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12 NBA teams formerly tied to Main Street Sports Group, the now-defunct owner of the FanDuel Sports Networks, are still in the market for a local broadcaster next season. Many of those teams will consider following in the footsteps of the Phoenix Suns, the first NBA team to make the jump from a traditional regional…
Bill Rosinski posted a rejection notice on social media late last week because he found it funny. He never expected it to go viral. Rosinski, the original radio voice of the Carolina Panthers, applied for the open play-by-play position with the Baltimore Ravens. He didn’t get an interview. Instead, the 72-year-old received a form rejection…
MASN color commentator Ben McDonald sounded off about how much importance the Baltimore Orioles place on analytics after a loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday. The Orioles are currently 22-29 (21-29 when McDonald’s comments were made), tied for last place in the AL East. .@JonMeoli of @AllBannerSports piggybacked on what Ben McDonald said…
ESPN NBA insider Shams Charania made waves when he reported the 2026 NBA MVP award winner (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander) several hours ahead of Prime Video’s official announcement last Sunday. Charania has faced plenty of criticism for the report, and another ESPN star came to his defense on Saturday night. Stephen A. Smith posted to X on…
It’s a new dawn for the Cleveland Browns, and yet the questions this year’s team is facing remain the same. First-year head coach Todd Monken has entered the preseason facing a familiar Browns dilemma: Who is our starting quarterback? While Deshaun Watson is finally returning from injury, he’s battling against Sheduer Sanders, who ended last…
The ESPN on ABC broadcast of Saturday night’s Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the New York Knicks and the Cleveland Cavaliers showed Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce in attendance at Rocket Arena. Kelce is from the Cleveland, Ohio area and is a lifelong Cavs fan. “Look here,” ESPN on ABC play-by-play announcer…
The Tennessee Titans are giving their radio sideline a familiar face for Nissan Stadium’s final season. Several of them, actually. The Titans announced Thursday that their sideline coverage throughout 2026 will feature a rotating cast of franchise alumni, with receiver Kevin Dyson, tackle Brad Hopkins, receiver and returner Marc Mariani, and center Ben Jones confirmed…
If you think the Indiana Fever did anything untoward or wrong in the way they handled the Caitlin Clark injury announcement on Wednesday, head coach Stephanie White doesn’t know what you’re talking about. On Thursday, the WNBA warned Indiana for violating the league’s injury report protocol after Clark was not included in the Tuesday report…
One day after New York Giants linebacker Abdul Carter questioned quarterback Jaxson Dart, who introduced President Donald Trump at a rally in New York, the conversation already seems to have lost the plot. And that’s saying something considering New York sports radio hosts haven’t even had a chance to chime in yet. “Thought this sh*t…
Keir Starmer is first and foremost an Arsenal fan, but he’s also Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. So, regardless of his rooting interest, he wants to make sure everyone gets to watch them potentially win the Champions League. Arsenal takes on Paris St-Germain in next weekend’s Champions League final and, for the first time…
FIFA has made it clear that it will allow broadcasters to conduct halftime interviews and show commercials during the new “hydration breaks” in each half of the 2026 World Cup, but has left it to them to decide whether to do so. According to one Fox Sports exec, they’re a big yes on the first…
On the list of things that get rewarded on social media in 2026, being correct ranks fairly low. Companies like Meta, YouTube, X, and TikTok, and the rapid growth of AI, have incentivized speed, shock, and virality at the expense of accurate information. And as such, we’re inundated with errors, lies, and biased information that…
Netflix’s MLB Opening Night broadcast had a lot going for it. The self-promotion was not one of those things, and the streamer seems to know it. Gabe Spitzer, Netflix’s head of sports, appeared on the Marchand Sports Media podcast with The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand this week and conceded that the March Yankees-Giants broadcast at Oracle…
Ian Rapoport has had about enough of the conversation that has followed the Dianna Russini-Mike Vrabel situation. On the Between the Tackles podcast with former New York Jets beat writer Manish Mehta, the NFL Network insider weighed in on the criticism that has surrounded insider reporting since Russini resigned from The Athletic last month. The…
Stephen A. Smith isn’t letting Nick Wright’s mob boss comparison go unanswered, and he wants the FS1 host to know he has a pretty good idea of who put him up to it. Smith fired back at Wright, who argued earlier this week on his What’s Wright with Nick Wright? podcast that Smith’s habit of…
It’s not just NFL teams that have something to strive for on social media this month. With the World Cup just a few weeks away, national teams are releasing their squads for the tournament with similarly dramatic announcements. Norway literally got their king to announce the squad. Brazil did it the old-fashioned way by announcing…
Charles Barkley joined the Worldwide Leader at the perfect time, as ESPN-on-ESPN crime has become commonplace, and if there’s anyone who doesn’t have an issue taking shots at those he works with, it’s Sir Charles. The Inside the NBA analyst admitted recently that he wasn’t a fan of ESPN NBA insider Shams Charania breaking the…
Fox Sports announcer Tim Brando has been fiery on X in recent days, defending the proposed 24-team College Football Playoff and pushing back on the presumed superiority of the SEC and its coaches. Things boiled over on Friday when Texas journalist and podcaster Amanda Atwell pushed back against his analysis of Steve Sarkisian’s comments about…
The Oklahoma City Thunder are the defending NBA champions and are currently locked in a battle to return to the Finals for a second straight season. They have developed a reputation for being the best team in the league and a force to be reckoned with. They have also developed a reputation for being at…
San Antonio Spurs rookie Carter Bryant played 10 minutes in the team’s Game 2 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday night. He amassed one rebound, one block, one steal, and one visit to the public bathroom. In one of the weirder stories you’ll ever see, someone videotaped Bryant using a public bathroom at…
The Western Conference Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder have been elite on the court so far, and audiences are tuning in. Game 2, in which the Thunder evened things up thanks in part to a 30-point performance by NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, averaged 10.1 million viewers across NBC and Peacock…
The Indiana Fever had a controversy on their hands on Wednesday when they announced superstar Caitlin Clark was inactive due to a back injury. The issue was that, a day earlier, they’d released their injury report, and Clark wasn’t on it. The abrupt change without any warning raised alarm bells for many in the WNBA…
New Orleans Saints head coach Kellen Moore is hoping his team can make some noise in the NFC South this season. A different kind of noise almost completely derailed his appearance on Barstool Sports’ Pardon My Take on Friday. Moore joined the hosts, Dan “Big Cat” Katz and Eric “PFT Commenter” Sollenberger, for the culmination…
Former Knicks fan Spike Eskin has morphed into a sort of New York sports villain since returning to Philadelphia, and he leaned into the role on WFAN and CBS Sports Network. WFAN held its annual Kickoff to Summer event on Friday morning, and Eskin was in attendance during Boomer and Gio’s live broadcast from Belmar, New Jersey,…
