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If Mel Kiper Jr. can continue to stand firm on Shedeur Sanders, Dan Orlovsky should be able to hold his ground on Ty Simpson. Orlovsky has received some flak in recent months for claiming Simpson might be the better quarterback prospect than consensus No. 1 pick in the upcoming NFL Draft, Fernando Mendoza. His Simpson…
Fox Sports continues to rack up world-renowned soccer stars for this summer’s World Cup. On Thursday, the network announced former Dutch international Clarence Seedorf will join Fox’s upcoming World Cup coverage as a studio analyst. Seedorf previously worked for Fox during the 2018 World Cup in Russia, but was not part of the team in…
On Tuesday, NFL writer Crissy Froyd celebrated Dianna Russini‘s resignation from The Athletic. On Thursday, those comments cost her a gig with USA Today Sports. “I’m sure you were told to submit this or that you’d get fired instead. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out,” wrote Froyd Tuesday on X while…
The news of a deadly car accident involving Miami edge rusher Reuben Bain Jr. last week set off a broader debate over reporting on the NFL Draft, one that now has veteran draft analyst Todd McShay calling Ollie Connolly, the reporter who broke the Bain news, a “scumbag.” According to police and court documents from…
A month after a dispute between a local newspaper reporter and national media as to the nature of St. Bonaventure men’s basketball coach Mark Schmidt’s departure, the tension between former ESPN NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski and local fans and alumni is seemingly stronger than ever. Wojnarowski retired from newsbreaking in 2024 and moved to Olean,…
If LIV Golf was hoping to quell fears about its solvency the day after multiple reports that its financial backer would be turning off the spigot, Thursday’s livestream of its Mexico City event did anything but. LIV Golf Mexico City 2026 got underway on Thursday at Club de Golf Chapultepec, with the league feeling frisky…
LIV Golf Mexico City got underway on Thursday, and broadcasters Arlo White and David Feherty took it upon themselves to tell viewers that the many credible reports that the league is losing financial support in the days ahead are untrue. Surely, this won’t backfire. At the top of the YouTube broadcast, White told viewers that…
“Tough week for women in sports media,” read a Thursday X post from self-described Christ follower Jon Root as he piled on a video of Seattle Mariners broadcaster Angie Mentink asking Google Gemini, “Good questions after a tough loss in baseball.” Root was also referring to the situation around NFL reporter Dianna Russini, who resigned…
In the fall of 2013, Joel Anderson arrived at BuzzFeed with a plan. He was going to be a senior sports writer. He was also going to learn how to make GIFs, because this was BuzzFeed, and the currency of the moment was digital fluency. Both things seemed important. Both things seemed possible. Within six…
Before anyone says it, I know. The first letter of ESPN stands for entertainment. Yes, the Worldwide Leader in Sports shares its “E” with WWE. That’s World Wrestling Entertainment, decidedly not a sport. Last August, ESPN embraced its dual mandate by signing a media rights deal to become the exclusive presenter of WWE’s Premium Live…
While the WNBA Draft came and went without any coverage of No. 1 pick Azzi Fudd’s public relationship with franchise cornerstone Paige Bueckers, this week’s introductory press conference did not go as smoothly. Fudd fielded questions from local reporters alongside general manager Curt Miller and new head coach Jose Fernandez. Despite a prolific career at…
College Football Playoff expansion remains one of the key sports business stories of the moment, and it’s no secret that one network is particularly keen to see the sport’s postseason expand further. That network would be Fox, which, despite having the top package of Big Ten regular-season games, does not have a piece of the…
As MLS and Apple entered the fourth season of their partnership earlier this year, it came with a big change. No longer did fans have to purchase MLS Season Pass for the annual price of $100 to watch the league. Now, anyone with a standard Apple TV subscription could watch MLS at no additional cost.…
The entire NBA season has been a celebration of the return of the NBA on NBC, but the hype will really kick in starting this weekend when the NBA playoffs tip off. Sunday Night Basketball games averaged 3.4 million viewers this season, according to NBC, while Coast 2 Coast Tuesday doubleheader games averaged 2.6 million viewers, a…
Maria Sharapova is launching a podcast. The five-time Grand Slam winner and 2020 retiree announced Wednesday that Pretty Tough, a new show focused on female ambition and the pursuit of excellence, debuts April 22 on Vox Media. The first season will include interviews with comedian Chelsea Handler and NFL CFO Christine Dorfler, among others. …
On this week’s episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast, host Brandon Contes interviews Atlanta Braves TV announcer Brandon Gaudin. Gaudin discussed a wide range of topics on the podcast, including the inaugural season of BravesVision, replacing Chip Caray, succeeding Jim Nantz as the voice of Madden, NBC’s decision to use rotating analysts on Sunday Night…
LaMelo Ball was the villain and the hero in the Charlotte Hornets victory over the Miami Heat in the first play-in game of the 2026 NBA Playoffs. The game itself was a thriller as Charlotte won 127-126 in overtime. Ball made the game-winning basket in the extra period after Coby White had forced the extra…
WWE continued using their broadcast partners at ESPN to advance one of their major storylines at WrestleMania 42 with Pat McAfee taking center stage in the corner of Randy Orton as he challenges Cody Rhodes for the WWE title. The sudden insertion of McAfee into the main event picture has soundly been rejected by wrestling…
The Dallas Wings had the top overall pick in the WNBA Draft each of the past two offseasons and used those picks to select players who have quite a history together in Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd. In 2025, the decision was clear-cut (though not without its own drama). UConn’s Paige Bueckers had been seen…
LIV Golf could be approaching its final breaths. And now the question seems to be not if the league will close up shop, but when. It all started with a tweet on Tuesday from Monday Q Info’s Ryan French about a “bombshell announcement” regarding the league’s future coming. The nature of that announcement became clear…
The saga involving Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel hasn’t necessarily come to an end, but it has hit a major turning point. Photos published a week ago by The New York Post of the pair at a private resort have led to Russini’s resignation from The Athletic. The resignation ends her three-year tenure at the publication,…
After Prime Video struggled through an outage, an incredibly inopportune moment during Tuesday night’s Eastern Conference play-in game, Bill Simmons took the opportunity to blast the streamer for some of its issues with NBA coverage throughout the season. During overtime of the Heat-Hornets game in Charlotte, Prime Video flashed to black before displaying a “technical…
Peter Schrager left NFL Network a year ago, having watched the writing on the wall accumulate for longer than he cared to admit. Good Morning Football, the show he helped launch in 2016 and that became the network’s most visible daily product, had been relocated from New York to Los Angeles. As resources became thin,…
The San Francisco 49ers and KNBR announced Wednesday a multi-year extension, keeping intact a radio flagship partnership that dates to 2005 and the broadcast team — Greg Papa and Tim Ryan — that has defined it. “We at KNBR are tremendously excited to continue this valued partnership with the Niners,” said Larry Blumhagen, regional vice…
