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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…
Greg Papa on being let go by KNBR amid cancer battle: ‘I went from terminal to terminated’
Greg Papa, a longtime Bay Area broadcaster and the lead play-by-play voice of the San Francisco 49ers, was recently let go by KNBR along with Papa & Silver co-host Greg Silver as part of a midday shakeup at the sports radio station. The move was made while Papa has been battling health complications from his…
ACC Network’s Eric Mac Lain on ‘exciting’ Miami, Paul Finebaum vs. Dabo Swinney, and Bill Belichick’s struggles
Eric Mac Lain didn’t plan on a career in media. Now, the former Clemson offensive lineman is one of the leading voices at ACC Network. The ESPN college football analyst joined ACC Network in 2019 and serves as a studio analyst on The Huddle, the network’s football show. It should be an interesting season in…
‘The Diary of A Polarizing Figure’ reminds us Pat McAfee is rich and death is coming for us all
There’s a scene early in the iconic mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, where director Marti DiBergi presents the heavy metal band with a collection of criticisms about their previous albums. “The musical growth rate of this band cannot even be charted,” reads DiBergi. “They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad…
Nick Wright: LeBron James is still the face of the league
In case there was any doubt about who the NBA considers the face of their league, Nick Wright believes they just proved it’s still LeBron James. The NBA announced its Opening Night and Christmas Day slate of games for the 2026-27 season this week. Predictably, LeBron James and the Philadelphia 76ers are all over it.…
Netflix makes big scorebug change for Field of Dreams Game after Opening Night criticism
In its first Major League Baseball broadcast, Netflix debuted a scorebug that drew polarizing reactions on Opening Night. Many viewers complained that the font displaying the pitcher, batter, and pitch count was too tiny and very difficult to read. Thoughts on the Netflix MLB scorebug? ⚾️📺 #MLBpic.twitter.com/8tT4X58xQJ — Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) March 26, 2026 Well,…
WFAN host Shaun Morash posts his hottest takes from the toilet
If WFAN radio host Shaun Morash ever posts something thoughtful or thought-provoking on social media, it means he’s probably pooping. Morash confronted Craig Carton this week after learning WFAN’s afternoon drive host clips his fingernails in a shared studio. As Morash called the hygiene practice “one of the most gross things that anybody on planet…
Analysis: Fox News ran 206 WNBA segments this summer
On June 24, the Indiana Fever and Phoenix Mercury met for the second time in three days. Both games fed Fox News’ WNBA content machine. During the Fever’s win on June 22, tensions flared, resulting in one chaotic scrum, one ejection, one Sophie Cunningham meme, and five technical fouls. During the Mercury’s win on June…
Geno Auriemma worries WNBA has been ‘hijacked,’ warns league ‘nobody’s coming to watch … a protest movement’
UConn’s Geno Auriemma is concerned about the direction that WNBA chatter is headed. In an interview with CNBC this week ahead of the release of a documentary chronicling his Huskies program, Auriemma said he was worried that the conversation around the WNBA had been “hijacked,” and offered a warning to commissioner Cathy Engelbert and players…
Prime Video tapped for NBA’s Eastern Conference finals in first year broadcasting the round
The NBA released its full 2026-27 schedule on Thursday after having announced some marquee matchups on Opening Day and Christmas earlier this week. And while there is much to discuss, including an expansion in the number of games airing on broadcast television, perhaps the biggest revelation from Thursday’s reveal was which conference final would land…
FS1’s Kevin Wildes dismisses Vrabel-Russini affair as ‘hand-holding scandal’
Everyone is ready to turn the page on the NFL offseason scandal that cost longtime insider Dianna Russini her job and became a massive distraction for New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel. That may be most true for Patriots fans, who are ready to rally around the team after yet another Super Bowl appearance, the…
ESPN reveals College Football studio commentators for 2026
With the 2026 college football season approaching, ESPN has revealed its studio lineup for the upcoming season. For the seventh consecutive season, Kevin Negandhi and Booger McFarland will be in the lead studio for ESPN. For the first time in 2026, the duo will also be joined by Jordan Rodgers. Rodgers previously served as the…
Shedeur Sanders apologizes to reporters for recent press conference
After a shaky rookie season, Shedeur Sanders appears focused on improving his performance on the field and off the field with the media. As the second-year Cleveland Browns quarterback battles with Deshaun Watson for the starting job, Sanders opened his latest press conference by apologizing to reporters. #Browns QB Shedeur Sanders apologizes for his last…
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