Awful Announcing
"I didn't even mention the fact that there's so many young African-American boys and girls that look up in the stands and see nobody. A black man showing up at the gym, showing his kid love and putting on a show for the fans that are there? That's a great thing. Pssssh. Y'all sound crazy."
'That clapback took you two weeks? Who are you, George Costanza? You know what else you could have been doing the past two weeks? NBA reporting!"
"Chris Broussard, who worked at Fox and is the biggest fucking fraud in the history of sports media, ever...saying that the Clippers were out of it for sure and it was down to the Lakers and Raptors, he knew nothing! They knew nothing! It's all bullshit!"
Fox has experimented with alternate feeds before, but only digitally. On Thursday, they'll have their first alternate feed on a linear channel.
'Q Ball' follows the San Quentin Warriors basketball team (of California's San Quentin Prison), and premieres May 28 on FS1.
Broussard claims to have "over 60 direct messages" from Durant that proves they have privately spoken.
"Q Ball" follows the lives of the San Quentin Warriors, a basketball team inside California’s San Quentin State Prison.
“We’ve grown past ‘embrace debate.’ I think we’re a more mature network now. I think we have some shows with a little more element of debate and others that are smart, entertaining and interesting to sports fans.”
Turner has posted some nice ratings gains for UEFA Champions League coverage relative to Fox's numbers from last year, but the jump isn't as big if you don't include the games on low-distribution FS2.
Bucher tweeted Saturday that he's officially joining FS1. It sounds like he'll still work for Bleacher Report as well.
ESPN2 is no longer #2 among sports networks, which is a massive shift.
In September, our own Andrew Buchholz wondered if Eric Dickerson’s days with FS1 were numbered given his outspoken...
"I wasn't mad at him, I was mad at the network. Like, 'I told you. I know this show better than anyone else. Cris Carter is incredible, but he will not work on this show. It's not going to work for him.' They didn't listen."
The BIG3 season ended on a high note for Fox Sports.
