YouTube TV subscribers will have to wait several more months to finally have access to the ESPN Unlimited platform.

Up until very recently, the history of women’s sports was not being told. The history goes back, officially, to 1972 and Title IX, but of course has roots much deeper than that. The vast majority of these tales are lost to time. No reporters or commentators were around to tell them. More recently, audience metrics Read more... The post The iHeart Women’s Sports Network is ‘creating a foundation’ as women’s sports grow appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Is Adam Silver the right person to be leading the NBA? Bill Simmons isn’t so sure. During the latest episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Ringer founder and Fox Sports’ Nick Wright discussed the litany of issues the league has faced in recent years. And after pointing to problems, including egregious examples of teams Read more... The post Bill Simmons questions whether Adam Silver is right person to lead NBA appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Super Bowl LX between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots on NBC was the second most-watched Super Bowl in history.

If the star of the 2024 Paris Olympics was NBC’s debut of Gold Zone, 2026 in Milan-Cortina might be the year of the drones. Throughout the first few days of the Winter Games, drone shots have become all the rage. Sports like alpine skiing, luge, snowboarding, speed skating, and ski jumping are all benefiting from incredible Read more... The post Drones are the star of NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage so far appeared first on Awful Announcing.

ESPN is branding the next 12 months as “The Year of the Super Bowl,” launching a coordinated campaign across ESPN and Disney properties as the network builds toward its first Super Bowl production on Feb. 14, 2027. The initiative kicked off over the weekend with “The Handoff,” a 24-hour event that moved from SoFi Stadium Read more... The post ESPN launches ‘Year of the Super Bowl’ with new storytelling initiatives building toward 2027 appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Michael Wilbon revealed that he and Charles Barkley couldn't figure out where to watch an NBA game at dinner recently.

Kyle Tucker made it 17 months before college basketball dragged him back in. The longtime college basketball writer left The Athletic in August 2024 after 21 years in sports journalism, calling it “the toughest decision of my life” before joining Elevate Sports Ventures as Story Director. He spent the fall and winter working with NFL, Read more... The post Kyle Tucker returns to sports media, joins 247Sports as Director of Basketball Content appeared first on Awful Announcing.

The Athletic spent the past week covering both the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics simultaneously, deploying approximately 55 people for Super Bowl coverage and roughly 30 for the Games in Milan-Cortina. Amid all of that, the New York Times-owned sports outlet was also trying to answer a question that every major publisher is grappling Read more... The post The Athletic is leaning into live blogs and video to fight AI scraping appeared first on Awful Announcing.

As Olympic athletes share conflicting opinions about representing Team USA, Boomer Esiason suggested they shut up and dribble, or ice skate.

In his heyday, Howard Stern called himself the “King of All Media.” The moniker signified Stern’s immense popularity and rare versatility. After starting as a disc jockey on local radio stations in the Northeast, Stern expanded his empire to ultimately include television, film, books, and pay-per-view, as well as his massive nationally syndicated show. Few Read more... The post During Super Bowl Week, Pat McAfee was the King of All (Sports) Media appeared first on Awful Announcing.

The U is back, but Mario Cristobal is done hearing about it. The Miami Hurricanes returned to the top of the college football mountain this season, going 13-3 overall and playing for the national championship. While the program is still a ways off from the domination days of the 1980s and early 1990s, it’s fair Read more... The post Mario Cristobal is over hearing ‘The U is Back’: ‘I cringe at that all the time’ appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Norway's Sturla Holm Laegreid admitted that he'd cheated on his girlfriend after winning a bronze in the biathlon at Milan-Cortina.

The NBA is giving content creators even greater access to All-Star weekend this year. A year after MrBeast took over the All-Star game for a staged half-court shooting contest, the league is inviting more than 200 creators to Los Angeles to amplify the weekend’s hoops festivities. The list includes top stars like Jesser, Druski, and Read more... The post NBA giving more than 200 creators exclusive access for All-Star weekend in Los Angeles appeared first on Awful Announcing.

One of the most surprising storylines to emerge during the two-week buildup to Super Bowl LX was the news that Bill Belichick had been snubbed in his first year of eligibility for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And much like Belichick’s inevitable induction into Canton, it now appears to be a matter of not Read more... The post Pro Football Hall of Fame weighing changes to voting process after Bill Belichick snub appeared first on Awful Announcing.

All Times Eastern Bundesliga Bundesliga Weekly — ESPN+, 5:30 p.m. College Basketball Men’s Iowa at Maryland — FS1/Fox One, 6 p.m. Colgate at Holy Cross — NESN/ESPN+, 6 p.m. The Citadel at Western Carolina — Nexstar/ESPN+, 6 p.m. Boston University at Army — ESPN+, 6 p.m. USC at Ohio State — Big Ten Network/Fox One, Read more... The post TV and streaming viewing picks for February 11, 2026: How to watch Day 5 of Milano Cortina Olympics appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Paul Molitor is moving from radio to television this season, joining the Minnesota Twins’ TV broadcast rotation as an analyst for select games. Molitor has been doing Twins radio work in recent years, but an opening emerged on the TV side when LaTroy Hawkins moved from the booth to the dugout. Hawkins, who spent nine Read more... The post Hall of Famer Paul Molitor joining Twins TV broadcast rotation in 2026 appeared first on Awful Announcing.

College hoops is heading (close) to the Holy Land next season. According to a report by CBS Sports college basketball writer Matt Norlander, the Villanova Wildcats and Notre Dame Fighting Irish are in the “final stages” of scheduling a season-opening game in Rome, Italy, to tip-off the 2026-27 hoops season on Sunday, Nov. 1. Both Read more... The post Villanova, Notre Dame planning ’26-27 college hoops opener in Rome leading into Fox NFL coverage appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Stephen A. Smith believes his critics are trying to cancel him for saying it would have been nice of Bad Bunny to perform at least part of the Super Bowl halftime show in English. Smith was very complimentary of Bad Bunny after his Super Bowl LX halftime show. As we pointed out in our first Read more... The post Stephen A. Smith claims critics are trying to cancel him for Bad Bunny comments appeared first on Awful Announcing.

The Utah Jazz accidentally won a basketball game on Monday night. You read that right. Utah, which made one of the biggest splashes of the NBA trade deadline by acquiring star forward Jaren Jackson Jr. and is in the fourth year of a rebuild, tried its hardest to lose. Head coach Will Hardy rested his Read more... The post ESPN analyst, former exec Bobby Marks: Utah Jazz ‘messing around with the integrity of the NBA’ appeared first on Awful Announcing.

With the NFL taking its media rights to market much sooner than many anticipated, it seems that other leagues are scrambling to renew their deals before the Shield drains the content budgets of every major broadcaster and streamer. Last week, Puck sports correspondent John Ourand reported that PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp had held discussions Read more... The post NHL reportedly approaching ESPN, TNT Sports about early media rights renewals appeared first on Awful Announcing.

More than two-thirds of MLB clubs are giving fans the option to purchase a direct-to-consumer streaming subscription to watch games within their local markets on MLB.tv. The news, announced by the league on Tuesday, comes amid mass confusion around the league’s MLB.tv streaming offering for the upcoming season. To be clear, the 21 teams making Read more... The post 21 MLB teams make in-market streaming available through MLB.tv appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Bill Moos was an athletic director for several prominent universities, including Oregon, Washington State, and Nebraska. Now retired, he’s released a tell-all book titled Crab Creek Chronicles: From the Wheat Fields to the Ball Fields and Beyond. The former All-Pac-8 offensive tackle offers insights and stories from a 40-year career in athletics administration, culminating in Read more... The post Bill Moos says he secretly attempted to get Nebraska out of the Big Ten and back to the Big 12 appeared first on Awful Announcing.

A lackluster Super Bowl still delivered the second-best audience on record, albeit with the benefit of recent changes to how that audience is measured. Super Bowl LX between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots averaged 124.9 million viewers across NBC, Telemundo, Peacock, NBC Sports Digital, and NFL+, according to a press release issued by Read more... The post Super Bowl LX on NBC earns second-largest audience ever appeared first on Awful Announcing.