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Stugotz isn’t buying the Deshaun Watson redemption narrative: ‘He is not an inspiration’
After five years of stops and starts, Deshaun Watson once again looks like a capable NFL quarterback, and the media faces a challenge in covering the re-emergence of a man with an ugly off-field history. Watson faced allegations dating back to 2020, primarily from massage therapists who said he abused them during sessions. The quarterback…
Braiden Bell ‘deeply sorry’ for old tweets that cost him Blazers announcer job
It stands to reason most NBA fans didn’t know who Braiden Bell was before Thursday morning, when he was announced as the new TV play-by-play voice of the Portland Trail Blazers. Unfortunately, they knew his name by Thursday evening, when the NBA franchise announced it was moving on from Bell after discovering several offensive social…
NBA reporter issues statement to clear name from Kings hot mic incident
After multiple reporters were caught on a hot mic judging the attractiveness of certain Sacramento Kings players, one person is clearing their name of speculation. The Kings officially launched the 2026-27 NBA season with their annual Media Day event this week, giving reporters access to players and coaches. Sacramento NBC affiliate KCRA was one of…
Don’t cry for Tony Romo, his comeback will be incredibly easy
The decision we were all waiting for came down on Friday: Tony Romo’s time as an NFL announcer with CBS Sports is over. “CBS Sports and Tony Romo have mutually agreed to part ways. We thank Tony for his contributions over the past nine years and wish him the best moving forward,” a network’s statement…
YouTube preparing for NFL to potentially ‘deconstruct’ Sunday Ticket under next rights deal
So far, YouTube’s most prominent foray into live sports has been its takeover of NFL Sunday Ticket. The $2 billion annual deal later gave way to a one-off Week 1 game in 2025, but YouTube has thus far held off on other big packages. This season, YouTube reportedly backed out of talks with the NFL…
Mike Tomlin didn’t realize his Minecraft city would be this big of a deal
Mike Tomlin’s first year as a broadcaster seems to be going pretty well. He’s a natural fit with the Football Night in America team through three weeks of the season, and he’s even had the chance to share some of the simple pleasures of his life outside of football with the world. One of those…
John Schriffen’s future as White Sox TV voice reportedly up in the air
The White Sox are headed to the Division Series, but the voice who narrated their unlikely climb back to relevance on local television may not return to call next season. John Schriffen’s contract as the team’s TV play-by-play announcer expires at the end of the year, and according to Front Office Sports’ Ryan Glasspiegel, there…
Charles Barkley faults Donald Trump for making racists feel comfortable: ‘You used to have to hide it’
Charles Barkley believes Donald Trump gets away with making offensive comments because he gave racists a green light to say offensive things. Barkley joined a recent episode of The Chris Cuomo Project where they discussed Trump’s treatment of the media. Cuomo asked specifically about the incident where Trump yelled “Quiet, piggy!” when Bloomberg’s White House…
Braves pitcher Ray Kerr couldn’t stop dropping F-bombs after Wild Card win vs. Phillies
The Atlanta Braves advanced to the NLDS on Thursday night with a 6–2 win over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 3 of their Wild Card series. One of several heroes on the night for the Braves was pitcher Ray Kerr, who started the game and pitched three shutout innings before getting pulled to a standing…
Jim Palmer says Orioles manager brushed off his advice after ignoring text for months
Jim Palmer has spent more than six decades in and around the Orioles, and apparently that still isn’t enough to get a text back from the team’s new manager. Appearing on the Bmore Sports Podcast, the Hall of Famer and MASN analyst recounted reaching out to first-year Orioles manager Craig Albernaz in February with a…
Mike McCarthy wishes he didn’t get caught calling Aaron Rodgers a ‘f*cking a**hole’
What happens on the field between Mike McCarthy and Aaron Rodgers stays on the field, except when it gets picked up by the broadcast and shared with the world. That’s what happened Thursday night, when Rodgers and McCarthy were seen trading expletives during the Pittsburgh Steelers’ loss to the Cleveland Browns. In the first quarter,…
Wes Durham steps in for Dave Pasch on ESPN’s Notre Dame-UNC broadcast
Wes Durham is getting a promotion this weekend, courtesy of the NFL. With Dave Pasch bound for London to call Colts-Commanders for NFL Network, Durham has been tapped to fill in on ESPN’s noon broadcast of Notre Dame-North Carolina on Saturday, stepping into a booth alongside Pasch’s regular college football partners, analyst Dusty Dvoracek and…
Tony Romo issues statement after split with CBS Sports
Tony Romo is officially out of the CBS Sports broadcast booth. Romo had been placed on indefinite leave from his role in the network’s No. 1 NFL broadcast team alongside Jim Nantz after he was arrested for OWI in Wisconsin over the summer. On Friday, CBS issued a statement announcing that Romo’s leave would be…
Tony Romo out at CBS Sports
Tony Romo’s leave from CBS Sports is now permanent. CBS announced the split Friday, ending Romo’s tenure as the network’s top NFL analyst a little over two months after his OWI arrest in Milwaukee. Romo hasn’t called a game this season, and his absence left CBS without the analyst it had built its NFL coverage…
J.J. Watt says calling Cowboys-Ravens was ‘as close as you can get to playing’
J.J. Watt’s biggest broadcast to date drew plenty of critics, but Dan Patrick wasn’t one of them. Appearing on The Dan Patrick Show this week, the NFL on CBS analyst was greeted with a compliment from the host, who said Watt had matched the noise and energy of the crowd during Sunday’s Cowboys-Ravens game in…
Kirk Herbstreit invokes ‘Browns-on-Browns crime’ during Prime Video broadcast
Kirk Herbstreit didn’t say anything wrong by calling out “Browns-on-Browns crime,” but it was still an interesting choice of words. Herbstreit and Al Michaels were on the call for Thursday night’s matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns on Prime. During the somewhat touchy broadcast, because of the cloud cast over the game by Deshaun Watson,…
Cam Newton rips Skip Bayless over end of ‘Undisputed’ after Bayless blames FS1 for breakup with Shannon Sharpe
The long-awaited reunion between former Undisputed hosts Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe finally came this week, and both former colleagues blamed FS1 for their breakup, despite many contrary comments from Sharpe in the three years since he left the network. It was a polite make-up between two of sports media’s most notorious recent enemies, but didn’t…
Tony Gonzalez, Prime Video go all in on rehabilitating Deshaun Watson’s reputation
Prime Video spent most of Thursday night treating Deshaun Watson’s season as a redemption story, and by the postgame show, Tony Gonzalez was ready to write the happy ending. Between Taylor Rooks pressing Watson on the skepticism Browns fans still feel toward him and Al Michaels waving off “the whole Deshaun Watson thing” as a…
Jack Hughes skates away from awkward interview with ESPN’s AJ Mleczko
New Jersey Devils star center Jack Hughes didn’t appreciate questions about his health and injuries last season, and he doesn’t appreciate jokes about it now. The Devils opened their 2026-27 NHL campaign against the Philadelphia Flyers at Prudential Center in Newark. In the first intermission, Hughes hung back for an interview with ESPN’s AJ Mleczko.…
The WNBA cashed in on new TV deals, now fans are paying the price
2026 has been a banner year for the WNBA. Not only is viewership at record highs, most recently outperforming NHL and MLB games on ESPN, but the value of the league has never been higher. The league’s new media-rights agreements are worth roughly $3.1 billion over 11 years—about six times the annual value of its…
Milwaukee Bucks join NBA’s in-house streamer, partly because of Giannis Antetokounmpo trade
The Milwaukee Bucks have become the second NBA franchise to join the league’s in-house streaming platform, joining the Oklahoma City Thunder. Rather than shifting its local broadcast streaming option to DAZN, like many other former FanDuel Sports Network teams have opted to do this offseason, the Bucks partnered with the league to launch Bucks+, where…
TV and streaming viewing picks for October 2, 2026: How to watch WNBA Playoffs
All Times Eastern Australian Rules Football AFL Women’s — Round 8 Greater Western Sydney Giants vs. Essendon Bombers — Fox Soccer Plus, 11 p.m. Western Bulldogs vs. St. Kilda Saints — FS2/Fox One, 1 a.m. (Saturday) Brisbane Lions vs. Gold Coast Suns — FS2/Fox One, 3 a.m. (Saturday) Port Adelaide Power vs. Adelaide Crows —…
Trail Blazers fire Braiden Bell in less than a day over resurfaced social media posts
On Thursday, Joe Freeman of The Oregonian and Oregon Live reported that the Portland Trail Blazers planned to hire Braiden Bell as the team’s new television play-by-play announcer. By Thursday night, the Trail Blazers announced that Bell, formerly a broadcaster for the Phoenix Mercury, would not be moving forward in the role after concerning, years-old social…
Al Michaels, Kirk Herbstreit offer simplistic evaluation of Deshaun Watson’s comeback in Cleveland
Deshaun Watson and the Cleveland Browns were back on Prime Video this week for Thursday Night Football, and the streamer’s broadcast team again offered a simplistic take on the beleaguered quarterback’s comeback. During the preseason, Prime’s Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit pressed for Watson’s “second chance.” The veteran Michaels described the nearly two dozen sexual misconduct…
Aaron Rodgers, Mike McCarthy get into screaming match during Steelers-Browns game
On Sept. 20, the Pittsburgh Steelers lost to the New England Patriots by 17 points, and quarterback Aaron Rodgers delivered a backhanded assessment of head coach Mike McCarthy’s game plan. “In a game like today where there wasn’t a lot of flow to it, we need to be better, and it starts with me,” Rodgers…
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