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Christmas Day 2017 will reportedly feature an epic showdown between the...
Christmas Day is the NBA’s biggest regular-season event. Every year, the league bills Christmas as a showcase of its best teams, biggest rivalries and most enticing matchups. We get commercials and...
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Ken Rosenthal on Fox’s shift to video: ‘I was surprised that we went as far...
No event better signified the current chaos in sports media than the announcement last month that Ken Rosenthal—the most plugged-in, reliable reporter in baseball—would be filing his stories to...
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Chris Simms reportedly joins NBC Sports, will co-host PFT Live
Former NFL quarterback Chris Simms, the son of Phil Simms, will reportedly add another line to a growing media resume. The Bleacher Report analyst and podcast host will join NBC Sports and co-host PFT...
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The NFL is hiring people to work with players on their social media accounts
At this moment, the NFL has 82 jobs listed on the ADP career site. Everything from senior communications strategist for the league to “seasonal researcher” for NFL Network. But the most interesting...
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Clay Travis explains the story of being offered (and turning down) an FS1 show
Clay Travis, as he will be the first to tell you, no longer works for Fox. He doesn’t appear on the network’s airwaves or write on its website, and although he has a show on Fox Sports Radio, he’s...
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Kirk Herbstreit will call three games in five days over Labor Day, and he’s...
There may not be a man in America busier this coming Labor Day weekend than Kirk Herbstreit. With college football season kicking off, the ESPN analyst faces a schedule that’s exhausting just to look...
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Behind the scenes at ‘MLB Central,’ the most irreverent sports studio show on...
Jon Heyman would not stop saying the word “bro.” Heyman, the typically staid veteran baseball reporter, was live on MLB Network, sitting face to face with a speaking base, displaying a sense of comedic...
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NASCAR and Twitter will stream all 10 playoff races from in-car cameras
NASCAR fans will have a very intimate look at this year’s Cup Series playoffs. For each of the 10 events, NASCAR will set up one driver with an in-car camera, then allow viewers on Twitter to stream...
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Sportsnet Blue Jays reporter Hazel Mae got destroyed by an errant Gatorade bath
The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-3 on Thursday thanks to a go-ahead home run by first baseman Justin Smoak in the eighth inning. If you were watching the game’s broadcast on Sportsnet,...
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New York radio host Don LaGreca unloaded on a caller who wanted the Yankees...
New York sports fans can be a lot to handle. They’re either demanding or entitled (or both), depending on your perspective, and the second a player or coach slips up there’s a group ready to rebel. For...
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Legendary Spanish-language Marlins radio voice Felo Ramirez dies at 94
The baseball world lost one of its most accomplished broadcasters Monday night, with the death Felo Ramirez, the longtime Spanish-language voice of the Miami Marlins and a recipient of the Ford C....
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ESPN disciplines The Undefeated’s Mike Wise for tweeting fake Nick Saban quotes
ESPN announced Tuesday it has ‘disciplined’ Mike Wise, a senior writer for The Undefeated, for tweeting fake Nick Saban quotes meant to parody the coach’s comments on the solar eclipse. Wise’s...
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Gizmodo Media says lawsuit against Deadspin designed to ‘intimidate journalists’
With Deadspin under threat from a defamation lawsuit, parent company Univision is not laying down. As we reported in June, Deadspin is being sued by R.J. Bell of gambling website Pregame.com, who...
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John Skipper blames ‘someone with a personal agenda’ for stoking Robert Lee...
A simple assignment switch for a little-known play-by-play broadcaster has become a major headache for ESPN. ESPN took flak Tuesday for moving a broadcaster named Robert Lee off a Virginia-William...
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Saying bye to sportswriting: Amid industry chaos, ex-reporters explain why...
Tim Shoemaker always imagined he would one day cover sports for a national outlet like ESPN, Sports Illustrated or Fox. That dream began when he joined his high school newspaper, then endured as he...
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Sports-betting analyst R.J. Bell to get his own show on Fox Sports Radio
R.J. Bell, the controversial gambling analyst and founder of Pregame.com, will have his own show on Fox Sports Radio beginning next month, the network announced Friday. Bell will host Straight Outta...
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Dan Le Batard says the best way to get an on-air job at ESPN is to be...
For several years now, ESPN has faced the accusation of liberal bias, stemming in part from the perceived viewpoints of its on-air personalities. And for that very reason, says ESPN radio and TV host...
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Louisville radio host says he will ‘eat a live animal’ if North Carolina...
North Carolina State enters this fall with a pretty solid football team. The Wolfpack return their quarterback, their three leading pass-catchers and several key defensive players from a team that went...
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A newspaper article confused former Packer Jim Ringo with former Beatle Ringo...
Jim Ringo was a Pro Football Hall of Famer who played 15 seasons at center for the Packers and Eagles, winning two NFL titles and reaching 10 Pro Bowls. Ringo Starr is a world-famous musician best...
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Nearly 3 million people illegally streamed the Mayweather-McGregor fight
If you wanted to watch Saturday night’s long-awaited fight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor, you had a few options. You could pay $100 to buy the fight on pay-per-view. You could head to a...
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