Awful Announcing News Updates

New Orleans Pelicans fans can breathe easy knowing there will be a pair of familiar voices returning to the broadcast booth next season. The franchise announced on Monday that the veteran announcing duo of play-by-play commentator Joel Meyers and analyst Antonio Daniels will be returning for their seventh season together… Read more »

In Seinfeld‘s Season 4 episode, “The Pilot,” Jerry joked that some people are locked into their future jobs at birth by the names their given. The example he cited was that a baby named Jeeves can’t grow up to be anything but a butler. Bowling Green linebacker Gideon Lampron has a… Read more »

Cadillac will join the Formula One grid next season, and they’re pulling out all the stops to make a splashy entrance. It was announced that Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves will present a docuseries on Cadillac’s journey to becoming F1’s 11th team on Wednesday. The multi-episode series will go behind the… Read more »

In a deal announced on Wednesday, Canada’s Rogers Communications Inc. owns a majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, giving the communications and media company a huge stake in several Toronto sports teams. Eric Fisher of Front Office Sports detailed the specifics. “Canadian media giant Rogers Communications closed on… Read more »

Primetime games are going to take on a different feel in Madden NFL 26. On Wednesday, EA revealed custom broadcast graphics for Thursday, Sunday, and Monday night matchups in the video game. And while Madden can’t use the Amazon, NBC, or ESPN broadcast elements that viewers are accustomed to in real life,… Read more »

All Times Eastern Australian Rules Football AFL Men’s — Round 17 Carlton Blues vs. Collingwood Magpies — FS1, 5 a.m. (Friday) West Coast Eagles vs. Greater Western Sydney Giants — Fox Soccer Plus, 6 a.m. (Friday) CFL Week 5 Winnipeg Blue Bombers at Calgary Stampeders — TSN1/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5/CBS Sports Network, 9… Read more »

On this week’s episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast, host Brandon Contes interviews ESPN NBA analyst and host of The ALL NBA Podcast Tim Legler. Brandon and Tim discuss a wide range of topics including how things like three point shooting and physicality in the NBA has changed since he played… Read more »

While the New York Mets haven’t given their fans much joy on the baseball field over the last few weeks, Tuesday’s matinee of a doubleheader vs the Milwaukee Brewers produced a wholesome moment on the SNY broadcast that you can’t help but smile at. In the top of the fifth… Read more »

With the San Diego Padres in town to take on the Philadelphia Phillies, John Kruk did not let the opportunity to tell jokes and stories about his friend and former teammate, Padres analyst Mark Grant, go to waste. While Grant, nicknamed Mud, normally serves as the television color analyst for… Read more »

Joe Buck was close with Mark McGwire. Really close. The play-by-play voice of the St. Louis Cardinals for 17 years, who still has a standing invitation to return to their broadcast booth, has called some of the greatest moments in modern sports history. Including McGwire’s record-breaking 62nd home run in… Read more »