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LaMelo Ball was the villain and the hero in the Charlotte Hornets victory over the Miami Heat in the first play-in game of the 2026 NBA Playoffs. The game itself was a thriller as Charlotte won 127-126 in overtime. Ball made the game-winning basket in the extra period after Coby White had forced the extra…
WWE continued using their broadcast partners at ESPN to advance one of their major storylines at WrestleMania 42 with Pat McAfee taking center stage in the corner of Randy Orton as he challenges Cody Rhodes for the WWE title. The sudden insertion of McAfee into the main event picture has soundly been rejected by wrestling…
The Dallas Wings had the top overall pick in the WNBA Draft each of the past two offseasons and used those picks to select players who have quite a history together in Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd. In 2025, the decision was clear-cut (though not without its own drama). UConn’s Paige Bueckers had been seen…
LIV Golf could be approaching its final breaths. And now the question seems to be not if the league will close up shop, but when. It all started with a tweet on Tuesday from Monday Q Info’s Ryan French about a “bombshell announcement” regarding the league’s future coming. The nature of that announcement became clear…
The saga involving Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel hasn’t necessarily come to an end, but it has hit a major turning point. Photos published a week ago by The New York Post of the pair at a private resort have led to Russini’s resignation from The Athletic. The resignation ends her three-year tenure at the publication,…
After Prime Video struggled through an outage, an incredibly inopportune moment during Tuesday night’s Eastern Conference play-in game, Bill Simmons took the opportunity to blast the streamer for some of its issues with NBA coverage throughout the season. During overtime of the Heat-Hornets game in Charlotte, Prime Video flashed to black before displaying a “technical…
Peter Schrager left NFL Network a year ago, having watched the writing on the wall accumulate for longer than he cared to admit. Good Morning Football, the show he helped launch in 2016 and that became the network’s most visible daily product, had been relocated from New York to Los Angeles. As resources became thin,…
The San Francisco 49ers and KNBR announced Wednesday a multi-year extension, keeping intact a radio flagship partnership that dates to 2005 and the broadcast team — Greg Papa and Tim Ryan — that has defined it. “We at KNBR are tremendously excited to continue this valued partnership with the Niners,” said Larry Blumhagen, regional vice…
Nick Wright is trying to make it right after snubbing Steph Curry, but he’s accepting his fate and whatever backlash comes his way. Wright unveiled his top-10 NBA guards of all-time on Tuesday afternoon on First Things First, and he briefly joined Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo as maybe the only other sports media member who…
Brian Kelly made his first television appearance since LSU fired him in October on Tuesday, sitting alongside Brent Stover, Kevin Carter, and Beanie Wells on CBS Sports Network to break down 2026 NFL Draft prospects. According to USA Today‘s John Brice, it won’t be his last. CBS college football studio work, radio, and podcast appearances…
Netflix is pushing its way further into live sports, albeit not in the United States. The streaming giant has secured Mexican broadcast rights to both the CONCACAF Gold Cup and CONCACAF Nations League finals through 2029, according to a report by Etan Vlessing in The Hollywood Reporter. Both competitions are scheduled to be contested in…
NASCAR got a 40% rights fee bump in its latest TV deal. The cost? Fewer people actually watching the races. The recent Cup Series race at Bristol on FS1 averaged just 1.945 million viewers. According to Braylon Breeze of RaceDay Report, that is the first time a Fox Sports race has averaged fewer than 2…
The WNBA season is officially on, as owners and the players’ union reached a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement last month. That means the league’s television partners, including ESPN, Prime Video, and NBC, can now begin to solidify their broadcast rosters ahead of Opening Night on May 8. According to Front Office Sports,…
Charles Barkley has no issue with LeBron James hating Memphis, he has an issue with Stephen A. Smith and others making it about race. Earlier this month, James faced criticism for shading Memphis and Milwaukee during an appearance with Bob Does Sports. James said most NBA stars agree the Grizzlies should move to Nashville, adding…
As it would turn out, greatly expanding its broadcast television exposure has done wonders for NBA viewership in Year 1 of the league’s new television contracts. NBA telecasts averaged 1.78 million viewers across ABC, ESPN, NBC, Peacock, and Prime Video throughout the regular season. That’s good for a 16% increase versus last year, the final…
As the NFL Draft prepares to descend on the Steel City, Pittsburgh royalty will be standing by to contribute coverage for the event. On Tuesday, Pat McAfee announced that former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach and current CBS Sports studio analyst Bill Cowher will join his eponymous show’s “Draft Spectacular” coverage next week during the NFL…
One by one in the 1990s and 2000s, a hallowed generation of NFL signal-callers washed out in the media. Joe Montana lasted a season. John Elway said no. Dan Marino did a forgetful decade in the studio at CBS. Only Troy Aikman lasted as a top commentator. With so little to show from that crop,…
Update [4/15/2026, 1:36 p.m. ET]: The Financial Times is now reporting Saudi Arabia’s PIF is “on the verge of cutting its support for LIV Golf.” An announcement on the tour’s future is expected as soon as Thursday. The Saudi-funded LIV Golf league could be on its last legs. That’s the rumor frenetically circulating the golf world…
Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service broadcast its first-ever NBA playoff game on Tuesday night, a play-in contest between the Miami Heat and Charlotte Hornets. But what should’ve been a celebratory night for the streamer quickly turned into a nightmare during the last minute of overtime. Across the country, bewildered NBA fans watched as their Prime…
A last-minute suitor has entered the arena for 13 NBA teams previously tied to Main Street Sports Group, owner of the FanDuel-branded regional sports networks. That suitor is Disney-owned Fubo, the virtual pay TV provider competing with the likes of YouTube TV and Sling for market share over cord-cutters and cord-nevers buying live television through…
NBC Sports will be home of The Soccer Tournament when action kicks off next month. NBC announced on Tuesday that The Soccer Tournament (TST), a series of three separate $1 million winner-take-all, 7-on-7 soccer tournaments, will be broadcast across NBC Sports properties this year. The event features three separate competitions — a men’s, a women’s,…
If Charles Barkley wanted to say anything critical of Bronny James, LeBron James has already made him think better of it. Barkley often seems eager to criticize LeBron James or the Los Angeles Lakers, and even his colleagues at ESPN, who love to talk about LeBron and the Lakers. But as far as saying something…
Amazon Prime Video streamed its first NBA playoff game on Tuesday night during the Eastern Conference play-in game between the Miami Heat and Charlotte Hornets. It was a thrilling game as Charlotte’s Coby White hit an incredible three-pointer in the closing seconds to force overtime. With 48 seconds left in the OT period, the Hornets…
Prime Video’s NBA coverage has ramped up over the course of the season, and the streamer will take center stage this week as the league’s Play-In Tournament’s exclusive home. NBA on Prime will use the Ian Eagle-Stan Van Gundy tandem as its top NBA booth starting this week, while it also puts its “Prime Vision”…
