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NBA shakes up 2026 NBA Cup Final with move to Hinkle Fieldhouse and Friday slot
The NBA is making changes to the schedule and location for the NBA Cup Final. The NBA revealed today that the final will move to the 9,100-seat Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. The NBA Cup Final has been played in Las Vegas since the first edition in 2023. The game will also be moved from…
Yankees–Red Sox deliver Sunday Night Baseball’s biggest audience in 15 years
Viewership is in for the first New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox game on Sunday Night Baseball this season, and it is marking a 15-year high for the Sunday-night series. From the bottom of the fourth inning, when the game was joined in progress by NBC, the game averaged 4.0 million viewers on NBC and Peacock.…
Freddy, beloved German World Cup fan, deletes account after heartbreaking loss
This post was updated to add context from a report by David Covucci in FOIAball. German supporters left Boston shell-shocked on Monday after their World Cup squad fell to a scrappy Paraguay team in a penalty shootout during the Round of 32. The devastation, it seems, has broken even the team’s most optimistic and joyful…
Serena Williams declines post-match press conference after Wimbledon exit
At age 44, Serena Williams’ return to Wimbledon was short-lived. The seven-time Wimbledon champion lost in three sets to 20-year-old Australian Maya Joint in the first round of the Women’s Singles draw on Tuesday. Nobody was prepared to criticize Williams for her return, and rightfully so. She took a woman less than half her age…
‘SportsCenter’ anchor Gary Striewski’s video about interaction with Sahith Theegala’s fiancée got messy
The Travelers Championship took place last week in Cromwell, Connecticut, which is just a half hour from ESPN’s campus in Bristol. So it stood to reason that PGA Tour golfers and Worldwide Leader employees might find themselves in the same spaces. What we didn’t expect was that it would cause some messy social media drama.…
Dan Le Batard calls out Michael Strahan for not asking Chris Johnson if he thinks football caused his ALS
When former star NFL running back Chris Johnson shared the unfortunate details of his ALS diagnosis this week in an interview with Michael Strahan on Good Morning America, most viewers likely came away with a similar question. Did football cause it? Given the alarming rate at which former NFL players are diagnosed with neurological diseases, as…
Matt Belloni: Netflix should be ‘salivating’ over ‘Sunday Night Football’ rights amid NBC spinoff
Comcast announced plans this week to spin off NBCUniversal into its own, publicly traded company, and one Hollywood insider believes the move could have an immediate impact on NFL rights. Discussing the plans on his podcast The Town this week, Puck reporter Matt Belloni speculated that rival media companies are likely “salivating” over the prospect of…
Longtime Baltimore reporter and sports anchor Stan Saunders dies at 72
Longtime Baltimore reporter and weekend sports anchor Stan Saunders has died. Saunders was best known for his time at WJZ in Baltimore. He retired from the station in 2013. In a statement to WJZ, his family said Saunders was suffering from long COVID. “It turned into sarcoidosis and took its toll,” the family said in…
Oregonian columnist calls for ‘unrestrained fury’ over Blazers’ trade for Ja Morant
Portland’s acquisition of Ja Morant this week was one of the first big shocks of the NBA offseason, and a notable local commentator believes the deal threatens to return the Trail Blazers to the tragic fortunes of their “Jail Blazers” era two decades ago. In a piece at the Oregonian and an interview on SiriusXM…
Dave Portnoy alleges ESPN demanded Penn Entertainment fire him as condition of partnership
Barstool Sports has often used its status as a black-sheep little brother to ESPN to its advantage, but the most recent confrontation between the two companies nearly led to founder Dave Portnoy’s departure. As part of a promotional tour for his new book, Cancel Me If You Can, Portnoy shared that he nearly lost his job…
ESPN’s future is starting to look familiar
This originally appeared in Tuesday 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. In the early 2000s, Rich Eisen was one of the premier faces of SportsCenter, then-still ESPN’s…
Kirk Herbstreit is absolutely fed up with the Cincinnati Reds, baseball in general
Kirk Herbstreit is best known for his discussions around the world of college football and the NFL, but the longtime Cincinnati Reds fan can throw down about baseball as well. Herbie has been known to chop it up on social media about the state of his beloved Major League Baseball team, once getting into it…
Nearly 1,400 illegal World Cup streaming sites have ad revenue cut off in digital piracy fight
While the fight against piracy on the internet often feels like a fool’s errand, there’s one surefire way to affect those attempting to circumvent the rules: Turn off the money hose. Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG), a non-profit created by the global advertising industry to fight ad-related crime, says it’s pushed to deprive almost 1,400 illegal…
Dave Portnoy’s new book recounts origin of feud with Bill Simmons
Dave Portnoy’s new book includes a candid account of his decades-old grudge against Bill Simmons and how he feels like he eventually got the last word. In an excerpt from his new book, “Cancel me if you can,” Portnoy writes that if you wanted to pretend you knew Boston back in the day, you talked…
Nick Saban writes character letter for Terrion Arnold in kidnapping case
The Detroit Lions released cornerback Terrion Arnold after he was charged with four counts of kidnapping and four counts of armed robbery relating to an alleged incident. However, his college coach, Nick Saban, is still standing beside him. Arnold is alleged to have orchestrated a scheme where three men were kidnapped after he believed they…
Tim Legler: NBA never pushed back on ESPN’s officiating criticism during Finals
Tim Legler says the NBA has never once pushed back on him for criticizing officiating during a broadcast. Legler was a guest on last week’s edition of the Awful Announcing Podcast and was asked directly whether he’s ever heard from the league after criticizing an official or a call. “No, not once,” he told host…
Inside Steve Smith Sr.’s ‘The 89 Show,’ the NFL’s most-trusted wide receiver podcast
Steve Smith Sr. and James Palmer built one of football media’s most trusted shows without a network, a development deal, or much of a plan at all. For years, NFL Network flew its on-air talent to Los Angeles each summer for company-wide meetings, the kind of corporate ritual designed to put faces to bylines before…
Archie Manning claims media hype wasn’t fair to Arch Manning
Nobody had an offseason full of hype quite like Arch Manning did before the 2025 college football season. The Texas quarterback was finally ready to become the full-time starter after Quinn Ewers went to the NFL. And given how highly touted he was as a prospect and the Manning family name, expectations were astronomically high.…
Rob Parker calls Buffalo Bills cowards for omitting O.J. Simpson from new stadium after his death
Removing O.J. Simpson from your team’s Ring of Honor wouldn’t seem to be a controversial decision for the Buffalo Bills, given, well, everything. But Fox Sports Radio host Rob Parker still has some questions about it. The Bills will open their new home at Highmark Stadium this fall after decades playing at the venerable Ralph…
Joy Taylor opposes special protection for Caitlin Clark: ‘Please stop saying this dumb sh*t’
Joy Taylor may not be on FS1 anymore, but she still has takes on the current debate around Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark. Taylor is no stranger to controversy herself, and since her FS1 exit, she has taken to her social media pages to share more unfiltered thoughts on the sports world. She weighed in…
Netflix’s ‘Chris & Martina’ is a moving portrait of tennis’ greatest rivalry
Individual rivalries define sports. Larry Bird vs. Magic Johnson, Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning, and Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier are among the most iconic. As great as those rivalries are, none match the one between Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. Their rivalry belongs in its own category because it evolved over 50 years of…
Dave Portnoy floats possible NYC mayor run against Zohran Mamdani
Dave Portnoy is currently on a book tour to promote “Cancel Me if You Can,” chronicling his personal journey to the top of online influence. But it’s not fully a book tour unless you float a run for political office, which is exactly what the Barstool owner did in an interview on Fox News with…
Zlatan Ibrahimović slams Netherlands manager Ronald Koeman: ‘That makes me angry’
Morocco took down the Netherlands in a wild penalty shootout on Monday night to advance to the 2026 FIFA World Cup’s round of 16. And after the match, Fox Sports World Cup studio analyst Zlatan Ibrahimović put the loss on Netherlands manager Ronald Koeman. First, Fox Sports analyst Thierry Henry explained that the “team that…
Mary Kay Cabot reflects on 38 years covering Browns: ‘I literally had to kick the door open’
Few beat reporters are as synonymous with an NFL team as Mary Kay Cabot. She has covered the Cleveland Browns since 1988, serving as the backup writer for The Cleveland Plain Dealer before moving into the top spot in 1991. At the time, Cabot became the first female media member to cover a major pro…
Gary Cohen, Ron Darling can’t believe Mets’ ‘comedy of errors’ on little league homer
The New York Mets recently made a change at manager with the firing of Carlos Mendoza, but they continue to make brutal mistakes in what’s been a disastrous season. And those mistakes came as soon as the first batter they faced in Monday night’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre. Toronto’s George…
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