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Mike Vrabel’s alleged relationship with NFL insider Dianna Russini is big news to just about everyone except longtime Boston sportswriter Greg Bedard. Like most media outlets, 98.5 The Sports Hub afternoon hosts Mike Felger and Tony Massarotti have covered every piece of this story since Page Six published photos of Vrabel and Russini appearing very…
Victory+ is making its first move into the WNBA. The streaming platform announced on Wednesday a multi-year partnership with the Minnesota Lynx, becoming the team’s exclusive local streaming home starting with the 2026 season. Fans in the Minneapolis/St. Paul market will have free access to at least 18 regular-season games, along with preseason matchups and…
Coco Gauff thought she had found somewhere private to fall apart. After losing to Elina Svitolina in the Australian Open quarterfinals in January, she walked into a corridor at Melbourne Park, away from the court, away from the crowd, and smashed her racket into the ground until the frustration had somewhere to go. “I tried…
The NFL loves to talk about player safety. Michael Wilbon would like them to stop. Appearing on First Take this week, Wilbon was asked about NIL and whether prospects like Ty Simpson — who turned down a $6.5 million offer from Miami to enter the draft — are making the right call by leaving college…
It’s one thing to be trolled by the Los Angeles Dodgers, but the New York Mets have been humbled to the point where even the Minnesota Twins are mocking them. The start of the 2026 Major League Baseball season has been a disaster for the Mets. Instead of competing for the best record in the…
As the NFL faces bombardment from seemingly every corner of Washington over its migration of more games to streaming, the league made its first reported response last Friday. According to a report by Joe Flint in The Wall Street Journal, the NFL met with senior officials at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday to justify…
This originally appeared in Tuesday morning’s edition of The A Block, Awful Announcing’s daily newsletter with the latest sports media news, commentary, and analysis. Sign up here and be the first to know everything going on in the sports media world. What was the purpose of Mike Vrabel’s statement given from the Patriots podium on Monday?…
A staple of NBC’s golf coverage is taking on a new role. Cara Banks, who joined Golf Channel in 2015 as a host of Morning Drive and is now an integral member of NBC Sports’ golf team as a reporter, will step into the booth during this weekend’s coverage of the Chevron Championship, one of the…
After posting the worst viewership under its current broadcast deals last season, the NHL had a major rebound in 2025-26. NHL viewership averaged 546,000 viewers across ESPN, ABC, and TNT/truTV this regular season, the league’s best mark since the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season, per viewership data from Austin Karp in Sports Business Journal. Incredibly, the league…
A broadcast production company you likely have never heard of is taking the blame for Amazon Prime Video’s mishap during a crucial overtime period in the NBA play-in tournament. Game Creek Video, a live-broadcast production company that provided mobile production facilities to Prime Video during the play-in game between the Miami Heat and the Charlotte…
Sophie Cunningham went viral this week over comments she made on her podcast about her new Indiana Fever contract. The WNBA star is now offering a clarification that those comments were misunderstood. In the latest episode of her Show Me Something podcast, Cunningham said her one-year, $665,000 deal to return to the Fever is “frustrating.” “It’s tough because…
A holy war might be brewing between ESPN and Fox Sports. The College Football Playoff governance committee is meeting this week in Dallas to address a whole host of topics facing the sport’s postseason. And as has been the case for much of the past decade, playoff expansion will be at the forefront of discussion.…
Despite the aura that the NFL and its broadcasters have built up, the NFL Draft is not a magical, once-in-a-lifetime event that demands reverence. It’s an annual business transaction in which NFL teams select former college football players and decide, one by one, where they will be employed for the next few years (or, at…
This is the biggest time of the year for longtime NFL Draft analyst Todd McShay. Throughout his time at ESPN and into his new digs at The Ringer, NFL fans and media look to McShay for player analysis and intel, as well as the latest rumors about what teams are thinking. So far this year,…
Ohio state Sen. Bill DeMora has had enough. Watching the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the playoffs this week required navigating Amazon Prime Video for Game 1, Peacock for Game 2, and back to Amazon for Game 3. And DeMora, a Democrat from Columbus, is now looking into whether Ohio has any legal…
Conflict of interest used to be the kind of thing that raised red flags. These days, it almost seems welcomed, especially in NFL announcing circles. Fox announcer Tom Brady is also a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders and is said to be very involved in their personnel decisions. ESPN announcer Troy Aikman has…
Game 2 between the Timberwolves and Nuggets in Denver on Tuesday night delivered about as much as a first-round NBA playoff series possibly can. In the latest clash in what has become one of the league’s signature rivalries, Anthony Edwards played through visible knee pain to outclass Nikola Jokic and Co. once again. Perhaps the…
It’s been less than a year since Colin Cowherd moved to Chicago full-time, but The Herd host is quickly becoming a go-to for rumors around the city’s sports teams. And on Tuesday, after the Chicago Bulls parted ways with head coach Billy Donovan, Cowherd didn’t waste any time going on air with rumors around Donovan’s potential…
If James Dolan is going to keep banning fans from New York Knicks games, Max Kellerman thinks the league should consider banning Dolan from the NBA. Despite the Knicks currently enjoying one of their most successful three-year runs in franchise history, Dolan remains one of the least popular owners in New York and in sports.…
Awful Announcing has learned that Matthew Berry is unlikely to return to Football Night in America next season. Berry joined NBC in August 2022 on a multi-year deal after 15 years at ESPN, where he left partly because the network wanted him to shut down his Fantasy Life brand as a condition of staying. NBC…
Danny Green doesn’t want any part of an NBA version of MLB’s new Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System. Green, a 14-year NBA veteran and current ESPN analyst, was asked during a conference call with reporters about ABS, which MLB introduced this season to considerable success, and whether a player-initiated challenge system could help curtail the endless…
Across the first few days of the NBA Playoffs, no star player has struggled quite like Brandon Ingram of the Toronto Raptors. And his own comments have only made the situation worse. The Cleveland Cavaliers easily dispatched of the Raptors in the first two games of their series at home, winning both games by double…
WrestleMania 42 presented the best and worst of modern-day WWE. The question now facing the pro wrestling giant is which direction it takes from here. The feedback for WWE in the build to WrestleMania 42 saw the company take incoming fire from all sides. The ticket prices were too high. Attendance was down compared to…
There is a tradition at the NFL Draft that has nothing to do with Roger Goodell, nothing to do with the commissioner’s walk to the podium, and nothing to do with the slow, theatrical hug that follows. It predates the green rooms. It predates the team war rooms filling primetime television. It predates, frankly, almost…
