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Less than 100 days out.   Here's CBC's coverage plans ..read more

Will NBC put games on USA if it's able to get the NBA instead of putting it on peacock ..read more

No Greg Gumbel this year as he's tending to health issues within his family.     ..read more

NBC Sports California has hired Jenny Cavnar as their new Athletics play-by-play announcer. She becomes the first female lead play-by-play announcer in MLB history, and only the third in the four major leagues ..read more

CNBC is reporting this evening that ESPN, FOX & Warner Brothers/Discovery are going to launch a yet to be named streaming service for sports, don't know much more than that yet.  (Notably absent from this are Comcast's NBC Universal  &  Capital Amusements CBS).   https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/06/espn-fox-and-warner-bros-discovery-to-launch-joint-sports-streaming-platform-this-year.html     ..read more

The USFL and XFL are merging into a brand new spring football league -- the United Football League. The first season under the newly formed entity is on March 30.   https://deadline.com/2023/12/united-football-league-plans-xfl-usfl-merger-1235684077 ..read more

I've noticed this the last couple of weeks for Monday Night Football (ABC not ESPN for what it's worth) that the audio intermittently cuts out for a brief second. It's almost like they're censoring language, but then it happens when only Joe and Troy are talking as well.    ABC issue? Language censoring? Something else ..read more

Paramount Global announced just over a week ago that Showtime’s sports division will shut down at the end of 2023, meaning that all sports content within the company, and any content that may air on Showtime will be expected to be produced by CBS Sports beginning in 2024. Showtime Sports launched in 1986 and has been known for its coverage of boxing (primarily under the Showtime Championship Boxing and ShoBox: The New Generation banners) and mixed martial arts (namely the Bellator MMA promotion) on both the Showtime network and pay-per-view ..read more

The NHL preseason has begun, and we've already got Monumental's new graphics     A little big for my liking, but it's pretty much just a flatter version of the ESPN one so there's nothing revolutionary here ..read more