As we near the end of 2024, Awful Announcing wanted to take stock of the sports media industry and see what stories and trends will keep insiders’ attention over the next 12 months. For Alex ...

Golf Channel is adding some new morning programming to its lineup which will feature the return of a familiar face. Longtime Golf Channel broadcaster Gary Williams will return to the network’s ...

The NFL and college football typically go to great lengths not to program against each other. Save for some low-wattage Thursday night college football games on ESPN competing with Thursday Night ...

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith has always been unapologetically himself in front of a camera. Even when it perhaps toes the line of inappropriate, which Smith’s recent comments did in the eyes of ...

As the NBA attempts to deal with its ratings problem, don’t expect much help from Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla. We’re not even through December yet and commissioner Adam Silver has ...

The votes are in for the top broadcast football rules analysts. We asked Awful Announcing readers to grade nine rules analysts working on NCAA and NFL football broadcasts across a wide selection ...

The NBA has a ratings problem and Mike Francesa is convinced commissioner Adam Silver has no clue what it is. Silver addressed the league’s ratings dip this week while speaking to reporters ...

But while the criticism that Mark Schlereth and Steve Smith Sr. have directed toward the wide receiver in recent years has typically come as a result of his play on the field, it was another ...

The NBA is one of the most popular sports leagues in the world and just shocked everyone with a massive 11-year, $76 billion media rights deal. Yet if you look at the media landscape around the ...

If there’s any feud involving a sports media member — particularly an ESPN personality — you can set your watch to Stephen A. Smith (and us at Awful Announcing) chiming in. Smith uses The ...

After an 11-year hiatus, EA Sports decided to bring back their incredibly popular College Football series with College Football 25 thanks to the implementation of compensation for student-athletes ...

As Dan Katz (Barstool Big Cat) pointed out, Kirk Herbstreit’s son, Chase, committing to the University of Michigan — his father’s alma mater’s fiercest rival — stirred up some serious waves.