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Netflix is entering the final year of its current deal with the NFL for two Christmas Day games. The league, however, has made it clear they intend for the day to always be a tripleheader moving forward, as it was this past season. While Prime Video had the rights to last season’s third Christmas game,…
The tagline for the 2004 horror film The Grudge was “It never forgives. It never forgets.” In some ways, that applies to Pat McAfee as well. McAfee’s show was broadcasting live from the NFL owners’ meetings on Tuesday. Among the guests who stopped by was ESPN NFL insider Peter Schrager, who shared his appreciation for…
A little over a year after its last round of layoffs, Audacy is in the midst of another. While the known cuts are spread across markets and verticals, 94.1 WIP Philadelphia Eagles sideline reporter Devan Kaney is among those cut. Kaney took over as the station’s Eagles sideline reporter in 2024 after Howard Eskin’s abrupt…
Golic & Golic is going away once more. On Tuesday, Mike Golic, Jr. announced on X that this was his last day at Fanduel Sports Network, ending a 10-month stint that started when he and his dad, Mike Golic Sr., shopped their daily show after DraftKings opted not to renew their contracts. “So, today was my…
During his playing career, Tom Brady developed a reputation for being a bit extreme in his commitment to clean and healthy eating. But even he has his limits. Now in his “give me money, and I’ll say whatever you want” era, he’s doing things a little differently. Since retiring from the NFL (until the next…
The NFL players and alumni played so poorly against the U.S. national team in the recent Fanatics Flag Football Classic that they’re starting up a league of their own. Well, the two things are independent of one another, but if you can’t beat’m, join’m. The league announced Monday that its long-expected flag football league was…
Roger Goodell sent a note to NFL Network employees Tuesday afternoon as the network prepares to formally become part of ESPN on Wednesday. ESPN reached an agreement to acquire NFL Network and the linear distrbutrion rights to RedZone in August 2025, with the NFL taking a 10% equity stake in the Worldwide Leader in return.…
You’d be hard-pressed to find a player who made more jaw-dropping catches over the last decade than Kevin Kiermaier. Now, he wants to explain how they were made. Kiermaier, who joined MLB Network ahead of Opening Night, indicated that he wanted to use his defensive background as his primary lens for his first foray into…
More than any other sport, the NBA’s popularity extends to fans’ relationships with players. And as the historically popular outgoing generation of stars trickles out of the league, and the media debates TV ratings, competitive balance, and the “face of the league,” ESPN’s Brian Windhorst offers a different perspective on why the league’s connection to…
The Chicago Bulls waived Jaden Ivey on Monday after a series of anti-LGBTQ+ social media posts, but the story of how this all went sideways started well before the Instagram livestreams. Before Ivey ever arrived in Chicago, the word out of Detroit was that the shooting guard was something of a preacher. According to the…
Jason Kelce is coming to the defense of a fellow center. In a lengthy post on X on Tuesday, the ESPN commentator and New Heights host offered a thoughtful defense of former Detroit Lions center Frank Ragnow, whom the team forced to return his signing bonus when he retired last year. The story came back to…
Nine years after ESPN laid him off, Mark May is back covering football again. The two-time Super Bowl champion and College Football Hall of Famer has joined the Indoor Football League’s 2026 broadcast team as an analyst, part of a roster the league initially announced in February. May spent 16 years at ESPN — from…
Stephen A Smith is not ready to break off his professional relationship with Cam Newton — yet. One of the actually pressing questions coming out of the past week, as Smith, Newton, Jason Whitlock, and even Ryan Clark launched podcast clips at one another across the internet, was whether any of it would actually affect…
Clark Hunt doesn’t expect the Chiefs to be in Seattle for the NFL’s season opener. “I don’t think that’s on the table anymore for us to be in Seattle [for the opener],” the Chiefs chairman and CEO told Front Office Sports. “From a league standpoint, I think there would be some concern whether our quarterback…
A couple of major broadcast station owners have submitted formal comment urging the FCC to protect live sports on over-the-air TV. Fox and Sinclair, both of which own a significant number of major broadcast stations across the country, have responded to the FCC’s inquiry for public comment regarding the future of live sports on free,…
When MLS and Apple began a first-of-its-kind media rights deal in 2023, it was billed as the future. No longer were MLS clubs stuck selling local broadcast rights to regional sports networks or local substations; every game for every team would be available in sparkly high-definition on Apple TV. Whether that deal has succeeded on…
More details are beginning to come out about Tiger Woods’ latest reckless driving incident. According to the arrest affidavit obtained by TMZ on Tuesday, Woods was found with two hydrocodone pills in his pocket at the scene of his rollover car crash last Friday. Police, who arrested Woods and charged him with driving under the…
Jason Kelce is keeping himself busy during the NFL offseason. And no, it’s not because he’s helping his brother plan a wedding. Kelce has become a fixture as a drop-in analyst on a number of different sports broadcasts since NFL season came to a close in February. The former Philadelphia Eagles center went on a…
Joe Buck will be joined by a couple of Mets and Dodgers legends as he returns to the booth for a one-off on Jackie Robinson Day. Longtime SNY analyst Ron Darling and veteran Dodgers broadcaster Orel Hershiser will tag along with Buck during ESPN’s exclusive broadcast of Mets-Dodgers on April 15, Jackie Robinson Day. In…
Last Thursday, Vancouver Canucks beat reporter Trevor Beggs was escorted from Rogers Arena and had his credentials revoked during a game over a story he wrote about a business related to the team’s owner. On Monday, the team released a statement saying that the story, which had since been deleted, “contains statements that are inaccurate,…
It’s the offseason for ESPN Monday Night Football voice Joe Buck, but he still got some sports play-by-play in during an NHL game between the St. Louis Blues and Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday at Enterprise Center. In the third period, Buck was interviewed as a spectator on the FanDuel Sports Midwest broadcast while St.…
As news broke on Monday that Teamworks was officially acquiring the data arm of Pro Football Focus, the bespoke analytics firm owned by NBC Sports’ lead NFL analyst Cris Collinsworth, it became clear that many employees staffed on the company’s media side were not being retained. Collinsworth sold PFF’s enterprise data set and associated businesses,…
NFL rules analyst Terry McAulay took to social media to rip NCAA Tournament referee Roger Ayers for not penalizing Connecticut head coach Dan Hurley after a controversial interaction during the Huskies’ wild finish against Duke in Sunday’s Elite Eight action. After Braylon Mullins made a go-ahead three-pointer on an unbelievable last-second play in UConn’s stunning…
Last Thursday, the Vancouver Canucks removed a beat reporter from the arena during a game and revoked his credentials over a story published earlier that day about another business owned by the team’s owners. Monday, they finally explained why. Trevor Beggs, who has been covering the Canucks for Daily Hive Vancouver since 2019 and also co-hosts…
