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Following Missouri loss, Texas A&M’s Mike Elko calls out TexAgs as ‘Billy’s cesspool’
The Texas A&M Aggies’ season is heading in the wrong direction following a 27-6 loss to the Missouri Tigers on Saturday. After starting the season 2-0, Mike Elko’s squad has squandered that momentum with losses to Kentucky, LSU, and Missouri as they tumble down the SEC standings. Elko, who has never been one to appreciate…
‘College GameDay’ analysts called out over lack of college football knowledge beyond Big Ten-SEC
Last week, Pat McAfee and Kirk Herbstreit were wowed by guest picker Caitlin Clark’s college football knowledge beyond the biggest games. They might have wanted to pick her brain a little, as their lack of knowledge about games outside the SEC and Big Ten showed this weekend. It’s nothing new that GameDay doesn’t spend much…
Nick Saban reacts to viral Jalen Hurts benching clip
For nearly nine years, college football fans could only imagine what was said behind closed doors in the Alabama locker room at halftime of the 2018 national championship game, but thanks to ESPN, that mystery has finally been laid bare. Saban, the six-part ESPN Original docuseries on the seven-time national champion, premiered Thursday with never-before-seen…
ESPN announcer compares UNC’s Billy Edwards Jr. to hotel breakfast on hot mic
North Carolina quarterback Billy Edwards Jr. is having a tough season, and that’s before he’s catching strays from the broadcast booth. The Tar Heels took on the Pittsburgh Panthers on Saturday in a battle of ACC programs moving in opposite directions. After starting the season 2-0, Bill Belichick’s UNC has slid to a two-game skid…
Bill Belichick was downright chatty (by his standards) with ESPN’s Quint Kessenich during UNC-Pitt
By Bill Belichick standards, Saturday’s pregame chat with ESPN’s Quint Kessenich was practically a fireside chat. Ahead of North Carolina’s game against Pittsburgh, Kessenich caught up with the Tar Heels’ head coach and asked how UNC planned to attack Pitt’s Holden Geriner, who, despite being a fifth-year senior, was making his first start since high…
‘Le Batard Show’ producer Mike Ryan plans to grow ‘as a person behind the scenes’ at Meadowlark in 2027
Mike Ryan has no complaints about his role on The Dan Le Batard Show, though he’s already laying the groundwork for his next act at Meadowlark. Appearing on the Awful Announcing Podcast, the same conversation in which he opened up about the show’s prolonged breakup with Jon “Stugotz” Weiner, the longtime producer and indispensable on-air…
Jack McMullen expected to replace Kyle Sielaff as Marlins’ TV voice
The Miami Marlins appear to have already found their next television voice. Jack McMullen, who has spent the last two seasons as the Marlins’ radio play-by-play announcer, is expected to succeed Kyle Sielaff as the lead voice of Marlins.TV in 2027, according to Fish On First’s Kevin Barral and Isaac Azout. McMullen is slated to…
Chris Simms ‘a little confused’ by ‘Football Night in America’ exit after NBC said he was ‘grading higher than anybody’
Chris Simms spent seven seasons on Football Night in America, and, by his account, NBC spent most of them assuring him he was one of the panel’s strongest voices That’s what makes his exit so difficult for him to square, as Simms explained to Barrett Media’s John Mamola, the network’s internal grades consistently placed him…
FAMU player leaves SWAC TV reporter hanging during postgame interview
Sideline reporters are having a tough go of it during postgame interviews at all levels of college football these days. Symone Stanley is the latest reporter to be left hanging during a postgame interview with Florida A&M’s Armond Parker after their 28-27 win over Alabama State on Friday. Parker threw for three touchdowns and ran…
Charles Davis learned of his NFL Network exit while in line for Space Mountain
Charles Davis wasn’t mid-broadcast on NFL Live, like Ryan Clark. He wasn’t in the Sky Club at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, like Tom Pelissero. When ESPN’s cuts reached him, Davis was at Walt Disney World, about to ride Space Mountain. Davis is now in his first season as CBS Sports’ lead college football analyst.…
Michigan legend Jake Butt says 2023 national title ‘has an asterisk on it’
It’s been three years since the sign-stealing scandal that emerged during Michigan’s 2023 national championship season. And while the Wolverines largely avoided any detrimental program-changing punishment after the NCAA’s investigation, they did take a hit to their public perception. That apparently even includes one high-profile alum. Former Michigan tight end Jake Butt, a Mackey Award…
College football viewing picks for October 10, 2026: How to watch Week 6
All Times Eastern noon Texas A&M at Missouri — ABC/ESPN Unlimited/Disney+ Indiana at Nebraska — Fox/Fox One Wake Forest at North Carolina State — The CW/ESPN Unlimited Tulane at Army — CBS Sports Network North Carolina at Pittsburgh — ESPN/ESPN Unlimited Central Florida at Oklahoma State — ESPN2/ESPN Unlimited Dartmouth at Yale — ESPNU/ESPN Unlimited…
TV and streaming viewing picks for October 10, 2026: How to watch ALDS Game 5
All Times Eastern Australian Rules Football AFL Women’s — Round 9 North Melbourne Kangaroos vs. Fremantle Dockers — Fox Soccer Plus, 9:30 p.m. Hawthorn Hawks vs. Brisbane Lions — FS2/Fox One, 10 p.m. Sydney Swans vs. Carlton Blues — Fox Soccer Plus, midnight Bundesliga Matchday 5 FC Augsburg vs. Bayern München — Telemundo/Peacock//Fandango, 9:25 a.m.…
Sophie Cunningham: Candace Buckner is ‘just thirsty’ after column urging Fever to get rid of her
As the WNBA season comes to a close and Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham hits free agency, The Athletic’s Candace Buckner wrote a lengthy column arguing that the Fever should not bring Cunningham back because of the “circus” she created after her comments on trans athletes. Now, Cunningham is pushing back against that column –…
Gregg Giannotti ‘felt terrible’ getting booted from private jet en route to Boomer Esiason’s Hall of Fame induction
The Radio Hall of Fame inducted its 2026 class on Thursday evening in Chicago. The honorees included SiriusXM 60s Gold’s Shotgun Tom Kelly, WLTW’s Helen Little, legendary on-air personalities Charlie Van Dyke and Fred Winston, and WFAN’s Boomer Esiason. The former NFL quarterback has been a pillar at one of the country’s premier sports radio…
Chris Berman remembers ESPN colleague Mike Ditka: ‘A national treasure’
Mike Ditka was many different things to different people. To some, he was a legendary NFL player and the first tight end ever inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. To others, he was the iconic coach of the Chicago Bears, leading the franchise to its first and only Super Bowl championship. And to…
Miami Marlins reportedly moving on from TV voice Kyle Sielaff, analyst Jeff Nelson
Some Major League Baseball broadcast teams stay together for decades. And then there’s the Miami Marlins. As Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reported, the Marlins have told Kyle Sielaff that his time as the franchise’s TV voice was ending after two seasons. The Marlins are also moving on from television analyst Jeff Nelson, studio host…
Falcons-Saints is least-watched primetime game of season amid down week for NFL
Twenty years after the Domecoming shook the Superdome to its foundation, its anniversary barely registered a tremor on the Nielsen meters. Monday’s Falcons-Saints game averaged 11.9 million viewers across ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes, including over-the-air simulcasts in the home markets, according to Sports Media Watch. It was the season’s first cable-exclusive Monday Night Football…
Mike Ditka became a media star and pop culture icon by unapologetically being himself
They certainly don’t make them like Mike Ditka anymore, and that’s a shame. These days, it’s hard to find one that isn’t a slog. Coaches approach the podium like they’re being led to the gallows, offer answers with the personality of a press release, and steer clear of anything that could become a headline, a…
Jim Nantz set for ManningCast debut during Bills-Rams
Jim Nantz, whose voice has accompanied several of the biggest nights of Peyton Manning’s career, will make his first ManningCast appearance Monday when Peyton and Eli Manning take on Bills-Rams for ESPN2. According to Sports Business Journal’s Austin Karp, Peyton arranged the booking himself, extending the invitation directly to the longtime CBS play-by-play voice while…
Pat McAfee’s ‘Field Pass’ coming to Super Bowl LXI and select ‘Monday Night Football’ games
Pat McAfee’s Field Pass is officially making the jump from the College Football Playoff to the Super Bowl. McAfee announced Friday on The Pat McAfee Show that ESPN will air a Field Pass altcast for Super Bowl LXI in February. Before then, the show will also broadcast select Monday Night Football games, beginning with Commanders-49ers…
Richard Sherman casts doubt on Joey Porter Jr. illness
The Dallas Cowboys were without star defensive acquisition Joey Porter Jr. for their Thursday Night Football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And Richard Sherman wasn’t quite buying what everyone was selling about his absence. The Cowboys traded for Porter from the Pittsburgh Steelers last week for second-round and sixth-round draft selections. The star cornerback was stuck…
Jane Slater starstruck by Lainey Wilson during ‘SportsCenter’ segment
All the stars were out in Dallas for the Cowboys’ Thursday Night Football game, including country music superstar Lainey Wilson. Wilson is no stranger to AT&T Stadium, having previously performed at halftime of the Cowboys’ Thanksgiving Day game back in 2024. She is also a prominent college football star, singing the Big & Rich hit…
Dianna Russini reportedly hires crisis publicist as comeback awaits
Dianna Russini hasn’t staged her comeback after the Mike Vrabel scandal yet, but she still seems to be taking steps in that direction. The veteran NFL reporter was infamously caught in an affair with the head coach of the New England Patriots after being snapped together at a swanky Arizona resort. What followed was weeks…
Bill Simmons curses out ESPN for deleting Grantland recordings
It has been over a decade since Bill Simmons left ESPN, but some of the scars still cut very, very deep. It was back in 2015 when Simmons departed the Worldwide Leader after a series of creative differences and public disagreements. The Sports Guy had done it all at ESPN and became a household name…
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