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Posted Thursday 1/04/18 at 9:05PM EST
Al Michaels has been calling primetime NFL games for 32 years, but Saturday will mark the first time he’ll call an NFL game from his hometown Los Angeles
Michaels won’t have to travel far for Saturday’s NFC wildcard playoff game between the Atlanta Falcons and the L.
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Posted Thursday 1/04/18 at 2:08PM EST
NFL TV ratings were down 9.7% during the 2017 season
The 2017 drop follows an 8% drop from the 2016 season, which was attributed to the presidential election.
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Sports broadcasting legend Dick Enberg dies at 82
Enberg, who died Thursday morning of a possible heart attack, retired after a 60-year career just last year, in October...
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Vince McMahon sells $100 million in WWE shares to possibly bring back the XFL
McMahon's World Wrestling Entertainment stated in its SEC filing that the $100 million is "primarily to fund a separate entity...
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Posted Thursday 12/21/17 at 10:23PM EST
The NFL should order an independent investigation of NFL Network, but it won’t
The NFL-owned NFL Network appears to have a sexual misconduct problem -- a problem that might be tricky to solve.
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Posted Thursday 12/21/17 at 2:06PM EST
On John Skipper's final weekend as ESPN president, he gave no indication he planned to step down
Skipper was fielding calls and making business decisions as late as Sunday, the day before he abruptly resigned, citing substance...
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Posted Wednesday 12/20/17 at 2:14PM EST
NFL will allow ESPN to stream Monday Night Football games on mobile phones
Earlier this week, the NFL announced that NBC would start streaming Sunday Night Football games on mobile phones.
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Posted Tuesday 12/19/17 at 2:48PM EST
Kendrick Lamar to perform halftime show at the college football national championship — outside the stadium
ESPN will put on a halftime show for the first time for the College Football Playoff title game, but Lamar’s...
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John Skipper’s ESPN departure comes at a crucial time for the sports network
The former ESPN president had a lot of issues on his plate recently, from cord-cutting to mass layoffs to sports...
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Posted Monday 12/18/17 at 11:28AM EST
ESPN president John Skipper resigns, citing substance addiction
"Today I have resigned from my duties as President of ESPN," said Skipper, who joined the sports network in 1997,...
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Posted Wednesday 12/13/17 at 6:49PM EST
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough will host a Premiere League Soccer show for NBC’s sports network
This is Football will take viewers into the history, tradition and rivalries in the sport known throughout most of the...
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Posted Monday 12/11/17 at 9:04AM EST
Like the NFL, college football has seen its TV ratings decline this season
Only Fox and its sister cable network FS1 saw average viewership go up this season, while CBS, ABC, NBC and...
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Posted Monday 12/11/17 at 9:04AM EST
Los Angeles Chargers featured a Saved by the Bell reunion
Mark-Paul Gosselaar joined longtime Chargers fan Mario Lopez at Sunday's game vs.
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Is Mike Tirico NBC's next sexual misconduct problem?
The new face of NBC's Olympics primetime coverage was suspended for three months early in his career at ESPN after...
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Posted Tuesday 11/28/17 at 4:32PM EST
NBC will air live coverage of the Winter Olympics from South Korea across all time zones of the United States
NBC Universal’s network and cable networks plan to air more than 2,400 hours of Winter Olympics coverage.