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During the NFL Annual Meeting on Monday, the league announced organizations that will appear in the next two years of HBO’s training camp docuseries Hard Knocks. Additionally, the Netflix docuseries Quarterback will return. NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport delivered the news on X, announcing that the 2026 Hard Knocks training camp team will be the…
The Connecticut Huskies stunned the Duke Blue Devils with a 73-72 victory in the Elite Eight that featured an incredible last-second three-point shot from Braylon Mullins. What most college basketball fans didn’t notice in the moment was something that has since gone viral. UConn head coach Dan Hurley appeared to bump heads with referee Roger…
Stephen A. Smith’s move into the political world, centered on a will-he-won’t-he presidential campaign that obviously never would have happened, has seemingly been the one step too far that has laid bare the emptiness of his entire schtick. Within the confines of the sports world, Smith could reign freely. In a world built on hot…
The Chicago Bulls announced on Monday that they have waived guard Jaden Ivey “due to conduct detrimental to the team.” ESPN NBA insider Sham Charania reported before the official announcement that the Bulls were waiving Ivey “after his recent anti-LGBTQ comments amid several rants on religion and other topics.” pic.twitter.com/nV6zlJ0yOi — Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) March…
The MLB Opening Day doubleheader on NBC and Peacock delivered strong gains over 2025, averaging 2.7 million viewers across both games. The network’s broadcasts of Pittsburgh at the Mets and Arizona at the Dodgers marked the return of baseball to NBC platforms for the first time since 2000, as well as the debuts of flashy…
Don’t ask Jim Nantz, the voice of the Masters, to give you too much insight into Bryson DeChambeau’s current golf game. DeChambeau was one of the biggest names in professional golf when he spurned the PGA Tour for a lucrative deal with LIV Golf in 2022. While he still performs extremely well at majors, winning…
For the fourth time since 2009, Tiger Woods was involved in a reckless driving incident last week that put his life and the lives of others in danger. Woods was arrested and charged with driving under the influence as well as causing property damage. The legendary pro golfer’s reckless driving history is so extensive that…
Netflix currently has the rights to two NFL games on Christmas Day. As a present to itself, it’s looking to double that. According to Jessica Toonkel and Joe Flint at the Wall Street Journal, the streamer wants to expand its current two-game package to four and is especially interested in the NFL’s new Thanksgiving Eve…
Comedians are routinely put in bad positions when trying to promote their work. It happens on local radio and TV stations when they are promoting a weekend at a local club. It happens on national shows when they are promoting new specials. On Wednesday night, it happened on Netflix when Bert Kreischer was trying to Read more... The post Bert Kresicher bombed on MLB Opening Night. That was Netflix’s fault. appeared first on Awful Announcing.
CBS Sports would not speculate on how it plans to handle coverage of Tiger Woods during the upcoming Masters. On a press call previewing its Masters coverage on Monday morning, CBS Sports deflected when asked by Awful Announcing: “What is the appropriate way to cover Tiger Woods next week?” The question, initially directed at longtime Read more... The post CBS Sports deflects on Tiger Woods coverage for Masters appeared first on Awful Announcing.
The reaction to ESPN creating a primetime women’s sports window to replace Sunday Night Baseball starting this summer was predictable. Despite the fact that the WNBA and NWSL are the biggest properties in the ESPN lineup that are in-season during the summer, many attempted to paint the move as anti-men’s sports or some grand kowtowing gesture…
Longtime ESPN NBA reporter Kevin Pelton is leaving his beat to join a WNBA front office. Pelton is slated to join the Houston Comets’ front office ahead of the 2027 season, ESPN’s Alexa Philippou reports. On Monday, it was officially announced that a WNBA team would return to Houston and be named the Comets. Houston…
Grant Hill is still processing what he witnessed courtside in Washington, D.C. last night. With 10 seconds left and his alma mater, the Duke Blue Devils, up two points with the ball against the UConn Huskies, Duke was one possession of Keep Away away from a Final Four berth. Alas, Duke guard Cayden Boozer made…
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. As NBC has returned to NBA and MLB broadcasting over the past year, staffers have…
The first weekend of MLB’s Automated Ball-Strike system (ABS) appears to be a rousing success, at least in the eyes of fans. There was no shortage of interesting ABS moments throughout the opening weekend of play. Veteran umpire CB Bucknor found himself on the receiving end of a particularly unfortunate stretch of missed calls, which…
Jason Benetti revealed during Sunday night’s sign-off of Guardians-Mariners that this week’s Sunday Night Baseball broadcast — Cardinals at Tigers on April 6 — will feature Brad Thompson and Andy Dirks. Benetti confirmed during the sign-off last night that next Sunday’s analysts for St. Louis-Detroit will be Brad Thompson from the Cardinals and Andy Dirks…
The Teamworks acquisition of Pro Football Focus is now official, per Sports Business Journal, and the deal structure offers some clarity on what it means for Cris Collinsworth’s role at the company he has owned since 2014. When Wide Left’s Arif Hasan first reported the deal in February, one of the biggest open questions was what would happen…
We now know who will be sitting in the Butler Cabin for Amazon’s Masters debut. NBC’s Dan Hicks revealed during the Houston Open telecast this weekend that Terry Gannon will serve as the host for Prime Video’s Masters coverage on Thursday and Friday, manning the iconic Butler Cabin location from 1-3 p.m. ET both days…
Hunter Pence called his Netflix debut on Opening Night a lot of things on the Baseball Tonight podcast with Buster Olney this week. Nervous was one of them. But the way he described it, the nerves weren’t all that different from the ones he felt stepping into the batter’s box for the first time in…
Under current NFL scheduling procedures, teams are only permitted to play two “short-week” games per season. In practice, the rule ensures that teams are not scheduled for more than two games on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday each year. Amazon’s Prime Video, which owns the Thursday Night Football package, is most impacted by this scheduling provision. While…
When FS1’s First Things First earned its first Sports Emmy nomination for best daily studio show this past week, host Nick Wright felt immense pride for not only the show getting recognition but also his own personal growth. FTF is up against ESPN’s NFL Live, NBA Today, and SportsCenter as well as The Pat McAfee Show. And Wright feels Read more... The post Nick Wright: Adding Chris Broussard ‘greatest thing that ever happened’ to ‘First Things First’ appeared first on Awful Announcing.
Sometimes, writing about what’s happening in the media industry is simply about connecting dots. And with every passing day, some dots are seemingly coming into alignment that are almost too coincidental to not notice. Those dots center on the FCC’s recent interest in sports fragmentation, and the threat the federal government poses to the antitrust Read more... The post Are the Murdochs and Ellisons behind FCC’s recent interest in sports fragmentation? appeared first on Awful Announcing.
ESPN’s Jeff Passan is the rare sports insider who still writes long-form features, trend pieces, and even game stories. For most national sports insiders tasked with breaking news for a living, the work of getting information and putting it out is a full-time job. Some might have a podcast or a role on a studio Read more... The post Jeff Passan: Becoming an MLB insider helped me ‘do the kind of journalism that I put on a pedestal’ appeared first on Awful Announcing.
Many shining moments later, the 2026 NCAA Men’s Tournament is almost over. Only four teams remain, which means only one broadcasting crew is still on the call. However, college basketball fans got to experience the calls and analysis from several different announcers, commentators, and reporters throughout March Madness. And now, we want to know how Read more... The post Grade the 2026 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament announcers appeared first on Awful Announcing.
