NBC Sports inks deal with World Series of Fighting
The World Series of Fighting has joined the ranks of network television, providing UFC with competition on the MMA television landscape. MMAJunkie released a report on Monday after confirming the new...
View ArticleWSOF 11 to be First MMA Event in History on NBC
NBC Sports Group and World Series of Fighting (WSOF) have reached a multi-year agreement that includes WSOF 11 becoming the first MMA event to air live on NBC. Continue reading →
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Alex Flanagan Out as Sideline Reporter for Notre Dame Football Games on NBC...
Alex Flanagan, who had been a sideline reporter for NBC’s national broadcast of Notre Dame football games since 2007, is being replaced, sources tell The Big Lead. Flanagan had also been a reporter...
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How, Where To Watch Live Stream U.S. Women’s Open | Schedule
(Photo by Steve Dykes/Getty Images) The best female golfers in the world will descend upon North Carolina this weekend to play in the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open from Pinehurst starting Thursday. The golf...
View ArticleNBC to capitalize on Tim Howard’s heroics
In 2013, Tim Howard transitioned from manning the net to manning the set on his off-days from Everton Football Club as the goalkeeper slid seamlessly into a commentary role for NBC Sports Network’s...
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Erik Kuselias Package Deal Attempt with His Wife Holly Sonders Blows Up in...
Erik Kuselias either has the largest ego in sports media, or he completely lacks self-awareness. Either way, the former ESPN TV/radio host is out of a job at NBC Sports because he completely...
View ArticleErik Kuselias loses job after power play
It looks like Holly Sonders might be bringing home the bacon. Sonders received good news last week, earning a gig at Fox Sports after becoming a rising star in sports media at The Golf Channel. But...
View ArticleNBC releases Premier League schedule
Hoping to ride the wave of the World Cup, NBC announced in a press release the upcoming coverage of the English Premier League — a slate featuring familiar names from this summer’s soccer showcase....
View ArticleNBC Sports aired its most watched IndyCar race in two years
After hitting a season low in viewership for its Pocono race, IndyCar earned its most viewed race on the NBC Sports Network in two years last weekend at Iowa. According to Sports Media Watch, though...
View ArticleComing to Theaters: Premier League Soccer
It remains debatable to some as to whether soccer in America, enjoying the honeymoon of World Cup coverage, has made the big time in a country still dominated by that other football. But now, it can’t...
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6 Reasons Why Tony Dungy Is Right About Michael Sam
Photo Credit: NBC via Getty Images A couple months ago, just after the NFL Draft, Tony Dungy was asked by a Tampa sports reporter about Michael Sam, who was the first openly gay player drafted into...
View ArticleNBC taking fresh approach to Sundays
As this summer’s offseason coverage illustrates, the National Football League dominates the sports news cycle once players and pads come out of hiding. So it’s surprising when a network with NFL ties...
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Jason Sudekis Reprises His Role As Unacceptably American Soccer Coach
We'll be damned if this isn't the funniest thing on the internet today. The second part of the Ted Lasso soccer experience, inside... Continue reading →
View ArticleMen in Blazers take wardrobe to new network
This summer, a pair of rising stars ascended on the soccer scene without scoring a single goal, broadcasting their lighthearted analysis from, essentially, a closet sponsored by ESPN. They were the Men...
View ArticleNBC Sports to televise 2014 Youth Olympics
An agreement reached between NBC Universal and the International Olympic Committee in May led to a first in sports television: this August, the Youth Olympic Games will be televised on a major network....
View ArticleNBC scores on Premier League’s opening weekend
For soccer skeptics expecting the bubble to burst, it’s still afloat. The English Premier League’s opening weekend on NBC and NBC Sports Network becomes the latest evidence of a boon in soccer’s...
View ArticleSights & Sounds | Notre Dame 31, Michigan [INSERT A SCORE > 0]
Synopsis: They might be chicken but we’re the jive turkeys. No, the season is not lost but what happened last night was worse as anything that has happened in recent years – seriously – including...
View ArticleNBC names Lipinski, Weir top skating broadcast team
Millions tune in to the Winter Olympics to revel in the beauty, pageantry and mastery of one of sports most elegant competitions: figure skating. While most come to witness champions on the ice, NBC...
View ArticleNBC invests in primetime boxing
NBC Sports, during a press conference on Thursday morning, announced a five-year deal to produce a high-end boxing series entitled Premier Boxing Champions that will air in primetime on NBC and NBC...
View ArticleDeadspin weighs several “Ballgate” takes
In a post this morning, Deadspin writer Drew Magary narrates several different opinions on the recent “Ballghazi” scandal that has rattled the NFL and the New England Patriots — one from WTHR and...
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