The reinstatement of Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby is one of the most resoundingly unpopular sports stories to come around in a long time, and veteran radio host Dan Patrick is concerned about the precedent the university and its supporters are setting by supporting Sorsby despite what Patrick called “a pattern over years and years.”…

The NFL has long defended Sunday Ticket’s pricing and structure as reasonable because the league contends it is a premium product geared toward avid fans. Avid here means the fan is an NFL junkie, interested in all of the league’s games, not just a displaced Dallas Cowboys booster located outside of the team’s broadcast zone,…

The New York Jets are one of five teams with no primetime games on the 2026 NFL schedule, which feels about right for the franchise that has spent the better part of 15 years finding new ways to disappoint the largest sports market in the country. Aaron Glenn, for his part, isn’t dwelling on it.…

This year’s NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs continues to deliver television audiences that are setting multiyear highs. After Game 1 last Wednesday averaged 16.93 million viewers on ABC, the most-watched NBA Finals Game 1 since 2018, Friday’s Game 2 nearly matched the audience for the opening game of the…

The sports-writing ranks got a little thinner on Tuesday. Dave Hyde, longtime sports columnist for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and author of several books including “Still Perfect: The Untold Story of the 1972 Miami Dolphins,” was laid off by the newspaper he worked at for 36 years. Hyde announced the news on social media, saying the…

The New York Knicks lost Game 3 of the NBA Finals in front of a Madison Square Garden crowd that included Donald Trump, but Charles Barkley isn’t blaming the president. Monday night was the first time the Knicks lost a game in 46 days and fans don’t know how to handle it. After trailing the…

Victor Wembanyama has sparked intense animosity among a certain segment of New York Knicks fans during the NBA Finals, one that seemingly extends to the media as well. The Ringer’s David Jacoby made that clear on Tuesday in a guest appearance on The Zach Lowe Show, in which Jacoby did not hold back his personal disdain for…

Terry Bradshaw is a legend on the football field and in NFL broadcasting, but we hope it’s not too disrespectful to say he hasn’t exactly developed a reputation for being an intellectual giant, especially in recent years. In that respect, credit is due to Joe Rogan, who somehow managed to sound less mentally acute than…

Thanks to a state court injunction, Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby is currently set to become the first U.S. athlete who admitted to betting on his own team and be allowed to continue playing. Texas Tech was thrilled by the news, but just about everyone else in college football is horrified or disgusted. That’s led…

The winds have died down around the Mike Vrabel-Dianna Russini controversy, but that doesn’t mean the New England Patriots coach is out of the woods yet. The Athletic’s investigation into former NFL insider Russini’s reporting around Vrabel and other topics, which will be released publicly, is still a few weeks out. Not to mention, there’s…

After Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final between the Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes went to overtime, ABC is again reporting a very strong viewership number. ABC announced that Game 2 averaged 4.68 million viewers, down slightly from 4.79 million in Game 1, but still up 88% from Game 2 of the 2025 Stanley…

The New York Knicks host the San Antonio Spurs in Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday night, and ABC/ESPN are pulling out all the stops for the rest of the series. Perhaps one too many stops, per some NBA fans. Along with their main broadcast on ABC, ESPN will broadcast an All Access…

As New York City prepared for Game 3 of the 2026 NBA Finals on Monday, FanDuel pulled out all the stops with a massive promotional event in Times Square. Along with a musical performance, fans donning Knicks gear received free subway rides courtesy of the sportsbook, among other giveaways and prizes. It also included appearances from Knicks…

The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has released an interim report evaluating the NFL’s antitrust exemption under the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, raising new questions about the league’s future. The preliminary report, which can be read in full here, comes two days before the Committee will hold a full hearing on the…

With the 2026 Women’s College World Series complete, ESPN says Game 2 of the two-game championship series set a college softball viewership record. Game 2 of the championship series between Texas Tech and Texas averaged 2.48 million viewers on ESPN and ESPNU on June 4. According to ESPN, that marks the most-watched college softball game…

Dana White has high hopes for the number of people who will watch the UFC Freedom 250 event at The White House. Those hopes, like many of the things White has said over the years, appear detached from reality. While it might sound like a scene right out of the Mike Judge film Idiocracy, the…

After a judge granted an injunction allowing quarterback Brendan Sorsby to play despite betting on his own team, some athletic directors are reportedly threatening a nuclear option: refusing to play against Texas Tech. The reporting comes from Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports. According to court documents, Sorsby admitted to placing bets on his own team…

Donald Trump became the first sitting United States president to attend an NBA Finals game on Monday at Madison Square Garden, and as expected, ESPN and ABC ultimately did show the president during the broadcast. The first view of Trump came during the pregame national anthem, when ABC cut to the glass-enclosed, Secret Service-protected suite…

The NBA world was shocked on Sunday to learn that Stacey King, the former Chicago Bulls forward who won three championships and later became the team’s beloved color commentator for nearly 20 years, had passed away at age 59. So many people in the Bulls community have been offering touching tributes to King. That includes…

Rapper Cardi B was the featured performer at halftime of Game 3 of the NBA Finals in New York City on Monday night, but the performance ended up reaching the television viewers as well. That’s because, as the ESPN on ABC halftime show’s producers cut to a live feed of the rapper on stage, Charles…

With four events remaining on the LIV Golf schedule, the Saudi-funded league’s ability to complete its season is reportedly in jeopardy. The news comes as Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund announced in April it would cease funding LIV Golf following the 2026 season. According to a report by David Rumsey in Front Office Sports on…

New York Mets legend Keith Hernandez sat next to a Mets fan who was completely oblivious to his presence on the flight to San Diego for the team’s weekend series vs. the Padres at Petco Park. Hernandez told the story in detail alongside play-by-play announcer Steve Gelbs (filling in for Gary Cohen) during Saturday night’s…

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Sports fans will have to get their fix without hockey or basketball this Sunday, as some questionable scheduling has left a prime Sunday night window without a Stanley Cup Final or NBA Finals game. Both the NBA and NHL are in the heart of their season finales, but neither league is taking advantage of Sunday…

A sequence during Saturday’s Philadelphia Phillies game against the Chicago White Sox resulted in hilarious timing on the NBC Sports Philadelphia broadcast, but Phillies fans likely didn’t find it very funny. The NBC Sports Philadelphia broadcast showed White Sox pitcher Mike Vasil waving a wand in Chicago’s dugout. “What is that thing?” NBC Sports Philadelphia…

The city of Chicago is mourning a huge loss on Sunday. Stacey King, the former Chicago Bulls forward who won three championships alongside Michael Jordan in the ’90s and later became the beloved color commentator for the team for nearly 20 years, has passed away at age 59. The news was announced by the Chicago…

Longtime NASCAR broadcaster and driver Ned Jarrett passed away earlier this week, and tributes have been pouring in throughout the racing world. Jarrett raced at NASCAR’s top level from 1953 to 1966. Beginning in the 1960s, Jarrett also had a radio career with WNNC in Newton, North Carolina. Jarrett joined MRN Radio in 1978 before…

Two Virginia residents have filed a lawsuit aimed to stop UFC Freedom 250, the MMA event set to take place on the White House South Lawn as part of the America250 campaign celebrating the country’s 250th anniversary. The lawsuit, as reported by Jack Dunn in Variety, claims the event violates statutes laid out by the…

Jim Nantz delivered an emotional tribute during the third-round broadcast of the PGA Tour’s The Memorial Tournament in Ohio to honor CBS Sports production staffer Bryce Adair, who died following a car crash while working the tournament. A GoFundMe set up to support Adair prior to his death says the accident occurred Wednesday night and…

Jim Courier has become an important part of TNT Sports’ tennis coverage, but he says he learned how to commentate by watching former NFL players-turned-color commentators like Troy Aikman and Greg Olsen. The comments came in a feature piece on Courier by Matthew Futterman in The Athletic, which explores Courier’s rise as a tennis color…