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Longtime ESPN anchor and announcer John Buccigross will be sticking around with the Worldwide Leader in Sports for years to come. Buccigross has signed a multi-year extension with ESPN, as first reported by hockey insider Frank Seravalli on Saturday. Awful Announcing has confirmed the news, and an announcement is expected for early next week. Update:…
Two-time Masters Tournament champion Scottie Scheffler shot a 65 on Saturday, good for his career-low round in the Masters and tied for the best round of the day at Augusta National Golf Club. The seven-under performance moved Scheffler into a tie for seventh place entering Sunday’s final round, four shots behind co-leaders Rory McIlroy and…
While the 2026 Masters entered the third round on Saturday at Augusta National Golf Club, it was day one of the coverage this year for CBS. CBS is synonymous with Masters coverage and has televised the tournament since 1956. The network annually does an excellent job making the Masters feel like the prestigious, historic tournament…
For the second straight night, the San Diego Padres walked off the Colorado Rockies with a home run at Petco Park. On Thursday night, Xander Bogaerts hit a walk-off grand slam to give the Padres a 7-3 victory in the 12th inning, and it left Rockies play-by-play announcer Drew Goodman quite sad. And on Friday…
Mark Jones is leaving ESPN after 36 years, but he isn’t done. Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports that Jones left by choice, that he simply felt it was time, and that ESPN told him he could have stayed if he wanted. “Mark has made an enduring impact at ESPN since 1990, serving as…
The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Phoenix Suns on Friday to guarantee a top-four spot in the Western Conference playoffs. And head coach JJ Redick wanted to make sure that he was proving the doubters wrong in doing so. It’s been a dramatic year in Tinseltown. The future status of LeBron James looks uncertain. Reports…
Fox wants in on the NFL’s five-game standalone package for the 2026 season. According to Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, YouTube, Netflix, and Fox are all in play for the mini-slate, which the NFL has been shopping as it renegotiates its broader media rights landscape. The league has presented bidders with a menu of more…
Gary Cohen wasn’t in the booth Thursday as the Mets’ offense sputtered through a 7-1 loss to the Diamondbacks at Citi Field. But even if he had been, New York’s longtime television voice wouldn’t have pinned the night on Brett Baty. If you read any of the game stories from the Mets’ beat following Thursday’s…
We are now just a week away from WrestleMania 42 and Pat McAfee isn’t just part of the build to the main event of the first night of action in Las Vegas. He is now the unquestioned star of the show. The ESPN host was inexplicably inserted into the main event storyline between WWE champion…
Keith Hernandez has spent most of his broadcasting career sharing a booth with Gary Cohen and Ron Darling, but even he still has a dream broadcast partner. Hernandez (who will miss some upcoming broadcasts due to back surgery) recently joined SNY’s Niki Lattarulo for an edition of Mets Mailbag, where the former first baseman fields questions…
The situation involving Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel got a whole lot more serious on Friday night when it comes to the future sports media career of the NFL insider. After being snapped in pictures together with the Patriots head coach at a resort, The Athletic defended Russini as both parties denied any sense of…
One of the hallmarks of the United Football League is to serve as a training ground for rule changes that the NFL might consider. But the UFL game between the Orlando Storm and Louisville Kings produced an obscure, bizarre ruling that probably should have stayed on the drawing board. Orlando and Louisville were locked in…
The photos released this week by Page Six, showing Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel embracing at a resort in Arizona, have intensified scrutiny not just of Russini’s professional career but of the nature of “insider” reporting overall. And the latest insider to weigh in on these issues directly is Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated, who…
Jim Chones has been calling Cleveland Cavaliers games on the radio for 18 years and even longer when you factor in his television work. It’s finally time for him to take off the headset. The former NBA player announced he would be stepping away from his role as lead analyst on the Cleveland Cavaliers Radio…
Hope you like 15-hour flights, NFL players, because you’re gonna be taking a lot of them from now on. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell made it clear Friday that this season’s game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams in Melbourne, Australia, is just the beginning of a long relationship. Speaking at Melbourne…
FX is giving Wrexham AFC more than enough time to deliver Hollywood endings for owners Rob Mac and Ryan Reynolds. The network renewed the docuseries Welcome to Wrexham for an additional three seasons, bringing the show to its eighth season, which is presumably set to air in 2029. “A three-season order for a TV series…
The Athletic‘s Dianna Russini and executive editor Steven Ginsberg both issued statements to the New York Post‘s Page Six, denying the insinuations in Tuesday’s release of several photos that showed the NFL insider with New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel at an Arizona resort several weeks ago. According to Ryan Glasspiegel at Front Office…
Robert MacIntyre might be frustrated by his play at the Masters, but Augusta National was even more frustrated with his actions. The 29-year-old golfer from Scotland is known for his fiery temper on the course, and that was on full display Thursday afternoon during day one at the Masters. MacIntyre was seen losing it on…
The WNBA is cashing in on its exploding popularity by expanding the league. Two new teams will begin play in 2026, one year after Golden State debuted, and the league announced this week that owners have formally approved adding three more franchises by 2030. This means that over the course of a half-decade, the league…
The Athletic quietly stopped posting episodes of its Scoop City NFL podcast last month, before the latest news about the show’s cohost, Dianna Russini, and her interaction with New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel in Arizona. Scoop City launched ahead of the 2024 season, partnering Russini with former NFL quarterback Chase Daniel as The Athletic…
If it were up to Doc Rivers, Shams Charania would be out, and Adrian Wojnarowski would be back in as the NBA’s foremost insider. Charania penned a report for ESPN detailing the “fractured relationship” between Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks earlier this week. In the report, Charania also detailed Rivers’ own contributions to the…
The most important game of the 2025-2026 NBA season has arrived. The Utah Jazz and Memphis Grizzlies have led the tanking charge all year long in their attempts to secure the best possible odds at getting the No. 1 pick in the next NBA Draft. Now, with the season winding down and every loss critically…
Thursday night’s game between the Indiana Pacers and the Brooklyn Nets at the Barclays Center was not exactly the highlight of the NBA season. The two Eastern Conference basement dwellers slugged it out, with the Pacers cruising to a 123-94 victory. The action on the court wasn’t terribly interesting, but something that caught the FanDuel…
