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The NBA playoffs begin Saturday, April 18, and for the first time in more than two decades, the postseason will air without TNT. The NBA released the Game 1 schedule for the first round on Sunday, with eight matchups spread across two days and three broadcast partners. Under the league’s new 11-year, $76 billion media…
Dana White, like so many other men in his tax bracket, has decided that reality is whatever he says it is. That was on full display over the weekend when he tried to Jedi mind trick America into forgetting what the purpose of any speech at the Republican National Convention is. I cannot tell if…
The 2025-26 NBA season has been special for the San Antonio Spurs. This is Mitch Johnson’s first season as the full-time coach, following an interim role last year after Gregg Popovich’s stroke. It is also Dan Weiss’s first season as the Spurs’ radio voice. The former pregame and postgame host took over for the retired Bill Schoening.…
When Page Six published photos last Tuesday showing The Athletic NFL insider Dianna Russini and New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel holding hands, hugging, and sitting side by side in a hot tub at the Ambiente — an adult-only resort in Sedona, Arizona — The Athletic executive editor Steven Ginsberg moved quickly to get…
Rory McIlroy needed a bogey to win the Masters. After a drive into the woods built tension that the unthinkable could happen, he hit his approach shot on 18, and for the better part of a minute, nobody watching on CBS had any idea where it went. Not the announcers. Not the production truck. Nobody.…
As part of the NBA’s media rights deal with ESPN, NBC, and Amazon, beginning this year, there will no longer be first-round playoff games televised on regional sports networks (RSNs) with local television announcers. All playoff games are now exclusive to the national TV partners. The decision has frustrated many NBA fans, including the voice…
The discourse surrounding the second half of the NBA season has been, in large part, defined by the debate around the league’s 65-game threshold, which requires players to participate in a minimum of 65 regular-season games to qualify for league awards such as MVP and All-NBA teams. The Inside the NBA crew, consisting of Ernie…
The NESN Boston Red Sox broadcast encountered technical difficulties that led to a unique situation during Sunday’s road game against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium. NESN was down to just one camera due to technical difficulties in the top of the first inning. So, NESN viewers got a look at the game from…
All Times Eastern College Basketball Men’s Inside College Basketball — CBS Sports Network, 1 p.m. College Football ACC Huddle: NFL Draft Preview — ACC Network, 5 p.m. Always College Football — ESPN2, 5 p.m. Ross Tucker College Draft — DraftKings Network, 9:30 p.m. College Golf Men’s Western Intercollegiate, Pasatiempo Golf Club, Santa Cruz, CA 1st…
Sunday night’s NBA game between the Orlando Magic and Boston Celtics was the final broadcast of play-by-play announcer Mark Jones’ 36-year career with ESPN. After joining ESPN in 1990, Jones is leaving the network by choice. However, Jones isn’t retiring from broadcasting. He recently said that he hopes to remain the play-by-play voice of the…
Rory McIlroy, long one of the top golfers in the world, finally secured his first green jacket and snapped a 10-year major title drought by winning the Masters in 2025. And now, the reigning champion has gone back-to-back. McIlroy held off a late push by World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler over the weekend to come…
Major League Baseball’s introduction of the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System, which allows players to challenge umpires’ ball-strike calls, this season has been a nearly universally acclaimed addition to the big leagues for analysts, fans, and players, and has already resulted in some great moments. Not everyone, however, has been a fan of the new…
The New York Yankees lost 5-4 in extra innings to the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday night, the ballclub’s fourth loss in a row. The Yankees had a chance to extend the game in the bottom of the 10th inning, with Tampa Bay’s Jonathan Aranda coming to the plate with one out and the bases…
The University of North Carolina hired former NBA head coach and ESPN analyst Michael Malone to replace Hubert Davis as the head coach of the men’s basketball program, following Davis’s firing from the role after a stunning NCAA Tournament first-round exit at the hands of the VCU Rams. Before joining ESPN’s NBA coverage last postseason,…
As two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell gets closer to returning to the Los Angeles Dodgers, frustrations over his injured left shoulder led to some salty language directed at a fan during a recent Twitch stream. The oft-outspoken Snell was recently doing a livestream while playing MLB The Show 26 when a commentator said…
ESPN formally acquired NFL Network on April 1 as part of an equity deal with the NFL, which was approved earlier this year. As a result, NFL Network was expected to be included in ESPN’s direct-to-consumer offering, ESPN Unlimited. ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro confirmed as much in an interview with CNBC in February. “One of…
You gotta hand it to UFC President Dana White. He’s worked himself into a shoot so hard trying to defend the upcoming UFC Freedom 250 at the White House that he’s found a way to say a speech at a political rally is not political. While his Vice President was on the other side of…
Tiger Woods is probably hoping things die down around his recent DUI arrest, but Saturday Night Live made sure to get in a couple of shots just in case anyone forgot. The cold open of this weekend’s show, hosted by Colman Domingo, began with James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump discussing his Easter social media post…
If you were hoping to hear from New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel as he sets the record straight about the Dianna Russini controversy, well, you must have been born yesterday. The Patriots will hold their pre-draft press conference on Monday at 2:00 p.m. ET. While Vrabel was front and center at that presser last…
When Page Six posted photos on Tuesday of The Athletic NFL insider Dianna Russini and New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel at a resort in Arizona, Steven Ginsberg, the executive editor of The Athletic, said in a statement that the photos were misleading and “lack essential context.” By the end of the week, however,…
Mel Kiper Jr. has been covering the NFL Draft for over 40 years. Long enough to watch almost everyone who said he was wasting his time either come around or go quiet. A 2014 Bleacher Report profile caught him saying something that clearly resonated: that he believed this country runs on wanting to take people…
Amazon Prime Video executives are increasingly confident they will gain exclusive rights to the Super Bowl soon, but FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr doesn’t seem to be a fan. In a social media post on X, Carr highlighted a recent column from Andrew Marchand of The Athletic in which an Amazon executive expressed confidence that the…
Saturday brought day three of the 2026 Masters Tournament, and day one of this year’s CBS coverage. And it featured a moment that many found funny, but reigning Masters champion Rory McIlroy probably didn’t. As McIlroy, who entered Saturday with a six-shot lead, finished his tee shot on the 17th hole at Augusta National Golf…
All Times Eastern The Masters Final Round Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, GA Announcers: Shane Bacon/Michael Breed/Brian Crowell/Billy Kratzert/Johnson Wagner Featured Groups — ESPN+/Paramount+/Prime Video/Masters Live (Masters app/Masters.org), 10:15 a.m. Announcers: Dave Flemming/Scott Verplank Holes 4, 5 & 6 — ESPN/Masters Live (Masters app/Masters.org)+, 10:30 a.m. Announcers: Grant Boone/Mark Immelman Amen Corner — ESPN+/Paramount+/Prime Video/Masters…
