Russell Wilson is officially headed to sports media. According to Front Office Sports’ Ryan Glasspiegel and ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the 37-year-old Wilson is set to replace Matt Ryan on CBS’s The NFL Today. The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand reported last month that Wilson was in negotiations with television networks over a potential broadcast role that would begin…
The NBA is adding a dedicated local media executive to its league office for the first time. Per Sports Business Journal, the league has created a new GM/Local Media position and hired Matt Volk to fill it. Volk, who most recently served as COO of NESN, starts June 22 and will oversee the NBA’s local…
Since the 2026 NFL schedule dropped two weeks ago, there’s been a fair amount of hand-wringing about what’s happened to Sunday afternoon football. The league will air 197 Sunday afternoon games in 2026, down from 198 in 2025 and 211 in 2021, the first year of the expanded 18-week schedule. It’s been a slow but…
The UFL officially can boast about having something the NFL does not; sideline reporters who will chug a full beer on live television. We’ve seen plenty of fans, and even former athletes, chug a beer to fire up the crowd at a game. We’ve also seen plenty of sideline and field reporters report on beer…
Local station group Scripps is entering its second major ongoing distribution battle, this time with satellite provider DirecTV. Two months since Scripps affiliates went dark for Comcast customers, the local station group’s broadcast networks have now gone dark for DirecTV customers across the country. Scripps is among the largest operators of ABC affiliates across the…
A Fox Sports cameraman got trucked on the sideline during a UFL game between the Louisville Kings and Columbus Aviators on Sunday night at Historic Crew Stadium. Dave Hoffman took a huge hit from a Louisville player, essentially being tackled into the team’s bench. A medic wrapped a bandage around his head while Fox gave…
Indiana Fever head coach Stephanie White and Fever star Caitlin Clark had a heated exchange on the sideline during Saturday’s 100-84 loss to the Portland Fire. A frustrated Clark scored just six points in the game while shooting 1-of-7 from the field, and it was the second consecutive poor performance from Clark and loss for…
It’s been a rough few days for Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever. On Friday night, Clark declined to speak to the media after the Fever lost 90-88 to the Golden State Valkyries. Clark scored 16 points but went just 3-of-12 from the field and committed five turnovers. And on Saturday, the Fever lost 100-84…
All Times Eastern College Baseball NCAA Division I Baseball Championship Regionals — Double Elimination Tallahassee Region, Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL Announcers: Daron Vaught/Devon Travis St. John’s vs. Florida State — ESPNU/ESPN Unlimited, noon Florida State vs. St. John’s — ESPN+, TBD (if St. John’s loses) Atlanta Region,…
During Sunday’s Texas-Nebraska Women’s College World Series game, the ESPN on ABC broadcast did its best to solve the mystery regarding a controversy that went viral after Saturday’s Tennessee-Texas Tech WCWS game. After Saturday’s game (which also featured a controversial ABC broadcast outage), the media asked Texas Tech’s Taylor Pannell to explain what Tennessee softball…
College football has spent two years convincing itself that the 12-team playoff was the right call, and the sport’s loudest skeptic thinks the coverage that followed has only made the next bad idea easier to sell. Paul Finebaum has been waging a one-man war against expanding the College Football Playoff to 24 teams since the…
The NFL has never been more available, and Joe Theismann isn’t entirely sure that’s the same thing as being better. The former Washington quarterback won a Super Bowl in January 1983, at a time when the NFL was appointment television by default rather than by design. The former Washington quarterback won a Super Bowl in…
There’s a reason fans get so angry when a national broadcast takes over their team’s games, and Gary Cohen can tell you exactly why. The Mets’ play-by-play voice on SNY since 2006 sat down with Stephen Strom, pregame host of Marlins On Deck on 104.3 WQAM, to explain why the local broadcaster offers something no…
Two months into NBC’s Sunday Night Baseball experiment, Jason Benetti knows exactly what separates it from every baseball broadcast that came before it. The “Inside the Pitch” concept — NBC executive producer Sam Flood’s live at-bat breakdown feature that debuted Opening Day alongside former pitchers Adam Ottavino and Clayton Kershaw — has drawn acclaim since…
Will Buxton has been the voice of IndyCar since Fox Sports gained the rights to the series in 2025. The veteran motorsports announcer covered Formula One for many years, first with Speed Channel and NBC in the States before joining the series itself as one of their lead presenters. He is also known worldwide for…
Last month, it was reported that iHeartMedia and SiriusXM were exploring a merger that would create an audio giant. Now, it sounds like those talks are off, at least for the time being. According to New York Times reporter Lauren Hirsch, talks between the two audio behemoths “have stalled after the two sides were unable…
Led by 22-year-old otherworldly superstar Victor Wembanyama, the San Antonio Spurs are going to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2014. San Antonio went on the road and took down the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder 111-103 in Game 7 of the 2026 Western Conference Finals on Saturday night at Paycom Center. The…
NBC returned to televising NBA games this season for the first time since 2002, and Sunday night’s Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder marks NBC’s final broadcast of the 2025-26 campaign. To open the NBA on NBC broadcast, Game 7 play-by-play announcer Mike Tirico —…
Despite being a part of sports media, Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green is clearly not a fan of the industry. Green, a guest analyst on ESPN’s Inside the NBA for the 2026 playoffs in an occasional role that dates back to 2021 on the studio show, sounded off about sports media amid a rant…
There has never been a better time for online trolls, and that’s saying something, given the internet’s history. Thanks to the decimation of what little safeguards we had on social media platforms like X and Facebook, coupled with living in an era where the President of the United States spends his days posting memes and…
Mike Breen is the lead NBA play-by-play announcer for ESPN/ABC and the New York Knicks. His worlds will collide next week when the Knicks take on the winner of the Spurs-Thunder series in the NBA Finals, and he’ll be on the call. Breen’s broadcasting career has been storied and celebrated, but the 65-year-old admits there…
It’s go-time for women’s college softball as the Women’s College World Series is underway. Unfortunately, Saturday’s broadcast of the game between Texas Tech and Tennessee hit a snag due to technical difficulties. At the top of the second inning, ABC’s coverage of the game suddenly cut out. The issue took some time to fix, so…
There have been many vocal dissenters in sports media recently over Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and his style of play. Few have been more consistent and harsher than ESPN NBA analyst Jay Williams. SGA snagged his second NBA MVP in a row this season and has the Oklahoma City Thunder one game away from returning to the…
It was the best of times and the worst of times for Caitlin Clark on Friday night. The Indiana Fever star became the fastest player in WNBA history to reach 1,000 points and 500 assists. However, her evening was disappointing overall, as she posted a season-worst stat line in a 90-88 loss to the Golden…
Every day, we hear a new explanation for why expanding the College Football Playoff to 24 teams is good for the game. It’s not often that any of those explanations hold much water. The latest angle comes courtesy of Oklahoma Sooners coach Brent Venables, who said this past week that an expanded CFP wouldn’t damage…