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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…
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…
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