NBC investigating IndyCar commentator Paul Tracy for racist Facebook post, Tracy claims it’s a fake account
NBC is "continuing to investigate the situation."
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Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy boxing matches will be streamed live on Facebook
Facebook will stream live events and original programming produced by Golden Boy Promotions
Fox will stream a BIG3 game on Facebook each week in addition to three on Fox or FS1
The BIG3 is coming to Facebook, but how much of an audience will it find there?
Could WWE sell digital rights for Monday Night RAW and SmackDown?
Could we see Amazon or Facebook stream RAW and SmackDown in the near future?
MLB hopes to eliminate porn bots from future Facebook broadcasts
The comment section on Thursday's Phillies-Diamondbacks broadcast filled up with, um, suspicious users.
Facebook’s exclusive baseball broadcasts have averaged only 65,000-85,000 viewers per game
Not too many people are tuning into Facebook's MLB package.
How MLB can improve on its Facebook-exclusive streaming game telecasts
MLB on Facebook certainly has room for improvements and we have some suggestions.
A brief history of Twitter users confusing Nationals beat writer Mark Zuckerman with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg runs Facebook. Mark Zuckerman covers the Nationals. A disturbing number of Twitter users can't tell the difference.
MLB on Facebook Watch debut tried to make adjustments on the fly, but alienated some fans
The debut had its ups and downs including a glitch in the 5th inning
Will fans embrace MLB games only available on Facebook?
The Great MLB on Facebook Experiment is about to begin.
CBS Sports and Stadium will both produce some games exclusively for Facebook as part of new Conference USA deal
In addition to games for CBSSN, CBS will produce three football games and six basketball games per year exclusively for Facebook. And Stadium will do the same for seven football games and 10 basketball games per year.
Facebook hires Eurosport’s Peter Hutton to pursue global live sports rights deals
Hutton has plenty of experience in global sports rights, once acquiring European Olympics rights for Eurosport.
After reducing news in feeds, Facebook plans to emphasize “high quality” news with user survey. What does that mean for sports?
Will Facebook's surveys about "trusted" news outlets affect the visibility of those outlets' sports coverage? What about sports-only outlets?
NowThis brings their website back after three years. Will other publishers follow?
In 2015, NowThisNews shuttered its website to live exclusively on social media platforms, saying "Homepage. Even the word sounds old." Now, they've brought their website back.
Ratings be damned, the NFL will still command high media rights fees
If you think the NFL will see less money for Thursday Night Football, think again
