Super Bowl champion Will Blackmon is out at Good Morning Football after just one season. The longtime NFL defensive back, who worked on the NFL Network morning show as a contributor for the 2025 season, posted on X this week that he was departing the show. “ESPN/GMFB let me go on my day off,” Blackmon wrote,…
The New York Mets may have fired their manager, but Mike Francesa won’t let that excuse owner Steve Cohen from holding himself accountable. Cohen bought the Mets for $2.4 billion in 2020; he’s spending nearly $400 million on this season’s roster, and he’s on the verge of garnering the label “worst team money can buy.”…
Tim Howard might believe it’s “literally impossible” for the United States men’s national team to win the World Cup, but what if Team USA hockey was playing? Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) joined Newsmax’s late morning show National Report on Friday, where host David Briggs asked the noted sports fan for his opinion on USA’s chances…
After years of instability, ESPN’s lead NBA booth should feature Mike Breen, Tim Legler, and Richard Jefferson for the foreseeable future. For 15 years, NBA fans grew accustomed to hearing Breen call the biggest games alongside Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson. But since letting Van Gundy and Jackson go in a cost-cutting move during…
Boomer Esiason caused controversy on Thursday with his reaction to Caitlin Clark being on the receiving end of two rough plays in the Indiana Fever’s game with the Phoenix Mercury on Wednesday night. Clark was hit with a fist in the throat in one instance and left the game with a back injury after a…
Giannis Antetokounmpo wasn’t the only NBA superstar dealt around the draft as the Charlotte Hornets made the surprising move to trade away former franchise centerpiece LaMelo Ball to the Minnesota Timberwolves. And safe to say, Ryen Russillo was not a fan of the move… for Minnesota. Ball certainly had an up-and-down tenure in Charlotte. When…
Michael Kay jokingly invited DMX to record a song for YES Network, only to be informed DMX is no longer available. Thursday night, YES Network’s David Cone gave the scouting report for starting pitcher Cam Schlittler by using three songs. One of those songs was “X Gon’ Give It To Ya,” to which Joe Girardi…
Mike Tirico has done it all as a broadcaster. And even just this year he has called the Super Bowl, hosted the Olympics, Kentucky Derby, and US Open, and called the NBA Playoffs. Tirico is now widely regarded by his peers and fans alike as the very best in sports broadcasting. But there is one…
The best traditions in sports happen organically. And that’s exactly what happened with the John Denver classic “Country Roads” becoming the unofficial anthem of the USMNT. Songs are a part of the culture of soccer. There’s no better example of that than the power of hearing “You’ll Never Walk Alone” during a Liverpool game at…
The USA lost to Türkiye in their final group stage match at the 2026 World Cup in what was a dead rubber match for the stars and stripes. But head coach Mauricio Pochettino was more concerned with the media reaction than he was his team’s performance. The USMNT played a rotated lineup, resting several key…
There’s nothing in the world of sports quite like darts. And now it’s going to have the largest platform possible on American sports television in a new deal with ESPN. The Professional Darts Corporation announced a “new era for darts in the USA” on Thursday as the world’s premier darts circuit is bringing its biggest…
The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees have one of the biggest rivalries in sports and absolutely hate each other. This is well known. But when Red Sox fans at Fenway Park chanted “Yankees suck” during Thursday night’s Yankees-Red Sox game at Fenway Park, Yankees play-by-play announcer Michael Kay found that “really strange.” “It’s…
CBS Sports basketball analyst Gary Parrish offered his biggest takeaway of the 2026 NBA Draft, and it didn’t actually have to do with evaluating players or teams. Appearing on CBS Sports HQ after the draft on Thursday night, Parrish said, “My biggest takeaway from this draft is that we’ve got to make it easier to…
The Chicago Cubs and New York Mets met for a series finale on Sunday night at Citi Field, and a dog stole the show on the Marquee Sports Network broadcast. Coming out of a Marquee commercial break to begin the top of the fifth inning, Cubs announcers Jon “Boog” Sciambi and Jim Deshaies were highly…
NBA Draft coverage on ESPN and ABC averaged 4.2 million viewers this week, up 10 percent from last year. According to the network, the show peaked in the first 15 minutes amid intrigue over who the Washington Wizards would select with the No. 1 overall pick, who was ultimately BYU freshman AJ Dybantsa. While the…
All Times Eastern Australian Rules Football AFL Men’s — Round 16 Carlton Blues vs. West Coast Eagles — Fox Soccer Plus, 11 p.m. Collingwood Magpies vs. Richmond Tigers — Fox Soccer Plus, 2 a.m. (Saturday) Port Adelaide Power vs. Adelaide Crows — Fox Soccer Plus, 5:30 a.m. (Saturday) CFL Week 4 Toronto Argonauts at Saskatchewan…
Anthony Rizzo’s first season as a broadcaster has gone about as smoothly as his career at first base. Speaking on a conference call with reporters earlier this week, Rizzo opened up about his first season as NBC’s Inside the Pitch contributor on Sunday Night Baseball, a role he said came together over dinner with NBC…
For all the stink about Fox’s full-screen commercials during hydration breaks at the World Cup, very few viewers seem to be tuning out because of them. According to a recent analysis by the sports media consultants at Octagon, Fox is only losing between one and three percent of its active viewership during World Cup hydration…
The San Francisco Giants continue to botch every aspect of their response to the controversy stemming from a Pride Night at Oracle Park two weeks ago. For the uninitiated, a quartet of Giants pitchers opted to protest Pride Night, either by inscribing Bible verses on their rainbow-colored caps or by choosing to wear the traditional…
LeBron James is one of the only modern star athletes to achieve enough success to engage in the debate about his own case as the greatest of all time in his sport. And ESPN’s Brian Windhorst, who has chronicled most of James’ legendary career and was singled out by the Los Angeles Lakers star last…
After 34 years and over 5,500 SportsCenter episodes, Linda Cohn has decided to leave ESPN and begin charting her own path. As Awful Announcing first reported earlier this week, Cohn and ESPN could not agree on a suitable role for her moving forward. Cohn hosted the late-night SportsCenter from Los Angeles up until last year, when ESPN opted…
ESPN is placing more content exclusively behind the ESPN Unlimited paywall. On Thursday, ESPN announced its coverage plans for Wimbledon, which begins in four days. Much of the network’s linear coverage remains the same, with ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2 all contributing extensive coverage throughout The Championships. However, many fans might be frustrated to hear that…
The WNBA’s biggest misstep isn’t their treatment of Caitlin Clark, it’s their inability to avoid giving critics fuel to accuse them of mistreating Caitlin Clark. WNBA critics are in attack mode after images of Clark taking a hit to the throat went viral before she eventually left Wednesday night’s game against the Phoenix Mercury with…
Tracy McGrady’s future at NBC is uncertain. Speaking with Front Office Sports, McGrady revealed that his deal with the network covered only one season, and it’s currently unknown whether he will return to NBA Showtime next year. “I give ourselves a B+,” McGrady said of the group’s performance. “And we have a lot of room…
Tracy McGrady’s future at NBC is uncertain. Speaking with Front Office Sports, McGrady revealed that his deal with the network covered only one season, and it’s currently unknown whether he will return to NBA Showtime next year. “I give ourselves a B+,” McGrady said of the group’s performance. “And we have a lot of room…