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Is Major League Baseball ready for ABS? We can safely assume that Los Angeles Dodgers announcers Joe Davis and Eric Karros would answer that question with a resounding yes. After striking out Bryce Johnson and Martín Maldonado on three pitches each to start the top of the third inning in… Read more »

NBA fans and media members alike haven’t been shy in voicing their complaints on social media about the presentation quality of the 2025 NBA Finals. But, to the league’s credit, they have been open to change in regards to catering to what viewers at home want to see both before and… Read more »

How does a news broadcast deliver highlights when none are available? If you’re Josh Frydman and Jarrett Payton of Chicago’s WGN, you improvise new highlights. As Frydman shared on X (formerly Twitter) noted, “the server that stores all of the station’s video content” was down. But the broadcast still had… Read more »

While regular ESPN viewers see a lot of Stephen A. Smith, Thursday’s SportsCenter gave viewers the chance to see a side of Smith not often seen on camera — his paternal side. Smith and Elle Duncan were on the floor at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, discussing Game 6 of the NBA Finals… Read more »

It was a strange sight to see during halftime of Game 5 of the NBA Finals: ESPN analysts Stephen A. Smith and Kendrick Perkins hammering Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton for gutting it out through a calf injury. Before long, FS1’s Emmanuel Acho had joined them, making for two former… Read more »

The blending of user generated content and traditional media may take another step forward before we know it. According to a report by John Ourand of Puck, YouTube piloted ManningCast-style viewing experiences led by content creators during last NFL season. In an interview with Janice Min of The Ankler, YouTube CEO… Read more »

One of the stranger media beefs in recent memory came after The Ringer’s Bill Simmons went after Meadowlark Media’s Pablo Torre for Torre’s reporting on Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson. And while Katie Nolan has guested on Simmons’ podcast (and vice versa) in the past, she’s more regularly appeared on… Read more »

ESPN’s preeminent NFL insider flexed a different muscle on Thursday morning. Adam Schefter swapped his cell phone for a microphone and followed the featured group of Rory McIlroy and Keegan Bradley during the first round of the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship for PGA Tour Live. But Schefty didn’t completely rid… Read more »

While everyone had an opinion on Stephen A. Smith calling the city of Memphis unsafe this week on First Take, the whole conversation technically started as a discussion of the Grizzlies trading guard Desmond Bane to Orlando. So it was only fitting that Bane himself have a chance to respond… Read more »

The end of Around the Horn, the long-running sports game show on ESPN, became a massive news story this spring in part because its typically quiet host Tony Reali finally came out of the shadows to discuss the show and his career. Suddenly, as ATH headed toward its finale in late… Read more »