It was the most anticipated premiere since the debut of American Idol or Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Of course we’re not talking about a new show or series. We’re talking about Mike Tomlin and his Minecraft build. The world was stunned when Tomlin casually admitted in an interview with new NBC colleague Craig…

Dan Lanning is doing his best Bill Belichick impression with the local Oregon media when it comes to any more talk about Dante Moore and his injury against the USC Trojans. He’s on to UCLA. Lanning has never been shy when it comes to the media and sharing his viewpoint. After the game he called…

The Indiana Fever and superstar point guard Caitlin Clark evened their first-round playoff series against the Las Vegas Aces on Tuesday night with a 99-89 win in Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Unfortunately, the game was overshadowed by a heated exchange between Aces forward A’ja Wilson, the reigning WNBA MVP, and an Indiana fan in the fourth quarter.…

Mike Tomlin does not seem like a man destined to return to the sidelines. The longtime Pittsburgh Steelers head coach and current NBC Sports NFL studio analyst has made abundantly clear that he’s enjoying the freedoms afforded to him with his new job. No longer is he up all night grinding tape, preparing for his…

Perhaps no interview ever conducted on ESPN’s flagship college football studio show College GameDay has resulted in more scrutiny than the one conducted with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) earlier this month before an Ohio State-Texas game in Austin. The scrutiny has been justified. Host Rece Davis, more or less, gave Cruz 10 minutes of airtime to…

It seems as if a 24-team College Football Playoff is moving from likely to inevitable. According to a report by Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger, the 24-team playoff is now seemingly a “foregone conclusion” as the sport’s leaders meet outside of Chicago to discuss logistics, including scheduling hurdles, for the expanded format. Earlier this month, CFP…

After former ESPN employee turned investigative podcaster Pablo Torre first broke the story of potential salary-cap circumvention by the Los Angeles Clippers in the franchise’s signing of star forward Kawhi Leonard on his show Pablo Torre Finds Out last summer, the NBA opened up an investigation of its own into the matter. Ultimately, the league…

Pat McAfee began his daily show on Wednesday trying to set the record straight. The ESPN star took issue with how the media covered and reacted to one interaction he had with Monday Night Countdown colleague Jason Kelce. It all started Monday, when McAfee gave Kelce a hard time during halftime of the Philadelphia Eagles-Chicago Bears game…

Earlier this month, ESPN and Joe Buck, the network’s voice of Monday Night Football, reached a six-year contract extension worth more than $100 million. However, his longtime NFL broadcast partner, Troy Aikman, whom he followed to the Worldwide Leader from Fox, remains unsigned, with his current contract set to expire after this NFL season. Although…

Stephen A. Smith claims he would like to defend Las Vegas Aces star forward A’ja Wilson for confronting an Indiana Fever fan, but he can’t do it. The Fever beat the Aces in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series Tuesday night at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indiana. But the result was overshadowed by a heated…

Mike Tomlin has spent three Sundays dazzling viewers from NBC’s studio, and Bill Simmons is already lobbying for a promotion. On a recent episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast, Simmons and The Ringer’s Bryan Curtis heaped praise on Tomlin’s early work on Football Night in America, pointing in particular to a halftime segment during Rams-Broncos…

Given how much the WNBA's TV audience has grown, we thought it was the ideal time to find out what you think of the league's national broadcasters.

Jason Kelce let his Eagles colors fly a little too brightly on the Monday Night Football halftime show by calling his former team "we."

A media rights shakeup that now sees the WNBA airing across six different national television partners didn’t halt the league’s growth trajectory. The WNBA hit a 26-year viewership high for the regular season, averaging 771,000 viewers per game, according to data compiled by Sports Business Journal. That’s up 17 percent versus the league’s regular-season viewership…

After following Troy Aikman to ESPN, Joe Buck now hopes his longtime NFL broadcast partner follows him in staying at ESPN.

Ben Johnson won a Monday Night Football game with a third-string quarterback and still managed to spend the next morning on the phone doing damage control. Speaking on the St. Brown Podcast with Lions teammate Amon-Ra St. Brown and his brother Equanimeous, Jared Goff addressed the postgame quip Johnson made at his expense after the…

Justin Verlander’s retirement served as a reminder for Bob Costas that he wasn’t satisfied with the end of his own MLB play-by-play career. Costas recently joined Molly Knight and Joe Posnanski on The Joy of Baseball podcast. During the podcast, Costas reiterated how the baseball portion of his Hall of Fame broadcasting career remains closest…

As the NHL drops the puck on a new season, this felt like the perfect time to provide a comprehensive ranking of the media meals served by all 32 teams.

It wasn’t arguments over Tom Brady or Damar Hamlin that led Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe to split; it was Fox. More than three years after Bayless and Sharpe parted ways with each other, the former FS1 partners reunited for an episode of Club Shay Shay. And while they’ve both spoken about their divorce separately,…

Draymond Green has logged enough hours on the Inside the NBA set to be anointed Charles Barkley’s heir apparent in some media circles, but he’s not about to crown himself. With Barkley reiterating this week that the 2026-27 season will be his swan song on the show, Green was asked in a recent interview with…

It is harder than ever to watch the NHL locally. But how does watching your favorite team compare to the rest of the league?

NBA media might not have high expectations for the Golden State Warriors this season, but don’t tell that to Steph Curry. The Warriors held their Media Day earlier this week, where head coach Steve Kerr said he doesn’t mind the low expectations for his team as they approach the 2026-27 NBA season. And with Kerr…

Jason Kelce apologized for calling the Eagles “we” on Monday Night Football, but Ryan Clark is adamant his former colleague had nothing to be sorry for. Clark, whose tenure as one of ESPN’s marquee NFL analysts ended abruptly with his layoff this summer, took to X on Tuesday to rally behind Kelce, one day after…

CBS continues to move on without Tony Romo, and Dan Patrick isn’t sure the network has much incentive to bring him back.

The first of three 2026 NFL games in London arrives in Week 4 on Sunday, with the Indianapolis Colts facing the Washington Commanders at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Dave Pasch, Kurt Warner, and Jason Kelce will provide the commentary for NFL Network (9:30 a.m. ET). With Joe Davis having MLB postseason duties for Fox, Kenny Albert…

Kirk Herbstreit has a new contract with Amazon, though it may be the first extension in recent memory to include a Sean McVay clause. According to Andrew Marchand of The Athletic, Prime Video has agreed to extend Herbstreit as the analyst on Thursday Night Football, with the new deal running multiple seasons at more than…

CBS earned the most-watched NFL international game in history with the Baltimore Ravens beating the Dallas Cowboys in Brazil in Week 3.

The Caitlin Clark effect is still alive and well. Sunday’s Game 1 between Clark’s Indiana Fever and the defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces set a viewership record for ABC. The Aces’ win averaged 2.1 million viewers on ABC, peaking at 2.6 million viewers, which is good for the most-watched WNBA playoff game in the…

On the opening day for the NHL, one prominent analyst earned himself a contract extension. Longtime NHL analyst Anson Carter has reached a multiyear extension with TNT Sports, the network announced on Tuesday. Carter has been a staple of the network’s studio coverage since it began its current media rights deal with the NHL in…

A'ja Wilson got into it with an Indiana Fever fan in the fourth quarter of Tuesday's playoff game between the Aces and the Fever.

Kevin Burkhardt tends to get overshadowed on Sundays when he’s calling an NFL game next to Tom Brady, but in this instance, he’s getting the spotlight all to himself. The Fox Sports lead NFL play-by-play announcer and MLB studio host has been named the recipient of the 2027 Pat Summerall Award, given annually to a…

The Minnesota Wild, in partnership with media members who cover the NHL team, announced the launch of the Jessi Pierce Media Beauty Award on Monday. The award honors the memory of Pierce and her three children, Hudson, Cayden, and Avery, who died in a house fire in March. Pierce, a Wild correspondent for NHL.com, would…

USC radio announcers Pete Arbogast and Shaun Cody had very different reactions to the controversial hit on Oregon QB Dante Moore.

Nick Kostos and Brian Baldinger are co-hosting The Best Football Show, a new Audacy podcast released three times a week, while Kostos has also added a weekly NFL picks column for The Athletic this season. According to Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports, the podcast pairs Kostos, the longtime host of You Better You Bet,…

Baseball fans were tuned into Peacock on Tuesday to watch the start of the MLB playoffs. While they got the baseball action they came for, some also wound up taking part in the weirdest listening party imaginable. Through roughly half of the top of the fifth inning, those watching the game on Peacock couldn’t help…

The Indiana Fever defended home court on Tuesday, defeating the Las Vegas Aces 99–89 in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. In the fourth quarter, things got a bit heated, with Aces star A’ja Wilson confronting a fan under the basket. The scene began when Wilson ran into Fever guard Sophie…

Over the first few weeks of the NFL season, the disappointment of Justin Herbert in Los Angeles has led to a reckoning in NFL media over why certain quarterbacks get the benefit of the doubt and others don’t. The conversation got loudest after ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky appeared on the network’s morning radio show, Unsportsmanlike, where he…

The Gainbridge Fieldhouse crowd is once again finding itself at the center of the WNBA universe. This time, an Indiana Fever fan inserted themself into the Game 2 narrative during the fourth quarter of a do-or-die between the Fever and defending champion Las Vegas Aces. Midway through the fourth quarter, with the Fever leading the…

The NFL Shorts documentary Miller Night Football, which premieres Tuesday night on HBO, connects to the current situation surrounding the NFL institution.

On its face, Tuesday was an awesome day for sports fans to sit back, relax, and watch compelling action all day long. All four MLB Wild Card series began with Game 1, staggered across the day beginning at 2 p.m. ET. We had two elimination games in the WNBA playoffs, with Game 2 of both…

The 2026–27 NHL season got started on Tuesday with ESPN carrying a tripleheader of marquee matchups to celebrate opening day. In addition to broadcasting the games, ESPN debuted its new, high-tech studio that will apparently serve as home base for the network’s hockey coverage this year. Host Steve Levy welcomed viewers into the new studio…

This year’s MLB standings ended up with the most significant disparity between division winners in recent memory, and longtime MLB insider Ken Rosenthal believes it’s time to do something about it. On Tuesday’s Foul Territory, Rosenthal agreed with the show’s hosts that baseball should reseed its postseason bracket after the Wild Card round. Rosenthal argued this would stagger…

What could end up being one of the best NFL games of this season took place thousands of miles away in the Southern Hemisphere. That didn’t matter for the CBS audience, who still tuned in in large numbers. Sunday afternoon’s game between the Baltimore Ravens and Dallas Cowboys, a back-and-forth thriller that ended on a…

Nick Saban’s efforts to help pass the Protect College Sports Act expanded beyond College GameDay this week, as the legendary former Alabama football coach appeared on ESPN’s morning shows to make the case for the bill, which passed the U.S. Senate on Monday evening. Saban was reportedly integral in shaping the bill’s language and has appeared…

The No. 20 Houston football team believes they’ve earned the right to play under the lights in primetime, especially on a Saturday after an important event in their stadium Friday night. ESPN thought differently and scheduled their Oct. 3 game against UCF for 11:00 a.m. on ESPN2 instead. University of Houston AD Eddie Nuñez shared…

CBS continues to move on without Tony Romo, and Dan Patrick isn’t sure the network has much incentive to bring him back. Patrick asked Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo whether CBS should bring Romo back. And since Russo has never been a fan of Romo as an analyst, he volleyed the question back to Patrick.  “I thought, Tony,…