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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…
Sophie Cunningham went viral this week over comments she made on her podcast about her new Indiana Fever contract. The WNBA star is now offering a clarification that those comments were misunderstood. In the latest episode of her Show Me Something podcast, Cunningham said her one-year, $665,000 deal to return to the Fever is “frustrating.” “It’s tough because…
A holy war might be brewing between ESPN and Fox Sports. The College Football Playoff governance committee is meeting this week in Dallas to address a whole host of topics facing the sport’s postseason. And as has been the case for much of the past decade, playoff expansion will be at the forefront of discussion.…
Despite the aura that the NFL and its broadcasters have built up, the NFL Draft is not a magical, once-in-a-lifetime event that demands reverence. It’s an annual business transaction in which NFL teams select former college football players and decide, one by one, where they will be employed for the next few years (or, at…
This is the biggest time of the year for longtime NFL Draft analyst Todd McShay. Throughout his time at ESPN and into his new digs at The Ringer, NFL fans and media look to McShay for player analysis and intel, as well as the latest rumors about what teams are thinking. So far this year,…
Ohio state Sen. Bill DeMora has had enough. Watching the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the playoffs this week required navigating Amazon Prime Video for Game 1, Peacock for Game 2, and back to Amazon for Game 3. And DeMora, a Democrat from Columbus, is now looking into whether Ohio has any legal…
Conflict of interest used to be the kind of thing that raised red flags. These days, it almost seems welcomed, especially in NFL announcing circles. Fox announcer Tom Brady is also a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders and is said to be very involved in their personnel decisions. ESPN announcer Troy Aikman has…
Game 2 between the Timberwolves and Nuggets in Denver on Tuesday night delivered about as much as a first-round NBA playoff series possibly can. In the latest clash in what has become one of the league’s signature rivalries, Anthony Edwards played through visible knee pain to outclass Nikola Jokic and Co. once again. Perhaps the…
It’s been less than a year since Colin Cowherd moved to Chicago full-time, but The Herd host is quickly becoming a go-to for rumors around the city’s sports teams. And on Tuesday, after the Chicago Bulls parted ways with head coach Billy Donovan, Cowherd didn’t waste any time going on air with rumors around Donovan’s potential…
If James Dolan is going to keep banning fans from New York Knicks games, Max Kellerman thinks the league should consider banning Dolan from the NBA. Despite the Knicks currently enjoying one of their most successful three-year runs in franchise history, Dolan remains one of the least popular owners in New York and in sports.…
Awful Announcing has learned that Matthew Berry is unlikely to return to Football Night in America next season. Berry joined NBC in August 2022 on a multi-year deal after 15 years at ESPN, where he left partly because the network wanted him to shut down his Fantasy Life brand as a condition of staying. NBC…
Danny Green doesn’t want any part of an NBA version of MLB’s new Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System. Green, a 14-year NBA veteran and current ESPN analyst, was asked during a conference call with reporters about ABS, which MLB introduced this season to considerable success, and whether a player-initiated challenge system could help curtail the endless…
Across the first few days of the NBA Playoffs, no star player has struggled quite like Brandon Ingram of the Toronto Raptors. And his own comments have only made the situation worse. The Cleveland Cavaliers easily dispatched of the Raptors in the first two games of their series at home, winning both games by double…
WrestleMania 42 presented the best and worst of modern-day WWE. The question now facing the pro wrestling giant is which direction it takes from here. The feedback for WWE in the build to WrestleMania 42 saw the company take incoming fire from all sides. The ticket prices were too high. Attendance was down compared to…
There is a tradition at the NFL Draft that has nothing to do with Roger Goodell, nothing to do with the commissioner’s walk to the podium, and nothing to do with the slow, theatrical hug that follows. It predates the green rooms. It predates the team war rooms filling primetime television. It predates, frankly, almost…
New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel finally broke his silence about the photos with NFL insider Dianna Russini that were published. It’s been two weeks since Page Six shared a series of photographs showing Vrabel and Russini embracing while poolside at an adults-only hotel. Despite the photos’ implications, Vrabel and Russini quickly issued statements…
Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch said after the team’s Game 1 loss in the 2026 NBA Playoffs to the Denver Nuggets on Saturday night that Denver star Jamal Murray getting 16 free throw attempts was a “head-scratcher.” “Yeah, I thought we played really good defense,” Finch told the media in his postgame press conference…
While they’ve made strides in recent documentaries, Netflix has developed a reputation for making sports documentaries and docuseries that prioritize access over analysis. As such, they tend to become hagiographies rather than authentic retellings of what happened. That’s how Dan Le Batard felt after watching Netflix’s latest Untold film about the Portland Trail Blazers during an…
Few people in sports media take NBA awards voting as seriously as Bill Simmons. The Sports Guy came up in the industry primarily as a basketball writer, obsessing over the minutiae of the league and turning its eccentricities into national storylines. Even now that he is no longer on ESPN’s NBA studio coverage or penning…
The San Francisco 49ers play their home games near Silicon Valley, where advocacy for AI is unwavering despite mounting concerns about its environmental impact and how much people actually want it. Count the Niners among the evangelists who are counting on AI to do the hard work for them as they prepare for the 2026…
On Monday, the Dallas Cowboys re-signed kicker Brandon Aubrey to a record-breaking four-year extension worth $28 million, including $20 million fully guaranteed. The deal makes the 31-year-old the highest-paid kicker in NFL history. NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported the news, citing Aubrey’s agents in the X announcement, in what’s become standard operating procedure for NFL insiders.…
Set aside the specifics of the match results or the culmination of Pat McAfee’s return, and the clear takeaway from ESPN’s first WrestleMania this weekend was that it was a worse experience for the fans. Coming off a week in which the Worldwide Leader put its full promotional heft behind the WWE, and McAfee used…
