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NBA podcaster Nate Duncan calls Gary Trent Jr. contract ‘obvious’ salary cap circumvention
One of the stranger deals of the NBA offseason emerged over the weekend when Milwaukee gave reserve guard Gary Trent Jr. $64 million guaranteed over four years. The deal drew a sarcastic tweet from Bill Simmons calling it a “steal” and added to a miserable summer for Bucks fans, who just saw the franchise trade…
NBC leads MLB viewership as baseball posts strong midseason ratings
The Major League Baseball season is approaching the All-Star Break, and baseball is seeing strong viewership midway through the season. NBC is leading the way in terms of baseball viewership, as it replaces ESPN for the rights to Opening Day and Sunday Night Baseball. Games on NBC are averaging 2.25 million viewers according to Nielsen…
FIFA reportedly mandates shots of high-profile attendees during each half of World Cup matches
You might’ve noticed that this year’s World Cup broadcasts have featured a heavy dose of on-screen cameos from celebrities, politicians, and the omnipresent FIFA president Gianni Infantino. And that’s by design. According to a recent report by Adam Crafton in The Athletic, FIFA mandate that its production partner, Host Broadcast Services, the company that produces…
Hydration breaks will be ‘key topic’ in future soccer media rights negotiations, per report
Many predicted after FIFA implemented mandatory hydration breaks for this summer’s World Cup, it would be impossible to put that genie back in the bottle. It appears those fears were well-reasoned. In a report filed Monday about the future of hydration breaks in the sport of soccer, ESPN’s Ben Strauss writes that the mid-half stoppages…
Jalen Rose takes apparent shot at Stephen A. Smith: ‘Most phony thing’
No one is better at indirectly calling Stephen A. Smith out for something he said than Jalen Rose, and he appears to be at it again. Smith might be on summer vacation from First Take, but that hasn’t stopped him from picking fights. Last week, Smith ignited a feud with Draymond Green and Jemele Hill…
California leads antitrust lawsuit seeking to stop Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery deal
California’s attorney general is leading a coalition of 12 states in a lawsuit seeking to block Paramount’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on antitrust grounds. “An independent Warner Bros. limits Paramount’s bargaining leverage,” the lawsuit reads. “The merger will end this competition permanently. The likely result is higher prices, lower quality, and less content…
Report: ESPN ends syndicated ‘Good Morning Football’ show amid soft ratings
ESPN has ended the syndicated version of Good Morning Football. The syndicated program, GMFB: Overtime, launched in August 2024, but will cease production now that NFL Network is operating under ESPN ownership, according to a report by Front Office Sports. The show was distributed by Sony Pictures to many over-the-air affiliates across the country, in…
Pat McAfee divulges on attending Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce wedding
If anyone has any doubts about Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, take it from Pat McAfee that their love is real, and it’s spectacular. We’re more than a week removed from the American version of a royal wedding, but details about the night Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got hitched at Madison Square Garden remain…
Peter Kafka: ‘CBS and Fox’s primary reason to exist is to distribute football’
Cord-cutting has fundamentally changed how Americans consume television, making live sports — especially the NFL — more valuable than ever for broadcast networks. That is the opinion of Peter Kafka, chief correspondent at Business Insider, who discussed the future of broadcast television on Decoder, a podcast from The Verge. “CBS and Fox, in particular, their…
MLS unveils World Cup marketing push as Fox showcases league
Major League Soccer has revealed its plans to build on the success of the World Cup as the global soccer tournament reaches its conclusion. The plans include an ad campaign and nationally televised games on Fox during the World Cup, but they do not address the league’s broader television distribution. During the semifinals and final…
Brett Okamoto says identical prediction of potential Mayweather-McGregor fight was a joke with Oscar Willis
Two prominent combat sports reporters bizarrely made the exact same prediction about an unannounced boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor at the exact same time early Sunday morning, posting near-identical tweets that raised suspicion among followers. At 3:27 a.m. ET on Monday morning, both ESPN MMA reporter Brett Okamoto and Oscar Willis,…
Danny Green ‘really disappointed’ by Spurs’ decision to fire Jacob Tobey over affair allegation
Danny Green thinks the Spurs badly misjudged their handling of Jacob Tobey. Tobey, the television play-by-play voice of the San Antonio Spurs since 2024, was reportedly stripped of his post amid allegations of an affair with Loren Waters, sister of Spurs player Lindy Waters III. The scandal ignited after an Instagram story surfaced on Tobey’s…
Jeff Passan predicts new-look MLB Home Run Derby is ‘gonna stink’
If you’re going to watch the MLB Home Run Derby on Netflix Monday night, you’re probably not doing it because of a sales pitch from Jeff Passan. For the first time since 1994, the Home Run Derby won’t be on ESPN, and for the first time since 2014, the new-look Derby won’t feature a swing…
Mike Golic Jr. says ESPN return carries more weight for his father: ‘A little more complicated’
Mike Golic Sr. and Mike Golic Jr. are set to debut The Golics on ESPN Radio on Aug. 3, six years after the network parted ways with Golic Sr. and four years after Golic Jr. left to join him full-time. The new show airs weekdays from 10 a.m. to noon ET and was announced in…
Gary Cohen sick and tired of hearing about the Boston Red Sox travel woes: ‘Get a grip’
The Boston Red Sox endured highly publicized air travel issues ahead of their 6-2 win over the New York Mets last Friday night, and Gary Cohen was not impressed. Mechanical issues on their team plane grounded the Red Sox for nearly 24 hours as they attempted to get from Chicago to New York last week.…
Sports, not movies, are the summer blockbuster of 2026
Hollywood has made its decision. Movies aren’t over. Plenty are still being made, but it’s clear that entertainment companies are increasingly looking to sports to anchor their content strategies. It’s summer. That used to mean that every second of advertising time and every casual conversation at the office was dedicated to the biggest movies. This…
Tony Romo says nearly a decade away from NFL hasn’t required much adjustment: ‘The game is not rocket science’
It’s been a rough few years to be Tony Romo, and the last several months haven’t done much to reverse the tide. The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback arrived at CBS in 2017 as a genuine revelation, predicting plays before they happened, injecting a jolt of life into a booth that had grown stale under Phil…
For Robert Flores, a decade at MLB Network has been ‘so rewarding’
Robert Flores has been at MLB Network almost as long as he was at ESPN. The former SportsCenter anchor who left ESPN in 2016 is now better known as one of MLB Network’s on-air personalities and as a voice for the MLB The Show video game series. Flores co-hosts MLB Central with Mark DeRosa and…
Tony Reali launching ‘Real Deal,’ a sports culture podcast with iHeartPodcasts
Tony Reali has his next act. More than a year after Around the Horn ended its run on ESPN, the longtime host is debuting Real Deal with Tony Reali on Tuesday, July 14, on iHeartPodcasts, distributed by his own Real Ones Media, with new episodes releasing every Tuesday. Each week, Reali and a rotating cast…
Andy Roddick’s Wimbledon analysis proves it’s time for the McEnroe era at ESPN to end
As ESPN wrapped up its Wimbledon coverage on Sunday, host Malika Andrews asked Andy Roddick some questions about the sport’s future. The questions and answers aren’t that important–whether Serena will play the U.S. Open, whether Carlos Alcaraz will return, and whether anyone can beat Jannik Sinner. What jumped out to me is that as she…
TV and streaming viewing picks for July 13, 2026: How to watch MLB Home Run Derby
All Times Eastern College Football College Football Live — ESPN2, 2 p.m. Cycling Tour de France Announcers: Phil Liggett/Bob Roll//Steve Porino//Christian Vande Velde Stage 10: Aurillac to Le Lioran — NBCSN/Peacock, 6:30 a.m. (Tuesday) FIFA World Cup El Mundial: Rumbo a la gran final — Telemundo, 1 p.m. En casa con Telemundo: Edición Mundial —…
Knoxville Smokies reporter finishes hot dog review as home run leaves the park
The best baseball commentary can be both entertaining and informative, and Knoxville Smokies reporter Philip Stalzer found a moment to, perhaps unintentionally, inject some humor into a recent broadcast when a player hit a home run while he was doing a report about ballpark hot dogs. The Smokies, the Double-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs,…
Dana White offers bizarre defense of Conor McGregor’s health status by citing social media views
UFC CEO Dana White got a bit defensive after accusations surfaced on Saturday night that star fighter Conor McGregor, who was making his return to the octagon after a five-year absence, had been injured prior to his fight with Max Holloway to headline UFC 329 in Las Vegas. McGregor lost to Holloway via TKO 69…
Andy Roddick’s Wimbledon TV debut shows networks need to embrace the solo act
The one person no one can stop talking about as another Wimbledon was etched into the history books on Sunday wasn’t Jannik Sinner or Linda Nosková, who won the men’s and women’s singles championships, respectively. It seems that, at least for the media freaks who care about how sports are broadcast on television, no one…
‘Ted Lasso’ star Cristo Fernández makes professional soccer debut at age 35
Actor Cristo Fernández, best known for playing Dani Rojas in Ted Lasso on Apple TV, has made a bit of a career shift. Fernández just made his professional soccer debut with USL Championship club El Paso Locomotive. Fernández was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and grew up playing soccer. He played lower-level soccer in Mexico and…
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