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Grade the Fox Sports World Cup announcers
It has been an eventful 2026 FIFA World Cup and the tournament isn’t even close to being over with just yet. For this year’s tournament, Fox Sports employed nine broadcast teams, led by its lead announce pair of John Strong and Stuart Holden. However, Fox also built out a deep bench of commentators led by…
Fox Sports CEO: Alexi Lalas will be ‘cornerstone’ for years to come
Alexi Lalas isn’t going anywhere. While the former USMNT defender turned soccer television provocateur drew intense criticism in the first weeks of Fox Sports’ FIFA men’s World Cup coverage this summer, the network is seemingly not concerned. In an interview with Puck’s John Ourand released Wednesday ahead of the USMNT’s knockout-round tilt against Bosnia and…
Sports media reacts to shocking Jaylen Brown Sixers trade
After weeks of speculation, the Boston Celtics finally traded one of their top stars, Jaylen Brown. But where they dealt him and what they got in return were equal shocks. The Celtics dealt one of their franchise cornerstones, a five-time All-Star and former NBA Finals MVP, to one of their arch-rivals, the Philadelphia 76ers. In…
Stephen A. Smith questions Lakers loading up on white stars: ‘This ain’t golf’
The Los Angeles Lakers are undergoing a franchise revamp, with LeBron James deciding to take his talents elsewhere to close out his incredible NBA career. And Stephen A. Smith isn’t shying away from the one common denominator surrounding the new core trio in the City of Angels. It’s a bunch of white guys. After re-signing…
Pablo Torre unveils concerning factors behind Kawhi Leonard trade
The Toronto Raptors had a full-circle moment on Tuesday when the franchise traded with the Los Angeles Clippers to bring All-NBA forward Kawhi Leonard back to the franchise he won the 2019 NBA Finals and Finals MVP with in what was his lone season north of the border. There were reportedly several teams interested in…
The New York Times’ tension with The Athletic over Dianna Russini continues to get weirder
The New York Times‘ awkward relationship with The Athletic continues to play out in public. After publishing a lengthy feature piece on former The Athletic NFL insider Dianna Russini last week, much of which was predicated on a story Russini told on a podcast in February about getting out of a traffic violation by FaceTiming…
NBC reportedly eyeing English-language World Cup rights
We’re about midway through the current World Cup, but much of the media discussion has already shifted focus to 2030, when the next World Cup is scheduled to take place. That’s because FIFA have yet to open the bidding process for U.S. broadcast rights to the 2030 World Cup. That process, according to a recent…
Stephanie White provides definitive statement of Caitlin Clark, Alyssa Thomas saga
On Monday, Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas did not mince words as she spoke to the media for the first time since being assessed a flagrant-2 foul and suspended for one game for striking Indiana Fever point guard Caitlin Clark in the neck area. “A lot of us, myself included, didn’t even know the play…
ESPN reportedly favorite to renew TGL media rights
TGL, the tech-infused simulator golf league co-founded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s TMRW Sports, is in the market for a new media rights deal after having completed its second season earlier this year. The league spent its first two seasons on the ESPN family of networks, posting strong and stable viewership during a portion…
Dave Portnoy says he’d hire Dianna Russini at Barstool: ‘No-brainer’
Dianna Russini has been out of a job since April, but Dave Portnoy would fix that today. The Barstool Sports founder told Us Weekly he’d bring the former Athletic NFL insider on board without a second thought, a stance that puts him well out ahead of his own network. Back in April, days after Russini’s…
ESPN to air live coverage of PGA Tour FedExCup Playoffs
ESPN is set to offer live weekday coverage of the three PGA Tour FedExCup Playoff events in August. Josh Carpenter of Sports Business Journal was the first to report the news. Coverage hours will vary by event, with the FedEx St. Jude Championship airing from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. ET on ESPN during the…
Has Fox Sports finally got the World Cup right?
This originally appeared in Wednesday morning’s edition of The A Block, Awful Announcing’s daily newsletter with the latest sports media news, commentary, and analysis. Sign up here and be the first to know everything going on in the sports media world. Let’s start with the Alexi Lalas elephant in the room. The Fox Sports firebrand is…
Jonathan Jones reportedly in talks to leave CBS for The Athletic
CBS Sports’ lead NFL insider Jonathan Jones is closing in on a move to The Athletic, Front Office Sports reported Wednesday, a deal that would end his six-year run at CBS. He arrived at CBS in 2019 as a senior NFL reporter, building on national writing work at Sports Illustrated and years covering the Carolina…
No one can agree on what’s about to happen with NBC
The future of NBCUniversal is firmly up in the air after parent company Comcast announced its intention to spin off its media arm in about a year’s time. And 48 hours after the announcement, there’s no expert consensus on what’s about to happen. In fact, there’s probably more disagreement about the future of Comcast’s and…
Brian Windhorst on a generational run connecting the dots for LeBron James’ free agency
LeBron James proved that he’s still the king; even at 41 years old, when news broke Tuesday that his eight-year tenure with the Los Angeles Lakers would be coming to a close, making him an unrestricted free agent for the fourth time in his career. Fans, analysts, and pundits have been left completely in the…
Mountain West announces eat-what-you-kill streamer, paying schools based on subscriptions driven
The Mountain West is finding a new way to reward schools that drive the most value for the conference. On Wednesday, the conference announced it is partnering with streaming technology company Kiswe to launch a direct-to-consumer streaming service, MW+, that will provide live coverage of Mountain West events that are not available via one of…
ESPN deletes Mike Pennel murder investigation story, admits it ‘contained errors’
ESPN has walked back its reporting on free-agent defensive lineman Mike Pennel and a homicide investigation in the Dominican Republic, admitting the most recent story “contained errors.” The saga started April 25, when ESPN first named Pennel a person of interest in the case, reporting that the remains of Carli Franchesca Guzmán Roche had been…
Kendrick Perkins calls out ‘snotty nose’ Rich Paul for ignoring him during LeBron James’s free agency: ‘We got a problem’
The NBA world was turned upside down on Tuesday when ESPN’s senior NBA insider, Shams Charania, broke the news that LeBron James would end his eight-year tenure with the Los Angeles Lakers, hitting the market as an unrestricted free agent for the fourth time in his storied career. “LeBron James is one of the greatest…
Stephen A. Smith: Pat McAfee ‘earned’ looming record deal, questions if opportunity would’ve come to a Black host first
Stephen A. Smith praised Pat McAfee’s looming ESPN contract as deserved, while questioning whether a Black personality in the same position would have ever been offered the same path to it. McAfee is reportedly in talks with ESPN on an extension worth $60 million to $65 million per year, which would make him the highest-paid…
The Athletic’s Dane Brugler reveals why he turned down Chiefs’ front office job
Dane Brugler is now locked in with The Athletic as the outlet’s lead NFL Draft analyst through the 2028 draft, but a decade ago, he came within a job offer of perhaps never writing about the draft professionally again. In a recent podcast appearance with Ari Meirov, Brugler detailed how a 2015 interview with the…
Paul Finebaum says he ‘would have sold my soul’ by running for Senate
Paul Finebaum has spent nearly 50 years building a career he never planned for, and on Wednesday, hours before receiving the Sports Media Lifetime Achievement Award at the Barrett Media Audio Summit, he detailed why he came close to leaving it all behind for a U.S. Senate campaign. The opportunity arrived last August, when Tommy…
Travelers Championship outdraws baseball after NBC sticks with golf
Despite a rain delay, the final round of the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship hit a 24-year high in its first year on NBC. The Sunday final round averaged 4.2 million viewers on NBC and Peacock. That includes pre-rain delay action from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., and post-rain delay coverage from 7:10 p.m. to 8:30…
UK government weighs intervention in Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount merger
The Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount merger has hit a potential roadblock after the UK government announced it is taking a closer look into the transaction. “Following engagement with the parties and independent research, my Department has today written to the current and proposed owners of Warner Bros. Discovery on my behalf to inform them that I…
Matt Miller’s charitable efforts face scrutiny amid life-threatening car crash
The sports media world was rocked last week when ESPN analyst Matt Miller tweeted he had lost an arm in a near-fatal car accident. Support for Miller poured in from all corners of the internet, and a GoFundMe posted by his sister-in-law was promoted by high-profile ESPN colleagues, with donations from Pat McAfee, Mina Kimes, and…
Sale of NBC Sports RSNs likely complicated by team ownership stakes, per report
It seemed inevitable whether Comcast opted to spin out NBCUniversal or not, but it appears as if the NBC Sports-branded regional sports networks are destined to unwind from the media company currently operating them. As was initially reported by Matt Gelb in The Athletic on Monday, the remaining NBC Sports Regional Networks are in flux…
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