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A collage of nine MLB local announcing teams for the 2025 MLB local broadcaster rankings. (Images from networks or @awfulannouncing on X; image edit by Andrew Bucholtz.)

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Awful Announcing’s 2025 MLB local broadcaster rankings

A collage of nine MLB local announcing teams for the 2025 MLB local broadcaster rankings. (Images from networks or @awfulannouncing on X; image edit by Andrew Bucholtz.)

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Grade the 2025 local MLB announcers

Bob Costas: ‘Anyone who says that politics has no place in sports has to be abysmally unaware of the history here’

On Meet The Press, Bob Costas covered the history of sports' intersections with politics.

Netflix debuts trailer for Dallas Cowboys docuseries

"The definitive story of the Dallas Cowboys and Jerry Jones’ impact on NFL history."

Tom Brady’s ‘I’m there as a great sounding board’ line on Raiders raises questions

"I'm there as a great sounding board for anything they want to do."

Canadian coach Jesse Marsch’s Gold Cup ‘missing half our group’ about-face drew mockery

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Strong introduced Damion Downs, called his goal with emotion, and then let the crowd tell the story.

CFL sees great announcer jinx on Derek Slywka return touchdown

"Instead of three, it's looking like this will be one."

ESPN betting writer: prop bets ‘potentially incentivize attempts at corruption’

"Modern betting menus, with countless prop bets, potentially incentivize attempts at corruption."

CFL, CFB Hall-of-Famer Tracy Ham on broadcasting: “They kicked me out because I said ‘us’ and ‘we’ too much!”

"I’d go, ‘Hey, we have to do this.’ ‘Oh, you can't say ‘We gotta go.’ But that's my team, right?"

Senators’ comms exec Ian Mendes has laptop stolen ahead of NHL draft

"Insert @DownGoesBrown joke here about things happening to Senators laptops on draft day."

New B/R Racing correspondent Dylan “Mamba” Smith. (Bleacher Report.)

Bleacher Report

Dylan ‘Mamba’ Smith talks working with Bleacher Report, TNT Sports for NASCAR In-Season Challenge

WWE’s live international broadcast from Saudi Arabia hit a half-hour delay over power outage

While the international viewers watching this WWE event saw a power outage interruption, U.S. viewers won't see that thanks to tape delay.