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This Is On Yahoo!'s Home Page Right Now

Twelve hours later, and Yahoo! has yet to get the news. Good luck, Verizon....

Rand Getlin: "The NFL Network And I Mutually Agreed To Part Ways"

Earlier this evening, John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal reported that national NFL reporter Rand Getlin was gone from the NFL Network after a little more than a year there....

Why Was Mitch Williams Fired From MLB Network? Why Is He Suing His Former Employer? 

Mitch “Wild Thing” Williams’s lawsuit against MLB Network was scheduled to go to trial this week in New Jersey, two years after the former major-league pitcher and TV analyst filed a complaint in Camden County Superior Court alleging—among other things—breach of contract, negligent misrepresentation...

Kevin Harlan's Play-By-Play Radio Call Of The <i>MNF</i> Idiot On The Field Is An All-Timer

The Idiot On The Field during tonight’s Monday Night Football game didn’t get much TV airtime, but Westwood One radio announcer Kevin Harlan gave the incident a treatment you absolutely MUST hear....

Fox Sports And <i>SI</i> Have No One But Each Other<em></em>

Earlier today, Sports Illustrated and Fox Sports announced a “multiyear advertising and editorial agreement,” as per the Wall Street Journal, an arrangement that can only be read as two listing giants seeking to prop each other up. ...

Perhaps NBC Could Focus On The "Live" Part

NBC’s Olympics ratings are down 17%....

NFL On Tirico Ban: "It's In The Contract!"

Report: NFL Banned Mike Tirico From Calling Thursday Night Football On NBC

Mike Tirico served as the voice of Monday Night Football for a decade, and when he announced his departure from ESPN to join NBC, it was widely reported that he’d be serving in the play-by-play role for that network’s new Thursday night NFL package. But that’s not going to happen, because the NFL sa...

Internal Email, Texts Reveal NDSU President Endorsed Banning Media Outlets

When NDSU president Dean Bresciani rescinded a ban on news organizations covering the Bison unless they paid for media rights last week, he condemned the policy—stating that he was “profoundly disappointed” in it. Internal emails and texts acquired by SayAnythingBlog.com’s Rob Port reveal that Bresc...

NDSU President Rescinds Media Ban, AD Offers Stale Apology

North Dakota State thought it could strong-arm media members and organizations not paying for rights by barring them from, among other things, live tweeting from games or interviewing coaches. Essentially, the school’s athletic department hoped it could get away with preventing local bloggers and b...

If You Had Your Own Sports Talk Radio Show, What Would It Be Called?

We started discussing a ranking of local sports talk radio show names this morning, but concluded it would be a lot more fun to let you come up with your own—so we made a sports talk radio show generator! Just plug in your name, the name of a co-host, and the call letters of your fictional station t...

NDSU Effectively Bans Media From Covering Bison Sports Unless They Paid For Rights

North Dakota State is cutting off outlets from covering Bison athletics unless they’ve paid a media rights ransom, according to local Fargo newspaper The Forum....

College Football Playoff Caves To ESPN, Sanity; Semifinal Games Move To Weekends And Holidays

The College Football Playoff semifinals are abandoning New Year’s Eve, mostly, after this past year’s disaster that saw ratings plummet 36% and forced ESPN to issue free make-good ads during the national championship game....

Curt Schilling: ESPN Employs "The Biggest Racists In Sports Commentating"

Yesterday, former ESPNer and current full-time Facebook uncle Curt Schilling gave his first lengthy interview since being fired a week ago for posting the meme that broke the camel’s back. And yes, he’s got some things to say about ESPN and the real racists....

Report: Mike Tirico To Leave ESPN For NBC

This is pretty huge news in the world of sports broadcasting: According to SportsBusiness Daily, Mike Tirico, who has been with ESPN since 1991, has agreed on a contract to join NBC this summer....

<i>Fox Sports Live</i> Relaunches; Spends Most Of Time Mocking Show's Low Ratings

Fox Sports 1 relaunched Fox Sports Live tonight in hopes a revamped format might spark the highlight show’s inexplicably bad ratings. What we got instead was hosts Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole in a miniscule studio repeatedly mocking the previous incarnation’s failures with their signature brand of Ca...

This Photo Of John Wall Will Probably Get More Viewers Than Colin Cowherd's TV Show

Last week, Sports Illustrated reported network Fox Sports 1 is ending Fox Sports Live as we know it, after the would-be SportsCenter competitor helmed by popular Canadian anchors Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole failed to live up to its lofty projections. Its viewership was never particularly commanding, ...

MLB's Blackout Rules Improved By Class Action Lawsuit Settlement 

Major League Baseball’s antiquated blackout rules were rewritten Tuesday, after the league reached an agreement in a class action lawsuit that alleged collusion between teams and television networks in erecting boundaries around where certain games could be aired. The settlement resulted from a numb...

Reports: ESPN College Football Playoff Game Ratings Went Into Toilet [UPDATES]

Three months of annoying, Kimmel-led promos and awkward corporate tie-ins weren’t enough to keep ESPN’s college football playoff semifinal TV ratings from plummeting on a New Year’s Eve, the traditions of which have never featured watching college football at home....

Even Disney Jr. Can't Escape The College Football Playoff Cross-Branding

We noted last night that ESPN corporate parent Disney shoved a bunch of hilariously bad references to the college football playoff games on New Year’s Eve into yesterday’s episode of General Hospital. Commenter JortReform noted that even Disney Jr. had been running tie-in promos, and we caught one o...