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Monday night represented an interesting scheduling quirk as the second round of the 2026 NBA Playoffs got underway, and it was a night that both NBC and the NBA will probably regret. As the conference semifinals get underway, NBC has Game 1 in all four series. However, instead of airing doubleheaders, the games are staggered…
Nielsen is continuing to develop new ways to find viewers that have not traditionally been captured in its samples. The company’s newest experiment is designed to better capture “co-viewing,” industry parlance for when several people watch a telecast together in the same room. While Nielsen’s co-viewing measurements are still in the pilot phase and thus…
Last month arrived the news that the Department of Justice is examining the NFL and MLB – and one might presume other sports leagues – for potential antitrust violations in how their teams collectively sell and structure media deals. This is the next logical step in the percolating frustration of many sports fans over their…
Legendary New York Yankees radio announcer John Sterling passed away on Monday at the age of 87. The Yankees and the YES Network broadcast paid tribute to Sterling on Monday night, and the New York Mets broadcast on SNY also showed love for the local icon. Mets announcers Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez (who returned…
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Longtime New York Yankees radio voice John Sterling passed away at the age of 87 on Monday. Tributes have poured in for the legendary announcer, who called 5,060 consecutive Yankees games and retired abruptly in 2024 (before returning to call Yankees postseason games that year). Ahead of Monday night’s game against the Baltimore Orioles at…
A little back surgery couldn’t keep Keith Hernandez from the SNY booth for very long. The New York Mets legend was back in the booth Monday for the first time since early April, when he announced he was going to have back surgery that would keep him away for a few road trips. While he…
ESPN football commentator Kevin Clark is directly calling out college football leadership as the sport moves toward yet another expansion of the College Football Playoff. During an appearance on The Paul Finebaum Show on Monday, Clark made an impassioned plea against the 24-team Playoff, arguing that such a move would “ruin” the regular season and put…
How does an NFL booth featuring Dave Pasch alongside Jason Kelce or Kurt Warner sound? Because that might just be what ESPN puts together for its No. 2 broadcasting team. That’s according to The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand, who said on the most recent episode of Marchand & Meterparel that he expects either Kelce or Warner to…
The NCAA Tournament’s expansion from 68 to 76 teams is not a popular idea across most of the sports universe. Add Colin Cowherd to the list of those opposed. The Fox Sports host is one of the more prominent voices to come out against the proposed expansion, which ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported could be made…
Paul Bissonnette wears his Toronto Maple Leafs love on his sleeve. Sometimes, quite literally, even when he’s broadcasting on NHL on TNT. He’s even been rebuked by NHL commissioner Gary Bettman for putting his love of the Maple Leafs above journalistic integrity. Bissonnette has also never been afraid to criticize the franchise when he feels…
Former ESPN and Fox Sports host Marcellus Wiley is facing new sexual assault allegations from four accusers, including one former ESPN production assistant. The new allegations were filed in court last month and recently obtained by Awful Announcing. The four new accusers join three other women who previously sued Wiley, the first of whom came…
Over the past year-plus, former ESPN host Pablo Torre has established his bona fides as one of the pre-eminent investigative reporters covering sports through his podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out. The show, produced by Meadowlark Media and licensed by The Athletic, has pioneered Torre’s “unboxing” form of sports storytelling, in which tension builds across a series…
The Toronto Maple Leafs introduced new general manager John Chayka on Monday. Toronto Sun columnist Steve Simmons set the tone with some intense questions around the thinking behind that decision. As a franchise, the Maple Leafs have been heading in the wrong direction. Two seasons away from going 60 years without a Stanley Cup, Toronto…
Michael Kay got emotional Monday afternoon as he reflected on the life of one of his best friends, beloved Yankees announcer John Sterling. Sterling passed away from heart failure on Monday morning after the 87-year-old underwent heart surgery following a heart attack earlier this year. Despite taking the news of Sterling’s death hard, Kay began…
The Big Ten and Fox Sports are apparently going to war over control of a neutral-site college basketball game next season. Last week, Duke University and Amazon announced a landmark deal that would see three Blue Devils men’s basketball games air exclusively on the company’s Prime Video streaming service. Two of these games — a…
John Sterling, the iconic radio voice of the New York Yankees, died at 87 years old, and few people knew him better than his longtime broadcast partner, Suzyn Waldman. WFAN morning hosts Boomer Esiason and Gregg Giannotti broke the sad news Monday morning, with Sterling reportedly passing away from heart surgery complications after suffering a…
The NFL schedule release is coming in the next few weeks, and one of the questions hanging over it is one the league would probably rather not have to answer: what do you do with Patrick Mahomes? Mahomes tore his ACL and LCL on Dec. 14, 2025, and has been rehabbing aggressively ever since. Fox’s…
Once again, Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green will be chipping in as a guest analyst on Inside the NBA this postseason. The 36-year-old forward will make three guest appearances on the show during the playoffs, according to a report by Austin Karp in Sports Business Journal. Green will fill in for Kenny Smith on the…
Gary Cohen is either a human thesaurus or just another Major League Baseball announcer accepting word challenges from friends. Cohen appeared to be enjoying a New York Mets’ win Sunday afternoon against the Los Angeles Angels when he dusted “pulchritudinous” off his vocabulary to describe an impressive catch made by outfielder Carson Benge. The SAT…
Mark your calendars. Or don’t, because the date might change. The NFL schedule release, which has landed in the second week of May for the past five or six years running, could come a week later than usual in 2026. NFL VP of broadcast planning Mike North appeared on the It’s Always Game Day in…
Jaylen Brown believes NBA referees have an agenda against him, and he claims that some of those same officials believe it, too. Brown saw his season come to an abrupt end Saturday night, when the Boston Celtics blew a 3-1 series lead by losing Game 7 of their first-round matchup with the Philadelphia 76ers 109-100.…
The Detroit Pistons completed a 3-1 series comeback with a 116-94 win over the Orlando Magic in Game 7 on Sunday at Little Caesars Arena. The Pistons secured that victory despite an officiating decision that the ESPN on ABC broadcast team and Pistons head coach J.B. Bickerstaff couldn’t believe. With Detroit leading 38-35 in the…
John Sterling, the legendary voice of the New York Yankees for 35 years, has passed away at 87. Sterling died from complications following heart surgery after suffering a heart attack earlier this year. The news was announced on WFAN — the station where he became a New York institution — by morning hosts Boomer Esiason…
