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NFL media hires two veterans as new analysts
NFL Media is bolstering its ranks ahead of the 2026 season with a pair of familiar names. The league’s media arm is undergoing a transition this season with NFL Network now under the umbrella of ESPN. That arrangement is part of the equity deal that now sees the league as a minority owner in the…
SEC adds Lane Kiffin’s ‘imagine if we had pro players’ comments to amended legal complaint
Lane Kiffin loves to f*ck around, and the SEC is attempting to see if they can make him find out. On Tuesday, the SEC filed an amended complaint against LSU over the school’s potential plans to add former NFL players to its football roster. The conference has also scheduled a vote of the conference presidents…
Peter Schrager hopes to channel ‘Good Morning Football’ with new ESPN show
Peter Schrager is the newest addition to ESPN’s daily television lineup, and he will lean on his NFL Network experience to help make it a success. The NFL reporter and insider started at Fox Sports but rose to nationwide prominence on NFL Network’s Good Morning Football. His chemistry and connection with his teammates, along with the show’s…
Aaron Rodgers praises Karl Ravech for ‘phenomenal’ ESPN tenure
Aaron Rodgers loves to hate on ESPN, and the Worldwide Leader may have given him a little more ammunition by parting ways with Karl Ravech. Rodgers was recently interviewed by Adam Schein on his SiriusXM Mad Dog Sports Radio show. At the end of the segment, Schein boldly gave Rodgers the open forum to share…
As media vultures circle, Dabo Swinney only has himself to blame
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. When I arrived in Clemson, South Carolina, for my first job out of college, I…
LeBron James’ Polymarket ad is a who’s who of disappointing sellouts
Over the Labor Day weekend, LeBron James announced a new partnership with Polymarket that drew a collective reaction of disappointment and fatigue. But if the idea of James endorsing the controversial prediction market that sidesteps any kind of regulation in offering sports gambling is nothing compared to just how many athletes and celebrities took the bag…
Wimbledon refusing to credential influencers after US Open drama
Like a Biblical plague that descended upon Egypt, influencers have crashed the US Open tennis tournament in Flushing Meadows this year. The final tennis major of the season has become mostly about everything but the tennis. The US Open invited 100 influencers and content creators, nearly double last year’s number. Videos are flooding social media…
ESPN releases 2026 ManningCast schedule
It’s almost impossible to believe, but the 2026 season will mark the ManningCast’s sixth campaign with Peyton Manning and his brother Eli Manning. Officially Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli, the ManningCast has been one of the best and longest-running altcasts in sports television. While the industry has hoped one or both brothers would move on to full-time…
Skip Bayless, Aqib Talib revive ‘Gridiron’ following Underdog shuttering content arm
This summer, Underdog shuttered its original content arm, which left Skip Bayless and Aqib Talib’s The Arena: Gridiron without a home less than a year into their podcasting partnership with Gilbert Arenas at Underdog. Bayless and Talib are keeping Gridiron alive, however, and if the YouTube channel is any indication, they’ve gone independent. “Breaking: GRIDIRON IS BACK,”…
Bill Simmons says tennis matches are too long
Too much of a good thing is not a good thing when it comes to tennis matches, according to Bill Simmons. We have seen a trend of sports trying to shorten their game times in recent years, catering to shorter attention spans and increasing content competition. Major League Baseball implemented a series of changes, including…
Georgia football fans irate over paywalled highlights
In 2026, sports highlights should be accessible to anyone, anytime, anywhere. Unless you’re a Georgia Bulldogs football fan, that is. College football fans are among the most passionate in all of sports. We’ve seen media companies and streaming platforms use that passion to drive subscriptions. There’s a reason why there’s at least one Ohio State…
Fox has ‘never gotten an indication’ Tom Brady might not stick with broadcasting
Every week, it feels like Tom Brady has a new investment, bizarre scheme, questionable health product, spokesperson role, or moneymaking venture. However, no matter how big his personal empire grows in the search for more money, it appears that the one gig he has no plans to waver on is his broadcasting role at Fox Sports.…
Paul Finebaum found it ‘disgraceful, embarassing’ of Geno Auriemma for saying college sports are ‘dying’
Week 1 of the college football season was great, with exciting games and great storylines from Baton Rouge to Eugene. But Sunday morning, in his regular appearance on The Matt Barrie Show podcast, longtime ESPN college football commentator Paul Finebaum had different matters on his mind. And a different sport. Namely, Finebaum was thinking about…
ESPN made it extremely clear that the broadcast clock was not official FSU-SMU game clock
Stop me if you’ve heard this over the past 48 hours: the broadcast clock is not the official game clock. On Saturday night, Michigan’s season-opening matchup against Western Michigan went from a college football game to an all-time timekeeping scandal. Michigan Wolverines quarterback Bryce Underwood launched a Hail Mary out of the end zone as…
Tributes pour in for longtime New Orleans radio football voice Mike Detillier, dead at 65
Mike Detillier, who spent decades talking college football and the NFL on WWL Radio and became one of the region’s most beloved voices to discuss the LSU Tigers and the New Orleans Saints, has died at age 65. The news was announced by WWL, which said that Detillier had just recently learned he had terminal…
Taylor McGregor puts on reporting masterclass during Florida State-SMU power outage delay on ESPN
ESPN welcomed viewers into Doak Campbell Stadium for Florida State’s matchup with No. 19 SMU at 7:29 p.m. EST on Monday night. “And right at that moment, that’s when everything went down,” ESPN play-by-play announcer Dave Pasch explained. “Lights went off on floors eight and nine, including our floor here, along with all the lights…
Lane Kiffin appreciates when Paul Finebaum gives him ‘rat poison’
Paul Finebaum and Lane Kiffin might just do this dance forever. Kiffin is in his first year at the helm of the LSU Tigers, and if he knows anything, ESPN and SEC Network host Paul Finebaum is going to be talking about him and his program. That’s been the case for years, from Kiffin’s solo…
After Michigan clock debacle, Nick Wright declares instant replay is bad ‘in all of its forms’
The confusion over the result of Saturday night’s Michigan-Western Michigan game is yet another example of how instant replay has complicated sports in pursuit of perfection, and FS1’s Nick Wright is using the opportunity to call out the technology’s uselessness. Between the convoluted time-keeping system and the replay review of the Western Michigan player touching…
49ers reporter Grant Cohn is having a delightful time Down Under
Much has been made about what it will be like for members of the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams as they travel to Australia to open the 2026 NFL season in Melbourne. But what about the myriad media members who have also been dispatched Down Under to cover the game and soak up…
Joel Klatt torches Michigan quarterback Bryce Underwood: ‘Incredibly hard to watch’
The Michigan Wolverines football program, ever at the center of controversy, found itself involved in yet another national story after its 13-12 victory over the Western Michigan Broncos in Ann Arbor. The Wolverines appeared to lose the game 12-7 after Michigan quarterback Bryce Underwood’s Hail Mary attempt went out of bounds as the clock expired…
Dan Orlovsky: Everything about Michigan-WMU controversy ‘feels like it’s lying to me’
You might say that the Michigan Wolverines won controversially on Saturday night. The Wolverines looked to have fallen to the Western Michigan Broncos 12-7 in a historic upset after Michigan quarterback Bryce Underwood’s Hail Mary attempt soared out of bounds for the “final play” of regulation. However, after video review, game officials determined that there…
Chad Withrow: Lane Kiffin commiserating with Pat McAfee over being hated was ‘gross’
So much of the last college football season was about Lane Kiffin, on the field, in the headlines, and, of course, on ESPN’s College GameDay, which covered the star coach’s move from Ole Miss to LSU relentlessly. ESPN’s coverage of Kiffin was so extensive that Nick Saban, the most recent addition to the show’s cast and Kiffin’s…
Bill Belichick had a very Bill Belichick press conference amid Michael Lombardi resignation, UNC investigation
There is a lot to talk about surrounding Bill Belichick’s North Carolina football program right now. Just don’t expect Bill Belichick to be the one to talk about it. While the Tar Heels started out the 2026 season with a win over TCU, the turmoil surrounding the program off the field is hard to ignore.…
Stephen A. Smith, Paul Finebaum question if Big Ten demanded silence from WMU to receive payment
One of the most controversial endings in the history of college football came in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Saturday night, when the Michigan Wolverines hosted the Western Michigan Broncos. The Wolverines lost 12-7 at the end of regulation after Michigan quarterback Bryce Underwood’s Hail Mary attempt soared out the back of the end zone as…
Drew Brees replaces Maxx Crosby on SiriusXM’s ‘Let’s Go!’
The media renaissance of Drew Brees continues unabated. Not only will the former New Orleans Saints quarterback embark on his first full season in the booth alongside Adam Amin for the NFL on Fox, but the 47-year-old will also co-host SiriusXM’s Let’s Go! alongside Matthew Stafford, Jim Gray and Peter King, effectively replacing Las Vegas…
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