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Ron Darling amazes Gary Cohen with spot-on Brett Baty bold prediction
Given the amount of times we call out an announcer jinx here at Awful Announcing, it’s only fair that we give credit where it’s due when a bold call goes oh so right. Ahead of Monday night’s game between the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves, SNY color commentator Ron Darling made a call. “I’m…
Giants broadcaster Mike Krukow reveals most heartbreaking part of retirement announcement
Mike Krukow announced that he plans to retire from the broadcast booth at the end of the San Francisco Giants’ season. It’s the end of an era for San Francisco baseball, as Krukow has been with the team’s booth since 1990 and a full-time broadcaster with the team since 1994. The decision comes due to…
The media rights permutations of College Football Playoff expansion, explained
College Football Playoff expansion is back in the headlines. On Monday, administrators met to discuss potential expansion options for the CFP. Consultants met with the CFP committee virtually to go over media rights implications, television scheduling, revenue projections, NFL conflicts, the future of conference championship games, and numerous other second- and third-order effects of various…
NBA reveals Opening Night, Christmas Day slate for 2026-27 season
The NBA’s opening night and Christmas Day schedules for the 2026-27 season are set. The league announced Tuesday that the 2026-27 regular season will tip off Oct. 20 with an NBC/Peacock tripleheader, and the marquee window belongs to LeBron James in his first appearance as a member of the Philadelphia 76ers. The slate of games…
Field of 68 revives college basketball’s 24-hour tip-off marathon
The Field of 68 is reviving college basketball’s opening-day 24-hour marathon, nearly a decade after ESPN discontinued the event; ESPN launched the format in 2008, running 14 games across five time zones in its debut year and continuing the tradition for nine seasons before ending it in 2017. ESPN spokesperson Josh Krulewitz said at the…
DiJonai Carrington responds to Emmanuel Acho’s criticism of ‘white privilege’ post
DiJonai Carrington of the Chicago Sky traded posts on social media with former NFL player and current commentator Emmanuel Acho on Monday after she was ejected from Saturday’s WNBA game against the Indiana Fever. Carrington committed a hard foul against Fever guard Sophie Cunningham, and after a review, was assessed with a Flagrant 2 and…
Scott Van Pelt decries college football preseason rankings in transfer era: ‘You’re selling stories’
There is more player movement in college football these days than in most pro leagues, with huge portions of rosters turning over each summer thanks to less restrictive transfer rules and the allure of NIL money across the country. Despite the uncertainty around so many teams and how they will install new players, there is…
AI is even coming for sports journalism jobs in Madden 27
There’s a new Madden game coming out, and with it a new set of bells and whistles that will either delight or disappoint fans of the long-running franchise. It seems like this year’s game has some pretty big jumps in gameplay. There are timing-based catches that aim to add another level to battles for a…
Michael Wilbon: ESPN panicked over Michael Jordan joining NBA on NBC
Michael Jordan joining the NBA on NBC might not be what basketball fans were hoping for, but it was enough to put ESPN on edge. Michael Wilbon, who has known Jordan for more than 40 years, recently joined the Awful Announcing Podcast for a wide-ranging conversation discussing Pardon the Interruption, ESPN, Stephen A. Smith, and…
Michael Kay laments Yankee fans not showing up for Old-Timers’ Day: ‘It’s been a problem’
Michael Kay believes New York Yankees Old-Timers’ Day has been missing one important thing in recent years. And no, it’s not Derek Jeter; it’s the fans. After emceeing the 78th Old-Timers’ Day over the weekend, Kay used part of his Monday afternoon radio show on ESPN New York to lament that fans didn’t show up…
Sophie Cunningham reportedly shopping tell-all book
Sophine Cunningham said that she wants to “get back to basketball” amid a culture war firestorm engulfing the WNBA stemming that stemmed from her comments on transgender athletes. It sounds like that might be a temporary ask. According to Page Six Hollywood, the Indiana Fever player is currently “shopping [a] tell-all book.” Cunningham’s reps did…
NFL Network, NFL RedZone returning to Xfinity as Disney, Comcast settle dispute
Soon after ESPN took over ownership of NFL Media as part of an equity deal with the league, the NFL Network and linear RedZone Channel agreements with Comcast expired. As Disney took over at the negotiating table, the two sides couldn’t immediately reach a new deal, and the NFL channels went dark on Xfinity TV…
Fever coach Stephanie White praises team for not being ‘reactive’ to outsiders who ‘want to divide’ them
It was not long ago that NBA commissioner Adam Silver described Indiana Fever superstar Caitlin Clark as a “political football,” and the noise has arguably ratcheted up even since then. Clark and the Indiana Fever have, in August alone, become the faces of the debate around transgender athletes in America and have been forced to…
Kirk Herbstreit: Big Ten teams ‘more invested’ than SEC teams in NIL era
College football is abuzz about the continued recent dominance of the Big Ten over the SEC, especially after an unheralded Indiana squad won the national championship in 2026. And while many have pointed to the Big Ten’s three straight titles by three different teams in the conference, ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit believes the Big Ten’s advantage…
Stavros Halkias fronts new ESPN NFL ad campaign
Imagine telling yourself a decade ago that one of the chairs of Cum Town would end up doing a podcast for The Ringer — okay, fine, that one’s plausible — or fronting an ad campaign for the Worldwide Leader itself. Stavros Halkias probably still can’t picture the second one, but as a card-carrying member of…
Josh Pate: Tony Petitti has ‘fundamental lack of coherence’ about what makes college football great
College Football Playoff expansion is once again at the forefront of conversation as stakeholders meet Monday to hear presentations from consultants outlining the merits (and demerits) of several different proposals. The meeting is expected to go over media rights implications, potential scheduling conflicts, the future of conference championship games, the Army-Navy game, and much more.…
Sue Bird, Cheryl Miller urge WNBA to ‘stand up for their brand’ against culture war critics
Whatever hope there was of culture-war critics taking a week off in their narrative battle against the WNBA was dashed the moment DiJonai Carrington’s elbow made contact with Sophie Cunningham’s head on Saturday. The Indiana Fever-Chicago Sky game ended up providing several moments that critics and narrative drivers latched onto, including Carrington’s flagrant foul, her…
Stephen A. Smith urges WNBA to ‘take a stand’ against Republicans politicizing league: ‘Stop whining’
As the WNBA watches the right continue to hijack narratives around the sport for political gain, Stephen A. Smith is urging the league to take a stand. Last month, Smith posed the irrational question of, “What if an NBA player decided to transition to playing in the WNBA?” To be clear, there has never been…
Stephen A. Smith admits 2014 ESPN suspension for Ray Rice comments was a ‘devastating blow’
More than a decade removed from his one and only suspension from ESPN, Stephen A. Smith admits the punishment was a “devastating blow.” Smith was featured in the latest episode of What’s Your Story? With Steph McMahon, where he spoke about taking pride in the ability to learn from vulnerable moments. One of those moments…
7 million people tune in for Hall of Fame Game on NBC, Peacock
As usual, an obscene number of Americans tuned in for arguably the most meaningless NFL game of the year. NBC Sports announced that Thursday’s Hall of Fame Game between the Carolina Panthers and Arizona Cardinals averaged 7.0 million viewers across NBC and Peacock, a marginal 1% increase over last year’s game between the Los Angeles…
Katie Nolan: Karl Ravech’s loyalty to ESPN is ‘being exploited’
Katie Nolan didn’t get two weeks’ notice when FS1 canceled Crowd Goes Wild in 2014. As she would come to find out, networks saw little upside in handing a newly terminated employee a live microphone and a captive audience to settle scores on the way out the door. That’s why, even with the sheer callousness…
Katie Nolan: Karl Ravech’s loyalty to ESPN is ‘being exploited’
Katie Nolan didn’t get two weeks’ notice when FS1 canceled Crowd Goes Wild in 2014. As she would come to find out, networks saw little upside in handing a newly terminated employee a live microphone and a captive audience to settle scores on the way out the door. That’s why, even with the sheer callousness…
ESPN ‘socializing’ a 16-team CFP format with four play-in games, per report
College Football Playoff stakeholders are meeting virtually today to further discuss expansion and the second- and third-order effects that come along with it. And while much of the discussion over the past year and change has centered on whether the playoff should expand to 16 or 24 teams, it appears ESPN is floating yet another…
Bill Simmons would ‘bet anything’ on WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert being replaced
Bill Simmons believes commissioner Cathy Engelbert is the biggest problem in the WNBA, and he expects that problem to be resolved before next season. Despite boasting players who are both uniquely talented and marketable personalities leading to record ratings and popularity, the national conversation around the WNBA continues to be largely negative. The WNBA has…
ESPN will reportedly continue to simulcast first hour of WWE PLEs on linear networks, despite ‘SummerSlam’ absence
The second-biggest event on the WWE calendar, SummerSlam, came and went last weekend without any exposure on the ESPN family of networks. That decision came as a surprise to many wrestling fans, as ESPN has made a habit of airing a simulcast for WWE Premium Live Events (PLEs) since beginning a media rights deal with the…
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