Miami-USF isn’t just another college football game on Saturday afternoon. It’s the biggest test yet for The CW’s unlikely transformation into a legitimate sports destination. The network is expecting its largest college football audience ever when No. 5 Miami faces No. 18 South Florida at 4:30 p.m. ET. To put that in perspective, The CW’s Read more... The post Miami-USF could be The CW’s biggest football game ever appeared first on Awful Announcing.

The first Sunday of the 2025 NFL season is here, and with that, CBS Sports has debuted a new scorebug. CBS showed off its new scorebug with four NFL games in the early window on Sunday. One of those games is between the Las Vegas Raiders and New England Patriots in Foxborough. Here’s a look Read more... The post CBS debuts new NFL scorebug to positive reviews appeared first on Awful Announcing.

The last time Rich Eisen hosted an episode of SportsCenter, LeBron James was still a few weeks away from being drafted. But his return to his longtime former desk on Monday was perfect. ESPN brought out some old-school graphics and music for Eisen’s introduction. During the introduction, Eisen said, “This show is all about strolling Read more... The post Rich Eisen’s ‘SportsCenter’ return was a beautiful turn back the clock moment appeared first on Awful Announcing.

For the past two years since its inception, the Foul Territory Network has quickly become the home of some of the more popular forms of content in the baseball media space. And on Thursday, the network further expanded its reach after coming to terms on a linear TV deal with numerous NBC Sports affiliates. In Read more... The post Foul Territory announces linear TV deal with three NBC Sports affiliates appeared first on Awful Announcing.

The Mets have signed right-hander Kevin Herget to a minor league contract, and announced that the reliever has been selected to the active roster.  Left-hander Brandon Waddell was optioned to Triple-A in the corresponding transaction. More to come…

As soon as ESPN announced that it was canceling Around the Horn, the big question was what it would fill the 5:00-5:30 p.m. ET timeslot with. The Worldwide Leader reportedly negotiated with Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon to extend Pardon the Interruption but that never came to fruition. The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand reported that the Read more... The post Matt Barrie and Christine Williamson-hosted ‘SportsCenter’ will fill ‘Around the Horn’ timeslot appeared first on Awful Announcing.

NBC Sports president Rick Cordella wants to make NBA games a big event again, citing the classic NBA on NBC Bulls intro of Michael Jordan.

Last fall, ESPN relaunched The Sports Reporters, which had previously last aired on their network in 2017. But the new version of the show is significantly different than the most common version of the old one, from often first airing on YouTube through…

John Walton finished his first season announcing professional sports one month before Paige Capistran was born in 1998. Yet the Washington Capitals veteran play-by-play voice and the AHL’s Ontario Reign’s new color commentator agree about the mixed bag of…