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Southern California chase ends with truck flipping, suspect taken down, and anchor’s Gus Johnson-level “Game over!”
"They are attempting a pit maneuver! Whoa, here we go! The vehicle flipped over, oh my goodness! Vehicle flipped over, westbound Lampson Avenue, CHP said 'Game over!'"
Kirk Minihane won’t return to WEEI, will shift to Entercom’s Radio.com and launch a new national show
Minihane will launch a column and podcast for Radio.com in January, then a new national show with a yet-to-be-named cohost.
WGN’s attempt to crush news vans with a tank on live TV, in a “morning news primetime special,” did not go as smoothly...
What do you do when your tank gets stuck mid-crush?
The neverending Nationals-Orioles slapfest over MASN and rights fees could end this week (but probably won’t)
This dispute over Nationals' rights fees on MASN has been raging for the better part of six years.
San Francisco CBS affiliate KPIX runs, then deletes, “Even Usain Bolt couldn’t outrun the Paradise fire” tweet and story (updated)
No human is close to as fast as this fire, so bringing up Bolt in detail was a poor choice, even before they mixed up "incarcerated" and "incinerated."
The Yankees intend to buy YES Network back from Fox & Disney at ‘fair-market value’
When Disney bought 21st Century Fox’s movie and television assets for $71.3 billion, it came with a caveat from...
Bids for the Fox Sports RSNs were due last week, but neither Fox nor Comcast seem interested (yet)
If Fox Sports and NBC Sports are out, who's in?
MLB’s in-market streaming deals have expired, and the league is once again clashing with RSNs about new deals
The in-market streaming deals between MLB and its RSNs have expired, and renewal talks are not going well.
Red Sox analyst Jerry Remy declares he’s “cancer free … hopefully forever”
Remy had to leave the NESN booth back in August and made some brief appearances through October
Ottawa Senators ban Postmedia reporter from team charter in apparent retaliation for republishing Uber video
This is yet another PR misstep from the Senators.
One private equity firm pursuing the Fox regional sports networks is trying to land LeBron’s Uninterrupted as “a strategic partner”
"Apollo's talks with James' multimedia platform have focused on a strategic partnership deal that could see James contributing and advising on content for the networks."
This Week In Hot Takes: Bill James says replacing every MLB player “would make no difference whatsoever” three years later
"If the players all retired tomorrow, we would replace them, the game would go on; in three years it would make no difference whatsoever. The players are NOT the game, any more than the beer vendors are."
Las Vegas NBC affiliate sports director accused of masturbating at bar slot machine at 8:30 a.m., says he was scratching a bad rash
"A worker told responding officers they noticed the patron display “strange behavior,” which included walking to the bathroom with his penis outside his pants, police said."
Mike Francesa ‘made the mistake’ of listening to WFAN’s Boomer & Gio, which he thinks ‘stinks’
The relationship between WFAN morning hosts Gregg Giannotti and Boomer Esiason and afternoon host Mike Francesa has been fraught...
Former WFAN host Craig Carton convicted of fraud over ticket-buying Ponzi scheme
It’s been a little over a year since then-WFAN host Craig Carton was arrested by the FBI on...
