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Awful Announcing’s 2026 streaming service rankings for sports fans
Welcome to Awful Announcing’s second annual streaming service rankings for sports fans. Streamers play an ever-increasing role in sports fans’ lives, and each service offers varying value for money. More sports programming continues to shift from linear television to streaming, and streaming service prices continue to rise as a result. As such, our rankings have…
NBC’s Joey Votto claims he’s a ‘nacho virgin’
During the Sunday Night Baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, the NBC broadcast booth talked about nachos. And NBC analyst Joey Votto said that he’s never had nachos in his “entire life,” which play-by-play announcer Jason Benetti couldn’t believe. The NBC cameras captured fans in the stands eating…
The gutting of tennis media needs to be addressed sooner rather than later
I started covering tennis – well, at least the business of tennis – in 1998, when I helped launch Sports Business Journal. And until I left in 2019, I was likely the only reporter on the planet who had a beat covering the business of tennis. (I covered the NFL and finance too, as, especially…
‘Bet The Board’ with Todd Fuhrman, Payne Insider returns as part of Clay Travis’ Sport & State
After founding, building, and eventually selling OutKick, Clay Travis recently launched his new venture, Sport & State. In his column welcoming readers to Sport & State, Travis explained, “My vision for this site is 70% sports, 15% pop culture, and 15% where politics intersects with sports.” On Sunday night, Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports…
Prediction: A Pat McAfee song will replace ‘Comin’ to Your City’ on ‘College GameDay’
With all due respect to Jimmy Pitaro, in the public’s mind, Pat McAfee runs ESPN. His show commands a giant licensing fee. His complaints and paranoia led to the ouster of one of the network’s longest-tenured leaders. He can basically call his own shot in Bristol. McAfee takes advantage of that status, and to be…
TV and streaming viewing picks for August 31, 2026: How to watch MLB tonight
All Times Eastern College Football Louisville Football Press Conference — ACC Network Extra, 11 a.m. Mississippi State Football Press Conference — SEC Network Plus, 11:15 a.m. SEC Now: Open Mic — SEC Network, noon Central Florida Press Conference — ESPN+, noon K.C. Keeler (Temple) Weekly Press Conference — ESPN+, noon Georgia Football Press Conference —…
USC issues statement on poor home opener attendance after images of empty LA Coliseum go viral
It seems that everyone has now seen pictures of a barren Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for USC’s home opener against the San Jose State Spartans on Saturday. In fact, the poor attendance for Lincoln Riley’s Trojan squad got so much attention that the university itself felt the need to issue a statement in response. In…
ESPN honors Karl Ravech during final broadcast of Little League World Series
Karl Ravech is getting his official swan song on Sunday. After calling his final MLB game for ESPN last week, Ravech is calling his final broadcast, period, for the network that laid him off last month. Ravech is ending his ESPN tenure in the same place where he’s spent late summer days for the past…
LIV Golf notches slight viewership increase in funding-crisis-shortened season
LIV Golf just closed out its final season as the deep-pocketed PGA Tour challenger that just a few short years ago had the world of men’s professional golf in a tizzy. But now, with its Saudi benefactors cutting bait and the league attempting to secure funding from private investors to save what little remains, LIV…
Stephen Curry documentary set for exclusive IMAX release
A new documentary centered on Stephen Curry’s record-breaking 4,000th career three-pointer will hit IMAX theaters exclusively on Oct. 9, ESPN Films and IMAX announced Thursday. The film, Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry, directed by Gotham Chopra, co-founder of Religion of Sports, centers on the Warriors’ 130-104 win over the Sacramento Kings at Chase Center…
Kirk Herbstreit shares ‘secret’ postcoital maneuver to ensure wife had all boys
Some fathers are proud #GirlDads, but others would prefer to raise a cohort of Jimmys, Johns, Chads, and Brads. Nothing wrong with that, everyone has preferences. But few fathers-to-be will go to the lengths that ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit and his wife apparently went through to ensure their four children came out with…
Oregon’s game against Portland State will stream free in Japan
Oregon’s game against Portland State on Sept. 18 will be free to watch for fans in Japan and elsewhere outside the U.S., as part of a new content push between the school, Big Ten Network, and DAZN announced earlier this week. Dan Lanning’s program is also sending DAZN its weekly in-season series Ducks v. Them…
‘Untold’ director hired a private investigator to try to track down Vince Young’s father
The nature of the sports documentary business is that you’re never going to get everyone to sit down for an interview. Sometimes it’s about money. Sometimes people just don’t want to talk. And if all the money in the world existed for John Henion, director of Netflix’s Untold: The Testimony of Vince Young, he would…
ESPN reporter defends gambling addiction article
This week, ESPN published a lengthy feature telling the story of a 20-year-old who developed a debilitating gambling addiction while at college. The article itself was a well-written cautionary tale about the pitfalls of sports gambling and how young adults can be particularly vulnerable. However, it also drew criticism for the inescapable irony that ESPN,…
Tom McCarthy opens up on working with new partner Robert Turbin in reworked CBS booth
Tony Romo’s arrest set off a chain reaction across CBS’s NFL booths this offseason, and Robert Turbin was one of several new faces who landed a seat as a result. Turbin, already a color commentator for CBS Sports Network on college football games, will make his NFL broadcasting debut in Week 1 when the Cleveland…
Adam Wainwright and A.J. Pierzynski confounded by Yankees chicken wing ice cream
Baseball announcers tend to enjoy their time in the booth, often sampling tasty treats from the home stadium or local businesses. Such was the case on Saturday with Adam Wainwright and A.J. Pierzynski on the call for Fox as the New York Yankees hosted the Boston Red Sox. Wainwright and Pierzynski tried out the Yankee…
Cubs announcer Boog Sciambi gives Pete Crow-Armstrong MVP honors on third home run call
Pete Crow-Armstrong made another strong case for himself being named NL MVP this year with a monster performance at the plate on Saturday. PCA hit three home runs out of the park at Wrigley Field to help the Chicago Cubs to a 17–5 win over the Cincinnati Reds. While Crow-Armstrong remains in what is essentially…
Sale prices for top sports documentaries cut nearly in half since early 2020s
Starting with The Last Dance, the 2020s have seen a boom in sports documentaries. After ESPN’s Michael Jordan project, hits like Drive To Survive, new Hard Knocks series and Welcome To Wrexham got streamers in on the action. With more distributors than ever and audiences consistently responding to sports stories, big new projects emerged regularly. That has begun to…
TV and streaming viewing picks for August 30, 2026: How to watch US Open, Day 1
All Times Eastern Baseball Women’s Pro Baseball League New York vs. San Francisco — Scripps Sports Network/ESPN+, 7:30 p.m. Bundesliga Matchday 1 Announcers — Universo/Peacock: José Luis López Salido/Jorge Calvo Sport-Club Freiburg vs. SV Werder Bremen — Universo/Peacock, 9:25 a.m.//Fandango, 9:30 a.m. Fútbol estelar — Universo, 9 a.m. Fútbol estelar — Universo, 11:30 a.m. Announcers…
Brian Kelly made his booth debut as a college football analyst, and everyone made the same joke
It was a night of debuts in Fargo, North Dakota, on Saturday. On the field, the North Dakota State Bison were playing in their first game at the FBS level, hosting the Jacksonville State Gamecocks at the FargoDome. Meanwhile, up in the CBS Sports Network broadcast booth, former Notre Dame and LSU coach Brian Kelly…
Bob Ryan calls for an end to all in-game interviews
Bob Ryan has seen a lot of sports in his more than five decades as a reporter, and there is apparently one particular aspect of broadcasts that he has seen enough — the in-game interview. On Friday night, Ryan posted on social media that he believed it was time for the in-game interview to end…
Blue Jays’ announcer Buck Martinez inducted into team’s new Hall of Excellence
Buck Martinez, the former player, manager, and longtime announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays, was one of the first members inducted into the team’s new Hall of Excellence on Saturday ahead of their game against the Seattle Mariners. The Hall of Excellence is a refreshed edition of the team’s previous Level of Excellence, which was…
Longtime Oregon State radio voice Darrell Aune dies at 83
Longtime Oregon State radio play-by-play announcer Darrell Aune has died. Aune, best known for his catchphrase “Holy jumping up and down, Martha!,” served as the Oregon State football and men’s basketball play-by-play radio announcer for 29 years, primarily for KEX-AM, beginning in 1970. With Oregon State, Aune was named Oregon Sportscaster of the Year 12…
ESPN’s college football scorebug now shows which announcer is talking
ESPN has made another change to its college football scorebug, highlighting which commentator is talking, a move that models a change to the network’s UFL scorebug from this spring. When active, the bug shows the names of the commentators at the bottom, including the sideline reporter and rules analyst. When a person speaks, their name…
Bill Belichick shows uncharacteristic emotion on ESPN broadcast after UNC beats TCU
Bill Belichick is approaching the one-year anniversary of his heinous college football head coaching debut. Belichick’s North Carolina Tar Heels lost 48-14 to the TCU Horned Frogs on Sept. 1, 2025, and reminders of his face-plant followed him throughout UNC’s failed 4-8 season. North Carolina and TCU ran it back for the 2026 season opener,…
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