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Father of twins; fan of Toronto, NYC and Buffalo; Writer @theathletic ; host of Sports Media Podcast; Sports Illustrated/Prime Time Sports alum.
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PUBLICATION DAY!:
The book is available wherever you get your favorite books.
To buy:
Here's the list of the writers whose work is featured in The Year's Best Sports Writing 2023.
There are also 180+ writers listed in the Honorable Mention section.
Incredible work by all.
To preorder:
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I think ESPN should broadcast the CFP national championship for the love of the game. Go commercial free. Accept no ad dollars. No promoting Disney products. No executive takes a paycheck that week. On-air talent does it gratis.
Do this for the love of the game.
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You guys suspended her.
Congratulations! NABJ names Jemele Hill as its “Journalist Of The Year”; the award recognizes The Undefeated's columnist for her "distinguished body of work"
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I covered 17 U.S.Opens for Sports Illustrated. This is just my opinion: There is no way a men’s player with Serena resume (multiple GS titles, economic driver of the sport) is getting a third code violation for that language in the finals of a major. No way.
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ESPN Films and Netflix are partnering for a multi-part 10-hour documentary about Michael Jordan. Coming out in 2019. Jordan has signed off on his participation.
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How LeBron James played in this series against one of the greatest teams in NBA history elevates him historically in my eyes.
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Soccer fans:
NBC says Arsenal’s 3-2 win over Manchester United on Sunday is the most-watched Premier League match in U.S. history with 1.92 million viewers across NBC, Peacock and NBC Sports Digital platforms.
Telemundo had 382,000 viewers.
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Via sources: TNT will no longer air the Players Only NBA broadcast. Turner Sports will likely do some Players Only content but as far as games for the 2019-20 season, the Players Only broadcast on TNT is no more.
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Tonight is a night you really want thoughtful people on air. You want people who don't speculate. You want people with basic humanity. Lisa Salters, Booger McFarland, Ryan Clark, Joe Buck, Scott Van Pelt and pretty much everyone on ESPN so far has really done this tonight.
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ESPN is going to have a new Monday Night Football booth. Joe Tessitore and Booger McFarland will not return, via sources. The successors will be internal. No decision has been made yet. Both Tessitore and McFarland will remain in prominent roles at ESPN.
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No bullshit reality: McAfee/his show can book pretty much anyone in sports right now. He could easily go high-profile NFL/CFB guest daily.
So him putting on a newspaper columnist who covers Caitlin Clark is excellent.
And this was leading into a game on Peacock and not ESPN.
"Caitlin Clark has so much spotlight on her all the time..
She's averaging 32 plus points a game this season and she needs 8 points to break the record" ~
@ChadLeistikow
#PMSLive
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@mooremaya
4 WNBA Titles.
2 NCAA Titles.
2 Olympic Gold medals.
125-3 in high school.
3 Chinese League titles.
28 years old.
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"I'm pissed off," said Rex Ryan. "I supported Donald Trump. [These comments] are appalling to me... I never signed up for that."
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I covered many women's basketball title games.
This is the worst officiated women's title game I've seen. Not hyperbole. The worst.
Let them play, refs. You can't eliminate star players like that.
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Preakness viewership:
2020: 2.4 million viewers
2019: 5.41 million
2018: 7.90 million
2017: 7.54 million
What is absolutely clear here is that the public has decided that these 3-year-olds have politicized horse racing to the point where viewers will no longer watch.
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I thought Diana Taurasi gave a really interesting answer today about broadcasters making comparisons when it comes to women's college basketball and WNBA players. Something to think about.
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Some (very good) sports media news:
CBS will be changing the NCAA Selection Show from last year's broadcast on TBS. No rolling out all the teams in alphabetical order this year. They will return to unveiling the teams in brackets when you first see them on the screen.
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Here is
@SportsCenter
tribute to the life of Stuart Scott. Produced with care and love. Well done.
http://t.co/GhrI65NnxD
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Greg Olsen deserves all the praise he gets. He took advantage of a huge opportunity (Aikman to ESPN) and has become a terrific listen. Highest compliment a sports TV analyst can get? Do you learn something from his or her broadcast. He delivers that.
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The women’s title game between LSU and Iowa averaged 9.9 million viewers.
Just in: CNN's town hall with Donald Trump averaged 3.1 million total viewers. The event outrated Fox and MSNBC, as expected, but these are not 2015/16 level numbers for Trump — not even close.
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What LeBron James does every night, at 33 years old, for as many years as he has done it, with the expectation of greatness every night, might be the greatest thing I’ve seen in sports.
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Game 7 of the Nuggets-Jazz drew 3.385 million viewers on ABC. One of the most-watched games since the restart and very big for the NBA — a non-LeBron James game drawing robust numbers. Tops among all demos (Adults watching 18-34, 18-49 and 24-54.)
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Doris Burke makes history: Will be a fulltime NBA game analyst on national NBA broadcasts.
@SInow
Media:
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This is a really poignant segment for sports television. Watch it.
Shaq's sister, Ayesha Harrison-Jex, died of cancer at 40 years old this morning.
The Inside crew send their condolences 🙏
(via
@NBAonTNT
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I’ve said this for many years and I’ll say it again today:
Clark Kellogg is always prepared, thoughtful and delivers insight during the NCAA Tournament. He also does a great job letting the Turner guys do their thing.
An underrated studio analyst with years of excellence.
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The
@TheAthletic
's Sports Media Person of 2022, as told by people who work with him, is
@PatMcAfeeShow
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To put this in perspective. This game tops...
• Every World Series game last year.
• Every NBA Finals game last year.
• Every Daytona 500 since 2013.
• Every Masters final round viewership since 2013.
• All but five CFB games in 2023.
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Last Wed. the Skip Bayless-led Undisputed drew 99,000 viewers. On same day in same timeslot: Bubble Guppies drew 858,000 on Nickelodeon.
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CBS will once again do a Nickelodeon broadcast for the NFL Wildcard weekend.
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No national media entity has been more connected to Special Olympics than ESPN. Cover this one, ESPN. Don’t worry about any assholes calling you out on a bullshit narrative for covering a political story. It’s a human story your company is massively invested in.
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The fact is
@ddale8
could never do what he’s doing on Twitter for NYT. The NYT establishment would rein him in. Maybe WaPo but I’m not 100% sure. He’s become the most invaluable political reporter I follow. Let his bosses know at
@TorontoStar
how remarkable this dude is.
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The 30 for 30 on Jon Gruden trading Khalil Mack is going to be great.
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The fact that Mike Golic is trending and has engendered such positive reception from people as he concludes his long run on ESPN Radio is literally the reason why the decision to remove Golic from a permanent spot on ESPN Radio is so short-sighted.
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Just write Romo a blank check, CBS, and let him fill in the number.
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Last Wednesday the Skip Bayless-led Undisputed drew 90,000 viewers.
On same day in same timeslot: Scooby Doo drew 454,000 on Cartoon Net.
On today's Undisputed, I ran thru 12 games over last 4 yrs in which Saban D has been TORCHED. Saint Nick? Sometimes he's more Ain't Nick.
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I've written this many times.
I'll write it here again:
That ESPN management did not find a regular place on ESPN Radio for Mike Golic — the most known commodity in the history of ESPN Radio and someone its audience is clearly fond of — is a massive failure of management.
.
@espngolic
's first sports media job was in 1996 as a local Phoenix radio host. Now 25 yrs later, he is back in Arizona – a HOF broadcaster - for the
@Fiesta_Bowl
, his final ESPN telecast after more than two decades with our company.
#ThankYouGolic
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ESPN has something really special going with Andraya Carter and Chiney Ogwumike as studio analysts together. Smart, analytical and currency — they can relate to young viewers.
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It is immensely frustrating on this day to know that ESPN management was willing to pay Skip Bayless millions of dollars last year to stay.
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I am glad to see Dr. Fauci do this.
This podcast has a massive audience and he can really have an impact on those who listen.
Tomorow's
@PardonMyTake
is maybe one of the most important sodes weve ever done: Dr Anthony Fauci- the Director of NIAID in charge of leading our countrys response to COVID-19 virus discusses what steps we need to take. AWLs will save the World
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Naomi Osaka lighting the Olympic cauldron is going to piss off so many assholes — and I cannot love it more.
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Skip Bayless, paid $6.5 million annually, is averaging a 0.0 rating in 18 United States television markets.
Cavs wouldn't be clowning if they had to play healthy Spurs in the Finals. Last time LeBron faced them, he lost by a record Finals margin.
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The
@UConnWBB
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@IowaWBB
Sweet 16 game on Saturday drew 1.559 million viewers on ABC.
@BaylorWBB
-
@umichwbball
drew 1.223 million.
*No one cares.
*No one watches women's basketball.
*Stop being woke for retweets.
*Yeah, but the men drew more.
Again: Put the WBB title game on ABC.
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Jim Nantz's broadcasting assignments over the next four months:
AFC Divisional Game.
AFC Championship.
Super Bowl.
NCAA CBB tournament.
NCAA Final Four and title game.
The Masters.
PGA Championship.
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O.J. Simpson and Aaron Hernandez killed people.
"What we have just witnessed is the most unprofessional act that I can ever remember seeing in professional sports ..."
—
@Espngreeny
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This man, via enablers from ESPN and Fox Sports management, has been doing this to LeBron James for more than a decade. Anyone associated with putting this oleaginous monorail salesman on the air should be ashamed.
This is funny: LeBron is now lying on the floor during the championship presentation, sending the message to Blind Witnesses he carried a heavy load the whole game and throughout the playoffs.
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NEWS: ESPN has signed
@sportsiren
to a longterm deal. Her contact was up in April.
She will continue to work on major ESPN events including college football, Women's Final Four, WNBA, Women's College World Series.
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Congrats to Undisputed for averaging an 0.1 rating in Chicago, Denver and St. Louis. But just ONCE I’d love to see this show collect on its millions in marketing and in-house ads on Big Fox by beating Paw Patrol and reruns of classic game shows on GSN. That would be greatness.
Congrats to LeBron for making that shot. But just ONCE I'd love to see him do what he does better than anyone ever, freight-train to the basket ... and have the guts to shoot the free throws if need be. THAT would be greatness.
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So many years of "no one cares", "no one is watching", "kitchen", "a high school can team can beat them" and on and on.
Iowa-LSU is going to draw millions of viewers on Monday night.
For an Elite Eight game.
On cable.
Welcome to the motherfucking new world.
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On Jan. 12, Undisputed drew 105,000 viewers.
On same day/slot, a Columbo rerun on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries drew 319,000.
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No ratings tweets on this one.
Just a reminder that executives have paid this clownfuck sports TV goon millions and it's sickening.
If Gordon Hayward is gone, maybe for the season, LeBron's path to losing a sixth finals gets even easier.
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I've said this before: This tweet never leaves me, and I'm sure many others too.
In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.
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One of the reasons I think NBA television ratings are skyrocketing this year is because neither the players nor coaches discuss social issues.
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Booger McFarland was absolutely tremendous tonight in the fourth quarter. It's also good for ESPN and the NFL in the longterm. You want the people airing your product to be honest. MNF viewers had to suffer for years with analysts who saw everything via NFL-colored glasses.
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Pat McAfee announced today on his show that Aaron Rodgers is done as a guest for the NFL season.
From everything I understand: McAfee made that call (as I have written he has creative control & control of guest booking).
Obviously, I AM CERTAIN ESPN supports this.
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1. Roger Federer 20
2. Rafael Nadal19
3. Novak Djokovic 16
We are fortunate to live in the greatest era of men's tennis.
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Just got distracted by the fact that I knew this dude would clownfuck LeBron off this so I think it's WORTH NOTING THAT BUBBLE GUPPIES, PAW PATROL AND PUPPY DOG PALS BEATS THIS MANS SHOW BY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF VIEWERS DAILY.
Just got distracted for a second by a phone call. LEBRON GOT THROWN OUT FOR THE 1ST TIME IN HIS CAREER FOR USING FOUL LANGUAGE COMPLAINING ABOUT A CALL??? IN THE 4TH Q OF A BLOWOUT WIN??? WHY WOULD HE EVEN CARE AT THAT POINT??? STAT-PADDING???
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I'm old enough to remember Lou Holtz when he was just a spectacularly shitty college football studio analyst for ESPN from 2004 to 2015.
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VERY COOL: MLB Network will air Game 1 of the 1968 World Series today at 1:30pm ET. Bob Gibson had 17 strikeouts in the game.
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.
@jemelehill
is leaving
@SportsCenter
for a new role with
@TheUndefeated
and other ESPN projects:
@SInow
Media:
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Per sources: Gus Johnson and Aqib Talib are going to team up this year for some NFL games on Fox. It won't be a full season of games but weeks Fox has an extra game. That's going to be a fun listen IMO.
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NFL Network analyst Kurt Warner this morning on Trump/NFL:
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Again: What LeBron James does every night, at 33 years old, for as many years as he has done it, with the expectation of greatness every night, might be the greatest thing I’ve seen in sports.
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I remain astonished/dumfounded as to the lack of collective anger toward Russia's clear intentions to screw with our democracy. Anyone else?
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“These NBA players choosing to play with the Warriors are ruining the game.”
- Sports Media dude who left his outlet to join an organization with more resources, more revenue and more opportunity for career advancement with his new outlet or the next one.
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Something that gets lost today but the thing I take away most from everything said and written about Urban Meyer today:
Courtney Smith is a courageous woman. An entire system is set up against her.
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ESPN/ABC is averaging 5,226 million viewers across 27 games for 2023 NBA postseason. That's the most watched NBA playoffs ever on ESPN platforms through first two rounds.
Game 7 Celtics-Sixers: 8.441 million viewers.
Most watched conference semifinals game on ABC in 12 years
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The real MVP is the cast of Paw Patrol, which drew 1.339 million viewers compared to 162,000 for the Bayless-led Undisputed on Nov. 22.
Carson WINCE. As in ouch. I thought this guy was the MVP.
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Paw Patrol's "Pups Save Runway" beat the Bayless-led Undisputed in viewers 1.057 million to 102,000 on Sept. 1. All you need to know.
The Eagles gave Doug Pederson a Gatorade bath for beating Kirk Cousins in Game 1 on a bad call??? All you need to know.
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My prediction for Jim Nantz's winning call:
"He's fucking done it!"
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My PR suggestion:
Good day to sign Colin Kaepernick.
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That’s a great job by Dawn Staley. Owns everything about the situation. Talks to ESPN immediately after the final buzzer. Hall of Famer for a reason.
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On Dec 15, on a national stage, Paw Patrol reinforced why they are the MVPs of morning TV. They insisted on taking the Bayless-led Undisputed head on with a “Pups Save A Snowboard Competition” episode & beat Bayless 1.018 million to 137,000 viewers. Congrats, Chase and Rubble.
Yesterday on the national Christmas stage, Kevin Durant reinforced what he proved as Finals MVP. He insisted on taking LeBron in the 4th quarter, forced him into 4 turnovers, forced an airball from 3 and again proved he's now The Best Player on the Planet. Congrats, KD.
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No matter what happens with Kawhi, I hope Raptors fans really appreciate what Danny Green is doing. He could have easily signed on the opening night of FA - and for really nice money — but has opted to wait so far to KL because he wants to run it back.
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If you want some insane context, this viewership for Iowa-LSU number tops every World Series game in 2023 and all but one NBA Finals game in 2023.
NEW: Iowa’s win over LSU shatters record for most-watched women’s basketball game
12.3 million viewers.
STORY:
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I'm a realist:
The next seven months on this site will be the worst seven months in the history of this site.
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NBCSN said its Penguins-Flyers opener averaged a Total Audience Delivery of 972,000 viewers, the network’s most-watched regular-season NHL game on record.
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Thrilled to announce I'm joining The Athletic starting late next week. I'll be covering sports media & hopefully some women's hoops too. Take a look at some of the great work the staff is doing and here's a special promo code for 30% off the annual plan:
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ESPN's
@30for30
on
@RicFlairNatrBoy
drew 1.831 million viewers. Highest rated show on cable Tuesday night for 18-49 demo.
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For my Canadian brothers and sisters: This monorail salesman clownfuck lied on national television about his high school basketball career. Pay him no mind.
I feel sorry for Toronto fans, chanting MVP at No. 2. He'll soon quit on them, too, as he ducks out in free agency, probably for Los Angeles.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished into the Indian Ocean five years ago, and we still don’t know why. The explanation lies not in the sea but on land—in Malaysia, where officials know more than they dare to say. William Langewiesche reports:
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Broadcasting is always subjective:
To me: Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit are calling an excellent game. Why do I say that?
1. Exceptionally prepared for a league they normally don't call.
2. Easy chemistry. Notice they don't step on each other.
3. Energy and enthusiasm.
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Regarding last night's Field of Dreams game:
Based on overnight ratings per sources — final numbers out later — FOX is looking at its best metered market rating (the rating for the largest media markets/cities in the U.S.) for an MLB regular season game since 2005.
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The Skip Bayless-led Undisputed drew 109,000 viewers on Tuesday.
Nine hours later on the Lifetime Network, Rizzoli & Isles, whose last new show aired on September 5, 2016, drew 380,000 viewers.
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"The President of the United States is racist."
That's how Don Lemon of CNN started his broadcast tonight.
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I remember
@PatMcAfeeShow
imploring people that Nyheim Hines was going to make an impact with the Bills upon being traded from the Colts.
Today:
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Man….
#Gonzaga
has suspended the season tickets of its most prominent alum, John Stockton, for failing to comply with the school's mask mandate.
What's next for Stockton and his alma mater?
"I’m sure we’ll get through it, but it’s not without some conflict."
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The USWNT have scored more goals today against Thailand than the U.S. men scored in the 2010 and 2014 World Cups.
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Wow. I mean, wow.
ESPN’s Jon Gruden in 2016: The NFL should “cut” Colin Kaepernick for protesting.
ABC’s Howard Cosell in 1968:
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This will seem foreign to 20-somethings but once upon a time one of the greatest things ever was buying USA TODAY on the Monday after the brackets came out to get all capsules of the teams.
One of the great newspaper editions ever.
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CNN has Kellyanne Conway yet again. This is of course pro wrestling. You have Conway on to create conflict TV and get a viral clip. IMO: CNN plays itself every time with viewers such as myself who want to believe the network is different. It’s not.
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Can't tell if FS1 is paying a dude $6.5 million annually to troll star athletes while drawing less viewers than Andy Griffith reruns.
Can't tell if Odell just putting on melodramatic show for MNF camera - or if he's really hurt. Shot he took to a planted leg was NOT GOOD.
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PSA:
ESPNews will air its
@NWSL
game next Sunday at 3 p.m. ET: Portland Thorns vs. Orlando Pride.
Orlando: Alex Morgan, Ashlyn Harris, Ali Krieger, Camila, and...Marta.
Portland: Tobin Heath, Lindsey Horan, Adrianna Franch, Emily Sonnett. and ...Christine Sinclair.
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Steve Freaking Kerr.
Steve Kerr had some strong words pregame about ESPN's coverage of LaVar Ball:
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On April 13 the Bayless-led Undisputed drew 98,000 viewers.
On the same day/slot: Bubble Guppies drew 1.045 million on Nickelodeon.
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The last time the
@BuffaloBills
were in the AFC Championship? January 23, 1994
The opponent?
@Chiefs
The post-game interviewer for NBC? O.J. Simpson.
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