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Brian Windhorst on a generational run connecting the dots for LeBron James’ free agency
LeBron James proved that he’s still the king; even at 41 years old, when news broke Tuesday that his eight-year tenure with the Los Angeles Lakers would be coming to a close, making him an unrestricted free agent for the fourth time in his career. Fans, analysts, and pundits have been left completely in the…
Mountain West announces eat-what-you-kill streamer, paying schools based on subscriptions driven
The Mountain West is finding a new way to reward schools that drive the most value for the conference. On Wednesday, the conference announced it is partnering with streaming technology company Kiswe to launch a direct-to-consumer streaming service, MW+, that will provide live coverage of Mountain West events that are not available via one of…
ESPN deletes Mike Pennel murder investigation story, admits it ‘contained errors’
ESPN has walked back its reporting on free-agent defensive lineman Mike Pennel and a homicide investigation in the Dominican Republic, admitting the most recent story “contained errors.” The saga started April 25, when ESPN first named Pennel a person of interest in the case, reporting that the remains of Carli Franchesca Guzmán Roche had been…
Kendrick Perkins calls out ‘snotty nose’ Rich Paul for ignoring him during LeBron James’s free agency: ‘We got a problem’
The NBA world was turned upside down on Tuesday when ESPN’s senior NBA insider, Shams Charania, broke the news that LeBron James would end his eight-year tenure with the Los Angeles Lakers, hitting the market as an unrestricted free agent for the fourth time in his storied career. “LeBron James is one of the greatest…
Stephen A. Smith: Pat McAfee ‘earned’ looming record deal, questions if opportunity would’ve come to a Black host first
Stephen A. Smith praised Pat McAfee’s looming ESPN contract as deserved, while questioning whether a Black personality in the same position would have ever been offered the same path to it. McAfee is reportedly in talks with ESPN on an extension worth $60 million to $65 million per year, which would make him the highest-paid…
The Athletic’s Dane Brugler reveals why he turned down Chiefs’ front office job
Dane Brugler is now locked in with The Athletic as the outlet’s lead NFL Draft analyst through the 2028 draft, but a decade ago, he came within a job offer of perhaps never writing about the draft professionally again. In a recent podcast appearance with Ari Meirov, Brugler detailed how a 2015 interview with the…
Paul Finebaum says he ‘would have sold my soul’ by running for Senate
Paul Finebaum has spent nearly 50 years building a career he never planned for, and on Wednesday, hours before receiving the Sports Media Lifetime Achievement Award at the Barrett Media Audio Summit, he detailed why he came close to leaving it all behind for a U.S. Senate campaign. The opportunity arrived last August, when Tommy…
Travelers Championship outdraws baseball after NBC sticks with golf
Despite a rain delay, the final round of the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship hit a 24-year high in its first year on NBC. The Sunday final round averaged 4.2 million viewers on NBC and Peacock. That includes pre-rain delay action from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., and post-rain delay coverage from 7:10 p.m. to 8:30…
UK government weighs intervention in Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount merger
The Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount merger has hit a potential roadblock after the UK government announced it is taking a closer look into the transaction. “Following engagement with the parties and independent research, my Department has today written to the current and proposed owners of Warner Bros. Discovery on my behalf to inform them that I…
Matt Miller’s charitable efforts face scrutiny amid life-threatening car crash
The sports media world was rocked last week when ESPN analyst Matt Miller tweeted he had lost an arm in a near-fatal car accident. Support for Miller poured in from all corners of the internet, and a GoFundMe posted by his sister-in-law was promoted by high-profile ESPN colleagues, with donations from Pat McAfee, Mina Kimes, and…
Sale of NBC Sports RSNs likely complicated by team ownership stakes, per report
It seemed inevitable whether Comcast opted to spin out NBCUniversal or not, but it appears as if the NBC Sports-branded regional sports networks are destined to unwind from the media company currently operating them. As was initially reported by Matt Gelb in The Athletic on Monday, the remaining NBC Sports Regional Networks are in flux…
A decade in, The Ringer is re-embracing the intimacy of Bill Simmons’ earliest work
When a viewer presses play on an episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast, newly available on Netflix since January, they are quickly hit with iconic catch phrases popularized by The Sports Guy over the course of his career: “Tyson Zone” “Body Language Doctor” “Ewing Theory” From Simmons’ early days at ESPN’s Page 2 and into…
NBA shakes up 2026 NBA Cup Final with move to Hinkle Fieldhouse and Friday slot
The NBA is making changes to the schedule and location for the NBA Cup Final. The NBA revealed today that the final will move to the 9,100-seat Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. The NBA Cup Final has been played in Las Vegas since the first edition in 2023. The game will also be moved from…
Yankees–Red Sox deliver Sunday Night Baseball’s biggest audience in 15 years
Viewership is in for the first New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox game on Sunday Night Baseball this season, and it is marking a 15-year high for the Sunday-night series. From the bottom of the fourth inning, when the game was joined in progress by NBC, the game averaged 4.0 million viewers on NBC and Peacock.…
Freddy, beloved German World Cup fan, deletes account after heartbreaking loss
This post was updated to add context from a report by David Covucci in FOIAball. German supporters left Boston shell-shocked on Monday after their World Cup squad fell to a scrappy Paraguay team in a penalty shootout during the Round of 32. The devastation, it seems, has broken even the team’s most optimistic and joyful…
Serena Williams declines post-match press conference after Wimbledon exit
At age 44, Serena Williams’ return to Wimbledon was short-lived. The seven-time Wimbledon champion lost in three sets to 20-year-old Australian Maya Joint in the first round of the Women’s Singles draw on Tuesday. Nobody was prepared to criticize Williams for her return, and rightfully so. She took a woman less than half her age…
‘SportsCenter’ anchor Gary Striewski’s video about interaction with Sahith Theegala’s fiancée got messy
The Travelers Championship took place last week in Cromwell, Connecticut, which is just a half hour from ESPN’s campus in Bristol. So it stood to reason that PGA Tour golfers and Worldwide Leader employees might find themselves in the same spaces. What we didn’t expect was that it would cause some messy social media drama.…
Dan Le Batard calls out Michael Strahan for not asking Chris Johnson if he thinks football caused his ALS
When former star NFL running back Chris Johnson shared the unfortunate details of his ALS diagnosis this week in an interview with Michael Strahan on Good Morning America, most viewers likely came away with a similar question. Did football cause it? Given the alarming rate at which former NFL players are diagnosed with neurological diseases, as…
Matt Belloni: Netflix should be ‘salivating’ over ‘Sunday Night Football’ rights amid NBC spinoff
Comcast announced plans this week to spin off NBCUniversal into its own, publicly traded company, and one Hollywood insider believes the move could have an immediate impact on NFL rights. Discussing the plans on his podcast The Town this week, Puck reporter Matt Belloni speculated that rival media companies are likely “salivating” over the prospect of…
Longtime Baltimore reporter and sports anchor Stan Saunders dies at 72
Longtime Baltimore reporter and weekend sports anchor Stan Saunders has died. Saunders was best known for his time at WJZ in Baltimore. He retired from the station in 2013. In a statement to WJZ, his family said Saunders was suffering from long COVID. “It turned into sarcoidosis and took its toll,” the family said in…
Oregonian columnist calls for ‘unrestrained fury’ over Blazers’ trade for Ja Morant
Portland’s acquisition of Ja Morant this week was one of the first big shocks of the NBA offseason, and a notable local commentator believes the deal threatens to return the Trail Blazers to the tragic fortunes of their “Jail Blazers” era two decades ago. In a piece at the Oregonian and an interview on SiriusXM…
Dave Portnoy alleges ESPN demanded Penn Entertainment fire him as condition of partnership
Barstool Sports has often used its status as a black-sheep little brother to ESPN to its advantage, but the most recent confrontation between the two companies nearly led to founder Dave Portnoy’s departure. As part of a promotional tour for his new book, Cancel Me If You Can, Portnoy shared that he nearly lost his job…
ESPN’s future is starting to look familiar
This originally appeared in Tuesday morning’s edition of The A Block, Awful Announcing’s daily newsletter with the latest sports media news, commentary, and analysis. Sign up here and be the first to know everything going on in the sports media world. In the early 2000s, Rich Eisen was one of the premier faces of SportsCenter, then-still ESPN’s…
Kirk Herbstreit is absolutely fed up with the Cincinnati Reds, baseball in general
Kirk Herbstreit is best known for his discussions around the world of college football and the NFL, but the longtime Cincinnati Reds fan can throw down about baseball as well. Herbie has been known to chop it up on social media about the state of his beloved Major League Baseball team, once getting into it…
Nearly 1,400 illegal World Cup streaming sites have ad revenue cut off in digital piracy fight
While the fight against piracy on the internet often feels like a fool’s errand, there’s one surefire way to affect those attempting to circumvent the rules: Turn off the money hose. Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG), a non-profit created by the global advertising industry to fight ad-related crime, says it’s pushed to deprive almost 1,400 illegal…
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