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Jeff Passan defends old takes on Dodgers’ ‘advantage’ after revelations about owner Mark Walter
For years, as the Los Angeles Dodgers have been used as a stalking horse for the impending MLB lockout, ESPN insider Jeff Passan has been among the most vocal baseball reporters shielding the back-to-back World Series champs from blame. After almost every big recent acquisition by the team, Passan has reminded readers that other teams are not…
Tom McCarthy set to make NBC Sunday Leadoff debut
NBC seems to have landed on its fourth play-by-play voice for the network’s expanded MLB postseason coverage. With a tripleheader in tow this coming Sunday, the network announced that Tom McCarthy will be behind the mic for Nationals-Marlins on MLB Sunday Leadoff at noon ET on Peacock and NBCSN alongside Jeff Nelson, Kevin Frandsen, and…
Kirk Herbstreit admits ESPN ‘has been very, very guilty’ of skimping on college football coverage
As college football has become more of a national sport this decade, ESPN has not so quietly put more resources toward covering the sport. Earlier this year, ESPN executive Mike Foss publicly stated that the network “made a concerted effort to follow college football in a really meaningful way” in 2025. Part of the effort…
Former ‘College GameDay’ analyst David Pollack partners with On3
You’ll be seeing more of David Pollack during the 2026 college football season. On3 announced Tuesday that it has entered into a distribution partnership with the former College GameDay analyst, meaning his podcast, See Ball Get Ball, which he launched after leaving ESPN, will now run throughout On3’s ecosystem, including the outlet’s .com site and…
Main Street Sports Group sues Comcast, Charter alleging underpaid licensing fees for FanDuel Sports Networks
Main Street Sports Group, the now-defunct former owner of the FanDuel-branded regional sports networks, is alleging two of its largest business partners failed to pay the full amount of licensing fees for the networks towards the end of the company’s run. In a pair of lawsuits filed in Delaware Superior Court on Monday and obtained…
Disney+ gets ESPN College Football simulcasts, but not its biggest games
Disney+ is officially getting more college football in 2026, but fans shouldn’t expect ESPN to hand over its biggest games just yet. ESPN announced on Tuesday that Disney+ will stream two college football games per week this fall, while also continuing to stream College GameDay, which debuted on the platform last year. The network first…
Mike Tirico made a surprise cameo in the Detroit Tigers’ booth
Mike Tirico has never called a Major League Baseball game. That’s his white whale, the ever-elusive event he’s never been able to check off the bucket list, despite calling everything else under the sun. And it probably won’t happen at NBC, not because the voice of Sunday Night Football isn’t capable, but because the network…
Disney+ to air Max Verstappen’s ‘Max vs 100’ go-kart race
ESPN may have lost the rights to Formula One, but that won’t stop it from airing a unique Red Bull event featuring Max Verstappen. Disney has announced an agreement to air “Max vs 100,” which will see Verstappen race 100 people in a go-karting event live globally on Disney+ and on the ESPN app in…
Shannon Sharpe defends 49ers owner Jed York: ‘Ain’t nothing wrong with that’
ESPN might not want to cover San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York being arrested on prostitution charges, but Shannon Sharpe has no issue with it. To be clear, Sharpe has no issue covering it, he also has no issue with York allegedly attempting to pay for sexual activity. York was arrested Sunday in East Palestine,…
DAZN adds Monumental+ as it continues push into local sports
DAZN is continuing its expansion into local sports in the United States, this time reaching an agreement with Monumental Sports Network to add its direct-to-consumer streaming service to the platform. The agreement will see Monumental+ available as a subscription through DAZN. Monumental holds local rights to the NBA’s Washington Wizards, the NHL’s Washington Capitals, and…
ESPN thoroughly covers concerning NFL-CTE study
Just one day after ESPN largely dropped the ball in covering breaking news about San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York’s arrest during a prostitution sting in Ohio, the network is proving to viewers it can cover tough stories related to the NFL when it wants to. On Tuesday, ESPN addressed the concerning new study published…
SiriusXM replaces Damon Amendolara with Steve Torre on Mad Dog Sports Radio
After deciding not to renew Damon Amendolara’s contract, SiriusXM is filling the void on Mad Dog Sports Radio’s morning show with program director Steve Torre. Torre joins longtime Mad Dog Sports Radio morning host Mike Babchick to launch Babs & The Boss beginning Sept. 8. In addition to co-hosting the morning show, it appears as…
Inside Paul Pabst and Andrew Perloff’s new NBC Sports show
Paul Pabst and Andrew Perloff hadn’t recorded a single episode of Not So Fast yet, but they gave me a preview anyway, intentional or not. The show, officially announced this week, will pair the two longtime Dan Patrick Show fixtures in a noon-to-1 p.m. ET slot on NBC Sports NOW, picking up the moment Patrick’s…
Netflix set to broadcast Women’s World Cup draw live from Brazil in December
Netflix made a pretty big splash in late 2024 when the streaming service announced that it had won broadcast rights for the Women’s World Cup in 2027 and 2031. While the streamer has been slowly stretching its legs into sports coverage in recent years with a few select NFL games, a small MLB package, and…
Charles Barkley weighs in on state of the WNBA and transgender athlete debate
The WNBA has turned into a political football, and Enes Kanter Freedom’s stunt at Sunday’s game between the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky seemed to make it clear that that fact would not be changing any time soon. Speaking as a guest on Michael Smerconish’s radio show, Charles Barkley weighed in on the conversation surrounding…
Analysis shows F1 viewership on Apple TV down significantly from ESPN
With Formula One races making their way from ESPN to Apple TV this season, it was sensible to predict that the glitzy open-wheel racing circuit would see some viewership erosion in the United States. That’s not a dig at F1, that’s simply reality. ESPN and its sister broadcast network ABC, which aired select races last…
PGA Tour season-long viewership finishes a tick up from 2025
The PGA Tour season draws to a close this weekend with the Tour Championship, and it appears the tour will notch a slight viewership increase over last season. According to data published by Josh Carpenter in Sports Business Journal, the PGA Tour’s regular-season audiences averaged 2.5 million viewers across weekend telecasts on NBC and CBS…
Netflix reportedly in discussions with Fox, NBC to carry Fox One, Peacock
As the great re-bundling begins to take shape, Netflix has largely remained on the sidelines. The streaming giant has stood by the strength of its own programming as competitors like Amazon and YouTube have made considerable gains by offering access to other streaming services, be that directly within their respective apps or through a marketplace…
Just how valuable is it for a playoff series to go the distance?
If the 2025 World Series had ended in five games, the series would have averaged 12.78 million viewers. That is not a bad viewership number by any means, but it pales in comparison to the eventual do-or-die Game 7, which drew 26.88 million. That, in a nutshell, is the value of a deep series. And…
Herm Edwards rips NFL players that avoid playing in the preseason
Herm Edwards has a bone to pick with the current generation of NFL players, and it’s a lament that has been echoed by members of his own generation far and wide: No one wants to work anymore. For anyone working, it’s an easy enough argument to roll your eyes at. But in the world of…
Maple Leafs reportedly tab Joe Bowen’s successor in radio booth
The Toronto Maple Leafs are expected to name Todd Crocker as their new radio play-by-play voice, replacing the retired Joe Bowen alongside longtime analyst Jim Ralph, according to a report from the Toronto Star’s Jonah Sigel. Bowen announced last June that the 2025-26 season would be his last, closing out a 44-year run and more…
Please enjoy the Hindi call of Kyle Schwarber’s monster walk-off home run
The Philadelphia Phillies won their ninth straight game on Sunday thanks to a dramatic comeback in the final frame. Trailing 4–0 with two outs in the bottom of the ninth and a lone man on base, the back end of the Phillies’ lineup rallied. After a J.T. Realmuto single, a Justin Crawford walk, an Edmundo…
Kyle Brandt says Deshaun Watson’s comments should have ended career
The NFL world was shocked, but not surprised on Monday when Cleveland Browns head coach Todd Monken announced that Deshaun Watson would be the team’s starting quarterback in Week 1 against the Jacksonville Jaguars. The shock came from the fact that Watson had admonished Browns fans for booing him after another underwhelming preseason performance just…
Paige Bueckers on Apple TV UConn documentary: ‘Our team approved it’
It’s becoming quite rare these days for any sports documentary to get made without some level of editorial approval from the subjects themselves. Whether that means these projects should be called documentaries at all is certainly a discussion worth having. But there’s a real access problem in the sports documentary world right now. Athletes demand…
Disney offering longtime executives, including those at ESPN, early retirement packages
If any longtime ESPN executives were looking for a good time to retire, now might be it. In a memo to staff from Senior EVP and Chief People Officer Sonia Coleman on Monday, Disney announced a time-limited, company-sponsored Voluntary Early Retirement Offer (VERO) program that would give those eligible the opportunity to retire now with…
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