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The ABS challenge system has been one of the best stories in baseball so far this season, and Jeff Passan has been one of the best people to follow on the subject. The ESPN MLB insider has been ahead of this story for a couple of years now, going back to his appearances on The…
Michael Kay and John Sterling had a strong friendship up until the end, but their relationship wasn’t devoid of tension. Kay joined the New York Post’s Jon Heyman and Joel Sherman on their podcast, The Show, this week to honor Sterling, his former broadcast partner, who passed away Monday morning. For ten years, Kay and Sterling shared the Yankees radio booth.…
The wait for the 2026 NFL schedule is almost over. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the NFL plans to release its full schedule next week on Thursday, May 14. NFL has confirmed that the schedule release will be next Thursday, May 14. pic.twitter.com/mEfhHKKR2m — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) May 8, 2026 Last month, NFL VP of…
The good times keep rolling for the NHL. After posting major viewership gains throughout the regular season, the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs saw a nearly 70% increase versus last year’s audience. The first round of the NHL’s postseason averaged 1.2 million viewers across ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, TBS, and truTV, according to data…
Most introductory press conferences for pro sports front-office officials barely make the news outside the local market. The introductory press conference for Toronto Maple Leafs GM John Chayka, however, ended up making international headlines, thanks in large part to questions from Toronto Sun columnist Steve Simmons. The longtime journalist opened the presser with a pointed…
College football coaches are moving to support a 24-team College Football Playoff format. The American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), a group that represents many prominent college football coaches, reportedly voted last week to support a 24-team playoff format and discontinue conference championship games, per Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports. The news comes amid heated discussion…
The NFL will continue to find ways to put more games on streaming services, and the league will continue to suggest it’s doing so because that’s where viewers are headed. The league certainly is not wrong on that point. Streaming is growing as a share of television consumption with each passing year, while traditional distribution…
A heated social media tiff between Bussin’ With The Boys’ Taylor Lewan and ESPN NFL analyst Andrew Hawkins over CFL rules was worked out on Tuesday, thanks in large part to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Who had all that on their bingo card? Our sordid story actually begins way back on August 22, 2024, when…
WNBA coverage will have many new faces this season as the league adds new broadcast partners, but returning studio host Hannah Storm may be the most prominent. Storm will be one of the anchors on ESPN’s WNBA Countdown this season, marking a full-circle moment for the former NBC Sports host and women’s basketball fans. Storm was…
The 2026 World Cup is shaping up to be one of the biggest global sporting events in the history of planet Earth, and Fox Sports continues to build out an All-Star roster for its coverage of the tournament across North America. Fox Sports president Eric Shanks has called the tournament the “biggest logistical undertaking” in…
The Holiday Bowl and the newly returned Poinsettia Bowl, jointly operated by Sports San Diego, are both looking for a media partner, and The CW might just answer the call. Late last month, college football insider Brett McMurphy of On3 reported that Fox Sports, which has televised the Holiday Bowl since 2017, would not bid…
As 41-year-old LeBron James enters another postseason series as an underdog with the Los Angeles Lakers, his agent Rich Paul is already prepared for current and former players who will pounce if James loses to the reigning champion Thunder. James is expected to be without costar Luka Doncic for most of the second-round series against…
Grant Napear’s return to Sacramento radio has ended after just eight months. The former Sacramento Kings broadcaster announced Monday on social media that his weekday afternoon show on Fox Sports Radio Sacramento has been canceled. The program had been airing from 3 to 6 p.m. on iHeartMedia’s Fox Sports Sacramento since launching in September 2025,…
John Fanta has made quite a name for himself in his first year at NBC Sports, covering everything from college basketball to the NFL to the NBA to the Kentucky Derby. On Sunday, he adds baseball to that list. According to NBC Sports’ broadcast announcement for this Sunday, May 10, Fanta will make his MLB…
Former ESPN and Fox host Marcellus Wiley responded to the latest sexual assault allegations against him by four new accusers. The new allegations were filed in court last month, joining three existing claims of sexual assault against Wiley. The first accuser came forward in 2023, alleging Wiley raped them in 1994 while he was a…
Fox Sports, FOX One, and job site Indeed announced Tuesday a nationwide search to fill the position of — deep breath — “FOX One Chief World Cup Watcher Hired Through Indeed.” One lucky fan will be paid $50,000 to watch all 104 FIFA World Cup 2026 matches live in 4K from a custom-built viewing space…
One of John Sterling’s favorite duos reunited Monday afternoon, as Mike and the Mad Dog celebrated the beloved New York Yankees announcer. Sterling passed away from heart failure Monday morning at 87 years old, while he was still recovering from open heart surgery following a heart attack earlier this year. And Sterling’s death was met…
WWE fans are not having a great time with the pro wrestling company under the umbrella of TKO from both a creative and business standpoint. The build to WrestleMania 42 was overshadowed by the conviction amongst wrestling fans that TKO circumvented WWE writers by inserting Pat McAfee into the main event storyline between Cody Rhodes…
NFL Network has been dark on Comcast’s Xfinity cable systems for five days as the cable provider negotiates a fresh carriage agreement with Disney, the new owner of NFL Network. It appears there are two primary holdups stalling negotiations, according to a new report by Austin Karp in Sports Business Journal. First, Comcast wants assurances…
The Boston Celtics suffered a surprising first round defeat in the 2026 NBA Playoffs, blowing a 3-1 series lead to the Philadelphia 76ers. And Bill Simmons knows who is most at fault. After the Sixers went into Boston and took Game 7 on Sunday night, the Bill Simmons podcast was always going to be appointment…
Have you ever felt like advertisers were in your head? Well, ESPN’s NHL Stanley Cup Playoff coverage took that concept to the next level on Monday night. We’ve all had that feeling before. Maybe you’re thinking about something or you’ve had a conversation with a friend or family member and suddenly some social media algorithm…
Few, if any, people on the planet love college basketball more than Jon Rothstein. So, it’s not a great sign for the sport when even he hates the reports that the NCAA is in the “final steps” of expanding the NCAA Tournament to 76 teams. Rothstein voiced his concerns about expanding the NCAA Tournament during…
Monday night represented an interesting scheduling quirk as the second round of the 2026 NBA Playoffs got underway, and it was a night that both NBC and the NBA will probably regret. As the conference semifinals get underway, NBC has Game 1 in all four series. However, instead of airing doubleheaders, the games are staggered…
Nielsen is continuing to develop new ways to find viewers that have not traditionally been captured in its samples. The company’s newest experiment is designed to better capture “co-viewing,” industry parlance for when several people watch a telecast together in the same room. While Nielsen’s co-viewing measurements are still in the pilot phase and thus…
