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Texas Rangers change streaming partner mid-season, drop Victory+
In a move rarely seen in the middle of a season, the Texas Rangers are changing streaming partners effective immediately. According to a report by Dallas Morning News reporter Evan Grant, the Rangers will be dropping their streaming partnership with Victory+, which has offered a full-season streaming subscription for in-market Rangers fans since last season…
Wimbledon women’s final sets viewership record, men’s final slips without Alcaraz
Two Czech women carried Wimbledon viewership to new heights on Saturday during the women’s singles final, while the first Alcaraz-less men’s singles final since 2022 took a slight dip. The audience for the three-set thriller between Czech compatriots Linda Noskova and Karolina Muchova averaged 1.9 million viewers on ESPN last Saturday, setting a new record…
France players skirt media obligations after World Cup loss to Spain
After a dominant run through the 2026 FIFA World Cup, defending champion France was denied a third consecutive trip to the final with a 2-0 loss to Spain in Tuesday’s semifinal match. It was a rather stunning end to the team’s run given the way it played throughout the tournament, but none of the players…
‘This Was SportsCenter’ podcast is a smart nostalgia play by Rich Eisen
“It’s a powerful, powerful emotion, nostalgia, and I’m leaning into it.” -Rich Eisen A podcast series about the glory days of SportsCenter seems so obvious that you wonder why it had not been tried before. Credit Rich Eisen for recognizing the value of nostalgia and for creating one of the summer’s better pods. This Was…
Kyle Schwarber drops F-bomb on Fox All-Star Game broadcast while struggling with earpiece
When you have professional athletes mic’d up for a three-hour, live sporting event, the odds are high that a word or two will slip by that the television network hoped would not. During the 2021 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, for example, then-White Sox relief pitcher Liam Hendriks had an expletive-filled inning heard on the…
Jason Garrett launches ‘Coach 2 Coach’ leadership podcast
Jason Garrett is turning his attention to podcasting. Garrett and the Chicago-based agency Intersport launched Coach 2 Coach on Wednesday, a weekly series in which Garrett interviews head coaches and executives about leadership. The debut episode features former Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy, while the second episode features UCLA head women’s basketball coach Cori…
FIFA officials reportedly ‘torn’ on long-term future of hydration breaks
Although FIFA stands to make hundreds of millions, even billions of dollars more on future media rights deals should it continue the practice of mandatory hydration breaks during the World Cup, officials within soccer’s global governing body are apparently split on whether the mid-half stoppages should continue. According to a report by John Ourand of…
YouTube reportedly ‘leading candidate’ for NBA local broadcast hub in 2027-28
It appears the NBA is moving closer to the launch of an aggregated hub for local broadcasts, and YouTube is the “leading candidate” to host the service. According to a report by Tom Friend in Sports Business Journal, NBA commissioner Adam Silver expects the league’s centralized local broadcast streaming service to launch for the 2027-28…
Op-ed: Streamers are falling into many of cable and satellite’s old traps
In 1987, while working for Storer Cable, I was in Little Rock for a series of budget meetings. This was part of a corporate roadshow, during which meetings were held in or near locations where the company had large system clusters. I checked into the hotel, and the front desk clerk saw that I worked…
TV and streaming viewing picks for July 15, 2026: How to watch England-Argentina
All Times Eastern Australian Rules Football AFL Men’s — Round 19 Geelong Cats vs. St. Kilda Saints — Fox Soccer Plus, 5:30 a.m. (Thursday) Baseball American Association of Professional Baseball All-Star Game, Haymarket Park, Lincoln, NE East Division vs. West Division — MLB Network, 8:30 p.m. College Football ACC Football Kickoff Day 1, Hilton Charlotte…
Jon Gruden reportedly will do play-by-play announcing for NFL preseason game
Out-of-nowhere news emerged earlier on Tuesday that former NFL head coach and Monday Night Football color commentator Jon Gruden wants to do play-by-play broadcasting. As first reported by JoeBucsFan.com, Gruden appeared on the Ira Kaufman Podcast and explained his desire to do play-by-play announcing. “I was a broadcaster for nine years; hell’s bells,” Gruden said…
Bruce Levine apologizes to Cubs executives after criticizing them in accidental X post
Longtime Chicago Cubs reporter Bruce Levine made waves on Monday night by publishing an X post that he surely meant to be a direct message or text message. Levine, an MLB insider for the Cubs’ flagship radio station 104.3 The Score, posted the following message to X: I am never deleting this app. Truly generational…
Shane Ryan defends Rory McIlroy ‘legacy’ question after internet blowback
The final of golf’s four major championships begins later this week at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England, and players are fulfilling their pre-tournament media obligations. As one would expect before an Open Championship, golf fans were hanging on every word six-time major winner Rory McIlroy gave to the press. But it was one…
Ricky Bottalico calls Netflix out for ‘bald-faced lie’ about Barry Bonds incident
Former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher and current sports radio host Ricky Bottalico plunked Barry Bonds on purpose, and he wants Netflix to know it. Bonds joined Netflix for the streamer’s first broadcast of the MLB Home Run Derby from Citizen’s Bank Park in Philadelphia Monday night. And during its coverage, host Elle Duncan recalled the time…
Longtime Orlando Magic play-by-play voice David Steele announces retirement
The Orlando Magic television broadcast will have a different sound to it next season. David Steele, who called 37 seasons of Magic basketball between both television and radio, announced his retirement from broadcasting on Tuesday. The veteran play-by-play announcer served as the Magic’s television voice for 28 seasons after nine years as the team’s radio…
Folarin Balogun ‘knew’ Trump efforts with FIFA would be controversial, saw ‘nerves’ among USMNT teammates
The USMNT’s loss to Belgium last week was so spectacular that it would be impossible to peg it on one single explanation, but star striker Folarin Balogun has confirmed the team was uneasy over the political influence it faced over his reinstatement by FIFA. The U.S. team got a surprise boost about 24 hours before…
USA Network, Fandango secure Bundesliga rights in U.S. for $20 million annually
In the first big soccer broadcasting move coming off the North American World Cup, Versant has reportedly acquired rights to air Bundesliga games in the U.S. The top German soccer league, home to European powers Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund and several USMNT stars, will receive $100 million across five years on the new deal,…
Matt Miller car crash caught on camera, adds context to devastating injuries
The car crash that resulted in devastating injuries to ESPN NFL Draft analyst Matt Miller was caught on camera. In a new report from the California Post, the outlet published dash cam footage from the vantage point of the semitruck that struck Miller’s vehicle during the accident. The footage shows Miller’s 2023 Ford Bronco veer over…
Chris Russo resorts to ranking U.S. Presidents with no sports on
The 2026 FIFA World Cup has provided a massive boon to what are typically the dog days of summer for sports. However, the U.S.’s 4-1 crash-out at the hands of Belgium in the round of 16 has left a massive void for sports broadcasters. That vacuum was strongly felt on Monday, when the lack of…
‘Wake Up Barstool’ evades FS1 World Cup bump, toils at under 20K viewers in June
FS1 has seen one of its most successful months in recent memory on the back of World Cup viewership. The week of June 15 was the cable network’s most-watched in its history by total-day audience, averaging 885,000 viewers across its dayparts. But it appears as if that success did not rub off on the network’s…
Derek Rae says VAR has ‘moved on too much’ from original purpose
Derek Rae was a VAR believer. He might still be, but the Argentina-Egypt round of 16 match has him asking some hard questions about where the technology has ended up. The Fox broadcaster appeared on Sports Media with Richard Deitsch and explained his evolving relationship with the video assistant referee. Rae said he was an…
FIFA aiming for 20-minute halftime break during World Cup final musical performance
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has assembled quite the star-studded lineup for the first-ever World Cup final halftime performance. Shakira, Justin Bieber, BTS, and Madonna will all contribute to the spectacle. But the introduction of a halftime show at the World Cup has been met with quite a bit of scrutiny. Soccer has famously short halftime…
FS1 earns rare month-long win over ESPN on back of World Cup viewership
FS1 earned a rare month-long victory over ESPN in primetime viewership during the month of June thanks to the strength of this year’s World Cup audience. Fox Sports 1 averaged 1.31 million viewers in primetime throughout the month of June, good for the second most-watched cable network of the month behind only sister channel Fox…
MLBPA negotiations threaten MLB players’ participation in 2028 Olympics
The World Baseball Classic has been an exciting showcase for baseball on the international stage, but some MLB players, including Bryce Harper, have lamented their inability to taste a gold medal on an Olympic podium. “I’ve been fighting for LA28 for a long time,” Harper said in March. “I think my whole career I’ve been…
Miami Heat reporter claims Tyler Herro has punchable face
Tyler Herro made headlines for being punched in the face by his former Miami Heat teammate Bam Adebayo, and one NBA reporter didn’t seem too surprised by the altercation. Longtime Heat beat reporter for the Sun Sentinel, Ira Winderman, recently appeared on the WQAM afternoon show Hochman, Crowder & Solana in Miami, where he discussed the altercation…
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