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If Cavaliers head coach Kenny Atkinson isn’t capable of making adjustments during the game, then ESPN Cleveland radio host Tony Rizzo would consider making an adjustment at head coach. James Harden and Donovan Mitchell have taken some of the blame for blowing a 22-point fourth-quarter lead in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the…
Road Trippin’ is launching a WNBA spinoff. The podcast announced Tuesday the debut of Girls Tripp, a new show hosted by Allie Clifton and Jordan Robinson. The first episode drops Thursday at 11 a.m. ET and features four-time WNBA champion Cynthia Cooper, as well as ESPN’s lead WNBA announcer, Ryan Ruocco, it would appear. Buckle…
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It’s been an eventful month of May for Boston Celtics superstar Jaylen Brown. After leading their first-round series 3-1, the Celtics lost in seven games to the Philadelphia 76ers. Brown then went off on a Twitch stream about NBA officiating, claiming that NBA referees admit that there’s an agenda against him. The NBA fined Brown…
The official announcement for the 2026 NBA MVP came ahead of Sunday night’s Game 7 between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Detroit Pistons on Amazon’s Prime Video. But the NBA world was already aware of the MVP choice several hours earlier, thanks to a report from ESPN’s Shams Charania. “Multiple sources tell me this morning that…
In one of the most shocking local broadcast shakeups of the last several years, longtime Chicago Cubs play-by-play man Len Kasper left the North Side for a radio job on the South Side with the Chicago White Sox in 2020. Sahadev Sharma reported at the time for The Athletic that the shift was in part…
Longtime New York Mets color commentator Keith Hernandez returned to the SNY booth on May 4 at Coors Field after missing a few weeks due to undergoing back surgery in early April. On Sunday, Hernandez returned to the Mets booth at Citi Field for the first time since the back surgery. And his return was…
The likelihood of a 24-team College Football Playoff seems to continually increase. Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti, with the support of nearly every other power broker in the sport, has spearheaded efforts for massive playoff expansion. But for proponents of the current 12-team format, the last bastion of hope to keep the sport recognizable seems to…
For the first time since reporting came out about Fox’s role in the recent federal attention on the NFL’s antitrust exemption, the NFL has addressed the maneuvering of its longtime Sunday afternoon broadcast partner. Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported on a meeting between Fox Corporation chairman emeritus Rupert Murdoch and President Donald Trump…
The WNBA has returned to NBC for the first time since 2002, with the 2026 campaign serving as the first year in a new media rights deal for the league running through 2036 that will see the network broadcast an extensive slate of games each season across Peacock and NBC. NBC has brought in some…
Finishing last in your division typically doesn’t earn you a premium spot on the national TV schedule. The Detroit Lions are an exception. Coming off a 9-8 season that ended with them watching the playoffs from home for the first time since 2022, the Lions still have eight national windows in 2026, including four primetime…
On Friday, the Associated Press reported on the NBA’s plan to announce the league’s MVP award, largely viewed as a three-horse race between Victor Wembanyama, Nikola Jokic, and Shai-Gilgeous Alexander, on Sunday evening during Prime Video’s pregame show. Turns out, fans didn’t have to wait quite that long. ESPN’s senior NBA insider Shams Charania announced…
The NFL will spread its games out across more days of the week than ever before this upcoming season. With the league’s schedule fully released, it’s now official that the league has added a handful of new standalone windows outside of what fans are traditionally accustomed to. It’s a trend that has continued throughout the…
The New York Yankees and New York Mets played game two of this weekend’s Subway Series on Saturday at Citi Field, and the game was an MLB on Fox telecast with the network’s top crew of Joe Davis and John Smoltz on the call. In the top of the sixth inning, Davis and Smoltz discussed…
Sal Capaccio is out as the Buffalo Bills’ radio sideline reporter after 12 seasons, with the team also announcing a new flagship station and a significant addition to the broadcast booth. Capaccio confirmed the news on social media Friday, thanking the Bills organization and WGR listeners while making clear he is not going anywhere. “I’m…
Dana White didn’t wait for the MVP MMA debut event on Netflix to be over before announcing Conor McGregor’s UFC return Saturday night. On Saturday night, while Francis Ngannou was making his walkout at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood — his first MMA fight under the MVP MMA banner, on Netflix, in front of what…
It was a little surprising when the NFL announced it would open the 2026 season the same way it ended it, with a game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots. The Seahawks’ 29-13 win over the Patriots in Super Bowl LX wasn’t particularly exciting or memorable outside of Seattle, and while both…
Despite the second-highest payroll in Major League Baseball and very high expectations entering the 2026 season, it’s been a rough time for the Mets so far. The Mets entered play on Saturday night in last place in the National League East and tied for the fewest wins in the National League with 18. The season…
The NFL is in everyone’s crosshairs as they circle potential new television deals that could rake in billions of dollars. And although they are starting to take political fire, the league is holding firm. At the heart of the struggle is the impending fight between traditional broadcast networks and streaming tech giants. Fox and Rupert…
A very scary incident left Fox Sports NASCAR reporter Amanda Busick and pit crew member Donovan Williams with injuries on Friday at Dover Motor Speedway, but it could have been much worse. A 4,000-pound runaway pit cart rolled downhill toward Busick on pit road while teams were setting up for NASCAR Truck Series qualifying. Williams,…
On September 25, 2006, the Atlanta Falcons took on the New Orleans Saints at the Louisiana Superdome, the first NFL game played there since 2004, following the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. The Saints’ 23-3 victory was seen as a symbol of the city’s recovery from the devastating disaster that killed almost 1,400 people and…
Longtime Cleveland Browns reporter Mark Kay Cabot said last month that she believed the team should open the season with Deshaun Watson as their starting quarterback, over Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel. Doing so would allow the first-team offense to gel as much as possible. That prompted a response from Shedeur’s brother and former Colorado…
News emerged on Friday that the Tennessee Titans are hiring Ramon Foster to be the team’s radio color analyst alongside play-by-play announcer Taylor Zarzour. Foster will be the replacement for longtime Titans radio analyst Dave McGinnis, who passed away in April. Foster co-hosts the morning show Ramon and Will on 104.5 The Zone, the flagship…
Al Michaels is pretty happy with the Thursday Night Football schedule this year. The legendary announcer has been the voice of TNF since Amazon’s Prime Video took over the weekly staple, and he’s been very upfront about the quality of the games he’s gotten to call in that time. The 81-year-old, who infamously used to…
