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Monica McNutt skeptical of Taylor Swift at NBA Finals Game 4: ‘She’s not a Knicks fan’
Taylor Swift has several songs about the magic of Manhattan and is reportedly set to tie the knot in the Big Apple this summer, but New York Knicks radio analyst and ESPN commentator Monica McNutt isn’t buying the New York bona fides of the pop sensation. Swift attended Game 4 of the NBA Finals on…
Charles Barkley unloads on ‘dumbest basketball team’ Spurs after Game 4 collapse
While Game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals was an unbelievable comeback by the New York Knicks, it was also a brutal collapse by the San Antonio Spurs. The Spurs blew a 29-point lead (81-52 in the third quarter) as the Knicks won 107-106 in the biggest comeback in NBA Finals history, giving New York…
Ernie Johnson on Taylor Swift photo: ‘I just became the coolest grandpa in the history of the world’
Taylor Swift was at Madison Square Garden for Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night, and star NBA host Ernie Johnson took a photo with her. Legendary link up 🔥 pic.twitter.com/8OshVrvdut — espnW (@espnW) June 11, 2026 Naturally, this later caused quite the…
Listen to Mike Breen’s electric calls of Knicks’ Game 4 miracle
The New York Knicks put together the biggest comeback in NBA Finals history to stun the San Antonio Spurs 107-106 in Game 4 on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden. New York rallied from a 29-point deficit after San Antonio led 81-52 in the third quarter to take a 3-1 series lead in search of…
AA Podcast: Kevin Clark on the Knicks, The Ringer, Bill Simmons, Stephen A. Smith, and more
On this week’s episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast, host Brandon Contes interviews Kevin Clark of ESPN and Omaha Productions. They discuss a wide range of topics including covering the Knicks for The Wall Street Journal, being married to a Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter, working with Bill Simmons, The Ringer, joining ESPN, and more. Here’s the…
ESPN opted not to utilize NBA rules analyst Steve Javie during Game 3 broadcast, per report
A live sports production is full of split-second decisions about how best to communicate what’s happening within the game to a viewer at home, and there are many tools at a producer’s disposal to accomplish that goal. Within the last 10-15 years, the rules analyst has become one of the tools in that tool belt.…
Craig Carton lands coveted James Dolan interview ahead of NBA Finals Game 4
After many years spent as the bane of New York Knicks fans’ lives, owner James Dolan is on the mountaintop at last, hosting NBA Finals games at Madison Square Garden as the city momentarily orbits around him and the team. The notoriously media-shy Dolan is, in short, perhaps the most coveted interview in sports and…
NBC, Fubo squash beef, end 7-month blackout ahead of World Cup
At long last, Fubo subscribers will have access to NBCUniversal’s full suite of channels after a carriage dispute stretching all the way back to November. On Wednesday, Fubo announced it has struck a new distribution agreement with NBCUniversal, bringing NBC, NBCSN, Telemundo, Universo, and the NBC Sports RSNs back to its subscribers after a blackout…
House Judiciary Committee raises difficult antitrust questions for NFL during hearing
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell opted not to testify in front of a House Judiciary subcommittee on Wednesday, perhaps for good reason. During the over two-hour hearing, members of the subcommittee laid out a compelling case that the NFL has potentially run afoul of the antitrust exemption it is afforded under the Sports Broadcasting Act of…
Big Ten, SEC release encouraging statements on the Protect College Sports Act
Senators Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell introduced the Protect College Sports Act in late May as an attempt to legislate some reform and guardrails into the current landscape of college athletics following the introduction of NIL compensation for athletes. The legislation proposes ideas such as limits on coaching moves, multi-transfer eligibility, and the protection of…
John Smoltz issues warning to MLB over potential lockout: ‘Baseball will suffer’
The MLB is experiencing a resurgence in the American zeitgeist, and former Cy Young winner turned broadcaster John Smoltz is issuing a major warning to the league as a potential work stoppage looms. The current CBA between the MLB and MLBPA is set to expire after the 2026 season, setting up a long-anticipated negotiating period…
Knicks-Spurs Game 3 is most-watched NBA game since 2017
The NBA Finals returned to Madison Square Garden for the first time since 1999 on Monday, and the result was the largest television audience the NBA has seen in nearly a decade. Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs averaged 23.8 million viewers across ABC and ESPN…
USMNT-Germany draws record audience in final tune-up before World Cup
The USMNT’s final pre-World Cup tune-up drew the largest English-language audience ever for an American men’s soccer friendly, according to Sports Business Journal. Saturday’s 2-1 loss to Germany at Soldier Field averaged 1.5 million viewers on TNT/truTV, peaking at 1.9 million. It topped the previous record — set just six days earlier — when the…
Deshaun Watson speaks to local media for first time in two years
The Cleveland Browns have a new regime, with Todd Monken entering his first season as the franchise’s head coach following a stint as the Baltimore Ravens’ offensive coordinator under John Harbaugh. For better or worse, the quarterback situation in Cleveland is still familiar. The Browns’ offseason will feature a battle for the starting job, with…
Altitude TV moving on from Chris Marlowe, Scott Hastings on Nuggets broadcasts
Kroenke Sports and Entertainment is overhauling the Denver Nuggets’ local broadcast team. According to the Denver Post, play-by-play announcer Chris Marlowe and color analyst Scott Hastings will not return to Altitude TV next season. Chris Dempsey, a longtime Nuggets reporter and studio analyst for Altitude, was also let go, per the report, while Katy Winge…
Kendrick Perkins attributes fan violence to gambling on ‘First Take presented by DraftKings’
DraftKings probably likes its ESPN partnership until someone on First Take attributes increased fan violence to sports wagering. In one of the most hyped sporting events in New York history, the Knicks lost Game 3 of the NBA Finals to the San Antonio Spurs Monday night. But worse than losing the game was the reactions of…
Joel Klatt laments Brendan Sorsby ruling: ‘Devastating to the sport’
Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby’s controversial reinstatement for the 2026 college football season following a favorable ruling from a district court in Lubbock County, Texas, has been widely panned. The Red Raiders quarterback was initially banned from play after self-reporting a gambling problem from earlier in his collegiate career, including bets placed on the Indiana…
CBS Sports’ Evan Washburn launching new video series ‘PROCESS’
CBS Sports NFL reporter Evan Washburn is branching out beyond the sidelines with a new three-part video series called PROCESS, and the first episode drops tonight, Wednesday, June 10, on the NFL on CBS YouTube channel. The concept came straight out of something Washburn has been hearing throughout his 12 years covering the league. Sit…
1980s White Sox broadcast earns rave reviews
The Chicago White Sox leaned into the nostalgia on Tuesday night as they hosted the Atlanta Braves, bringing legendary sportscaster Bob Costas into the broadcast booth alongside color commentator Steve Stone for a 1980s-themed throwback broadcast, the first of two such experiences CHSN has planned for this summer. The broadcast, featuring a graphics package that brought back the…
Phil Simms has some advice for Russell Wilson at CBS
Russell Wilson spent 14 seasons in the NFL mastering the art of saying almost nothing at all. Now he’ll have to make a living by saying exactly what he thinks. Wilson officially retired last week to join CBS’s The NFL Today, turning down a contract offer from the New York Jets to make his second…
The case for and against Pat McAfee’s $60M ESPN deal
Pat McAfee is set to become the highest-paid talent in sports media. Well, kind of. The former Indianapolis Colts punter, who has built his daily sports talk show into an empire that fills the noon-to-2 p.m. ET window on ESPN, is reportedly in negotiations with the network for a deal worth between $60 million and…
Charles Barkley hopes ESPN fires him over Cardi B comment
If anyone has an issue with Charles Barkley for getting a little overzealous about seeing Cardi B at Madison Square Garden, he is here for all the backlash and more. The curvaceous rapper performed at halftime of Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs on Monday…
Mike Francesa claims Donald Trump teased presidential plans to him at Rangers game
Mike Francesa has known Donald Trump for years, and he may have been one of the first to know about his plans of running for president. Francesa recently joined Adam Schein on his Schein Time show for The Post to discuss the NBA Finals featuring the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs. During the…
‘Big Ev’ breaks silence on Barstool absence, reveals gambling addiction
Evan “Big Ev” McDowell broke his silence Wednesday in a video posted to social media, confirming that he checked himself into a residential treatment center for a gambling addiction, in what amounted to his first public statement since disappearing from Barstool Sports content in early April amid allegations that he stiffed multiple illegal bookmakers out…
Donald Trump further escalates war of words with Stephen A. Smith
Unfortunately for the rest of us, Donald Trump continues to fixate on Stephen A. Smith’s IQ. The back-and-forth between the president and the First Take host started when Smith publicly urged Trump not to attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, saying he was worried about the chaos the visit would…
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