Stadium News
Breaking News from the Bench to the Bleachers
The NHL announced last week that the Utah Mammoth will host the Colorado Avalanche in the 2027 Winter Classic on Dec. 31 at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City. For the second time in three years, the league’s marquee outdoor event will be played on New Year’s Eve. The first time produced the smallest audience…
Let me share a story from my rock radio days. I used to be part of a wacky morning zoo-style show on 96 Rock (RIP) in Raleigh, NC. Part of my duties, when the show first launched, were to do the top-of-the-hour sports updates. They weren’t serious, structured things. They were banter, designed to fit…
Jason Benetti was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, a group of permanent motor disorders that affect movement and posture, at just two years old, leaving him with an awkward gait, a lazy eye, and an upbringing where he had to navigate being so visibly different in a world that wasn’t designed to be accommodating for those…
Chris Simms will not return to Football Night in America next season, he revealed Monday on PFT Live. Simms joined NBC Sports in 2016 and has spent the next decade building one of the more expansive portfolios in NBC’s football operation, eventually becoming one of the four main analysts on FNIA‘s primary panel alongside Maria…
On the onset of the 2026 MLB season, Carlos Mendoza texted Howie Rose. The Mets manager wanted the soon-to-be-retiring broadcaster to know that New York was going to win it all for him. That this was going to be his year. That several decades of loving a franchise that has made loving it an extreme…
Baxter Holmes had already done his job. The ESPN senior writer wrote a long-form piece, “How the Thunder helped heal Oklahoma City 30 years after unimaginable terror,” last fall. But now, he was going to do something that was simultaneously the same and completely different. For the first time ever, Holmes worked on turning his…
Entering the season, the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies were expected to be two of the best teams in Major League Baseball. The FanGraphs projections had the Mets winning the second-most games and the Phillies winning the sixth-most games. It certainly hasn’t looked that way a month into the season. New York’s embarrassing play…
The 2025-2026 NBA regular season is complete, and the NBA Playoffs are underway. Pretty soon, we’ll crown this season’s championship team. Before that, you have the chance to crown the championship announcing team. We want your perspectives on how the various local TV broadcast booths did this season. It’s a particularly interesting year, as we’ve…
Following his departure as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers following the franchise’s wild card round loss to the Houston Texans, Mike Tomlin has joined NBC as a studio analyst for the network’s Sunday Night Football pregame show, Football Night in America. On Sunday, Tomlin was officially introduced in his new role via an…
The Miami Marlins lost to the struggling San Francisco Giants 6-2 on Saturday, despite recording six hits on the day. However, the top of the third inning provided plenty of entertainment for Marlins fans. With the Marlins at the plate in what was still a 0-0 game, the Marlins.TV broadcast booth conducted an in-game interview…
All Times Eastern College Basketball Inside College Basketball — CBS Sports Network, 1 p.m. College Softball Alabama at Tennessee — SEC Network/ESPN Unlimited, 7 p.m. English Premier League Matchweek 34 Manchester United vs. Brentford — USA Network/Universo, 2:55 p.m. Announcers: Paul Burmeister/Danny Higginbotham/Robbie Mustoe Premier League Live — USA Network, 2 p.m. Goal Zone —…
The New York Mets just finished a series that was as embarrassing as their 12-game losing streak, if not more so. New York followed its 12-game losing streak with two straight wins vs. the Minnesota Twins, but the wheels came off (again) in a big way this weekend vs. the Colorado Rockies at Citi Field.…
San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama made his highly anticipated return in Game 4 of the Spurs’ first-round playoff series, after exiting Game 2 and missing all of Game 3 with a concussion from a nasty collision with the hardwood. The Frenchman shone in his return to the floor, scoring 27 points and adding 11…
The NASCAR community is firing back after Stephen A. Smith recently said that NASCAR drivers are not athletes. While discussing where LeBron James ranks among the greatest athletes ever on Smith’s Mad Dog Sports Radio show on SiriusXM, a caller suggested NASCAR legend Richard Petty as a nominee, and Smith proceeded to trash the idea of…
NBC and studio host Maria Taylor officially introduced former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin as an NFL analyst for the network ahead of the Sunday Night Basketball NBA playoff matchup between the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers. That was a noteworthy moment in itself, but the interview also led to more news about the…
Stephen A. Smith doesn’t think NASCAR drivers are athletes, and Joey Logano thinks he knows exactly why. “People like that have to make comments to stay relevant,” Logano said. “I mean, that’s part of their game, right? They gotta make big moments so people watch. He got exactly what he wanted — he got you…
When Georgia announced Friday that Jeff Dantzler would replace Scott Howard as the play-by-play voice of the Bulldog Radio Network, the university thanked Howard for “nearly four decades of work” and noted he would remain as men’s basketball play-by-play announcer. It said nothing about why he was being replaced in football. Howard filled in that…
Mike Tomlin signed with Sandy Montag in March, hired one of the most powerful agents in sports media, and waited for the offers to come in. According to Andrew Marchand on The Varsity with John Ourand, they mostly didn’t. “There really wasn’t a lot of competition for Tomlin,” Marchand said. “That was the interesting thing.…
The MLB’s vagabond ballclub, the A’s, is currently awaiting the completion of its new Las Vegas ballpark. Fans, however, still don’t have much clarity on exactly what the finished product will look like. The team’s official X account for its new stadium posted a video on Wednesday advertising two luxury suite sections: the Athletic Club…
11 years ago, LeBron James was dominating the Atlanta Hawks in the Eastern Conference Finals, registering a 37-point triple-double in an overtime victory to take a commanding 3-0 lead in the series. Eric Martin, a 42-year-old retired sales executive and Golden State Warriors fan, was watching the game from his couch and made a tweet…
Nelly Korda teed off in the final round of the Chevron Championship at 12:08 p.m. ET on Sunday. Streaming coverage begins on Peacock at 1:30 p.m. ET. NBC’s broadcast doesn’t start until 2 p.m. There is no Golf Channel window bridging the gap. For over an hour on the final Sunday of the LPGA’s first…
Nobody told Charles Davis the 2026 NFL Draft was almost over. Deep in the seventh round — well past the point where most casual viewers had checked out and moved on with their Saturday evening — Davis and Daniel Jeremiah turned the 221st overall pick into the most entertaining television of the entire weekend. All…
Dianna Russini’s time as a top-tier NFL insider is almost certainly over, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t many opportunities out there for her “second act.” It’s barely been a week since Russini resigned from her role as senior NFL insider at The Athletic amid an internal investigation around her relationship with New England Patriots…
Sports commissioners are the public face of the leagues they oversee. It’s a highly paid job, in part because it’s not easy to be the person who absorbs criticism on behalf of team owners. For a while, Adam Silver enjoyed the fruits of a positive image. He was the tough-talking hombre who, in his first…
