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Whether viewership for Formula One’s first season on Apple TV is up or down from the circuit’s last season on ESPN isn’t something Liberty Media CEO Derek Chang wants to address. But whatever data Chang is seeing is good enough for him to express supreme confidence in F1’s deal with Apple. Chang, the CEO of…
Last summer, after the New York Knicks won their first NBA title in 53 years, NBA X/Twitter personality and lifelong Knicks fan World Wide Wob ended his watch, leaving behind an X account with over 1 million followers. Wob, whose real name is Rob Perez, got his start in the NBA space selling tickets, before…
Analytics has become the antagonist or protagonist in sports, depending on who you ask. As such, it has provided sports media figures with endless fodder—arguably more than the actual games. Jason Kelce and Travis Kelce debated the validity of stats on New Heights all the way back in 2024, while Troy Aikman bashed analytics and The…
The Baltimore Ravens hope to have Lamar Jackson back for an AFC showdown vs. Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills in Week 8. Ian Eagle and Ross Tucker will have the television broadcast call for CBS (1 p.m. ET). At Fox, the lead crew of Kevin Burkhardt and Tom Brady will call an NFC North…
Donald Trump might be driving a rift between the New York Knicks players and franchise owner James Dolan, according to Stephen A. Smith. After Jalen Brunson, Karl Anthony-Towns, OG Anunoby, Mikal Bridges and Josh Hart led the Knicks to their first championship in 53 years, the feeling around Madison Square Garden should still be celebratory…
Ernie Johnson’s 37th season hosting Inside the NBA will be his last. Johnson delivered the news in a roughly two-and-a-half-minute video message on Wednesday. In it, he said people have been asking more and more how long he plans to keep hosting the show, especially since he turned 70 this summer. “This will be my…
Dave Portnoy has experience with college campuses hating him. Namely, according to Portnoy, Ohio State banned the Barstool College Football Show from its campus, and Portnoy blamed Ohio State head football coach Ryan Day for Fox Sports ending the partnership between Barstool and Big Noon Kickoff. It is that lens, it appears, through which Portnoy observed…
Troy Aikman engaged in a lengthy conversation with Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones before calling the Cowboys’ 38-21 win over the Philadelphia Eagles on ESPN’s Monday Night Football this week. Aikman recently told Mike Fisher that he’d “welcome any conversation with Jerry,” and Jones has insisted that Aikman joining the Cowboys’ front office is “very possible.” Despite…
New York Mets fans have grown accustomed to Keith Hernandez’s standoff with SNY every few years, but they may not have been ready for a scare from Ron Darling. Darling has been with Hernandez and Gary Cohen since 2005, and he’s been a lead analyst for the MLB on TBS since 2008. And despite being…
College GameDay came under heavy scrutiny last month after the weekly college football roadshow hosted Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for a discussion of the Protect College Sports Act (PCSA), legislation he sponsored, without offering any perspective from critics of the bill. The interview, conducted by host Rece Davis, more or less resembled an infomercial for the…
The WNBA Finals continues to post high marks despite a series of scheduling shifts. Saturday’s Game 4 between the Golden State Valkyries and Atlanta Dream, which was moved from 3:30 p.m. ET to 1 p.m. ET to accommodate holding the game in State Farm Arena rather than the Dream’s much smaller home arena, averaged 1.9…
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. Since 2016, every four years or so, Kevin Clark has sat through the same courtship ritual. The suitors change with…
Joe Davis gave World Series viewers a ride down memory lane during extra innings of Game 4 on Tuesday night. Fox Sports’ lead MLB play-by-play voice opted to pull from two giants of baseball broadcasting to drive home a pair of pivotal moments in the 12th inning. The first, a go-ahead home run by the…
With the cable-based regional sports network business on its last legs, the open secret among NBA and MLB fans is that leagues will look to launch a streaming equivalent to the RSN. With backing from a deep-pocketed streamer like Prime Video or YouTube, the new service could provide crucial revenue for leagues and teams. But…
The volume of flags in the NFL this season has been so extreme that commissioner Roger Goodell has already been forced to address it. The season has seen the highest single week of called penalties in its history, and the average per game is up over last season. Most frustratingly for fans, many high-profile games…
Just over a year ago, newly combined Paramount and Skydance shocked the sports media business by securing exclusive rights to all UFC fights for the next seven years in a deal that pays the MMA promotion more than $1 billion annually. But before freshly minted Paramount chief David Ellison swooped in with deep pockets, the…
Game 6 of the WNBA Finals will be played Thursday at 12:30 p.m. ET in Atlanta after the NBA and WNBA negotiated a solution to play the game at State Farm Arena ahead of a scheduled Atlanta Hawks regular season matchup. The WNBA is the target of yet another wave of ridicule, as the league…
Paul Finebaum knows a thing or two about riling up sports fans. He also knows what it feels like when things go too far. The ESPN and SEC Network host has made a career out of saying things that fire up SEC fans, and given the passion that rules that kind of college football fandom,…
One of the most legendary voices of Nebraska men’s basketball and football is hanging up the headset. Longtime play-by-play announcer Kent Pavelka, who began calling Cornhusker games in 1974, announced Monday evening on Huskers Radio Network that he will retire after the 2026-27 season, per the Daily Nebraskan. “It’s time,” Pavelka said on the radio…
Erin Andrews had a great halftime conversation with Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur. Unfortunately, it didn’t lead to a great halftime report on Fox. Andrews worked Sunday’s game between the Packers and Detroit Lions alongside Tom Rinaldi, Kevin Burkhardt, and Tom Brady for Fox. On the latest episode of her Calm Down podcast with…
Robert Griffin III has said for years that he wants another shot at an NFL quarterback job. That hasn’t come to fruition. So now, the Fox Sports college football analyst is shifting his focus to a different role: college football head coach. The Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL quarterback made the rounds on Monday…
Eagle-eyed sports media observers noticed a quirk in Tuesday’s TGL schedule announcement that revealed part of ESPN’s NFL playoff schedule is still up in the air. As pointed out by the Sports TV News & Updates account on X, TGL, the tech-infused simulator golf league co-founded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s TMRW Sports, released…
After two games, this year’s small-market World Series is avoiding MLB’s worst fears from a viewership standpoint, but an uncompetitive Game 3 could send interest spiraling. Saturday’s World Series Game 2 between the Tampa Bay Rays and Milwaukee Brewers drew an average of 10.85 million viewers across Fox and Fox Deportes, the network announced Tuesday.…
On Monday, the Chicago White Sox announced that they would not extend the contract of John Schriffen, the team’s lead TV play-by-play voice since 2024. It does sound as though there are too many people around Chicago sports radio all that broken up about it. The 42-year-old Schriffen became the team’s lead television play-by-play broadcaster…
