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Golf prides itself on being a gentleman’s game. Players are supposed to call penalties on themselves. Proper etiquette reigns supreme. That’s why it’s a shock to hear real shots being fired in the golf world. And that’s what makes NBC golf analyst Kevin Kisner going scorched earth on CBS’s 2026 Masters coverage truly astonishing. When…
Legendary Toronto Maple Leafs radio broadcaster Joe Bowen announced last June that this NHL season would be his final one behind the mic. Bowen has been the radio voice of the Maple Leafs for 44 years. Monday night brought Bowen’s final home radio broadcast in Toronto, and it was an emotional evening for everyone at…
After six seasons with the Sacramento Kings, Kyle Draper is leaving his role as play-by-play announcer. Draper tag-teamed the role with longtime ESPN announcer Mark Jones, calling plenty of games while Jones was on national duty. However, last week Jones announced his own departure from ESPN after serving the WorldWide Leader in Sports for the…
As a former NFL reporter, Skip Bayless believes the photos of Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel exposes a larger industry issue. Last week, Page Six published photos of Russini, a senior NFL insider for The Athletic, poolside at an adults-only hotel with New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel. Russini and Vrabel immediately issued strong…
There will never be another like Jerry West again. West was a singular figure in sports history. He was so iconic that his silhouette inspired the NBA’s logo. As great a basketball player as he was, he was an even better basketball executive. He was the first three-time inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of…
A year after departing from Meadowlark Media, prolific sports columnist and author Howard Bryant has signed a documentary development deal with All the Smoke Productions. The partnership is a “multi-project unscripted development deal” between ATS Productions and Bryant’s production company, Hawley Road. Bryant most recently served as an executive producer on the Sports Emmy-winning Netflix series…
All Times Eastern Bundesliga Bundesliga Special #18- The Legacy of Manuel Neuer — ESPN+, 5:30 p.m. College Baseball Creighton at Nebraska — Big Ten Network/Fox One, 7 p.m. Cal-Santa Barbara at UCLA — Big Ten Network/Fox One, 10 p.m. College Basketball The Hoops HQ Show — Fubo Sports Network, 11 a.m. ACC Network Basketball Podcast…
Dave McGinnis, a longtime radio analyst for the Tennessee Titans and former NFL head coach, passed away on Monday in Nashville. He was 74. The Titans announced the news on social media. We extend our deepest condolences to the family of Dave “Coach Mac” McGinnis, who passed away Monday afternoon in Nashville with family at…
The Pittsburgh Pirates played a weekend series at one of the great shrines in sports, Wrigley Field. And it was the perfect baseball setting for the Pirates broadcast on SportsNet Pittsburgh to make a beautiful recreation of the Masters intro ahead of the prestigious golf tournament’s final-round action on Sunday. Pirates play-by-play announcer Greg Brown…
For pro wrestling fans unhappy with the current angle involving Pat McAfee’s insertion into the WrestleMania 42 main event storyline, it’s good to remember it always could have been worse. ESPN’s First Take dedicated a segment to discussing this weekend’s WrestleMania 42. As part of that discussion, Stephen A. Smith seemed to admit that he…
Last Tuesday, Page Six published a series of photographs showing New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel and The Athletic NFL reporter Dianna Russini, both of whom are married to other people, hugging, holding hands, and lounging side by side at a pool several weeks ago at the Ambiente, an adult-only resort in Sedona, Arizona.…
As the status of NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and his placement on the NFL reporter depth chart under the ESPN umbrella lingers unresolved, Adam Schefter has offered a response. Rapoport’s contract will expire at the end of April, though ESPN has signaled its intention to keep him after taking over the NFL Network. The Worldwide…
Meghan McPeak’s time as a Washington Wizards sideline reporter for Monumental Sports Network came to an end this weekend, but the NBA team’s players didn’t want her to leave without a little appreciation. McPeak, who called games for the WNBA’s Washington Mystics and the G League’s Capital City Go-Go before taking on the role with…
As Doc Rivers departs the Milwaukee Bucks following a tumultuous fifth stint as an NBA head coach, his former employer is in dire need of some help on its NBA commentary bench. ESPN just lost Michael Malone to North Carolina, leaving a hole in its No. 3 broadcast team on the eve of the postseason…
Dick Vitale announced Monday that a recent biopsy revealed that he has melanoma, a form of skin cancer, in his lungs and liver. The 86-year-old college basketball announcing icon says he will start immunotherapy soon. ESPN shared the announcement on Vitale’s behalf. Sharing a health update on behalf of @DickieV Your ESPN family is with…
Rory McIlroy won his second consecutive Masters title on Sunday as he defeated Scottie Scheffler by a single stroke. With the biggest stars in the golfing world and millions of viewers at home tuned in, it was the biggest sports story of the day by far. So it was only natural that ESPN’s First Take,…
ESPN’s Kendrick Perkins and The Ringer founder Bill Simmons have a somewhat checkered history. The pair initially found themselves in a public back-and-forth following the 2025 NBA draft, when Perkins predicted that the Toronto Raptors would finish in the top six of the Eastern Conference standings for the 2025-26 season while covering the event for…
You knew the news cycle around ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky’s take that Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson is a better prospect than Heisman winner Fernando Mendoza had reached its logical conclusion when fans online began accusing Orlovsky of bias toward Simpson because the two shared an agency. It was the same allegation lobbed at ESPN’s College GameDay…
NBC went country for its Sunday Night Baseball opening theme song, tapping the Zac Brown Band to star in its new open, which debuted on Sunday night on NBC and Peacock ahead of the Guardians-Braves game and will be used for every Sunday night game through the end of the season. And here it is. Zac…
Last Thursday’s game between the Indiana Pacers and the Brooklyn Nets at the Barclays Center saw two of the Eastern Conference’s dregs slug it out in a battle of two teams vying for the highest lottery odds in the 2026 NBA draft. The Pacers won the somewhat uneventful game 123-94, but the real entertainment came…
Jay Bilas is getting a significantly larger role in ESPN’s NBA playoff coverage than seemed likely even a week ago. Michael Malone’s surprise departure for the North Carolina head coaching job last week left ESPN with an immediate problem. Malone had spent the better part of this past season establishing himself as one of the…
The idea behind NBC’s rotating analyst model for Sunday Night Baseball was sound enough on paper. Jason Benetti — one of the best play-by-play voices in baseball, by most accounts — anchors every game, while former players with direct ties to the teams playing that week fill the analyst chairs beside him. Instead of a…
Longtime Red Sox radio broadcaster Joe Castiglione intends to return to the broadcast booth this season after being treated for cancer. Castiglione, who turned 79 in March, served as the primary voice in the Red Sox WEEI radio booth beginning in 1983 but announced his retirement after the 2024 season. After a year as a…
Joe Buck is calling the Mets-Dodgers game on ESPN this Wednesday, April 15. As far as he’s concerned, that’s probably it for the season. Appearing on Sports Media with Richard Deitsch, Buck — who during the same episode said he wants to spend the rest of his professional career at the Worldwide Leader — addressed…
