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Batman On Steroids: How The <em>NFL On Fox</em> Theme Song Was Born

It was March 1994, and Fox Sports president David Hill was on the phone with a new employee. Hill himself was something of a new employee. The network was only a few months old at that point, being built on the fly after Rupert Murdoch had unexpectedly outbid CBS for NFC broadcast rights. Hill was k...

Fox Sports Has A Message For Imaginary Haters Hating On UFC CEO's Son

The best thing about the relationship between Fox Sports and the UFC is that it works exactly the way you'd expect a relationship between Fox Sports and the UFC to work. This ensures that you can rely on Fox Sports to bring you the UFC content you want and need. Unsure what UFC owner Lorenzo Fertitt...

Fox Sports 1, CBS Still Struggling In The Graphics Department

USC freshman Nikola Jovanovic is a frontcourt star for the Trojans, but we have to wonder what age-defying magic they've got over in Serbia. Can they get some to Novak Djokovic? We'd love to watch him dominate tennis for another 75 years....

FS1's Low Ratings Forced Fox To Give Away Free World Series Ads

Two bits of rough news for Fox Sports 1 over the last two days. One, Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox reported a hefty drop in income—by more than $1 billion—thanks to the FS1 launch. All of that was most likely accounted for and anticipated....

Chael Sonnen Now Making Domestic Violence Jokes About Rihanna [UPDATE]

As has been exhaustively documented here, much to the displeasure of his core fanbase of men's rights activists, truthers, and racists, Fox Sports 1 pundit/middling professional fighter Chael Sonnen is a shitbag, or at least someone willing to play one on television for money, which amounts to the s...

Beardo And Dreads Pulled Off The Best Videobomb On Erin Andrews

You're not looking at any ordinary videobombing. This duo—that will now be known as Beardo and Dreads—was dedicated to their creep game. Props....

Watch Fox Soccer Channel Die In The Most Undignified Manner Possible

When Fox Sports 1 replaced SPEED two weeks ago, it received a touching goodbye from longtime race coverage personality Mike Joy. Fox Soccer Channel was not provided a similar honor....

Last Night On Fox Sports 1: The Worst Sports Panel Discussion Ever

Above, Donovan McNabb, Andy Roddick, and Gary Payton discuss Ichiro's legacy and—I don't even know. This is such a mess. Roddick can barely speak. McNabb is really into doubles? I'm not convinced they know who Ichiro is. Everyone had a stat or fact or two to memorize and they can't pull that off. F...

So, About That New Regis Show On Fox Sports 1 ...

Aug. 13, Variety...

Fox Sports 1 Launched With A Major Discrimination Lawsuit Problem

Fox Sports 1 (and 2) launched Saturday to the media world's rapt attention. It did so despite one major division of Fox Sports coming under fire in the courtroom, with multiple lawsuits alleging discrimination in the company's music department....

Fox Sports Really Wants Bill Simmons To Watch The Red Sox Today

The low-key Bill Simmons-Fox Sports Twitter spat has been one of the more amusingly dumb things in sports media in this long summer. Today, we learned that there's only one Simmons — but there are tons of Fox Sports accounts that can correct him....

Fox Sports 1 Is Already Ignoring Hockey [UPDATE]

Despite claims to the contrary and hiring two of Canada's most beloved sports personalities, today's launch of Fox Sports 1 doesn't bring glad tidings of coverage for North America's most-ignored major sport....

Cleatus Is Tall

Erin Andrews And Charissa Thompson Star In Painfully Bad Video

Fox Sports 1's Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson posed for a magazine. This is The Hollywood Reporter's fault but still. This video is unspeakably horrible. Thanks for sending along, anonymous ESPN person....

Jason Whitlock Returning To ESPN [UPDATE]

Whoa. The Big Lead reports that Jason Whitlock is leaving Fox Sports and heading back to ESPN. As recently as a few weeks ago, Whitlock was working on test segments for a show on Fox Sports 1—called Red, White and Truth—that hadn't appeared on any lineup for the the network. In the last month, ESPN ...

See ya Johnny Miller. Fox just bought the U.S. Open for 12 years, starting in 2015. Maybe they'll try to make Gus Johnson a golf announcer too. ...

How Fox Faked Crowd Enthusiasm For Neil Diamond Last Night

Last night's MLB All-Star Game in New York featured a few high moments, several low moments, and one weird moment. Neil Diamond's distorted, off-tempo rendition of "Sweet Caroline" just prior to Mariano Rivera's final appearance as an All-Star was one of the worst—but Fox did its best to cover that...

Fox Sports Pundit To Fan: “Speak English, I Don't Speak Ghetto”

As previously noted here, Fox Sports pundit/middling professional fighter Chael Sonnen is an asshole who does all sorts of things that one has a hard time imagining, say, fellow Fox Sports pundits Terry Bradshaw or Tim McCarver getting away with. There even seems to be a pattern to these things! He...

Reporter Gets Run Over By Football Player While Conducting Interview

Here's Fox Sports Next reporter Amy Campbell conducting a run-of-the-mill interview while at a showcase for the nation's top high school football recruits. Everything is going fine until HOLY SHIT AMY LOOK OUT!...

Bill Raftery Leaving ESPN For Fox Sports

Fox Sports 1, which launches in August, has poached its biggest name from Bristol: Bill Raftery is joining Fox Sports 1 after more than three decades with ESPN. He'll do Big East games with Gus Johnson. Enjoy that, internet. ...