Mack Rhoades saw his roles as the Baylor athletic director and College Football Playoff committee chair come to an end recently after Baylor investigated unspecified allegations against him. He was replaced as the CFP committee chair by Arkansas athletic director Hunter Yurachek on Nov. 13. While Yurachek hasn’t been challenged with many difficult CFP decisions Read more... The post CFP chair Hunter Yurachek makes 6-7 joke on ESPN rankings reveal show appeared first on Awful Announcing.

As Lane Kiffin tries to keep any and all decisions on his future at Ole Miss quiet until after the Egg Bowl, Urban Meyer is left wondering why the head coach would even consider leaving. Meyer has been in a similar situation before when he left an undefeated season with Utah for Florida in 2005. Read more... The post Urban Meyer: Leaving Ole Miss ‘might haunt’ Lane Kiffin appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Carolina Hurricanes owner, and soon to be Portland Trailblazers boss, Tom Dundon won a resounding legal victory in a lawsuit stemming from the 2019 collapse of the short-lived Alliance of American Football. A federal bankruptcy judge dismissed all but one charge brought against Dundon for his role in owning the AAF.  Judge Craig Gargotta did Read more... The post Judge rules in favor of Tom Dundon, bringing AAF saga to a close appeared first on Awful Announcing.

The SEC has solidified itself as America’s preferred conference for the second consecutive college football season. Nielsen’s most recent data, which includes the first 12 weeks of the college football season, show that seven of the country’s 10 most-watched teams hail from the SEC. One such slot is afforded to the Big Ten (Ohio State Read more... The post SEC continues viewership dominance over Big Ten as season draws to a close appeared first on Awful Announcing.

All indications are that the inaugural Internet Invitational was both a critical and commercial success. But the golf event wasn’t without controversy, as influencer Paige Spiranac faced accusations that she helped a teammate cheat to hit a cleaner shot. After taking a break from social media in the aftermath of the event, Spiranac broke her Read more... The post Paige Spiranac says she received ‘tens of thousands of death threats’ after Internet Invitational controversy appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Longtime WFAN radio host Richard Neer will make his return to the station this Thanksgiving morning, and he’s bringing Keith Hernandez with him. Neer hosted Saturday mornings on WFAN for 37 years until this past May, when the station decided to change its weekday lineup. With Neer’s show being replaced by a Saturday morning lineup Read more... The post Keith Hernandez co-hosting Thanksgiving WFAN morning show appeared first on Awful Announcing.

The soft deadline to submit bids for Warner Bros. Discovery came and went last Friday, with Paramount, Comcast, and Netflix all submitting offers to buy the storied media company. Now, Warner Bros. is asking its bidders to up the ante. According to a Bloomberg report, Warner Bros. Discovery has asked its three interested buyers to Read more... The post Warner Bros. Discovery asks for ‘sweetened’ bids from three suitors appeared first on Awful Announcing.

ESPN’s College GameDay started the 2025 college football season by saying goodbye to longtime analyst Lee Corso, who retired from broadcasting following 38 years with the company. The 90-year-old former football coach and broadcasting legend isn’t going quietly into retirement, however. While the gears in the GameDay machine have kept turning without him, it sounds Read more... The post Lee Corso on what it’s been like away from ‘College GameDay’: ‘Lousy… it sucks’ appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Joey Galloway has a question about Vanderbilt broadcasts this season. “Is there a camera on Pavia’s mom the whole game?” The ESPN analyst asked Kirk Herbstreit on their Nonstop podcast this week after watching Saturday’s Vanderbilt-Kentucky game, which featured constant cutaways to Antoinette Padilla, Diego Pavia’s mother, in the stands. The cutaways hit their peak Read more... The post Joey Galloway questions ESPN’s frequent cutaways to Diego Pavia’s mom appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Jordon Hudson made headlines this past weekend when she suggested she was planning on suing Pablo Torre. But while it remains to be seen whether Bill Belichick’s 24-year-old girlfriend will actually file a lawsuit, the two are already stating their cases in the court of public opinion. That included Hudson revealing the basis of her Read more... The post Pablo Torre and Jordon Hudson publicly spar over lawsuit threat appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Stephen A. Smith feuded with Michelle Beadle, Cari Champion, and Jemele Hill. He feuded with Jason Whitlock, Drake Maye and Dave Portnoy. And now it’s Dan Le Batard’s turn. Smith recently noticed Le Batard weighed in on his public back and forth with Beadle earlier this month. And there were some things Le Batard said Read more... The post Stephen A. Smith rejects Dan Le Batard labeling him a ‘tool’ for the right: ‘I don’t share your politics’ appeared first on Awful Announcing.

There’s no questioning that Pablo Torre has carved out his own unique place in the world of sports media. But even as the Meadowlark Media host receives critical acclaim for his work hosting Pablo Torre Finds Out, he also recognizes the uphill battle that many within the industry still face in today’s climate. “Sports media Read more... The post Pablo Torre: Discovering new information no longer incentivized in sports media appeared first on Awful Announcing.

NFL broadcasting executives are arguably more obsessed with star power than ever before, even if it means giving big jobs to former star players with little experience. From Tony Romo to Tom Brady to J.J. Watt to Drew Brees, many of the biggest games of the NFL season are now called by people who are Read more... The post Cris Collinsworth thinks every first-time NFL broadcaster should start in studio appeared first on Awful Announcing.

After getting outbid for broadcast rights to UEFA Champions League matches in major European markets, Netflix is eyeing the next-best thing. The streaming giant is reportedly weighing a bid on Premier League rights in the United States and Europe, according to a report by Martyn Ziegler in The Times. Domestic broadcast rights for England’s top-flight Read more... The post Netflix reportedly eyeing Premier League rights in U.S., Europe appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Joe Buck and Troy Aikman spent a good chunk of Monday night’s Panthers-49ers broadcast arguing with ESPN rules analyst Russell Yurk over an intentional grounding call that probably shouldn’t have been called in the first place. With less than 30 seconds left in the first half, Bryce Young dropped back on third down and threw Read more... The post Joe Buck, Troy Aikman weren’t having Russell Yurk’s intentional grounding explanation appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Widely considered one of the greatest combat athletes in history, it isn’t often that Brock Lesnar winds up on his back. Only that’s exactly the position the “Beast Incarnate” found himself in on Monday’s episode of WWE Raw — and it wasn’t because he had been taken out by the likes of Roman Reigns, CM Punk Read more... The post Brock Lesnar totally wiped out during his entrance on ‘WWE Raw’ appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Both Candace Parker and Bruce Pearl were part of TNT Sports’ big hiring spree this year for the network’s revamped college basketball coverage, and on Monday night, they found themselves in the broadcast booth together for the first time. While the game was part of the new Players’ Era men’s championship tournament in Las Vegas, Read more... The post Bruce Pearl, Candace Parker share awkward on-air moment about Parker’s dating history at Tennessee appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Elle Duncan is officially leaving ESPN for Netflix. The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand reported on Tuesday that Duncan and ESPN are parting ways as she joins Netflix’s sports operation. There had been some hope ESPN could keep Duncan around for women’s basketball coverage even as she took on the Netflix role, but that’s not happening. NEWS: Read more... The post Elle Duncan and ESPN are officially parting ways as she moves to Netflix appeared first on Awful Announcing.

The Thanksgiving holiday isn’t just for football, it’s increasingly become a time for top college basketball matchups around the country. And UConn Huskies head coach Dan Hurley had some very direct thoughts on how he’s approaching the coming week to prepare for a Top 15 showdown against Illinois at Madison Square Garden on Black Friday. Read more... The post Dan Hurley has some wild thoughts about Thanksgiving turkey appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Some 1980s artifacts, like the Rubik’s Cube, big hair, and breakdancing, have aged better than others. However, among the things that came out of that time, nothing captures that decade quite like The Super Bowl Shuffle. Try explaining what a pop-culture phenomenon it became to someone born in the 2000s, and you’d probably get a Read more... The post HBO’s ‘The Shuffle’ is a fun look back at the 1985 Chicago Bears’ iconic song appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Joe Buck will partake on one of the most unique broadcasting assignments in television history on Monday December 1. Not only will he call his regularly scheduled Monday Night Football game in the evening from Foxboro when the New England Patriots host the New York Giants, he will also serve a a guest host for Good Morning America live Read more... The post Joe Buck will attempt GMA-MNF doubleheader appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Major League Baseball players who used steroids can’t get into Cooperstown, but the person who over saw the steroid-era is in the Hall of Fame, and Alex Rodriguez has a problem with that. Former MLB Commissioner Bud Selig was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2017. Meanwhile, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark Read more... The post Alex Rodriguez calls out ‘hypocrisy’ in Bud Selig being a Hall of Famer appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Stephen A. Smith enjoys an unmatched position in American media. But Pablo Torre wants to spare a thought for those that may have been left behind. Appearing on the Consensual Concussions podcast with Joe Budden, Pablo Torre opened up about the unique position that Stephen A. Smith has at ESPN, where he has the power to be Read more... The post Pablo Torre explains why Stephen A. Smith has unmatched power in sports television appeared first on Awful Announcing.