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Chris Paul to provide in-depth NBA analysis in new series with Words + Pictures, Genius Sports
Former NBA point guard Chris Paul, who spent 21 years in the league, launched Ohh Dip!!! Entertainment last year with backing from Connor Schell’s Words + Pictures, and the production companies will be incorporating Genius Sports’ data and technology into their latest venture. Per Sports Business Journal, Genius will provide official NBA data and visualization…
Richard Sherman shares advice Al Michaels gave TNF studio crew: ‘It’s not about you’
Amazon is in its fifth season of Thursday Night Football broadcasts on Prime Video, and the broadcast team, with a studio crew of Charissa Thompson, Richard Sherman, Tony Gonzalez, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Andrew Whitworth, alongside play-by-play announcer Al Michaels and color analyst Kirk Herbstreit, has found its stride. Sherman, who spent an 11-year career as an…
LeSean McCoy: ‘Pat McAfee is the most powerful person other than Donald Trump’
Stephen A. Smith recently cited Pat McAfee as playing by a different set of rules at ESPN, but the only rule for McAfee might be that there are no rules. McAfee was on ESPN Thursday afternoon when someone noticed him place what appeared to be a lit item into an ashtray, and smoke rose from…
MLBPA director Bruce Meyer refutes MLB suggestion that TV blackouts are players’ fault
As Major League Baseball continues its media blitz against the players’ union ahead of what is expected to be a fraught and potentially lengthy lockout following the current season, one of the league’s claims isn’t exactly passing muster. After publicly disclosing its first proposal to the MLBPA back in May, the league has gone to…
Netflix officially adds Andrés Cantor for 2027 Women’s World Cup
One of the most iconic voices in world soccer, Andrés Cantor, will join Netflix for its coverage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup. While the move was expected, Netflix made the announcement official Friday morning. It will be one of the biggest world sporting events to come to the streamer since their push for more live sports has…
ESPN reporter confronts Alex Ovechkin on Russian political ad
Alex Ovechkin is at the center of a firestorm once again, not because of what he’s done on the ice, but because of his support for Russian president Vladimir Putin and his political party. The NHL’s all-time leading goalscorer was featured in an ad for Putin’s United Russia party ahead of new elections for the…
Sean McVay torches Rams-Australia partnership with one press conference quote
One of the more peculiar elements of the NFL’s quest for world domination is its colonial-era designations of foreign markets for specific teams. The league’s first game in Australia was meant to showcase the Los Angeles Rams, who spent years building a following there. The Rams are one of four teams with marketing rights in…
Sophie Cunningham weighs in on provocative Sydney Sweeney ad: ‘Why are girls mad?’
Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham rebranded her podcast from Show Me Something to No Hesitation and swapped West Wilson for Drew Hanlen as her co-host. “There is no really good WNBA [or] NBA podcasts — really, WNBA — that strictly talk about basketball and, like, all the great things that it has in the WNBA,” Cunningham told…
How much does playoff viewership increase from round to round?
When the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays faced off in the Wild Card Series in 2022, just 1.76 million people tuned in. Yet, three years later, when the same two teams met in the American League Championship Series, Game 1 featured an audience of 5.19 million people. You can see this in all major…
Ryan Fitzpatrick jumps through table at Bills home opener
If Pat McAfee might be the wildest and craziest guy in all of sports television, Ryan Fitzpatrick may be a close second. The first official Thursday Night Football game of the season saw the Amazon Prime Video crew travel to the opening of Highmark Stadium as the Buffalo Bills hosted the Detroit Lions. The Bills got out…
Pat McAfee reveals Morgan Freeman as ‘College GameDay’ guest picker at Ole Miss
With due respect to Lainey Wilson and Glen Powell, ESPN entered a different stratosphere by securing the larger-than-life, legendary actor Morgan Freeman as its Week 3 guest picker for College GameDay. College GameDay will set up shop at The Grove on Ole Miss’s campus in Oxford, Mississippi, on Saturday. No. 7 LSU will take on…
TV and streaming viewing picks for September 18, 2026: How to watch WNBA
All Times Eastern Athletics Athlos London Finals StoneX Stadium, London, England, United Kingdom Women’s 100m hurdles, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, Mile, and Long Jump — Ion, 2 p.m. Australian Rules Football AFL Men’s — Finals Series; Week 4 Second Preliminary Final, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Hawthorn Hawks vs. Brisbane Lions — FS1/Fox One,…
Chris Fowler defends Holly Rowe, demands apology from reporters who laughed about AI video
Last Saturday night, the Texas Longhorns scored 21 unanswered fourth-quarter points to upset the Ohio State Buckeyes. The Longhorns secured the most impressive win of the young college football season and swiped the No. 1 designation from the Buckeyes. Nobody has talked about that this week because some loser used AI to generate a video…
Emmanuel Acho unsure FS1 would have paired him with Joy Taylor again after ‘crazy’ accusations in Fox lawsuit
While Emmanuel Acho was not a defendant in the lawsuit that took down many of FS1’s power players last year, he nevertheless became a victim of the ensuing overhaul at the network. A former FS1 hairstylist sued the company as well as its lead executive Charlie Dixon, and hosts Skip Bayless and Joy Taylor, in…
Ryan Clark has non-compete with ESPN through February; won’t return to network TV without ‘freedom’
Ryan Clark resurfaced very quickly after his untimely exit at ESPN over the summer, launching The Pivot Sports this week to cover the NFL season. Though Clark would seem to have a cushy setup with a Netflix-licensed interview podcast and now a live weekly show to break down games, he may not be done on network…
NBC to stream Big Ten game for free on YouTube this Saturday
Even before NBC and YouTube begin their partnership to bundle Peacock into YouTube Premium in early 2027, the two companies are finding ways to link up. This weekend, that means NBC Sports will stream a Big Ten football game live on its YouTube channel at no cost. On Saturday, NBC Sports will stream the Eastern…
Dan Le Batard chides ESPN over lack of diversity in recent moves: ‘A whole lot of white people hiring a whole lot of white people’
A week after calling out the lack of diversity among NFL game broadcasters, Dan Le Batard has widened the aperture of his critique. The former ESPN radio and television host has been antagonistic toward the network — even when he worked there. Now on his own with a daily live YouTube show, Le Batard is…
Netflix open to ‘conversations’ with FIFA about men’s World Cup rights, exec says
In just over nine months, Netflix will begin its biggest live sports undertaking yet, the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The streaming giant secured U.S. rights to the quadrennial event in both 2027 and 2031, succeeding Fox, which has aired each Women’s World Cup in the country since 2015. Naturally, with men’s World Cup rights…
Stephen A. Smith not comfortable attending Lane Kiffin’s return to Ole Miss: ‘I’m not taking that chance’
Everyone expects a hostile environment when new LSU head coach Lane Kiffin returns to Ole Miss this weekend, too hostile for Stephen A. Smith to attend. Smith defended Kiffin when he spurned Ole Miss for LSU nearly a year ago, generating headlines by suggesting Black athletes were hesitant to live and play in Oxford, Mississippi…
Netflix reportedly eyeing Megan Rapinoe, Marta for World Cup analyst gigs
Netflix has a couple of women’s soccer superstars in its sights to help cover the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup. According to a report by Adam Crafton in The Athletic, the streaming giant has held talks with former U.S. women’s national team star Megan Rapinoe and Brazilian legend Marta to serve as analysts at next…
ABC to broadcast El Clásico for first time in history
La Liga is continuing to get plenty of broadcast television exposure this season. And for the first time ever, the league’s marquee matchup will be showcased on ABC. On Thursday, ESPN announced that El Clásico, the rivalry between Spanish sides Barcelona and Real Madrid, will air on ABC on Sunday, October 25 at 4 p.m.…
Mike Tomlin sure sounds like a guy who isn’t going back to coaching
Mike Tomlin is a sicko like the rest of us. According to Devin McCourty, the former Steelers coach has been staying up to watch college football on Saturdays — Hawaii included — not out of any real attachment to the Rainbow Warriors, but simply because he can. “The thing that sticks out to me so…
Colin Cowherd community-noted for claiming Josh Allen has no help
Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills have one of the NFL’s best running backs in James Cook, but Colin Cowherd doesn’t seem to think they have any running back. Cowherd was fawning over the Kansas City Chiefs on his Wednesday afternoon Fox Sports Radio and FS1 show, praising their ability to dominate the Denver Broncos…
Linda Cohn: Steve Sarkisian is to blame for Arch Manning controversy
Arch Manning has been at the center of a firestorm after his insensitive comments about ESPN reporter Holly Rowe and a gross AI video. But as Linda Cohn points out, it never would have happened if his head coach, Steve Sarkisian, had acted more professionally. Manning laughed about an AI video he saw in which…
Ryan Fitzpatrick, Andrew Whitworth not interested in full-time booth gig
Ryan Fitzpatrick and Andrew Whitworth both made clear they’re happy right where they are. In a conversation with Front Office Sports, the two Prime Video studio analysts addressed whether either has interest in eventually moving into a full-time booth role. And both gave a pretty firm no — at least for now — due to…
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