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Tom Brady may not have been rooting for the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX earlier this year, but he still feels some kind of way about returning to Foxborough this weekend. Brady and Kevin Burkhardt will be in New England Sunday afternoon to call the matchup between the Patriots and Green Bay Packers.…
A Saturday night showdown between Miami and Notre Dame will headline the college football action in Week 10. Noah Eagle and Todd Blackledge will have the call for NBC (7:30 p.m. ET). Saturday also features a strong early slate, led by BYU and Utah battling in the Holy War. Dave Pasch and Dusty Dvoracek will…
Mike Locksley’s first Saturday as a television analyst will involve previewing the Maryland football program that fired him 17 days earlier. According to Sports Business Journal, Locksley is joining Big Ten Network as a studio analyst for the remainder of the regular season, lending the conference’s in-house network an authoritative voice for its November stretch…
The WNBA has been on a steep upward trajectory for several years, but this year’s Finals threatened to upend the momentum the league had built. To start, none of the league’s marquee stars reached the championship series. Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever lost in the first round, while A’ja Wilson and the Las Vegas…
Few people in college football will greet Tuesday night’s first College Football Playoff rankings reveal with less ceremony than Kirk Ferentz. Asked during his weekly press conference whether he planned to watch the selection committee’s inaugural rankings of the season, which ESPN unveils Tuesday night, the Iowa head coach answered with a sarcastic “Oh jeez,…
Victor Wembanyama is already one of the most interesting characters in the NBA in addition to being perhaps its best player, and he has answered the prayers of fans who wanted another basketball superstar who spoke his mind. After making enemies in Portland, Oklahoma City and New York City for borderline dirty plays and questionable…
Joe Buck and Peyton Manning are now neighbors, though ESPN would much prefer they become boothmates. According to Andrew Marchand of The Athletic, Manning is ESPN’s top choice to replace Troy Aikman on Monday Night Football, even if Marchand stops short of calling him the favorite. Writing in his latest sports media Q&A, Marchand expects…
Kevin Durant is known for being one of the best scorers in NBA history, he’s also known for being sensitive to any sort of criticism. Through the first couple weeks of the NBA season, there isn’t much to criticize Durant about. The Houston Rockets are 7-1 while the 38-year-old Durant is averaging more than 20…
2026 is the first time the WNBA Finals was played in a best-of-seven format, and the series went the distance. The Golden State Valkyries won a do-or-die game against the Atlanta Dream on Saturday, earning a title in just their second year of existence and capping another ascendant season for the WNBA from a viewership…
Jim Mora Sr. was an accomplished NFL coach with successful tenures at the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts. But ask any football fan what they know or remember from his career and it was his epic, explosive press conferences and fiery personality that have produced soundbites that still reverberate to this day. In New…
There is never a bad time for a Dana White story. The brash sports entrepreneur continues to expand his influence, not only through the continued popularity of the UFC but also his impact as a political actor and businessman. It turns out that last year, according to Page Six, Netflix quietly began producing a documentary…
Over the last few years, The CW has grown to include a solid portfolio of sports rights. The network has ACC, Pac-12, and Mountain West football, ACC basketball, NASCAR’s O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, WWE NXT, and a few other minor properties. Now, the network is becoming more ambitious. As other media companies prepare to “rebalance”…
Tuesday, Nov. 3rd is Election Day in America. And once again, two of the four major sports leagues are taking vastly different approaches in handling the day. There will be no games on the NBA calendar on Tuesday. It’s the fourth time in five years that the league is taking the entire day off and…
DAZN, the London-based sports streaming service that proved to be FIFA’s saving grace during the inaugural 32-team Club World Cup in 2025, appears to be in pole position to broadcast the event again in 2029. According to a report by Matt Hughes in The Guardian, DAZN has secured “an exclusive option” to be the exclusive global…
The relationship between Fox Sports and its biggest college football partner, the Ohio State University, has been a fraught one for years. But the network’s reliance on the Buckeyes to prop up Big Noon Kickoff may just push it to the point of no return. The drama around the Buckeyes on Big Noon has been a storyline…
The focus of the Detroit Lions franchise and their fanbase is entirely on linebacker Jack Campbell. The Lions defeated the Minnesota Vikings in a key NFC North clash on Sunday, but it was overshadowed by the frightening injury to the 26-year-old former first round pick from Iowa. Campbell went motionless after making a tackle on…
Forget about politicians ruining the country, Joe Scarborough took a few minutes on Election Day to put Pat McAfee on blast for running College GameDay. Tuesday morning’s Election Day coverage on MS NOW’s Morning Joe was briefly usurped by football with Willie Geist discussing ESPN’s six-part documentary, Saban, which was produced by his sister Libby…
Both MLB and the NBA are looking towards building aggregated local streaming hubs in the near future with the hope that bundling local rights into a league-wide package can draw the interest of deep-pocketed streamers like YouTube or Prime Video. As it turns out, a new analysis by Playfly Sports seems to support the leagues’…
The Dallas Cowboys were an absolute disaster against the Arizona Cardinals in the second half on Sunday, turning a 14–3 lead at halftime into a 33–30 overtime loss. This came after the Cardinals decided to bench starting quarterback Jacoby Brissett in favor of backup Gardner Minshew, who then proceeded to tear through the Cowboys defense…
Marcus Spears the former NFL defensive end and current ESPN analyst was in Seattle on Monday night to work on the network’s Monday Night Countdown panel ahead of the game between the Seahawks and Chicago Bears. But Marcus Spears the father was in another headspace entirely, as his son, Marcus Spears Jr. was about to…
The death of Chris Spatola was felt across sports media when the tragic news broke in late September. Spatola, a beloved college basketball analyst at ESPN, passed away unexpectedly on Sept. 21, according to his obituary, and is survived by his wife, Jamie, and their three children. He was 47. The lasting grief permeated ESPN’s…
The Nebraska Cornhuskers lost their third straight game, falling 17-10 to Washington on Saturday, and head coach Matt Rhule dedicated his Monday press conference to defending his program. Rhule spoke uninterrupted for 19 minutes before opening his presser to questions. In that time, he analyzed what went wrong against Washington, credited individual coaches and players,…
All Times Eastern College Basketball Men’s Wofford at Tennessee — SEC Network/ESPN Unlimited, 6 p.m. Coppin State at Virginia Tech — ACC Network Extra, 7 p.m. Hampton at Georgia Tech — ACC Network Extra, 7 p.m. Wagner at Boston College — ACC Network Extra, 7 p.m. Manhattan at Kentucky — SEC Network Plus, 7 p.m.…
Monday brought the full start of college basketball season, with both men’s and women’s games taking place across the country at all hours of the day. Eagle-eyed viewers on ESPN noticed two somewhat significant changes in the network’s broadcasts of the sport. The WorldWide Leader had debuted a new scorebug, and the network had moved…
