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Mike Tomlin addresses potential return to coaching during NBC studio debut
After 19 seasons as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike Tomlin debuted to rave reviews as a studio analyst for NBC on Thursday for the network’s broadcast of the annual preseason-opening Hall of Fame Game. The former Super Bowl-winning head coach was welcomed to the Football Night in America pregame show by host…
Nick Wright: ‘Stick to sports’ crowd won, but ‘didn’t actually mean it’
The summer has seen many instances of sports and politics colliding, perhaps none more potent than the news cycles unleashed by Aaron Rodgers and Sophie Cunningham this month. Cunningham has brought the conversation around trans athlete participation to a fever pitch across sports and news media, while Rodgers again rehashed disagreements over vaccination and the…
Buster Posey trolls KNBR over producer’s hot-mic insult
Three weeks ago, KNBR deleted all digital traces of a hot-mic incident in which an unnamed producer was caught saying “Posey sucks, man,” following the San Francisco Giants president of baseball operations’ first interview on the station in over two months, an absence seemingly tied to the club’s Pride Night controversy. The incident occurred after Posey…
Michael Wilbon: ‘PTI’ wouldn’t have survived in Bristol
Twenty-five years into Pardon the Interruption, Michael Wilbon has a theory about why the show is still running: ESPN never let it move in. Appearing on the Awful Announcing Podcast with host Brandon Contes, Wilbon credited PTI’s Washington, D.C. home base — and the distance it created from ESPN’s Connecticut campus — as the reason…
ESPN app to stream Donald Trump’s ‘2026 Patriot Games’
In December of last year, United States President Donald Trump announced the first-ever “Patriot Games” as another arm in the year-long celebration of America’s 250th birthday. “In the fall, we will host the first-ever ‘Patriot Games,’ an unprecedented 4-day athletic event featuring the greatest high school athletes, one young man and one young woman from…
CFP keeps pre-championship weekend rankings show on ESPN despite mounting criticism
The College Football Playoff selection committee isn’t done boxing itself into corners just yet. According to a CFP release confirming this year’s rankings schedule, the committee will unveil its penultimate top 25 on Tuesday, Dec. 1 — four days before conference championship weekend and a full six days before the final rankings and bracket reveal…
Megan Rapinoe offers scathing take on transgender athlete discourse: ‘Are you serious?’
Former U.S. women’s national team winger Megan Rapinoe was as heralded for winning World Cups as she was for unrelenting activism. She may have retired from soccer three years ago, but she’s more committed now to activism than ever. So, it’s only right that Rapinoe opened her premiere Why Are You Like This? podcast episode…
Clay Travis set to launch new sports media outlet in coming weeks
Clay Travis isn’t wasting any time in his return to sports media. The firebrand Travis rose to prominence blogging about college football and then by launching OutKick nearly two decades ago. Then, he sold OutKick to Fox in 2021, working under the OutKick umbrella at Fox for several years before exiting earlier in 2026 with…
Cal reportedly charged ESPN $4,500 to host ‘College GameDay’ on campus
ESPN’s College GameDay will be back on our televisions in just a few more weeks. The traveling circus of a pregame show is a staple of college football Saturdays, taking over a different campus every week to preview the biggest games of the day. As David Covucci noted at FOIAball this week, it takes a…
Nicolas Cage’s ‘Madden’ movie forgoes a wide theatrical release, heads straight to Prime Video
Madden is getting the modern-day equivalent of a direct-to-video release. The biopic, in which Nicolas Cage portrays the legendary Oakland Raiders coach-turned-broadcasting icon, is forgoing a nationwide theatrical run in favor of an exclusive Prime Video premiere this fall, according to Variety. Amazon MGM, the studio financing the project, has locked in Nov. 18 as…
Cheryl Reeve takes shots at ‘terrible’ Lynx players in press conference rant
Cheryl Reeve is one of the most thoughtful leaders in the WNBA. Her knack for delicate yet strong commentary on complex subjects was on full display just last week, when she stood up for trans kids and engaged in a conversation with Sophie Cunningham about her opposing stance. But when it comes to ball, the…
ESPN’s Lindsey Thiry attacked by ‘biggest bug’ while reporting from Rams camp
If I were to tell you that ESPN national NFL reporter Lindsey Thiry went viral while reporting live from Los Angeles Rams training camp, you’d probably assume it’s because she broke the news that Aaron Donald ended his NFL retirement to rejoin the Rams. Good, logical guess, but you’d be dead wrong. It’s somehow even…
Mike Tirico, Cris Collinsworth go wild calling frantic finish to Hall of Fame Game
Thursday night’s game between the Cardinals and Panthers was just the start of the NFL preseason, but the NBC booth of Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth showed they were already in midseason form. Both teams traded touchdowns in the final two minutes of action, and while the outcome of the game might not really matter,…
New Purdue AD takes baffling swipe at Indiana in introductory press conference
Purdue’s athletic department began a new era this week, with Tommy McClelland introduced as the school’s new athletic director. McClelland was previously the AD at Rice and has previous stops at McNeese State and Louisiana Tech, as well as a stint as deputy AD at Vanderbilt on his resume. While McClelland brings plenty of experience…
Pablo Torre drops bombshell episode pointing to another Kawhi Leonard salary cap circumvention deal
Pablo Torre is still peeling back the layers behind the Los Angeles Clippers’ alleged “salary cap circumvention” tactics involving superstar forward Kawhi Leonard. In his initial story, Torre built a case on Pablo Torre Finds Out that Leonard’s sponsorship deal with Aspiration was a cover to pay the two-time Finals MVP tens of millions of…
John Ourand: Industry expects Tony Romo won’t return to CBS
Tony Romo making his way back to CBS Sports is looking less likely by the day. According to Puck’s John Ourand, who spoke with several sports media executives, the consensus across the industry is that Romo — sidelined indefinitely by CBS since late July — won’t be reclaiming his booth. Whether or not you believe…
Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist Mike Sielski on why he wrote a book about ‘Rocky’
Rocky is the most famous sports-movie franchise of all time. Since the original debuted in 1976, it has spawned eight additional films in the Rocky Cinematic Universe. There’s even another Rocky movie titled I Play Rocky coming out in November. The story of an underdog boxer who gets a championship title shot endures as a pop-culture phenomenon.…
Matt LaFleur surprises Mike LaFleur on NBC ahead of coaching debut
The 2026 NFL preseason kicked off on Thursday night with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game between the Carolina Panthers and Arizona Cardinals in Canton, OH. It represented the first game for Mike LaFleur as head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, and his first time being a head coach at all. During warm-ups, the…
Troy Aikman, Greg Olsen, Kirk Herbstreit all heading into final season of contracts
After a period of relative calm among top NFL color analysts, all three of Troy Aikman, Greg Olsen, and Kirk Herbstreit are entering the final season of their contracts in 2026. This puts two recent Sports Emmy winners for top game commentator and one of the voices of the upcoming Super Bowl all in line…
Mike Tomlin earns rave reviews in debut as NBC analyst
NBC came away victorious in the Mike Tomlin sweepstakes over the offseason, and on Thursday, the former longtime Pittsburgh Steelers head coach made his debut as an analyst for the network. Tomlin joined the Football Night in America crew for NBC’s broadcast of the Pro Football Hall of Fame game between the Carolina Panthers and…
St. Louis Blues eye direct-to-distributor model for local broadcasts as post-RSN world introduces uncertainty for teams
While many NBA and NHL teams have embraced over-the-air television as an alternative to the collapsing regional sports network model, the St. Louis Blues are going in the opposite direction. Blues EVP and Chief Revenue and Marketing Officer Steve Chapman told the St. Louis Business Journal that revenue from over-the-air broadcasts is just ad sales,…
TV and streaming viewing picks for August 7, 2026: How to watch MLB tonight
All Times Eastern Australian Rules Football AFL Men’s — Round 22 Melbourne Demons vs. Fremantle Dockers — Fox Soccer Plus, 11 p.m. Sydney Swans vs. Port Adelaide Power — FS2/Fox One, 2 a.m. (Saturday) Geelong Cats vs. Essendon Bombers — FS1/Fox One, 2:30 a.m. (Saturday) Adelaide Crows vs. Richmond Tigers — Fox Soccer Plus, 5:30…
NBC addresses Mike Vrabel-Dianna Russini scandal during NFL Hall of Fame Game
The relationship between New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel and former NFL insider Dianna Russini was an enormous story both in the NFL and sports media worlds over the offseason, but nobody knew what to expect with how television networks would handle the situation once game broadcasts came along. Well, the 2026 NFL preseason…
Caitlin Clark addresses expectation she speaks on complicated issues: ‘There’s pressure at times’
Surely, you’ve heard by now about Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham’s opinion that transgender athletes should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports. The ESPN profile published on July 21, sparking a firestorm around the Fever, including “Support Sophie Cunningham” rallies at games in Seattle, Portland, and Minnesota. Cunningham started it, but people wanted…
Randy Moss: NYRA and Fox ‘incredibly petty’ for apparent attempt to shift blame of Triple Crown demise onto Preakness
Who knew there would be so much drama in horse racing months after this year’s Triple Crown was etched in the history books? But quite like how we’re all talking about Boston College men’s basketball in August for some reason, we’ve also spent much of this week following along to a series of major developments…
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