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The Chicago Bears defeated the visiting New England Patriots at Soldier Field on Prime Video’s Thursday Night Football. Afterward, comedian Matt Friend, a native Chicagoan, debuted “The Friend Zone with Matt Friend” on TNF Nightcap. “Thursday Night Football is one of the biggest stages in sports, and I can’t wait to bring even more fun to…
By now, New York Mets fans are well acquainted with the game of chicken that plays out between Keith Hernandez and SportsNet New York (SNY) every three years. The 11-time Gold Glove first baseman nears the end of his contract, stays coy about whether he’ll return, and both sides hem and haw through a will-they-won’t-they…
Sports media’s obsession with the Dallas Cowboys is a tale as old as time. This summer, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott applied fresh paint to the ever-present target on his back when he said “it’s Super Bowl or bust.” (He could have said the sky is blue and a news cycle would have followed, to be…
Grifters and pundits have a nasty habit of painting Angel Reese as the villain in Caitlin Clark’s origin story, but Reese has been the Atlanta Dream’s hero in the WNBA Finals, and Nick Wright implored sports media to cover that story. “Sports media needs to decide whether it wants to cover the WNBA or not,” Wright…
The Houston Comets return to the WNBA next season, and they’ve already found a local broadcasting home. On Thursday, the Comets and Tegna announced a multi-year deal that will make it easy for anyone in the Houston market to find games. KTBU Channel 55 and CBS affiliate KHOU 11 (select games) will broadcast Comet games…
Thirty-five years after Vin Scully compared a 5-foot-6 shortstop to something that fell out of Kent Hrbek’s pocket, Jon “Boog” Sciambi can still recite the line. And that might be the most convincing testimonial baseball on the radio has ever received. Sciambi will call his fourth straight Fall Classic on ESPN Radio this weekend. He’ll…
Mike Locksley is about to get paid a lot of money to stay home and do nothing, but the longtime college football coach doesn’t plan to sit around. Locksley and the university parted ways on Wednesday after Maryland dropped to 2-5 following a home loss to fellow Big Ten basement-dweller Rutgers. He finished with a…
All Times Eastern Australian Rules Football AFL Women’s — Round 11 St. Kilda Saints vs. Brisbane Lions — FS2/Fox One, 10 p.m. Geelong Cats vs. Fremantle Dockers — Fox Soccer Plus, midnight Gold Coast Suns vs. Richmond Tigers — FS2/Fox One, 2 a.m. (Saturday) Western Bulldogs vs. Melbourne Demons — FS2/Fox One, 4 a.m. (Saturday)…
This summer, Ahman Green, the Green Bay Packers’ all-time leading rusher, disclosed his early-onset Parkinson’s disease diagnosis while appearing on Tyler Dunne’s “Go Long” podcast, and former Tennessee Titans star running back Chris Johnson revealed his ALS diagnosis to Michael Strahan on Good Morning America. Marshall Faulk observed the media coverage of his retired NFL brethren…
NBC wanted to eventize NBA Tip-Off and get audiences excited for the start of another NBA season. It appears they succeeded. Tuesday’s Philadelphia 76ers-New York Knicks and Oklahoma City Thunder-San Antonio Spurs doubleheader was the NBA’s most-watched opening night ever, averaging 6.41 million viewers on NBC and Peacock, according to Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel…
The long and winding legal road for Mark Sanchez, following an incident in Indianapolis that ended with him in the hospital, is going to continue for a bit longer. After several court-date delays, Sanchez pleaded guilty last month, though it was unknown which charges he was pleading guilty to; among those he faced were battery…
The NFL is considering following in the footsteps of several college conferences and letting viewers in on the instant-replay process. The potential initiative, first reported by Sports Illustrated‘s Albert Breer and followed up by Front Office Sports’ Mark Maske, would dramatically change how viewers see replay reviews in the NFL. If the NFL’s initiative were…
Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy finally spoke to Chris Russo, and he learned the man nicknamed “Mad Dog” isn’t all that mad. When the Brewers completed their NLCS sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Russo thought it would be a good time to have Murphy on his Mad Dog Sports Radio show. Russo’s producer even…
If Jesse Watters has his way, you’ll never have to hear about Fox News’ The Five discussing the WNBA ever again. Talk about a win-win. During Wednesday’s episode of the daily talk show, the panel discussed the latest chapter in the eye-rolling saga between former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom and the WNBA. Kanter has…
The Washington Wizards opened their much-anticipated NBA season with a win, but Trump staffer Britt McHenry didn’t see it all. McHenry was in attendance for the start of the game between the Wizards and Milwaukee Bucks Wednesday night, but the former Fox News and ESPN host was forced to leave Capital One Arena in Washington,…
In the modern era of sports, the best a team can hope for when revealing a jersey, logo, or design change of any kind is to avoid pissing off its fans. Earning praise is basically off the table, or at least reserved for the select few — the Miami Vice colorways from almost a decade…
As the Golden State Warriors endured a frustrating season-opening loss, head coach Steve Kerr resorted to accusing the referees of giving Luka Dončić and the Los Angeles Lakers a clear home court advantage. With the Warriors trailing the Lakers 81-59 midway through the third quarter Wednesday night, Kerr pulled rookie Yaxel Lendeborg aside to offer…
On Thursday’s episode of PFT Live, NBC Sports NFL insider Mike Florio soft launched a theory that could have legs. Florio, who’s as discerning an NFL observer as just about anyone in sports media, noticed that the Chicago Bears are about to begin a streak of three consecutive primetime games when they kickoff Week 7 on…
Local ABC affiliates are upset they’ll be sharing the upcoming Super Bowl with a variety of cable networks and streamers. According to a new report by Alex Sherman in CNBC, local ABC affiliates owned by companies like Sinclair, Nexstar, and Tegna are reportedly frustrated at Disney’s fragmented approach to Super Bowl LXI in February. Disney…
We’ll soon know which broadcaster (or broadcasters) will secure rights to the 2030 FIFA World Cup in the United States. FIFA has formally opened the bidding process for U.S. broadcast rights to the 2030 World Cup, according to multiple reports on Thursday. The process will allow broadcasters to submit bids for the 2030 tournament, along…
Questions are beginning to be answered about the particulars of ESPN’s impending College Football Playoff deal that will see the event expand from 12 teams to 24 next season. One of the more pressing questions involves sublicensing. ESPN, under the terms of the 12-team deal, had sublicensed five games to TNT Sports through the next…
If this NBA season really is the Charles Barkley retirement tour, he’s going to make sure he looks better than Aaron Rodgers on his way out. Barkley’s extensive media tour to kick off the 2026-27 NBA season landed him on Adam Schein’s Mad Dog Sports Radio show Wednesday afternoon. And during the interview, Schein asked…
The 2025 NBA Finals marked a turning point for the league and its fans in many ways. First, it pitted two small-market teams against each other: the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers. Second, ESPN’s presentation of Game 1 of the series fell extraordinarily flat and was a far cry from the Finals of…
Less than an hour into Inside the NBA coverage of the 2026-27 season, the always-honest Charles Barkley said something that caught host Ernie Johnson off guard. During the NBA Tip-Off pregame show ahead of Wednesday night’s ESPN NBA doubleheader, Barkley mentioned that Shaquille O’Neal knows FBI Director Kash Patel. The way Barkley delivered the point…
