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Scripps Sports Women’s Basketball Showcase set for Dec. 16, featuring UCLA-Duke, USC-Miami
Position Sports and The E.W. Scripps Company announced Friday they’ll present the inaugural Scripps Sports Women’s Basketball Showcase on Wednesday, Dec. 16, at Mortgage Matchup Center in Phoenix, featuring some of the top teams and players in the country. The defending national champion UCLA Bruins will face the Duke Blue Devils at 7:00 p.m. ET…
TV and streaming viewing picks for August 15, 2026: How to watch NFL Preseason
All Times Eastern Australian Rules Football AFL Men’s — Round 23 Greater Western Sydney Giants vs. West Coast Eagles — FS2/Fox One, 11:30 p.m. Western Bulldogs vs. Carlton Blues — Fox Soccer Plus, 1:01 a.m. (Sunday) Essendon Bombers vs. Sydney Swans — FS2/Fox One, 2:30 a.m. (Sunday) Baseball Banana Ball World Tour Game 2, Coors…
Sean Payton takes shot at Falcons fans: ‘A lot of people dressed up as empty seats today’
While he’s no longer part of the NFC South, Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton is still finding ways to treat the Atlanta Falcons like a rival, even in the preseason. The former New Orleans Saints head coach has dominated the Falcons with a 22-9 record that includes an 11-4 record in Atlanta over his…
Justin Herbert, Madison Beer PDA video foreshadows NFL’s misguided WAGs marketing plan, per report
On July 28, Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert and pop star Madison Beer jointly announced their engagement with an Instagram post liked over 6.7 million times. Shortly afterward, Herbert reported to Chargers training camp, and this video showing Herbert and Beer mid-PDA on the practice field went viral. It seemed easy enough to explain:…
Bart Scott says ESPN chose worst possible time to tell him he lost his job
Ryan Clark headlined ESPN’s first round of summer layoffs because ESPN chose to inform him by pulling him off the air from NFL Live on July 20. Bart Scott was also part of the layoffs, but he flew relatively under the radar, even though ESPN apparently informed him in a similarly ruthless way. “Hey, man,…
Josh Pate wants to launch a storm-chasing and meteorology content vertical
College football commentator Josh Pate is still on his way up, covering America’s second-most popular sport. But he already has his eyes on turning another passion into a business. In an interview this week with OutKick, Pate revealed plans to launch a new content vertical focused on meteorology and storm-chasing. Pate, who hosts one of…
Mike Vrabel unbothered by Tom Brady’s ‘no dog in the fight’ quip before Super Bowl
Considering the two played together in New England for eight seasons, Mike Vrabel may have expected his former quarterback Tom Brady to throw his support behind Vrabel’s Patriots this past February as they returned to the Super Bowl. Instead, Brady, who has purchased a stake in the Las Vegas Raiders and joined Fox Sports since…
Troy Aikman will face same broadcaster restrictions as Tom Brady
After an offseason in which ESPN’s Troy Aikman took on a formal advisory role with the Miami Dolphins, he will now be subject to the same restrictions as a broadcaster as Fox’s Tom Brady. An NFL spokesperson told Front Office Sports that Aikman will join Brady in being barred from team facilities. During the week…
Sports-mention markets ‘temporarily’ unavailable at Kalshi amid federal investigation
After surging onto the scene by enabling betting on political and social events, prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket have found a foothold in the sports space, something the NFL has admitted it was “particularly troubled” by. The rise of these largely unregulated prediction markets, which offer gambling markets beyond sportsbooks and lack the…
‘Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi’ has been canceled after 18 years
Hockey Night in Canada will still exist in some form, but Sportsnet continues to make cuts that will fundamentally change what it is. In June, Sportsnet and CBC announced that the public broadcaster would no longer carry NHL broadcasts, which it had done since 1952. Sportsnet, which signed a 12-year, $5.2 billion exclusive deal with…
Kirk Herbstreit wants Pat McAfee to perform his songs on ‘College GameDay’
Kirk Herbstreit saw Dan Orlovsky trying to be singer-songwriter Pat McAfee’s biggest fan at ESPN and said, ‘Move over.’ Thursday night ensured that the sports-media-and-music crossover industry would never be the same when McAfee released his long-awaited Diary of a Polarizing Figure album. The former NFL punter-turned podcaster-turned broadcaster-turned face of ESPN now turning into…
Eric Karros wonders about divorce analytics for MLB hitters
With Major League Baseball tracking statistics for just about every scenario and situation, Eric Karros has one they may have missed. In his first season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Kyle Tucker is having the worst season of his Major League career. Tucker and his wife also had their first baby in March, shortly before…
Women’s sports viewership surging in 2026
ESPN pivoted from Sunday Night Baseball to Women’s Sports Sundays this summer, as part of a broader embrace of women’s sports such as the WNBA and NWSL. Fueled largely by the enormous draw of Indiana Fever superstar Caitlin Clark, it’s proved a prudent business move, as WNBA games on ABC and ESPN have averaged 1.2…
Royals-Red Sox set for 2027 ‘Field of Dreams’ game, moving from Netflix to NBC
The Field of Dreams Game is moving to a new network for its fourth edition. Major League Baseball and Universal Pictures announced Friday that the Kansas City Royals will host the Boston Red Sox in the 2027 Field of Dreams Game, set for Thursday, Aug. 12, in Dyersville, Iowa, with NBC Sports carrying the game…
Veteran columnist quits Dallas Express Sports Network, claims they misrepresented his opinion
Six months after joining Dallas Express Sports Network, Randy Galloway admits he quit after the startup venture misrepresented his opinions of legacy media. In February, right-wing media outlet Dallas Express and CEO Chris Putnam partnered with TV veteran Chris Yates’ Dallas Sports Network to form the Dallas Express Sports Network (DXSN). During the launch, Galloway,…
Bill Cowher says ‘The NFL Today’ wants to ‘be more conversational’
No one would confuse The NFL Today for Inside the NBA, but that’s not supposed to come across as an insult, either. Turner’s basketball studio show — now licensed to the Worldwide Leader — has spent nearly three decades building a reputation as the loosest, funniest hour in sports TV, largely because Ernie Johnson, Charles…
Breaking down which NBA teams are being highlighted in national broadcast schedule
NBA commissioner Adam Silver was surprisingly honest about the league waiting on this summer’s marquee free agent, all-time leading scorer LeBron James, to sign before getting to work on the 2026-27 regular-season schedule. “Where LeBron plays will affect the schedule,” Silver said in July. “So I would like him to make his announcement already, so…
Which NFL fanbases get the most benefit from RedZone?
A Reddit user built a scoring system that measures exactly how much overlap each NFL team’s schedule has with the hours when NFL RedZone is on The idea, posted to r/NFLRedzone, is simple. If your team plays at 1 p.m. ET, you’re likely watching your team, not RedZone, so that game counts against you. The user, u/jdhoskins,…
Raiders analyst Kirk Morrison learns ‘AOC’ isn’t just a third-string NFL quarterback: ‘Some political stuff’
The NFL reigns supreme as a media and cultural powerhouse, but it cannot yet claim to have the most famous AOC. The Las Vegas Raiders lost their preseason opener 27-14 to the Arizona Cardinals Thursday night, where third-string quarterback Aidan O’Connell completed an uninspiring 4 of 13 passes for 85 yards. Considering the nondescript preseason…
Don La Greca has big problems with ‘Field of Dreams’
The Philadelphia Phillies and Minnesota Twins played the MLB Field of Dreams Game on Thursday night in Dyersville, Iowa. And ahead of the game, ESPN New York radio host Don La Greca took the time to voice “all kinds of problems” he has with the 1989 movie that was filmed at the site, Field of…
Rams shake up preseason broadcast booth with Jourdan Rodrigue, Rob Havenstein additions
The Los Angeles Rams will open their preseason slate against the Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday, and while head coach Sean McVay has difficult roster decisions ahead, there’s already been a roster shakeup in the broadcast booth. On Thursday, the Rams announced that Jourdan Rodrigue and Rob Havenstein will join J.B. Long in the booth…
Michael Holley faints live on ‘PFT Live,’ show says he’s ‘fine’ after brief scare
For those watching PFT Live on Friday morning, the broadcast took an alarming turn when co-host Michael Holley became overheated and fainted on camera. Before losing consciousness, Holley appeared visibly unwell as Mike Florio discussed Troy Aikman’s recent comments about his alleged conflict of interest in his dual role as a Monday Night Football analyst…
Is the NFL standing down on early media rights negotiations?
This originally appeared in Friday’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. It was another active week on the NFL media rights front as the industry digested…
Ross Tucker isn’t sure what Adam Schefter means by J.J. McCarthy being ‘forced’ into a backup role
According to Adam Schefter, J.J. McCarthy will be “forced” to be the backup for Kyler Murray. ESPN’s NFL insider has carried an inordinate amount of water for the Michigan Wolverines across his time at the Worldwide Leader. Schefter, a proud Michigan Man himself, spent last year defending Moore through his downfall, and before that, he’d…
Review: Netflix rewarded patience with MLB Field of Dreams Game broadcast
In 1989, Field of Dreams came out and immortalized baseball’s inextricable relationship with nostalgia. In the now-cult classic film, the late James Earl Jones played Terence Mann, a 1960s author, who guides Kevin Costner’s Ray Kinsella to build a baseball diamond within his Iowan cornfields. He built it, and the ghosts of baseball past came. Field of…
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