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Nick Wright is trying to make it right after snubbing Steph Curry, but he’s accepting his fate and whatever backlash comes his way. Wright unveiled his top-10 NBA guards of all-time on Tuesday afternoon on First Things First, and he briefly joined Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo as maybe the only other sports media member who…
Brian Kelly made his first television appearance since LSU fired him in October on Tuesday, sitting alongside Brent Stover, Kevin Carter, and Beanie Wells on CBS Sports Network to break down 2026 NFL Draft prospects. According to USA Today‘s John Brice, it won’t be his last. CBS college football studio work, radio, and podcast appearances…
Netflix is pushing its way further into live sports, albeit not in the United States. The streaming giant has secured Mexican broadcast rights to both the CONCACAF Gold Cup and CONCACAF Nations League finals through 2029, according to a report by Etan Vlessing in The Hollywood Reporter. Both competitions are scheduled to be contested in…
NASCAR got a 40% rights fee bump in its latest TV deal. The cost? Fewer people actually watching the races. The recent Cup Series race at Bristol on FS1 averaged just 1.945 million viewers. According to Braylon Breeze of RaceDay Report, that is the first time a Fox Sports race has averaged fewer than 2…
The WNBA season is officially on, as owners and the players’ union reached a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement last month. That means the league’s television partners, including ESPN, Prime Video, and NBC, can now begin to solidify their broadcast rosters ahead of Opening Night on May 8. According to Front Office Sports,…
Charles Barkley has no issue with LeBron James hating Memphis, he has an issue with Stephen A. Smith and others making it about race. Earlier this month, James faced criticism for shading Memphis and Milwaukee during an appearance with Bob Does Sports. James said most NBA stars agree the Grizzlies should move to Nashville, adding…
As it would turn out, greatly expanding its broadcast television exposure has done wonders for NBA viewership in Year 1 of the league’s new television contracts. NBA telecasts averaged 1.78 million viewers across ABC, ESPN, NBC, Peacock, and Prime Video throughout the regular season. That’s good for a 16% increase versus last year, the final…
As the NFL Draft prepares to descend on the Steel City, Pittsburgh royalty will be standing by to contribute coverage for the event. On Tuesday, Pat McAfee announced that former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach and current CBS Sports studio analyst Bill Cowher will join his eponymous show’s “Draft Spectacular” coverage next week during the NFL…
One by one in the 1990s and 2000s, a hallowed generation of NFL signal-callers washed out in the media. Joe Montana lasted a season. John Elway said no. Dan Marino did a forgetful decade in the studio at CBS. Only Troy Aikman lasted as a top commentator. With so little to show from that crop,…
Update [4/15/2026, 1:36 p.m. ET]: The Financial Times is now reporting Saudi Arabia’s PIF is “on the verge of cutting its support for LIV Golf.” An announcement on the tour’s future is expected as soon as Thursday. The Saudi-funded LIV Golf league could be on its last legs. That’s the rumor frenetically circulating the golf world…
Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service broadcast its first-ever NBA playoff game on Tuesday night, a play-in contest between the Miami Heat and Charlotte Hornets. But what should’ve been a celebratory night for the streamer quickly turned into a nightmare during the last minute of overtime. Across the country, bewildered NBA fans watched as their Prime…
A last-minute suitor has entered the arena for 13 NBA teams previously tied to Main Street Sports Group, owner of the FanDuel-branded regional sports networks. That suitor is Disney-owned Fubo, the virtual pay TV provider competing with the likes of YouTube TV and Sling for market share over cord-cutters and cord-nevers buying live television through…
NBC Sports will be home of The Soccer Tournament when action kicks off next month. NBC announced on Tuesday that The Soccer Tournament (TST), a series of three separate $1 million winner-take-all, 7-on-7 soccer tournaments, will be broadcast across NBC Sports properties this year. The event features three separate competitions — a men’s, a women’s,…
If Charles Barkley wanted to say anything critical of Bronny James, LeBron James has already made him think better of it. Barkley often seems eager to criticize LeBron James or the Los Angeles Lakers, and even his colleagues at ESPN, who love to talk about LeBron and the Lakers. But as far as saying something…
Amazon Prime Video streamed its first NBA playoff game on Tuesday night during the Eastern Conference play-in game between the Miami Heat and Charlotte Hornets. It was a thrilling game as Charlotte’s Coby White hit an incredible three-pointer in the closing seconds to force overtime. With 48 seconds left in the OT period, the Hornets…
Prime Video’s NBA coverage has ramped up over the course of the season, and the streamer will take center stage this week as the league’s Play-In Tournament’s exclusive home. NBA on Prime will use the Ian Eagle-Stan Van Gundy tandem as its top NBA booth starting this week, while it also puts its “Prime Vision”…
The thrill of live sports comes from the awareness that any moment could become legendary. And for the people producing live sports on television, that means the spotlight is brightest in the big spots. The lesson was unfortunately driven home last weekend at Augusta National, as the CBS Sports production crew got stuck with a…
NFL reporter Dianna Russini resigned from The Athletic on Tuesday, a little less than a week after Page Six published photos of her and New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel at a resort in Arizona. The photos led to an internal investigation by the New York Times-owned sports outlet, during which Russini was pulled from…
While much of the attention surrounding the Dianna Russini-Mike Vrabel controversy has focused on the potentially salacious details of their relationship, many in sports media see it as a prime example of how modern sports reporting has lost its way. It’s certainly no secret that reporters, especially insiders, have strong relationships with players, coaches, executives,…
Joe Buck’s rise to fame as an announcer came in tandem with the rise of the internet and social media. So as he was learning the ropes and making mistakes on the biggest stages in broadcasting, he was, for a time, the poster boy for criticism and discourse. From the way he called his beloved…
The NFL is preparing to ratchet up negotiations with television and streaming partners ahead of its plan to opt out of its current broadcast deals and collect an additional several billion dollars in rights fees. But while CBS and Fox have been at the center of a swirling storm that now involves public pressure from…
This originally appeared in Tuesday morning’s edition of The A Block, Awful Announcing’s daily newsletter with the latest sports media news, commentary, and analysis. Sign up here and be the first to know everything going on in the sports media world. Destiny Betts was 22 years old and in Miami for spring break when she got…
The long slog to get YouTube TV subscribers authenticated for ESPN Unlimited continues, and they will now miss WWE’s flagship event, WrestleMania. YouTube TV subscribers reportedly will not gain authentication access in time for WrestleMania 42 this weekend, which will air exclusively on the Unlimited tier of ESPN’s new app, according to a report by…
Sometime on the evening of Dec. 24, Jeff Passan sat down and typed a long email to a man whose face he had never seen. The email went to Richard Staff, the presiding eccentric of Staffcast, a baseball podcast so constitutionally, almost militantly weird that its episode descriptions read like dispatches from a parallel universe…
