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College basketball viewing and listening picks for April 3, 2026: How to watch and listen to the NCAA Women’s Final Four

All Times Eastern NCAA Women’s Tournament Final Four National Semifinals Mortgage Matchup Center, Phoenix, AZ Announcers: Ryan Ruocco/Rebecca Lobo//Holly Rowe South Carolina vs. UConn — ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, 7 p.m. Texas vs. UCLA — ESPN/ESPN Unlimited, approximately 9:30 p.m. Announcers: Christine Williamson/Andraya Carter/Chiney Ogwumike NCAA Women’s Final Four Special live from Mortgage Matchup Center, Phoenix, AZ…

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TV and streaming viewing picks for April 3, 2026: How to watch MLB

All Times Eastern Australian Rules Football AFL Men’s — Round 4 Richmond Tigers vs. Port Adelaide Power — Fox Soccer Plus, 1 a.m. (Saturday) West Coast Eagles vs. Sydney Swans — Fox Soccer Plus, 4:20 a.m. (Saturday) College Baseball LSU at Tennessee — SEC Network/ESPN Unlimited, 5:30 p.m. Louisville at Duke — ACC Network/ESPN Unlimited,…

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‘Enforcer’ reportedly blocks reporters from interviewing Bryce James during Arizona media scrum

Bryce James, the youngest son of LeBron James, was not made available for interviews during locker room access ahead of Arizona’s Final Four game against Michigan on Saturday. James is a freshman for the Wildcats who redshirted this season and has not appeared in any games. News of his restricted media availability comes from Yahoo…

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Jon Heyman refutes Mike Francesa’s ‘bogus’ Brandon Nimmo-Francisco Lindor rift rumor over Trump

Brandon Nimmo plays for the Texas Rangers now, but last season, there were persistent rumors about a rift between him and New York Mets teammate Francisco Lindor. It might be a moot point now, but the New York Post’s Jon Heyman wanted to make it clear those reports were “bogus.” “An alleged Brandon Nimmo-Francisco Lindor…

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TNT Sports ‘extremely interested’ in keeping NHL rights, CEO says

After the current NHL season comes to a close, TNT Sports will be under contract with the league for just two more years. But the hope, at least according to CEO Luis Silberwasser, is for the relationship to extend beyond that. In a recent interview with Puck sports correspondent John Ourand, Silberwasser divulged that TNT…

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Main Street Sports Group officially shuttering this month, 13 NBA teams become local TV free agents

The demise of Main Street Sports Group, owner of the FanDuel-branded regional sports networks, was swift as anticipated. The beleaguered company, formed from the ashes of its predecessor, Diamond Sports Group, after its prolonged bankruptcy, looked destined for collapse as reports began to surface of missed rights payments to franchises last December. A search for…

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Laura Rutledge gets honest about anxiety around ‘Monday Night Football’ reporter role

Whether she’s hosting NFL Live or interviewing players and coaches on the sidelines during Monday Night Football, Laura Rutledge makes it look easy. Internally, she’s feeling anything but. Rutledge recently talked about the anxiety she deals with as part of her job, especially in her full-time role as a sideline reporter with MNF. “I deal…

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Dave Meltzer inimitably unrattled by earthquake

Apparently, it takes a lot more than an earthquake to rattle Dave Meltzer while taping an episode of Wrestling Observer Radio. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter founder and longtime reporter was recording a podcast episode very early Thursday morning in his San Francisco home when an earthquake hit the area. And no, we’re not talking about…

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Kansas City winds blow fountain water into centerfield camera during Royals-Twins

Kaufmann Stadium learned the perils of having fountains close to the centerfield camera on Thursday as heavy winds blew water into the lens, obscuring it and forcing the Royals.TV broadcasting crew to get creative. The Kansas City area experienced significant wind on Tuesday as the Minnesota Twins came to town for an American League Central…

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ESPN ‘interested’ in keeping NFL insider Ian Rapoport after NFL Network takeover

The dominoes continue to fall as ESPN officially takes over NFL Network this month following an equity deal with the league, with insider Ian Rapoport the latest to get clarity on his future at the Worldwide Leader. Back in February, Rapoport said in an interview with The Athletic that he was still in the dark…

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Bill Raftery: Fans couldn’t care less about college basketball’s issues once game starts

College basketball fans will spend a season complaining about what NIL and the transfer portal have done to the product, but when the NCAA tournament rolls around, they start to view the sport the way Bill Raftery always does. Raftery joined the latest episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast to discuss the NCAA men’s tournament…

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Frontrunners reportedly emerge to succeed Clinton Yates at ESPN Radio

ESPN has a leading candidate — or two — to fill the midday radio slot that opened up when Clinton Yates departed last week, per Front Office Sports. Matt Jones and Myron Medcalf are the frontrunners to take over the 10 a.m. to noon ET window on ESPN Radio, according to FOS’s Ryan Glasspiegel, though…

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Michael DeCourcy on his favorite Final Four memories, why he’s retiring from The Sporting News

Michael DeCourcy is synonymous with college basketball. He loves the sport so much that he once paid his own way to cover the Final Four for work. The 2026 national semifinals and championship game in Indianapolis will be his last as a full-time senior writer for The Sporting News. DeCourcy, 65, will be stepping down…

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Alabama AD Greg Byrne: ‘Ship has sailed’ on SEC championship with looming CFP expansion

As college sports leadership has debated expansion of the College Football Playoff in recent years, one of the main points of contention has been the future of conference championship games. In a recent interview, Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne became one of the most prominent voices to presage the end of the tradition entirely. Speaking…

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Fab Five reuniting for Michigan-Arizona Final Four altcast on truTV and HBO Max

The Fab Five are back in the Final Four. With their baggy shorts and black socks, Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson elevated the Michigan Wolverines into the upper echelons of college basketball in the early 90s, making it to the 1992 and 1993 Final Fours and reaching the national…

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Brett Yormark and Cody Campbell are beefing over Friday night kickoffs

Cody Campbell has spent the better part of five years trying to reshape college football from the outside in, funding NIL collectives, bankrolling “save college sports” commercials during the 2025 season, and positioning himself as the most influential booster in a sport where influential boosters have never had more power. This week, Big 12 commissioner…

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Atlanta Hawks announcer Steve Holman obliterates ‘dirty rotten’ Orlando Magic after cheap shot foul

While some veteran NBA announcers wish the league were as physical as it used to be, the modern game can still get too rough for Atlanta Hawks radio voice Steve Holman. With the Hawks enjoying a 30-point lead over the Magic midway through the fourth quarter Wednesday night, Orlando center Goga Bitadze grabbed Atlanta’s Jock…

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ESPN expected to overhaul No. 2 NFL booth, per report

ESPN’s No. 2 NFL booth is getting a makeover, according to The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand. Chris Fowler, Dan Orlovsky, and Louis Riddick have called games together for three seasons, and that run is expected to end. The Monday Night Football doubleheaders that served as the group’s primary game inventory are officially going away under the…

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Gary Cohen surprised by desolated St. Louis: It’s like a ‘neutron bomb’ hit

Gary Cohen doesn’t appear to like St. Louis very much, but the people of St. Louis might dislike him even more after his latest quip. During the New York Mets 2-1 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday afternoon, SNY shared a live camera shot of the Kiener Memorial Fountain and Runner Statue with…

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Adam Schefter: NFL called teams’ ‘next year’ bluff to land ‘Hard Knocks’ commitments

When the NFL announced at its Annual Meeting on Monday that both the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots had committed to Hard Knocks — the Seahawks for this summer, the Patriots for 2027 — the immediate question was how the league managed to land two of the NFL’s most prominent franchises for a show…

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Terry McAulay did not appreciate Gene Steratore’s Dan Hurley defense

NBC NFL rules analyst Terry McAulay was “deeply disappointed” that officials did not give Dan Hurley a technical foul for getting directly in the face of a referee after UConn’s stunning buzzer-beater three led them past the Duke Blue Devils. And now he may just be as equally disappointed in CBS rules analyst Gene Steratore.…

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Brian Windhorst is becoming the NBA’s unofficial ombudsman

I’ve had the privilege of covering hundreds of NBA games in person over the course of my career. I’ve been to big events like the draft combine and Summer League. I’ve watched LeBron James hold court with Lakers beat reporters, watched a sly Chris Paul run clueless media gaggles through the wringer. I’ve seen most…

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Ian Eagle on iconic UConn buzzer-beater call: ‘You can’t lose your sh*t’

Although it’s been a few days now, it’s still hard to believe what we all witnessed during Sunday’s Elite 8 game between the Connecticut Huskies and Duke Blue Devils. It was one of the wildest, most memorable endings to an NCAA Tournament game, and fittingly, it was lead announcer Ian Eagle who was at the…

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NFL reaches free-agent status with sportsbooks

In what surprisingly is not an April Fools’ joke, the NFL is currently without an official sports betting partner. According to Sports Business Journal, the NFL’s content deals with official partners DraftKings, FanDuel, and Caesars all expired on April 1 without new contracts in place. It effectively leaves the biggest, most powerful, and most successful sports…

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