If you love basketball, Prime Video has a docuseries for you. The NBA would not be the entertaining league it is today without the ABA. The 3-point shot, the Slam Dunk Contest, and the overall joyful aesthetic of professional basketball were all innovations pioneered by the upstart ABA. The four-part Prime Video docuseries Soul Power: The Read more... The post Amazon docuseries ‘Soul Power’ details how the ABA shaped modern pro basketball 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.

There has always been a complicated professional relationship between reporters and coaches. That’s expected. That’s normal. Reporters and coaches have different goals. The media strives to get as close to the truth as possible. Coaches strive to proactively protect their players and their organization by limiting what the media sees and hears. This often leads Read more... The post Bengals’ Zac Taylor and Capitals’ Spencer Carbery deserve applause for their acts of kindness appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Fred Warner and Kyle Shanahan showed up to Levi’s Stadium on Sunday for work. The difference was that they were analyzing the Super Bowl instead of playing in it. The two 49ers figures joined NBC’s pregame coverage as guest analysts and earned rave reviews for their seamless transition to the sports media world.  For a Read more... The post Fred Warner, Kyle Shanahan shine on NBC’s Super Bowl pregame at their home stadium appeared first on Awful Announcing.

There was once an understanding that if you worked directly for an NFL franchise, you couldn’t also be a broadcaster. That understanding went out the window with Tom Brady, who is the face of Fox’s NFL coverage while also owning (and having a significant say in the hiring processes for) the Las Vegas Raiders. While Read more... The post Unlike Tom Brady and Troy Aikman, Matt Ryan never had dual role option for broadcasting and NFL front office appeared first on Awful Announcing.

There’s a lot to like about the latest 30 for 30. Who wouldn’t want to relive the most memorable trick play in Super Bowl history? The Philly Special is as much a part of Philadelphia lore as the Rocky statue. While the Sylvester Stallone character was fictional, this moment was real and on the biggest Read more... The post ‘The Philly Special’ delivers nostalgia but falls short of 30 for 30’s best appeared first on Awful Announcing.

The Baltimore Ravens made an intriguing move by hiring Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse Minter to replace John Harbaugh as head coach.

The top rivalry in college basketball delivered in a big way on Saturday night with No. 14 North Carolina taking down No. 4 Duke 71-68 in Chapel Hill. It was a crazy finish that featured a buzzer-beating three-pointer, two court-storming incidents, and a celebratory coaching legend in the stands. ESPN did an excellent job capturing Read more... The post The Duke-UNC finish was a wild scene on ESPN appeared first on Awful Announcing.

The Villanova Wildcats beat the Georgetown Hoyas 80-73 on Saturday in Washington DC, in a return to the area for Wildcats head coach Kevin Willard. Last March, Willard left Maryland in a controversial departure that featured rumors of him being prepared to take the Villanova job, all while the Terrapins were in the middle of Read more... The post Kevin Willard on Maryland fans showing up to heckle him: ‘I don’t know what the f*ck they were doing’ appeared first on Awful Announcing.

The United States is on track to lose its "elimination status" for measles, and that could be bad for all of us.