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Bill Reiter: LeBron James a ‘mercenary’ who didn’t love Los Angeles
LeBron James is extending his playing career with the Philadelphia 76ers after a surprising free agency decision left former teams in Cleveland and Miami missing out on another tenure with the NBA’s all-time leading scorer. While James finishing his career with the hometown team that drafted him would have been the perfect storybook ending, the…
A squirrel took over the Orioles-Tigers game and the announcers loved it
You haven’t truly lived until you’ve seen a group of approximately 20 adult groundskeepers chase a squirrel through the outfield of a Major League Baseball game. Part of the beauty of baseball is that over the course of 162 regular season games, you never know what you are going to encounter on a random night…
The Fanatic’s Sean Brace calls out WIP, Spike Eskin: ‘We are die-hard Philadelphia sports fans. They are not.’
In case you have been living under a rock for the past few days, LeBron James is a Philadelphia 76er. Presuming you also did not have an FM radio signal under that rock, the reaction to that news on Philadelphia sports radio is about what you probably expected. On the whole, Philly sports media was…
Brian Harman flips bird to camera after 3M Open finish, earning laugh from Scottie Scheffler
Golfer Brian Harman had himself a pretty good weekend at the 3M Open in Minnesota. The 2023 Open Champion played 20-under on the tournament, earning himself a T3 finish and a $429,550 payday. But golf is a frustrating game, and Harman was ready to show a bit of his frustration after his final round. While…
Dan Patrick calls out ESPN for ‘holding’ Kyle Shanahan car crash story: ‘This isn’t journalism’
The story of San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan getting into a severe car accident would have been fairly serious on its own, and it was only made more serious by the way the news of it emerged from ESPN. Heading into 49ers training camp, the team released an announcement about the incident and…
YouTube TV subscribers can now finally access ESPN Unlimited
At long last, YouTube TV users that subscribe to a package that includes ESPN will now have access to the full suite of content offered by ESPN at no additional cost. The news was reported by Cord Cutters on Monday. YouTube TV subscribers can now access ESPN Unlimited content in the platform directly from the…
TikTok, Fanatics, and NFL facing lawsuit over alleged plot to wipe out independent sellers
The NFL, TikTok, and Fanatics are facing a lawsuit that accuses them of colluding to push independent sports memorabilia sellers off TikTok’s livestream marketplace and redirect customers toward Fanatics. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California by David Allan Skalsky and QCBRIPNSHIP LLC, which operated the livestream…
Connor Onion reportedly set to become Fox Sports’ new No. 2 college football voice
Fox Sports has settled on its new No. 2 college football voice. According to The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand, Connor Onion has been tapped as Jason Benetti’s successor and will pair with analyst Robert Griffin III once the season begins. Tim Brando, another Fox voice who might have seemed a natural fit given his seniority, was…
Gaelic football commentators go ballistic celebrating Mayo’s All-Ireland championship
There’s a good chance you thought LeBron James’s decision to join the Philadelphia 76ers was the biggest moment of the sporting weekend, and for American audiences, you’d be mostly correct. But on another plane of the sports universe, the biggest headlines instead belonged to much-maligned Gaelic football squad Mayo, which won its first All-Ireland Senior…
CBS Sports officially adds Brian Kelly, Doug Pederson as college football analysts
Brian Kelly and Doug Pederson aren’t returning to the sidelines, at least not yet, but they’ll both be calling football games for CBS Sports this season. CBS Sports officially announced that the longtime coaches will join its college football coverage this season as analysts. Kelly, who was fired by LSU during the 2025 season, will…
Jason McIntyre claims Keenan Allen has been ‘cut by half’ the NFL
There’s just something about veteran NFL wide receivers that seems to get Fox Sports host Jason McIntyre talking a little crazy. Filling in for Colin Cowherd on Fox Sports Radio and FS1 Monday afternoon, McIntyre was joined by Mark Schlereth. During the segment, McIntyre expressed surprise that Justin Herbert and the Los Angeles Chargers are…
Monica McNutt counters Caitlin Clark’s comments by calling for ‘accountability and self-awareness’ from Fever star
Just as some ESPN talent leaned into Caitlin Clark’s efforts to refocus the conversation on basketball and ignore outsiders who politicize her career, Monica McNutt took a different tack. During ESPN’s Women’s Sports Sunday studio show this past weekend, McNutt was asked to respond to comments Clark made to ESPN during an interview at WNBA…
Chris Simms knew about Kyle Shanahan’s car accident nearly two weeks before it became public
Chris Simms carried a piece of information about one of his closest friends for the better part of two weeks, watching the news cycle every day without seeing it surface. Simms revealed on Monday’s episode of PFT Live that he’d known about San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan’s car accident well before the story…
Joe Buck sees ‘competitive imbalance’ in MLB as lockout looms
Joe Buck might not miss being the voice of Major League Baseball, but he’ll miss the sport if it suffers a lengthy work stoppage. Buck has been justly celebrated in recent days after being inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and awarded the Ford C. Frick Award. But the future of Major League Baseball is much…
Tony Romo withdraws from Texas State Open after OWI arrest
The first fallout after Tony Romo was arrested on suspicion of intoxicated driving has occurred, with the CBS broadcaster withdrawing from his next golf tournament. Romo was expected to participate in the M&P Group Texas State Open beginning this Tuesday. But according to KETK, Romo has officially stepped down from competing in the tournament following…
ESPN strikes media rights deal with International Dance League
ESPN is ready to boogie with professional dancing. On Monday, The Hollywood Reporter reported that ESPN has entered into a media rights agreement with the International Dance League (IDL), a professional dance competition that aims to bring a sporting-like structure to dance by creating teams, regular-season and post-season events, and a championship at the end of…
Charles Barkley condemns NBA media’s fixation on championships
Charles Barkley is proof that not all great NBA players win championships, but he doesn’t believe the media does a good job of recognizing it. Barkley joined Stephen A. Smith on his SiriusXM Radio show last Friday after news of LeBron James signing a veteran’s minimum contract with the Philadelphia 76ers broke. In the wake…
Prime Video to produce ‘Thursday Night Football’ independently, end NBC partnership
For the first time since taking over exclusive rights to the Thursday Night Football package in 2022, Prime Video will produce the weekly primetime affair in-house. According to a report by Austin Karp in Sports Business Journal, Prime Video will produce Thursday Night Football independently this upcoming season after having previously relied on NBC Sports to…
Paul Finebaum nearly got fired by ESPN before SEC Network even launched
Paul Finebaum almost got fired before the SEC Network ever aired a single show. Finebaum recounted the episode on That SEC Podcast, taped recently at SEC Media Days in Tampa. ESPN hired him in 2013 to anchor its forthcoming SEC Network, but the channel itself wasn’t scheduled to debut until August 2014, leaving executives with…
A wild NBA offseason should be another boost for regular-season ratings
The 2025-26 season was a difficult one for Adam Silver. He made a series of missteps as the NBA struggled to navigate a laundry list of issues. However, TV ratings were up, and the NBA playoffs were captivating. Looking ahead to 2026-27, while some of the core issues remain—the Kawhi Leonard/L.A. Clippers investigation is still…
Kyle Brandt exits CBS’s ‘The NFL Today’
Kyle Brandt is closing one chapter just as he’s opening a considerably larger one elsewhere. Brandt announced on X that he’s ending his five-season run contributing to CBS’s The NFL Today, thanking the network for granting him latitude he couldn’t have found on almost any other pregame show. “Thank you to my friends at The…
Peacock to integrate within YouTube Premium in major collaboration
Peacock is making a major play to expand its reach. The NBCUniversal-owned streaming service announced today that it is partnering with YouTube to integrate within YouTube Premium, the paid tier of YouTube that allows users to watch videos without advertising as well as download most videos onto their device. The partnership will see Peacock, which…
Dana White decries UFC broadcast production again: ‘Brutal’
UFC CEO Dana White continues to publicly criticize the production quality of his promotion’s broadcasts. Earlier this month, following UFC 329, White took aim at his producers after another high-profile incident of misidentifying a celebrity attending the event. While showing an image of Shakur Stevenson, a boxer who was recently signed to the boxing promotion…
Maddy Sells, star of ‘WAG Talk’ series, launches Enjoy Her Game vertical with Enjoy Basketball
Picture a red carpet. The fresh fits, the chatty interviews, microphones everywhere. And often, a celebrity’s partner, standing just out of sight. Once the cameras stop flashing, the plus-one tiptoes away to wait. For Maddy Sells, it was an opening. “I saw people on red carpets just standing to the side while their husbands get…
Gianni Infantino accuses FIFA critics in press of ‘spreading hate’
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has never been a public relations savant. Remember this? Today I feel gay. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel a migrant worker. So perhaps it comes as no surprise that Infantino is stepping in it again just over a week following the conclusion of this summer’s World Cup hosted in…
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