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Garrett Temple has played for an incredible 16 seasons in the NBA with 12 different teams over the course of his career. But he may always be known as the seminal figure of Inside the NBA‘s “Who he play for?” The iconic mini game show has become a source of laughs for Inside the NBA at the…
This article was published in conjunction with the 2026 Awful Announcing Sports Podcast Power List. To read more about the sports podcast and digital video space and the people guiding it right now, click here. Episodes of The Pivot begin before the cameras go on. The intense popularity of the show, co-hosted by three former…
For two men who reportedly aren’t speaking much off the air, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman remain remarkably adept at sounding like old friends on it. According to Puck’s Dylan Byers, the friction between ESPN’s Monday Night Football partners persists behind the scenes, even as the pair delivered “another drama-free broadcast” this week. Byers reports…
This article was published in conjunction with the 2026 Awful Announcing Sports Podcast Power List. To read more about the sports podcast and digital video space and the people guiding it right now, click here. Landon Donovan and Tim Howard aren’t strangers to big stages. Donovan, the all-time leading goalscorer in U.S. men’s soccer history,…
Charles Barkley doesn’t want to side with Donald Trump, but he joined the president in condemning LeBron James for his actions during the national anthem. Last week, James was seen swinging his arms and mimicking a golf swing as the anthem played before his first game with the Philadelphia 76ers. The right rushed to politicize…
The Atlanta Dream will host the Golden State Valkyries in Game 6 of the NBA Finals at State Farm Arena on Thursday afternoon after negotiations among several parties to find an appropriate start time. The unusual series of events stemmed from the fact that the State Farm Arena calendar wasn’t cleared with the Dream in…
Troy Aikman’s broadcasting future is suddenly in doubt. Aikman, who has called NFL games alongside Joe Buck for both Fox and ESPN for more than 20 years, is set to finish out his current contract with the worldwide leader at the conclusion of this year’s Super Bowl, which will be ESPN’s first time broadcasting the…
It took Dave Pasch a single Sunday on the couch to realize he had been running on fumes for most of a quarter century. Pasch told Jimmy Traina on the Traina Thoughts podcast that leaving the Arizona Cardinals radio booth was painful, even with a national NFL opportunity waiting for him in Bristol. The longtime…
Pat McAfee has taken heat this week for his stunning comments, taking offense at a light-hearted Utah video and comparing himself to assassinated political activist Charlie Kirk. And now one of his former co-workers at Barstool Sports has spoken out about his time with McAfee and said that it’s not that surprising for someone who…
The Milwaukee Brewers finally won their first World Series, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 5 of the 2026 edition of the Fall Classic to clinch their first title. And even though Bob Uecker wasn’t there to call the final out, he was one of the first people on everyone’s minds. The legendary figure…
Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid has steered his team through off-field controversy and personal tragedy countless times in his storied NFL career. Reid’s steadiness has served him well. He has the fourth-most wins among head coaches in NFL history, including three Super Bowls, and he will walk into the Pro Football Hall of…
Ernie Johnson delivered the inevitable news that nobody wanted to accept on Tuesday night: he was ready to retire from Inside the NBA. After decades as the host and face of the best studio show in sports, Johnson has decided to retire at season’s end after one of the most illustrious careers in the business.…
ESPN has been all-in with its support for the Protect College Sports Act. Former Alabama head coach and College GameDay analyst Nick Saban, who helped craft the legislation, has been one of the bill’s most ardent supporters on the network, pushing several arguments that are strongly contested by the bill’s opponents. Former Miami Marlins executive David…
The Milwaukee Brewers are World Series champions for the first time ever. While the celebration was delayed for a day after the Brewers couldn’t complete the sweep on Tuesday night, they didn’t have to wait long to start popping champagne. Ace and soon-to-be Cy Young winner Jacob Misiorowski pitched nearly six innings of shut-out ball,…
Britt McHenry, a former ESPN journalist and more recently a former press advisor to the State Department, has shared her side of an incident at a recent Washington Wizards game that led to her resignation from her role with the government. A video showing McHenry throwing a drink at another spectator went viral last week.…
Hop on the Devin Cooley bandwagon while there’s still room. The Calgary Flames goaltender is enjoying his star turn, and while Cooley is playing out of his mind, people are falling in love with him over how he articulates the inner workings of his mind. On Oct. 18, Cooley explained the differences between his conscious…
Pat McAfee has been in the eye of the storm this week after his comments about what he experienced when College GameDay visited the University of Utah campus. The omnipresent ESPN personality drew criticism and mockery for comparing himself to assassinated political activist Charlie Kirk because he was made to feel uncomfortable after a video produced by…
It’s a day that NBA fans have been dreading for some time, and it has finally come. On Wednesday, legendary broadcaster Ernie Johnson announced that this would be his final season on Inside the NBA. Johnson first broke the news via his own social media channels, and then followed that up by opening Wednesday’s episode…
After posting relatively strong viewership for the first two games, the Milwaukee Brewers-Tampa Bay Rays World Series saw much weaker viewership in Game 3, thanks to a blowout and direct competition from the NFL. Game 3 of the World Series averaged 8.44 million viewers across Fox and Fox Deportes, Awful Announcing has learned. The game…
This offseason, Charles Barkley and Ernie Johnson alluded to the 2026-27 NBA season serving as their last on ESPN’s Inside the NBA. Barkley has flip-flopped on his retirement for years, while Johnson remained vague about his future. Many people, including Shaquille O’Neal, struggled to believe it. But time presses on, all good things come to an…
After a number of health-related setbacks have kept Dick Vitale limited in his appearances behind the microphone in recent years, the beloved ESPN college basketball commentator is “full speed ahead” as the season prepares to tip off next week, according to a report in the East County Observer, a local newspaper based in Lakewood Ranch, where…
Paul Finebaum is under contract with ESPN through this college football season, but the longtime radio host and college football analyst is unsure about his future at the company. Finebaum recently joined the Awful Announcing Podcast, where he confirmed ESPN pulled him from its programming last year after he told Clay Travis, then with OutKick, he was…
The 6-0 Minnesota Vikings are the last undefeated team in the NFL and have division wins over both the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears. Still, the vibes around the franchise have been surprisingly low, in large part because, although Minnesota’s defense has been arguably the best unit in the league, its offense has…
The Tampa Bay Rays avoided a World Series sweep Tuesday night, and Taylor Walls took offense when Ken Rosenthal suggested that the Rays should be happy they at least salvaged one moral victory. Rosenthal posed the question to Walls in a postgame scrum after Tampa Bay staved off elimination with a 4-3, 12-inning walk-off win…
