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The NFL appears to be chipping away at the tradition of putting most of its games on during Sundays, and that isn’t sitting well with a lot of fans. Chris Simms, however, sees a silver lining. An Awful Announcing analysis of the NFL schedule found that the league will air 197 Sunday afternoon games in 2026, down…
Longtime Connecticut sports anchor and reporter Gabrielle Lucivero doesn’t have to go very far for her next gig. After nearly nine years at NBC Connecticut, Lucivero announced that she was leaving the station, but would be heading to Bristol, where she’ll work for ESPN Radio. “11 years and 11 days since I walked into my…
Even though SEC commissioner Greg Sankey has come out against a 24-team College Football Playoff expansion, the word on the street is that many coaches in the league would be happy to do so. And when you couple that with the many coaches and ADs on the record around the country wanting a 24-team playoff,…
Tubi is getting in on the 2026 World Cup action with a couple of well-known American footballers. On Tuesday, the streamer announced The Other Football, an eight-part weekly talk show hosted by Fox Sports’ Rob Gronkowski and New York Giants quarterback Jameis Winston. The show will premiere on Wednesday, May 27. with new episodes every…
The future of college football, and college athletics in general, seems to constantly be up in the air as power brokers from the NCAA, athletic conferences, universities, and even Congress attempt to find a solution that will work for everyone, and by everyone, we mean the top 15-20 college football programs in America. Georgia Bulldogs…
New York Knicks center Mitchell Robinson has been an invaluable part of the team’s electric 12-2 run through the Eastern Conference playoffs despite, as he recently revealed, playing through significant mental health challenges. Over the weekend, Robinson posted on his social media pages that he has been dealing with a “very upsetting experience” and that he…
The Heisman Trophy presentation is a cornerstone tradition of the college football calendar. But given the seismic changes taking place across the sport and the ever-shifting plans for expansion, not even that is immune to impact. That’s perhaps part of why the Heisman Trophy Trust is turning the Heisman Trophy ceremony into a can’t-miss, multi-day…
For the first time since 1999, the New York Knicks are headed to the NBA Finals. The hysteria already spread to the streets of New York City on Monday night as Knicks fans lost their minds celebrating an official return to glory. And with arguably the NBA’s most iconic team competing for the Larry O’Brien…
The entire NBA world is ablaze once again with chatter around reigning two-time MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and his penchant for drawing fouls, but Reggie Miller wants it all to stop. Gilgeous-Alexander has almost single-handedly turned the Oklahoma City Thunder into an NBA villain with his supposed “foul-baiting,” a reputation which has followed him for awhile…
Boomer Esiason continues to equivocate about athletes who take political stands, and it has once again drawn the ire of longtime Dan Le Batard Show producer Mike Ryan. Early on Tuesday morning, Esiason sounded off during his WFAN show about the online dispute between young New York Giants stars Jaxson Dart and Abdul Carter, which…
Mike Breen has called Knicks games since 1991. But now in 2026 he will be able to announce his beloved local team in the NBA Finals for the first time as the national voice of the association. Breen was at the mic for ESPN as the Knicks easily swept the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern…
The BBC won’t be having any of this Americanized nonsense at the World Cup final. The British public broadcaster will reportedly forego airing the first-ever World Cup final halftime show, which will feature global music icons Shakira, Madonna, and BTS, and instead opt to maintain its traditional halftime coverage with pundits analyzing the first 45…
What began as a feud between Stephen A. Smith and Jaylen Brown may be morphing into a media beef between Smith and FS1’s Nick Wright. Last week, Wright went in on Smith for constantly threatening to reveal private information about the athletes he is covering, likening the behavior to that of a “mob boss.” In…
Come playoff time, I am in the most important demographic for TV ratings for the NBA. I’m a casual NBA fan. The league is not one of the top three or four sports I follow. I never fully adopted a team over the years, despite rubbernecking Michael Jordan and the Bulls in the ’90s, and…
Through a litany of prior reporting and legal proceedings, it has long been assumed that FIFA awarded Fox broadcast rights to the 2026 World Cup because of its decision to move the 2022 World Cup in Qatar from its traditional summertime window to November and December, when playing conditions were more suitable in Qatar’s arid…
The SEC could write another chapter to the Lane Kiffin-Ole Miss saga as the conference prepares for its upcoming spring meetings this week. According to a report by Matt Hayes in USA Today, the SEC and Ole Miss have discussed “a potential reprimand for new LSU coach Lane Kiffin over comments he made in a recent Vanity…
Despite the NFL’s best efforts, it appears the league won’t be moving towards an 18-game regular season by 2027. According to a report by Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, citing a source familiar with the situation, an expansion to 18 regular-season games is “highly unlikely” for the 2027-28 season, though “still not impossible.” The NFL…
Victor Wembanyama made the 2026 All-NBA First Team with 99 out of 100 votes. Justin Termine, host of NBA Today on SiriusXM NBA Radio, placed Wembanyama on the second team instead of the first, casting the only ballot in the entire voter pool that did not give Wembanyama first-team honors. In a video posted to…
Gilbert Arenas doesn’t think NBC’s record viewership number for Spurs-Thunder means what NBC says it means. When NBC announced that Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder averaged 9.2 million viewers across NBC and Peacock — peaking at 12 million during double overtime — the network…
The network owned by the Boston Red Sox pulled a Senate candidate’s campaign ad that blamed private equity for destroying the team. Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee in Maine’s Senate race against Susan Collins, ran the commercial during a Red Sox game on NESN on Friday. The ad references a March 2021 Axios report…
HBO is getting soccer fans hyped for the World Cup with a documentary miniseries about the last four years of the U.S. Men’s National Team’s journey to hosting the 2026 World Cup. The documentary is titled U.S. Against the World: Four Years with the Men’s National Soccer Team. The five-part series is releasing new episodes…
Someone needs to call WWE star Danhausen to uncurse ESPN. The very nice, very evil character has been a pop culture hit since joining WWE because of his comedic “curses.” And when he uncursed the New York Knicks on First Take after a bit with Stephen A. Smith, the team has gone on to a…
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is finding things difficult against the San Antonio Spurs. And he’s finding it difficult to answer questions about his teammates in postgame interviews. After OKC’s Game 2 victory in San Antonio to level the Western Conference Finals, SGA was asked about the defensive impact of Isaiah Hartenstein against Victor Wembanyama. However, instead of…
The New York Knicks have a commanding 3-0 series lead over the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference Finals and are one win away from their first NBA Finals appearance since 1999. It’s been a disheartening series for the Cavs and their fans, with a particularly disappointing showing in a 121-108 loss in Saturday night’s…
