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.

Michael Wilbon and Charles Barkley sat down for dinner one night in Arizona, decided they wanted to watch an NBA game, and then spent the next few minutes trying to figure out where the hell it was being aired. “Charles and I both looked at each other and go, ‘Where’s the game? Where is it?'” Read more... The post Michael Wilbon can’t find NBA games on streaming appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Despite being their lead play-by-play announcer, Mike Breen has not called a New York Knicks game in more than three weeks. Forget about Inside the NBA falling by the wayside on ESPN during the first half of the season or Charles Barkley complaining about not getting enough airtime. The real problem with the NBA’s new Read more... The post Mike Breen calling first Knicks game since Jan. 19 appeared first on Awful Announcing.

While the College Football Playoff will stay put at 12 teams for the 2026 season, an eventual expansion of the field still appears inevitable. And while defending his stance that the CFP should add more teams, Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork put it bluntly, pointing to the economic opportunity such expansion would provide. “I’m Read more... The post Ohio State AD cites ‘valuable’ content as reason College Football Playoff should expand appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Marc Stein dropped a massive scoop about the Dallas Mavericks and Mark Cuban that seemingly has Tim Cowlishaw laughing. Let’s face it, things haven’t gone well for the Mavericks since Miriam Adelson and Patrick Dumont purchased a majority stake in the franchise from Cuban in late 2023. They advanced to the 2024 NBA Finals before Read more... The post Tim Cowlishaw belittles Marc Stein as Mark Cuban’s ‘mouthpiece’ appeared first on Awful Announcing.

As more Olympic athletes share conflicting opinions about representing the United States in its current condition, Boomer Esiason suggested they just shut up and dribble, or ice skate. While recapping the sports weekend on WFAN, Esiason proudly shared he and his grandchildren were watching Team USA win gold in figure skating instead of the epically Read more... The post Boomer Esiason tells Olympic athletes to ‘pipe down’ and ‘respect the flag’ appeared first on Awful Announcing.

The relationship between the sports media and the people they cover is often construed as combative and adversarial. In reality, it’s a relationship, and one that can often be fulfilling and appreciated on both sides. Washington Commanders head coach Dan Quinn held a press conference on Tuesday, but there were some noticeable absences in the Read more... The post Commanders’ Dan Quinn leaves press conference seats empty for former Washington Post reporters appeared first on Awful Announcing.

After learning Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold lost money by playing the Super Bowl in California, Boomer Esiason believes NFL players should refuse to play the game there in future seasons. Sam Darnold is a Super Bowl winning quarterback, but not without a cost. Due to the “jock tax” and state-income tax rate in California, Read more... The post Boomer Esiason suggests barring California from hosting Super Bowl appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Paul Toboni grew up in San Francisco reading the Chronicle every morning. He’d wake up, pull out the Sporting Green, and read it with his brothers and sisters. Bruce Jenkins. Scott Ostler. Susan Slusser. Ann Killion. Those writers shaped how he understood sports, and he felt connected to them in a way that only a Read more... The post Nationals president Paul Toboni mourns Washington Post sports section loss, praises beat writers appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Things got pretty heated between former NBA star Jeff Teague and Indianapolis Colts linebacker Zaire Franklin on Monday’s episode of Club 520. On Tuesday, Teague apologized. Things started going downhill on Monday’s episode when, during a conversation about the Super Bowl, Teague referred to Franklin as “Zaire Smith,” a former Atlanta Hawks player, and added Read more... The post Jeff Teague apologizes to Zaire Franklin after disrespecting his name on Club 520 appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Will Campbell knew he should have spoken with reporters following the New England Patriots’ loss to the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl LX on Sunday. And yet, the rookie left tackle still declined to do so — admitting now that he feared his emotions would get the best of him. Unlike on Sunday, Campbell met Read more... The post Patriots’ Will Campbell apologizes for post-Super Bowl media snub appeared first on Awful Announcing.

The only thing more intense and difficult than winning an Olympic event? Love. Norway’s Sturla Holm Laegreid was struggling with both this week while preparing for the biathlon at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina. He ended up winning the bronze medal, which was cause for celebration. However, he used his post-medal interview to make Read more... The post Norwegian biathlete confesses to cheating on girlfriend, begs for forgiveness after winning bronze appeared first on Awful Announcing.

YouTube's vice president of subscription products says the company is interested in bidding on additional NFL rights.

At this point, a date for Super Bowl LXII, which will conclude the NFL’s 2027 season, has not been announced. According to one league insider, that likely isn’t a coincidence. Citing a source with knowledge of the situation, Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio reported on Monday that the lack of a known Super Bowl LXII Read more... The post NFL reportedly keeping door open for 18-game schedule in 2027 appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Winning the Offensive Player of the Year award in the NFL should have been one of the highlights in the early career of Jaxon Smith-Njigba. But it’s been overshadowed by an attempt at humor from comedian Druski, and Emmanuel Acho did not find the humor in it. Before the Super Bowl, the NFL showcased its Read more... The post Emmanuel Acho was not a fan of Druski making a joke out of Jaxon Smith-Njigba appeared first on Awful Announcing.