shape,” Yormark said in a statement…
La Liga is seeing significant growth in U.S. viewership this season, fueled by a record-setting audience for Sunday’s El Clásico. Sunday’s Barcelona-Real Madrid match averaged a whopping 2.4 million viewers across ABC and ESPN Deportes, making it the most-watched El Clásico and La Liga match in U.S. history. The audience more than doubled last season’s…
If Troy Aikman leaves ESPN after this season, much of the industry already has a pretty good idea of who will sit next to Joe Buck. The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand reported that Fox’s Greg Olsen is widely considered within sports media circles to be the frontrunner to replace Aikman on Monday Night Football. ESPN could…
Golf Channel continues to innovate under new ownership, and its latest effort is a new interview show. Next week, Golf Channel will debut Eamon Lynch Has Questions, a long-form interview show hosted by Eamon Lynch, the longtime Golf Channel personality and Golfweek columnist. The show, announced Thursday, will debut Nov. 5 at 6 p.m. ET and feature outgoing…
The college basketball season officially starts on Nov. 1, so you can expect to see Jay Bilas plenty over the next several months. The ESPN analyst is looking forward to what should be another intriguing year. Florida is ranked No. 1 in both the preseason Associated Press Top 25 and the USA Today Coaches Poll.…
The 2026-27 NBA season will officially double as an Ernie Johnson victory lap, as the beloved host announced Wednesday his plan to step away from ESPN’s Inside the NBA after this season. “I just wanted to get it out there,” Johnson said of his decision to announce the news now while appearing on The Dan Patrick…
The more reporters learn about the Joe Buck-Troy Aikman fallout, the clearer it becomes that the SoFi Stadium blowup was four years in the making. The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand reported on Friday that before Buck and Aikman clashed in the SoFi Stadium booth ahead of the Oct. 12 Bills-Rams Monday Night Football game, Aikman sat…
ESPN announced its extensive college basketball broadcasting team for the upcoming season, and some prominent faces are returning to the network. Headlining that group is LaPhonso Ellis, who was part of ESPN’s wide-ranging layoffs in the summer of 2023 but is now returning. Ellis originally joined ESPN in 2009 as a college basketball analyst, calling…
While Netflix has capitalized on two of the last three Jake Paul fights, the streamer will not broadcast his return to the ring in December. According to a report by Erich Richter in the New York Post, Paul’s next fight, scheduled for Christmas Eve in Dubai, will not stream on Netflix, the platform that aired Paul’s…
Desperate Arizona Cardinals fans have been trying fervently this season to get owner Michael Bidwill to finally sell the team that has been in his family for decades. Through the #BidwillOut effort on social media and targeted booing during franchise legend Larry Fitzgerald’s recent induction into the team’s ring of honor, Cardinals fans are doing…
Pat McAfee opened up this week about his fears as a public figure and live performer, sparking a full news cycle of industry responses. The daily show host and College GameDay star took issue with the University of Utah for egging on its students to tease McAfee in a social media video, alluding to the murder…
The defending NBA champion New York Knicks defeated the Chicago Bulls at the United Center on Wednesday night, but after the game, the focus was on remembering someone who couldn’t be there. Jalen Brunson scored 38 points and dished 7 assists in 35 minutes, helping the Knicks improve to 2-3. Afterward, he took some time…
Aaron Rodgers thought he was cooking when he proposed that the NFL schedule all of its international games in one week. However, it sounds like no one at the NFL is interested in that recipe. After the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 16-10 win over the New Orleans Saints in Paris last weekend, Rodgers lamented that there was…
The Milwaukee Brewers’ World Series clincher on Wednesday made this year’s Fall Classic relatively on par with other World Series this decade in viewership, with the usual boost from Nielsen’s recent methodology updates. The Brewers’ title-clinching Game 5 win over the Tampa Bay Rays averaged 14.22 million viewers across Fox and Fox Deportes, according to…
Michelle Beadle knows she never would have survived a career in sports media if she were as soft as Pat McAfee has proven to be lately. ESPN took College GameDay to Salt Lake City last weekend to highlight the University of Utah, and McAfee made it clear he has no intention of ever returning after…
The new NBA broadcast rights package continues to deliver surprises early in its second season. The latest is a new NBA whiparound show from NBC Sports and Peacock. The network announced Thursday that next Monday, Nov. 2, it will air a whiparound format in place of the second slot of its usual Peacock doubleheader. After…
Joe Buck may have backed Troy Aikman into a corner, but the Monday Night Football analyst doesn’t want to do the same to Jerry Jones now. With Aikman’s future as a lead NFL analyst highly uncertain, and ESPN having shown little interest in retaining him despite signing Buck to a long-term extension, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback…
A few months back, Paramount+ announced that The Program: Texas Tech, a four-part docuseries about the Red Raiders football program, would launch in September. That announcement wasn’t unusual, as docuseries that go inside a pro or sports franchise are all the rage these days. However, something was unusual about how this specific project came together.…
Kyrie Irving is used to having awkward exchanges with media members, but he probably didn’t expect it from Charles Barkley. Irving joined Inside the NBA after the Dallas Mavericks blew out the Oklahoma City Thunder Wednesday night. And during the segment, Barkley was asking Irving about using his own experiences as a veteran star in…
David Samson has never been accused of being a man of the people. But the former Major League Baseball executive may have crossed the line with his latest thoughts on the state of baseball media. On Wednesday’s episode of Nothing Personal with David Samson, the former Montreal Expos and Miami Marlins front-office member was asked…
The NBA saw encouraging ratings growth in the first year of its new broadcast deals with ESPN, NBC, and Amazon Prime Video thanks to additional broadcast exposure and a burgeoning crop of young stars. That success is now continuing in the second year of those media deals. According to Sports Business Journal’s Austin Karp, the…
Dan Patrick has already settled on a candidate for sports television’s most unenviable job. Patrick said on Thursday’s edition of The Dan Patrick Show that he hopes Adam Lefkoe is next in line to inherit the Inside the NBA desk, lauding the longtime Turner host as a seamless successor who could assume the role without…
ESPN and the NFL have invested significant time and money in Monday Night Football altcasts. Now multiple altcasts, including ESPN2’s famed ManningCast and NFL Network’s MNF Playbook Next Gen Stats version, are competing. One of the headlines in NFL media this season has been the ManningCast’s declining ratings with Peyton and Eli Manning. After reaching millions of viewers…
The road to NC State’s head coaching job now runs through The NFL Today. In a letter to “Wolfpack Nation,” athletic director Boo Corrigan and Chancellor Kevin Howell said Corrigan will lead the school’s search for Dave Doeren’s replacement while leaning on the “counsel and expertise of trusted advisors.” That group includes two former Wolfpack…
