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CBS puts Tony Romo on indefinite leave after arrest
CBS Sports has placed No. 1 football analyst Tony Romo on indefinite leave following his arrest on suspicion of operating while intoxicated.,The news was announced Friday in a terse statement from the network.,"Tony Romo is on leave from his role at CBS Sports until further notice," read the stateme...
Tony Romo withdraws from golf event in wake of OWI arrest
Tony Romo withdrew from an upcoming golf tournament in the wake of his arrest last week in Wisconsin for allegedly operating a vehicle while intoxicated.,The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and current CBS Sports analyst had been scheduled to play in the Texas State Open starting Tuesday in Tyler,...
Ex-LSU, Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly joins CBS Sports
You can no longer find Brian Kelly on the bayou or anywhere near South Bend, but the former LSU and Notre Dame coach might turn up at Hawaii, Nevada, or even in DeKalb, Ill., this football season. ,Kelly finalized a deal to join CBS and work as a game analyst for Mountain West football broadcasts th...
Report: Russell Wilson in talks to go into television
Quarterback Russell Wilson has been involved in serious talks to go into television as he contemplates the end of his NFL playing career, The Athletic reported Friday.,Replacing Matt Ryan at CBS' "The NFL Today" pregame show appears to be the preferred landing spot, per the outlet. Wilson has worked...
Tiger Woods teases Masters comeback on live broadcast
Tiger Woods is keeping the door slightly ajar for a return to professional golf at the Masters in April.,A five-time Masters winner and 15-time major champion, Woods teased golf fans on Saturday when he joined Jim Nantz and Trevor Immelman in the CBS booth during the third round of the Genesis Invit...
Colt Knost elevated to CBS booth for 2026 PGA Tour season
Former PGA Tour player Colt Knost is moving from on-course reporter to the booth as an analyst for CBS Sports' golf coverage in 2026.,Knost, 40, replaces Ian Baker-Finch, who retired in August after 18 years with CBS. Knost will be in the booth with host Jim Nantz, lead analyst Trevor Immelman and f...
Chiefs-Bills game draws 30.8M viewers, 2nd-most this season
The Kansas City Chiefs-Buffalo Bills game this past Sunday drew an average of 30.8 million viewers on CBS, making it the second-most-watched NFL game this season.,That number trailed only the average of 33.8 million viewers that tuned in to see the Super Bowl LIX rematch between the Philadelphia Eag...
CBS enjoys highest-rated PGA Tour season since 2018
The PGA Tour averaged 2.969 million viewers for broadcasts on CBS, an increase of 17 percent from last year, the network announced on Tuesday.,The average is the network's best since 2018.,Per CBS, 14 of the 19 final-round telecasts saw a year-over-year ratings jump. ,This past weekend drew in sizab...
Pac-12 extends deal with CBS Sports through 2030-31
The Pac-12 Conference and CBS Sports have extended their media partnership through the 2030-31 season.,As part of the deal announced Monday, CBS will broadcast the Pac-12 football and men's basketball championship games and at least three regular-season football and men's basketball contests each se...
Final round of Masters draws big ratings for CBS Sports
Rory McIlroy took viewers on a wild ride this past weekend at the Masters, with the end result being the completion of a career Grand Slam for the Northern Irishman and big ratings for CBS Sports.,Per the network, Sunday's final round averaged 12.707 million viewers -- which is up 33 percent from 20...
The pros and cons of proposed advancements in the NFL and college football
College football might follow in the footsteps of the NFL as the NFL mulls taking a page out from soccer. After the Michigan sign-stealing scandal, in-helmet communicators could be coming to FBS programs, as well as a two-minute timeout. The Shield meanwhile might eschew the chain gang for optical t...
Ranking the major sports networks from most elitist to Fox Sports
Prestige and journalism shouldn’t go hand-in-hand together. Sure, there are outlets with enough history and money to have ethics departments, fact-checkers, and paying subscribers, but the omnipresent tier — the ones controlling the rights to the big sports — are cost-cutting corporate slugs like th...
Get ready for another streaming-only NFL playoff game
Amazon is going to pay $150 million for the exclusive right to broadcast an NFL playoff game next season....
What does it say about America that random NFL games dominate the most-watched TV list?
The sports world was reminded of two important things over the last few months. One, Taylor Swift’s presence is a game-changer. Two, the people who once claimed they’d never watch the NFL again because Black players kneeled, are bonafide liars....
Jenny Cavnar becomes first woman to get full-time MLB TV play-by-play gig
For the first time in MLB history, a woman will serve as the leading play-by-play announcer for a major league team. NBC Sports California announced Tuesday that Jenny Cavnar will serve as the primary play-by-play announcer for the Oakland Athletics. ...
Looks like Taylor Swift didn't ruin the NFL after all
Maybe talk of the decline of the NFL at the hands of Taylor Swift and the Deep State was premature. CBS announced Monday that their Super Bowl LVIII broadcast drew 123.4 million average viewers across all platforms. The broadcast metrics included audiences that watched on CBS, Paramount+, Nickelodeo...
The NFL buying ESPN is the final frontier in the effort to kill sports journalism
Last week, my colleague Sean Beckwith wrote about the NFL possibly buying a stake in ESPN, and the potential for the self-proclaimed Worldwide Leader in Sports to become nothing more than the PR arm of the most popular league in America (at least, more than it already is). Yesterday, over at The Nat...
Saturday night’s NFL playoff streaming exclusive on Peacock isn’t the last we’ll see
NBC decided to broadcast Saturday’s Wild Card matchup featuring Kansas City and Miami exclusively on their streaming channel Peacock. This was the first time an NFL playoff game was televised in such a way and, if you’re like most folks, you weren’t too thrilled about it. It sucked for millions, but...
It doesn’t matter whether NFL playoff games are on Peacock: Millions will tune in anyway
The NFL has outgrown being just a professional football league. It has become America’s favorite TV show. But unlike most sitcoms, dramas or reality shows, Roger Goodell knows that ratings will remain consistent no matter which network/streaming app his production is broadcast on. This league has gu...
Spongebob to co-host Nickelodeon's Super Bowl LVIII broadcast
The folks that gifted us Slimed Mike McCarthy, Patrick Star’s commentary of a Russell Wilson interception, and the Mitchell Trubisky NVP are coming back for the Super Bowl....