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The Washington Commanders faced plenty of criticism after their cataclysmic clock management at the end of overtime in Sunday’s game against the New York Giants turned what looked like a near-sure victory into a tie. For those that missed it as it happened, the Commanders had the ball with a minute to play and well…
The Baltimore Ravens hit the road to face the Atlanta Falcons at Mercedes-Benz Stadium for Sunday night’s primetime clash on NBC. Entering the game, quarterback Michael Penix Jr.’s return had turned the Falcons into the unlikeliest of primetime darlings over recent weeks, while the Ravens were without two-time MVP Lamar Jackson, who was out with…
As the WNBA season comes to a close and Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham hits free agency, The Athletic’s Candace Buckner wrote a lengthy column arguing that the Fever should not bring Cunningham back because of the “circus” she created after her comments on trans athletes. Now, Cunningham is pushing back against that column –…
The Radio Hall of Fame inducted its 2026 class on Thursday evening in Chicago. The honorees included SiriusXM 60s Gold’s Shotgun Tom Kelly, WLTW’s Helen Little, legendary on-air personalities Charlie Van Dyke and Fred Winston, and WFAN’s Boomer Esiason. The former NFL quarterback has been a pillar at one of the country’s premier sports radio…
After a Stephen A. Smith-fueled media cycle about Lane Johnson’s surprise decision to retire from football due to mental health reasons ran its course — from insensitive hot take to quasi-apology to full-throated apology all within 24 hours — others in NFL media are expressing their support for the former All-Pro right tackle. Chief among…
Play-by-play announcer Braiden Bell is asking for a second chance at becoming the voice of the Portland Trail Blazers. Bell, 29, graduated from Arizona State in 2019 and quickly took on jobs as a broadcaster in college sports. From there, Bell worked his way up to calling games for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, as well…
Monday night’s game between the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons was emotionally charged, as the game was the 20th anniversary of the “Domecoming” game at the Superdome. In 2006, the Domecoming was the first game held at the Superdome in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. A little over a year before kickoff, the Superdome…
Deion Sanders insists Julian Lewis wasn’t demoted to No. 3 on the depth chart. As for what actually happened, he’d prefer Lewis be the one to explain it. Following Colorado’s 29-7 loss to No. 12 Texas Tech on Saturday, Sanders faced questions about how Lewis had seemingly plummeted to third string in the span of…
It’s fair to say that Seattle Seahawks owner Vinod Khosla and I have something in common: we’re both fairly unfamiliar with how things work in each other’s fields. Admittedly, I wasn’t very familiar with him before he and his ownership group agreed to purchase the Seahawks for a record $9.612 billion in July. I’ve since…
ESPN’s College GameDay has picked its next destination. After hosting Saturday’s show at the University of Iowa ahead of the Hawkeyes’ matchup against Ohio State, the traveling show will head to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, next week as the Crimson Tide host the Georgia Bulldogs in a battle of SEC powerhouses. WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO…
29-year-old Braiden Bell was announced as the new TV play-by-play voice of the Portland Trail Blazers on Thursday morning. By Thursday evening, the NBA franchise announced it was moving on from Bell after discovering several offensive social media posts he wrote as a teenager. “The Portland Trail Blazers have zero tolerance for racist, sexist, or harmful…
The Los Angeles Rams suffered from regrettable late-game execution in their baffling 30-26 loss to the Denver Broncos on Sunday Night Football. Rams head coach Sean McVay also regrets how he executed his postgame press conference. McVay followed a dejected Matthew Stafford at the podium and, according to the Rams’ official YouTube stream, took questions…
The New England Patriots fell to 1-2 on Sunday after an embarrassing 35-6 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. In three games, the Patriots have looked nothing like the team that made it to last year’s Super Bowl before falling to the Seattle Seahawks. A large part of the early-season struggles can be attributed to the poor play of…
Tom Brady has considerably improved each season as an analyst for Fox Sports, and this year appears to be no different. During the Chargers-Bills broadcast on Sunday, Brady became the most high-profile commentator to highlight Los Angeles’s offensive shortcomings. As the Chargers puked up a 16-point performance to move to 0-3, Brady hammered the team…
For reasons unknown, Pat McAfee released an album entitled The Diary Of A Polarizing Figure on Aug. 14. For a few days afterward, McAfee’s ESPN colleagues glazed him to high heaven, while the rest of the world recoiled. It can all seem like a fever dream now, but it happened, and Johnny Knoxville revived The Diary Of A…
The writers of Veep are somewhere shaking their fists at the sky, cursing themselves for not thinking of this first. Welcome to the latest example of reality beyond parody. Despite rampant speculation, President Donald Trump did not appear on ESPN’s College GameDay, but he did attend the college football game between the No. 1 Texas Longhorns the…
For all the controversy, narratives, and right-wing meddling happening off the court, the WNBA had another stellar season of fans tuning in to watch the action on it. ESPN announced Friday that for the third straight year, the stretch of WNBA games broadcast across ESPN and ABC this season was the most-watched in its history.…
Ian Rapoport thinks he had a pretty good working relationship with Nick Saban back when he was covering Alabama football. Saban, however, seems a little less certain. While on The Pat McAfee Show Friday afternoon, Rapoport’s appearance came to close when he was informed Saban was waiting for his turn. “@RapSheet was full of shit…
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is a polarizing figure because of his controversial opinions and contentious relationship with the media. He plans to disappear into the ether after this NFL season, but for now, Rodgers, 42, remains a hot topic. Under new head coach Mike McCarthy, who took over for Mike Tomlin, now a media star, in January,…
On this week’s episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast, host Brandon Contes is joined by former ESPN host and reporter Suzy Kolber for a wide-ranging interview. They discuss Kolber’s new show with Scripps Sports, her ESPN layoff, sideline reporting, Joe Namath, Arch Manning, Charissa Thompson, and more. Here’s the full breakdown: -02:34: Leaving sports…
By the fourth quarter of Monday night’s game between the New York Giants and Los Angeles Rams, the highly anticipated matchup had lost its steam. But announcer Kevin Harlan was still having a great time. That is because, as listeners to the Westwood One broadcast of the game heard, Harlan’s booth was seemingly fumigated with…
It turns out, Lane Kiffin’s highly anticipated return to Ole Miss was just one of two notable reunions to happen on Saturday evening. The other: ESPN star Pat McAfee and Mary Kate Cornett, the Ole Miss college student who threatened legal action against McAfee last year after he helped spread a false and salacious rumor…
A staple of ESPN’s men’s college basketball coverage has passed away unexpectedly. Chris Spatola, a veteran college basketball analyst for both ESPN and SiriusXM for over a decade, passed away unexpectedly over the weekend. He was 47. Spatola was a four-year starter for Army during his collegiate playing career from 1998 to 2002. Upon graduation,…
Aryna Sabalenka entered Saturday’s U.S. Open final against Elena Rybakina looking to threepeat, but ultimately fell short as Rybakina won 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 (3), taking both the U.S. Open title and the WTA world No. 1 ranking from Sabalenka. Sabalenka, who has had a somewhat frustrating tournament, let everything boil over in the moments after…
