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Sports media has not covered itself in glory trying to predict the ongoing NBA playoffs. Already, nine talking heads at The Ringer have had their NBA Finals predictions completely upended by picking either the Boston Celtics or Denver Nuggets to advance out of the Eastern Conference and Western Conference, respectively. Both teams faced unexpected early…
London-based streaming service DAZN remains committed to breaking into the American market. The company hopes to accomplish that by making an aggressive play for local NBA broadcast rights, both in the short-term and long-term. As has been previously reported, DAZN is engaging the 13 NBA teams left behind by Main Street Sports Group, owner of…
For 18 years, Jay Glazer has hosted an annual pool party for NFL head coaches at the league’s owners meetings, and Jeff Pearlman wants to know why nobody has ever had a problem with it. On a recent TikTok, the veteran sportswriter — who has weighed in repeatedly on the Dianna Russini story since it…
On Saturday night, Orlando City became just the third team in MLS history to overcome a three-goal deficit and win, storming back from 3-0 down to beat Inter Miami 4-3 at Nu Stadium. It was, as MLS itself put it on its own website, the greatest comeback in league history. What followed postgame said just…
The Ringer covers the NBA better than almost anyone. Unfortunately, the NBA playoffs did not return the favor. When The Ringer published its NBA playoff preview on April 16, six staff writers submitted Finals predictions. Add in the podcast picks from Bill Simmons, Zach Lowe, and Joe House, and the outlet’s nine most prominent NBA…
Mike Felger has an idea for how Dianna Russini can rebuild her career. The longtime sports radio host appeared on this week’s episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast and, after discussing Boston’s media failures in covering Mike Vrabel, turned his attention to Russini herself and what comes next for her. We’ve covered her path forward…
The Philadelphia 76ers finally got one over on the Boston Celtics by winning Game 7 at the Garden, and Sixers fans weren’t going to let anyone forget about it, especially Brian Scalabrine. The Sixers came back from a 3-1 series deficit in surprising circumstances to win their first series against their Eastern Conference rivals since…
The NHL revealed the start times and television networks for second-round games in the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs on Saturday night. One Eastern Conference series matchup will be determined on Sunday when the Montreal Canadiens and Tampa Bay Lightning play Game 7 of their first-round series. The winner of that series will face the Buffalo…
The New York Mets are off to an MLB-worst start to the 2026 season and entered play on Friday night with a 10-21 record. This is while the Mets have the second-highest payroll in MLB. It’s been a disaster for the Mets in the early going, and during Friday night’s game against the Los Angeles…
On Saturday, the NBA released the schedule for the second round of the 2026 playoffs, featuring tip times and television networks for the games. The Western Conference second-round matchups have already been decided, featuring the Oklahoma City Thunder vs. the Los Angeles Lakers, and the San Antonio Spurs vs the Minnesota Timberwolves. But the Eastern…
The WNBA season is almost upon us and the 2026 campaign will have more storylines than ever before, but none will be bigger than Caitlin Clark looking to get back to her best. After a rookie year that took the country by storm, both for on-court and off-court reasons, Clark spent much of the 2025…
Eight months after Molly Qerim walked out the door at ESPN, Stephen A. Smith is still being asked about it. That’s partly because his answers keep leaving room for more questions. The latest came on Cam Newton’s Funky Friday, where Smith got more personal about it than he has before. Qerim spent a decade as…
Move over Stephen A. Smith, it’s now the time for Zach Lowe to shine. In the midst of his dozens of television, radio, and podcasting gigs it’s easy to forget that Stephen A. Smith is also a legitimate actor. He’s had a role on the longtime ABC soap opera for years playing the role of…
NBC has made an unprecedented push in live sports on broadcast television thanks to their new TV contracts with the NBA and MLB. And it will pay off in a huge way on Saturday with a massive day of sports. NBC will air the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. And although it may not immediately jump…
The F1 movie was a hit both critically and commercially. So it’s no shock that Apple is looking to go back to the well once again. The movie starring Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, and Javier Bardem was a smash at the box office, generating over $630 million worldwide and making a massive return on investment.…
The Big Ten believes it owns the media rights to one of Duke’s newly announced games on Amazon Prime Video. Duke recently announced an agreement with Amazon Prime Video to allow the streaming service to air three neutral-site games featuring Duke: against UConn on Nov. 25 in Las Vegas, against Michigan on Dec. 21 in…
The rich just got a whole lot richer, and in the case of the Big Ten, its schools are now part of the billionaires club. The 2025 season marked the first full season of the Big Ten’s landmark media deals across Fox, NBC, and CBS. And while the SEC may have won the ratings war…
CBS is looking to fill the seat Matt Ryan left behind on The NFL Today, and Luke Kuechly is apparently in the mix. According to The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand, CBS is in negotiations with Russell Wilson over a potential role on the network’s NFL pregame show, and Wilson isn’t the only name the network has…
All Times Eastern Australian Rules Football AFL Men’s — Round 8 Sydney Swans vs. Melbourne Demons — FS2/Fox One, 1:01 a.m. (Sunday) Gold Coast Suns vs. Greater Western Sydney Giants — FS1/Fox One, 5 a.m. (Sunday) Baseball Banana Ball World Tour Exhibition, Kyle Field, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Savannah Bananas at Texas Tailgaters…
As part of the new WNBA media rights deal running through 2036, NBC will broadcast more than 50 WNBA regular-season and first-round playoff games each season across Peacock, NBC, and USA throughout the deal, as well as seven WNBA Conference semifinals and three WNBA Finals series. The Network’s coverage of the league will feature Zora Stephenson, Noah Eagle,…
The Atlanta Hawks didn’t represent much of a challenge for the New York Knicks on Thursday night, but the blowout created a more challenging broadcast for Mike Breen. In one of the most dominant performances in NBA playoff history, the Knicks advanced to the second round and ended Atlanta’s season with a 140-89 win over…
The Group of Six playoff idea is one of those college football topics that tends to come up every year and go nowhere fast. Tim Pernetti is trying to change that. Pernetti first floated the idea at his introductory press conference in spring 2024, before he’d even officially started the job. He wasn’t lobbying for…
If you had an issue with Stephen A. Smith boldly claiming NASCAR drivers aren’t real athletes, Michael Jordan agrees with you. Last week, Smith picked a fight with golfers and NASCAR drivers by proclaiming they’re not real athletes during an episode of his Mad Dog Sports Radio show on SiriusXM. Smith broached the hot take after a…
The NFL schedule release is two weeks out, and the Los Angeles Chargers are practically sitting on a gold mine. Albert Breer appeared on The Dan Patrick Show and raised what is probably an inevitable question at this point: Will the Chargers, who have built a reputation as the most willing team in the league…
