0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 9/27/2016
Ball and strike calls from home plate umpires get plenty of scrutiny during the MLB regular season. But the spotlight will be even more intense in about a week when the postseason begins, and we’ll surely see plenty of calls on Twitter for #RobotUmps. On the latest edition of HBO’s Real Sports (premiering Tuesday, Sept. […]
0 comments by Shlomo Sprung
Hall Of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. will be calling his fourth postseason as a game analyst for TBS beginning with the American League Wild Card game on Oct. 4 and continuing through this year’s American League Championship Series partnered with Ernie Johnson and Ron Darling. In a one-on-one interview with Awful Announcing, Ripken discussed what […]
0 comments by Andrew Bucholtz
Former LSU football coach Les Miles’ firing this weekend means the college football world is without one of its most colorful figures, at least until Miles gets another job. It means we’ll have no grass eating, no skyscraper rappelling, no Columbus Day celebrations, no dunking on his children and no WWE promos about how he […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
All Times Eastern Boxing Premier Boxing Champions, Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino, Santa Fe, NM Welterweights Yordenis Ugas vs. Bryant Perrella — FS1, 8 p.m. College Football B1G Football Coaches Press Conference 2016 — Big Ten Network, 11:30 a.m. B1G Football & Beyond — Big Ten Network, noon College Football Live — ESPN, 1:30 p.m. […]
0 comments by Andrew Bucholtz on 9/26/2016
While many sports fans may be tuning into Monday Night Football rather than the first Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump presidential debate Monday, the Clinton campaign’s still trying to reach them. They’re even tailoring their message to fantasy football fans, as evidenced by the ads they ran on ESPN.com’s fantasy football page Monday: That stereotype will certainly […]
0 comments by Jay Rigdon
Sometimes you can’t really add a whole lot to a story as a writer. Jose Fernandez’s death is still weighing heavily on the sport, and on his Marlins teammates in particular. Tonight, the entire roster wore Fernandez #16 jerseys. Dee Gordon, a lefty, took the first pitch he saw leading off the Miami first while […]
0 comments by Andrew Bucholtz
We’ve seen plenty of college football coaches try to restrict access to certain media members or outlets, but McNeese State coach Lance Guidry is approaching restrictions from the other side, saying after Saturday’s win over Incarnate Word that he would prohibit all of his players from speaking to any media going forward. As Chandler Rome […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
Consider this your warning – ESPN talking head Stephen A. Smith will join the broadcast team of November’s fight between Manny Pacquiao and Jessie Vargas. Smith, a noted defender of Floyd Mayweather, will join a broadcast crew which will also include Brian Kenny of MLB Network, Charissa Thompson of FOX Sports, and former welterweight champion Timothy Bradley. All are worth noting […]
0 comments by Andrew Bucholtz
We’ve seen ESPN parent company Disney strongly focus on streaming video recently, from their acquisition of MLB’s BAM Tech to their push towards over-the-top ESPN streaming options to their investments in the likes of Vice and Hulu, and their reported interest in making a bid for Twitter may be about that as well. Twitter has […]
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Awful Announcing contributor Jim Weber and former Kentucky quarterback Jared Lorenzen recap Week 4 of the 2016 college football season. That includes Les Miles’ latest disastrous clock management vs. Auburn (1:30), Tennessee’s Jekyll & Hyde act this season (4:45), whether Georgia is already regretting the decision to Mark Richt (8:00), Brian Kelly throwing his Notre Dame […]
0 comments by Ben Koo
A few years ago, I wrote about Fox changing their NFL score bug (for those not familiar with that term, it’s the on screen graphic showing game info). I remember being shocked how many people read as well as commented on it. From time to time, the article still sees a spike in traffic with […]
0 comments by John Canton
Clash of Champions was a WWE Raw brand pay-per-view that took place Sunday night in Indianapolis. The event featured plenty of good matches, but was lacking in terms of memorable moments that are needed to get the WWE Universe excited about the weekly shows. The main event saw Kevin Owens defeat Seth Rollins to retain the […]
0 comments by Alex Putterman
Ratings for Twitter’s second week of streaming Thursday Night Football jumped 34 percent, suggesting that the ambitious effort to bring the NFL to social media was going according to plan. But a report from Sports Business Daily’s John Ourand—based on interviews conducted after the first game, on Sept. 15—suggests that ad buyers are not thrilled with how the […]
0 comments by Alex Putterman
Sunday night’s game between the Cowboys and Bears was not close, which meant some time to kill for NBC play-by-play man Al Michaels. Michaels apparently figured he’d use the fourth quarter to practice his vocals, in case he ever chooses to release that Carrie Underwood cover album the world is just dying to hear. The legendary announcer […]
0 comments by Alex Putterman
Jose Fernandez’s tragic death sparked an outpouring of emotion from seemingly everyone who had ever come into contact with the 24-year-old pitcher. That means players, coaches and managers but also writers, who did their best Sunday to put into words what made Fernandez so special. Fernandez’s death brought a wave of emotional and powerful tribute pieces […]
