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Who knew laptops were Powerade-resistant? Daniel Susac made his Major League Baseball debut for the San Francisco Giants on Thursday in style, going 3-for-3 in a 7-2 win over the New York Mets. After the game, he joined NBC Sports Bay Area’s Kylen Mills and Shawn Estes when teammate Willy Adames snuck up behind him…
Seeing a sports radio station get a basic fact wrong in their promotion of local sports coverage is bad enough; realizing the error came from AI makes it even worse. On Thursday, Bay Area sports station 95.7 The Game posted a clip from their morning show on Facebook discussing the San Jose Sharks’ 4-3 comeback…
Greg McElroy is not doing stereotypes about the state of Alabama any favors on Friday. When the Artemis II crew, currently in the midst of a 10-day flight to orbit the moon, arrives there, it will be the first time any human beings have ever set foot on its rocky surface, according to the former…
It hasn’t taken Shae Cornette very long to realize what works on First Take, where the Dallas Cowboys are always relevant. It’s been six months since Molly Qerim abruptly left First Take after a very successful 10-years hosting the show alongside Stephen A. Smith. And it’s been four months since Cornette officially took over as…
Luka Dončić’s injury might be bad news for the Los Angeles Lakers, but at least it sort of stopped Stephen A. Smith from calling him a fraud. Dončić left the Lakers’ 136-96 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday night early because of a left hamstring injury. He appeared to tweak the hamstring in…
The Seattle Seahawks have never been on HBO’s Hard Knocks, and one might have assumed the last thing they’d want to do after winning a Super Bowl would be to let cameras inside their title defense preparations. However, the Seahawks will indeed be the focus of the 2026 installment of the long-running docuseries, a year after the NFL “liberalized”…
Indiana Hoosiers football coach Curt Cignetti is not one to mince words, so if you’re going to take a shot at one of his players, you’d better be ready for some return fire. For the past two and a half seasons, Josh Hoover was the starting quarterback for the TCU Hurned Frogs. He transferred to…
Amazon Prime Video has been a standout with their NBA coverage this year by trying to bring fans more into the modern day. It’s been a refreshing change of pace from the likes of Inside the NBA, which views today’s game with about as much energy and enthusiasm as Statler and Waldorf. Nowhere was that…
Brady Tkachuk and Matthew Tkachuk might want to consider not having their dad on the podcast anymore. Too many Tkachuks seem to make things uncomfortable for everyone. Playing 18 seasons in the league, Keith Tkachuk was one of the best American players in NHL history. A five-time All-Star, he is one of only four American-born…
At 82, 84, or however old Bill Raftery is at this point in his career, the iconic college basketball announcer sounds like he found the fountain of youth. While most networks begin to phase broadcasters out in their 70s, Raftery was promoted to the lead college basketball booth for CBS, calling his first Final Four…
The NBA has tried to do everything possible to ensure that its biggest stars are playing on its biggest platforms. But nothing is working. For multiple years, load management has been the scorn of NBA commissioner Adam Silver and network executives that have seen All-Star players willfully sit out games to rest and save their…
Netflix was trying to make a splash with their MLB Opening Night debut, but it left baseball fans at home feeling like they got soaked. And in response to the criticism, host Elle Duncan says the messages were heard loud and clear. The streamer’s forays into the live sports world have focused on big events,…
The latest Tiger Woods DUI arrest in Florida sent shockwaves through the golf world and even directly involved the President of the United States. While there has been a reckoning with how the golfing media has reacted to the sad and disturbing sight of Woods being involved in another serious car crash and being found…
It seems there is always something going on with Chicago White Sox announcer John Schriffen. But this time instead of drawing the ire of fans, he has gotten in hot water the team itself. Schriffen debuted as White Sox announcer in 2024 and noticeably struggled in the job. He was even heavily criticized by media…
The NFL is in the catbird seat when it comes to renegotiating its rights deals with television networks and streamers. And given the outsized importance of the league when it comes to attracting viewers and sponsors, media companies are already preparing their war chests. Networks and streamers have increasingly found that they can’t live without…
PHOENIX — The NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament will have a repeat Final Four when the games tip off Friday afternoon in Phoenix, but there will be a noticeable difference in ESPN’s studio coverage for the game as Christine Williamson works her first championship weekend on the desk since taking over for Elle Duncan earlier this…
Ryan Ruocco, Rebecca Lobo, and Holly Rowe are preparing to call the 2026 NCAA Women’s Final Four on Friday night, and the ESPN trio couldn’t be more in sync. Except when the sidewalk is a little uneven, then it’s every broadcaster for themselves. ESPN’s top women’s basketball crew stopped by 06010: The ESPN Communications Podcast…
Major League Baseball caught baseball fans by surprise earlier this week by announcing the return of This Week in Baseball. But for some of us, the weekly highlights series never really left. Old episodes of the original series, which ran in its original format from 1977 to 1998, are everywhere on the internet. Apple TV…
Fans might notice a few changes to how NFL teams operate their social media pages this upcoming season. According to a report by Ben Fischer in Sports Business Journal, the NFL has approved a number of changes to how teams can utilize there various social media channels. Per Fischer, “Team social media accounts will now…
Half of MLB clubs saw increases in viewership for their Opening Day broadcasts, which is exactly what you’d expect in any given year. According to a report by Austin Karp in Sports Business Journal, 15 of the 29 U.S.-based MLB teams notched year-over-year viewership gains during Opening Day. In other words, about half of the…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
