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It’s generally not good to tolerate hypocrisy. It feels gross to stand by powerless while you watch someone vehemently deride the very thing they were publicly justifying a day earlier. Hypocrisy can take many forms in sports. That means it should be judged on a spectrum. It’s not wildly offensive when Colin Cowherd delivers a…
The sports world is mourning the loss of one of its most iconic voices. Longtime New York Yankees radio voice John Sterling has passed away at the age of 87. Sterling stepped into the Yankees broadcast booth in 1989 after spending much of the 1980s calling games in Atlanta for the Hawks and Braves. He…
UEFA, the governing body over European football competitions including the Champions League, is closing in on broadcast agreements across 19 territories in Europe, South America, Central America, Mexico, and Canada, that will approach $6 billion in annual revenue. According to a report by David Hellier in Bloomberg, UEFA’s new broadcast deals in 19 global markets,…
All Times Eastern College Football ACC Network Football Podcast — ACC Network, 5 p.m. College Golf Men’s and Women’s PGA Works Collegiate Championship, The Park, West Palm Beach, FL 1st Round — Golf Channel, 4 p.m. College Softball 2026 AUSL College Draft Show — ESPN2, 7 p.m. College Track & Field SEC Inside: Georgia Track…
Before Steve Kerr became a general manager or a head coach or one of the more well-known faces of the NBA, he was one of the top commentators at TNT Sports. Altogether, Kerr was a game analyst TNT from 2003-07 and then again from 2011-15, calling top NBA conference finals games as well as the…
ESPN has generally been very careful to cover the saga involving NFL reporter Dianna Russini and New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel. But TNT Sports’ Inside the NBA production crew wasn’t afraid to go there in its first season with the Worldwide Leader. After the Detroit Pistons beat the Orlando Magic in Game 7…
It’s surprising athletes that are jacked up after an exciting win don’t curse more often during postgame interviews. But it’s always funny when they do. What’s not usually very funny is the about-face most networks decide to put on after the fact, acting like a little uncensored foul language is going to corrupt every impressionable youth…
Sports media has not covered itself in glory trying to predict the ongoing NBA playoffs. Already, nine talking heads at The Ringer have had their NBA Finals predictions completely upended by picking either the Boston Celtics or Denver Nuggets to advance out of the Eastern Conference and Western Conference, respectively. Both teams faced unexpected early…
London-based streaming service DAZN remains committed to breaking into the American market. The company hopes to accomplish that by making an aggressive play for local NBA broadcast rights, both in the short-term and long-term. As has been previously reported, DAZN is engaging the 13 NBA teams left behind by Main Street Sports Group, owner of…
For 18 years, Jay Glazer has hosted an annual pool party for NFL head coaches at the league’s owners meetings, and Jeff Pearlman wants to know why nobody has ever had a problem with it. On a recent TikTok, the veteran sportswriter — who has weighed in repeatedly on the Dianna Russini story since it…
On Saturday night, Orlando City became just the third team in MLS history to overcome a three-goal deficit and win, storming back from 3-0 down to beat Inter Miami 4-3 at Nu Stadium. It was, as MLS itself put it on its own website, the greatest comeback in league history. What followed postgame said just…
The Ringer covers the NBA better than almost anyone. Unfortunately, the NBA playoffs did not return the favor. When The Ringer published its NBA playoff preview on April 16, six staff writers submitted Finals predictions. Add in the podcast picks from Bill Simmons, Zach Lowe, and Joe House, and the outlet’s nine most prominent NBA…
Mike Felger has an idea for how Dianna Russini can rebuild her career. The longtime sports radio host appeared on this week’s episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast and, after discussing Boston’s media failures in covering Mike Vrabel, turned his attention to Russini herself and what comes next for her. We’ve covered her path forward…
The Philadelphia 76ers finally got one over on the Boston Celtics by winning Game 7 at the Garden, and Sixers fans weren’t going to let anyone forget about it, especially Brian Scalabrine. The Sixers came back from a 3-1 series deficit in surprising circumstances to win their first series against their Eastern Conference rivals since…
The NHL revealed the start times and television networks for second-round games in the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs on Saturday night. One Eastern Conference series matchup will be determined on Sunday when the Montreal Canadiens and Tampa Bay Lightning play Game 7 of their first-round series. The winner of that series will face the Buffalo…
The New York Mets are off to an MLB-worst start to the 2026 season and entered play on Friday night with a 10-21 record. This is while the Mets have the second-highest payroll in MLB. It’s been a disaster for the Mets in the early going, and during Friday night’s game against the Los Angeles…
On Saturday, the NBA released the schedule for the second round of the 2026 playoffs, featuring tip times and television networks for the games. The Western Conference second-round matchups have already been decided, featuring the Oklahoma City Thunder vs. the Los Angeles Lakers, and the San Antonio Spurs vs the Minnesota Timberwolves. But the Eastern…
The WNBA season is almost upon us and the 2026 campaign will have more storylines than ever before, but none will be bigger than Caitlin Clark looking to get back to her best. After a rookie year that took the country by storm, both for on-court and off-court reasons, Clark spent much of the 2025…
Eight months after Molly Qerim walked out the door at ESPN, Stephen A. Smith is still being asked about it. That’s partly because his answers keep leaving room for more questions. The latest came on Cam Newton’s Funky Friday, where Smith got more personal about it than he has before. Qerim spent a decade as…
Move over Stephen A. Smith, it’s now the time for Zach Lowe to shine. In the midst of his dozens of television, radio, and podcasting gigs it’s easy to forget that Stephen A. Smith is also a legitimate actor. He’s had a role on the longtime ABC soap opera for years playing the role of…
NBC has made an unprecedented push in live sports on broadcast television thanks to their new TV contracts with the NBA and MLB. And it will pay off in a huge way on Saturday with a massive day of sports. NBC will air the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. And although it may not immediately jump…
The F1 movie was a hit both critically and commercially. So it’s no shock that Apple is looking to go back to the well once again. The movie starring Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, and Javier Bardem was a smash at the box office, generating over $630 million worldwide and making a massive return on investment.…
The Big Ten believes it owns the media rights to one of Duke’s newly announced games on Amazon Prime Video. Duke recently announced an agreement with Amazon Prime Video to allow the streaming service to air three neutral-site games featuring Duke: against UConn on Nov. 25 in Las Vegas, against Michigan on Dec. 21 in…
The rich just got a whole lot richer, and in the case of the Big Ten, its schools are now part of the billionaires club. The 2025 season marked the first full season of the Big Ten’s landmark media deals across Fox, NBC, and CBS. And while the SEC may have won the ratings war…
