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FS1 earns rare month-long win over ESPN on back of World Cup viewership
FS1 earned a rare month-long victory over ESPN in primetime viewership during the month of June thanks to the strength of this year’s World Cup audience. Fox Sports 1 averaged 1.31 million viewers in primetime throughout the month of June, good for the second most-watched cable network of the month behind only sister channel Fox…
MLBPA negotiations threaten MLB players’ participation in 2028 Olympics
The World Baseball Classic has been an exciting showcase for baseball on the international stage, but some MLB players, including Bryce Harper, have lamented their inability to taste a gold medal on an Olympic podium. “I’ve been fighting for LA28 for a long time,” Harper said in March. “I think my whole career I’ve been…
Miami Heat reporter claims Tyler Herro has punchable face
Tyler Herro made headlines for being punched in the face by his former Miami Heat teammate Bam Adebayo, and one NBA reporter didn’t seem too surprised by the altercation. Longtime Heat beat reporter for the Sun Sentinel, Ira Winderman, recently appeared on the WQAM afternoon show Hochman, Crowder & Solana in Miami, where he discussed the altercation…
Harry Kane dismisses Thomas Tuchel-Jude Bellingham rift as media attempt to ‘create this division’
Harry Kane doesn’t think there’s anything to the Thomas Tuchel and Jude Bellingham story that the English media spent the weekend running with. Tuchel was blunt with ITV after England’s 2-1 extra-time win over Norway in Saturday’s World Cup quarterfinal, saying he wasn’t happy with the performance “in every sense” despite the result. Bellingham, who…
Barry Bonds calls Jordan Walker’s comeback ‘greatest Home Run Derby I’ve ever seen’
On Monday night, Netflix continued its venture into live baseball with its broadcast of the 2025 Home Run Derby from Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, PA. The Derby, which is basically batting practice with stakes for the best hitters in the sport, didn’t need much help to be entertaining. All the same, the streamer was…
Chris Russo rips ESPN for hyping Serena Williams at Wimbledon: ‘Got her ass handed to her’
Serena Williams’ star power had ESPN fawning over her return to Wimbledon, but Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo refused to be hoodwinked. At 44 years old, Williams returned from a long hiatus to play in her first professional singles match in nearly four years last month. She came back as a wild card, but just the…
Jon Gruden has play-by-play announcer ambitions
Jon Gruden wants to call NFL games instead of analyzing them. JoeBucsFan.com, which first reported the comments, indicated this isn’t just Gruden musing out loud, writing that he’s “not joking about a new broadcast role” and that a more formal announcement could be coming soon. “I was a broadcaster for nine years; hell’s bells,” Gruden…
Alex Rodriguez botches Justin Verlander’s career history in awkward interview
Alex Rodriguez had a rough go of it interviewing Justin Verlander ahead of the Home Run Derby. Rodriguez appeared to be setting up some kind of underdog redemption angle for Verlander, asking him, “How do you explain being a late draft pick, being designated for assignment a couple of times with two different teams?” Awkward…
Netflix labeled Jordan Walker ‘Home Run Derby Champion’ before he won
Nobody really expected Jordan Walker to win the 2026 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby, except for maybe Netflix. Walker wasn’t expected to come out on top when he entered the Derby with the third-longest odds to win, and he certainly wasn’t expected to win after Kyle Schwarber set the pace with 11 homers in…
Bruce Levine appears to accidentally post private message criticizing Cubs front office
It’s an exciting time to be a baseball fan in the Windy City. The White Sox are 50-45 at the All-Star break and in first place in the AL Central. Meanwhile, on the North Side, the Cubs are 54-42, good for the top Wild Card spot in the NL. The Cubs entered the season with…
The Athletic is setting new high-water marks with ambitious coverage of home-soil World Cup
Shortly after the Trump administration’s successful efforts to lobby FIFA to reinstate USMNT star Folarin Balogun over Fourth of July weekend, The Athletic published a scoop on the ruling. Longtime reporters Adam Crafton and Dan Sheldon broke the news of Balogun’s reinstatement hours before the U.S. faced Belgium in the Round of 16, a story…
Tim Hardaway Sr. thinks active NBA players shouldn’t have podcasts
Former NBA star Tim Hardaway Sr. doesn’t think it’s wise for active NBA players to have their own podcasts or host livestreams. Hardaway co-hosts the Crossover Podcast with former NBA player Lindsay Hunter, and on a recent edition of the program, he explained how former NBA commissioner David Stern would have said “HELL NO” to…
Paul Skenes caught off guard by reporter’s ‘future Yankee’ comment
Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes had a media session at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on Monday, shortly before the 2026 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby, and one day ahead of the MLB All-Star Game. Skenes was named to the National League All-Star team for the third time in his three big-league seasons, and…
Warren Sharp shares his boldest 2026 NFL predictions
Believe it or not, NFL training camps start next week, with the rookies for the defending champion Seattle Seahawks arriving on July 17. From there, it’s a gradual buildup to Week One of the regular season, which kicks off with the Super Bowl rematch between the Seahawks and the New England Patriots in Seattle. To…
Ion secures media rights deal for Women’s Volleyball World Cup
Ion is continuing to grow its women’s sports portfolio, this time with one of the marquee events on the international volleyball calendar. The Scripps-owned broadcast network will air the 2027 FIVB Women’s Volleyball World Cup in August and September of next year, the company announced on Tuesday. The World Cup serves as a qualifying event…
TV and streaming viewing picks for July 14, 2026: How to watch MLB All-Star Game and France-Spain
All Times Eastern College Baseball USA Baseball World Collegiate Baseball Championship Finals, Taichung City Intercontinental Baseball Stadium, Taichung City, Taiwan Third Place Game — MLB.com, 12:30 a.m. (Wednesday) Final — MLB Network, 6:30 a.m. (Wednesday) College Basketball College Basketball Talk — CBS Sports Network, noon College Football College Football Live — ESPN2, 2 p.m. FIFA…
Netflix fixed the Home Run Derby’s biggest problem and created a new one
Netflix’s second crack at live baseball came with a built-in advantage: the Home Run Derby doesn’t need much help to be entertaining. Strip away the ceremony, and it’s just batting practice with stakes, and this year, MLB handed the streamer a genuine upgrade by scrapping the countdown clock in favor of a format that lets hitters keep…
Netflix viewers didn’t like Will Ferrell-led commentary to open MLB Home Run Derby
The 2026 MLB Home Run Derby is on Netflix, and quite predictably, that’s led to Netflix going all in to promote its additional current and future content offerings. And with The Hawk — a Netflix comedy series starring Will Ferrell as Lonnie “The Hawk” Hawkins — set to premiere on July 16, Netflix even had…
Chuck Klosterman predicts Sophie Cunningham will be a U.S. Vice President nominee by 2050
Sophie Cunningham has seen her star rise considerably since hopping on the Indiana Fever train. The former University of Missouri star turned WNBA enforcer has started a podcast, joined USA Network as an active player analyst, become a meme, and most recently, worked as a UFC ring girl. Cunningham is also completely comfortable speaking out…
Derek Jeter reminds Colin Cowherd of awkward interview gaffe
Derek Jeter may never let Colin Cowherd off the hook. After Jeter’s first appearance on The Herd around the All-Star Game in 2024, the veteran radio host went viral after misremembering the timeline of Jeter’s legendary career. During the interview, Cowherd asked Jeter what it was like to face Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan on…
James Brown not ready to retire from CBS’s ‘The NFL Today’
At 75, James Brown readily concedes that “you don’t do this forever.” He just isn’t acting like a man in any hurry to find out when forever ends. Brown told Sports Business Journal that he’s nowhere near spending his afternoons by the pool in his manicured backyard, joking that he never even learned to swim.…
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…
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