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Despite not being available to 11M DirecTV customers, ESPN’s Monday Night Football was still off to a strong start with its 49ers-Jets season opener. The 49ers squashed Aaron Rodgers’ return to the field with a 32-19 win that drew 20.5M viewers across linear and streaming, making it the second…

Football fans have some choice thoughts about Tom Brady’s foray into the broadcast booth. The seven-time Super Bowl winner’s debut, made at the regular-season opener between the Dallas Cowboys and the Cleveland Browns, was met with divisive opinion — with the AP calling his entry “awkward” and some on X…

Kendrick Lamar is headed for the Big Easy as he prepares to take the stage at the 2025 NFL championship. The Grammy Award and Pulitzer Prize winner was announced Sunday as the headliner for the Super Bowl LIX Apple Music halftime show, which is presented by Roc Nation and scheduled for Feb. 9, 2025…

Sinclair Broadcast Group has ousted longtime Tennis Channel chairman and chief executive officer Ken Solomon, citing time spent in non-work activities as reasoning for his departure. Specifically, the parent company took issue with the executive’s advisory and board member role for Dr. Phil McGraw’s Merit…

As the NFL gets set for its first game in Brazil tonight, Commissioner Roger Goodell has made several media appearances, talking private equity ownership with CNBC and the likelihood of a post-Super Bowl holiday on Today. The Philadelphia Eagles-Green Bay Packers game, which will stream exclusively…

The NFL is back with its first-ever game in South America. On Friday, the Philadelphia Eagles will face the Green Bay Packers at Arena Corinthians in São Paulo, Brazil, which has a capacity of about 50,000. The Eagles are coming off a disappointing season, but will seek to bounce back under…

USC’s narrow win over LSU led the pack in Week 1 of the 2024 college football season with 9.2M viewers tuning into the game on ABC. The game marks ABC’s third best Sunday Opener on record, which begs the question of whether it might have performed even better had DirecTV customers been able to…

The NFL kicks off its new season with the 2023 AFC Championship rematch between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs are looking to make another run for the Super Bowl with a win over the Ravens, while the Ravens are looking to defeat the current NFL…

Comcast is still crunching numbers on the Summer Olympics in Paris but Chief Financial Officer Jason Armstrong said today "it was a big moment for the company" and "quite frankly, it was one that was not without risk.” "We’ve had three Olympics in a row that, between time zone and pandemic, had…

The Good Morning Football crew is headed to primetime for NBC’s NFL Kickoff Eve. Kyle Brandt, Jamie Erdahl, Akbar Gbajabiamila, and Peter Schrager will host a special live from SoFi Stadium starting at 9 p.m. ET, a day before the NFL regular season begins. Related…

Rachael Gunn, aka Raygun, the Australian Olympic breaker who went viral after her unusual moves were widely mocked in the days after her performance at the Paris Games this summer, says the worldwide ridicule and attention prompted her to seek mental health support and to withdraw from all social…

Football is back with the NFL 2024-2025 season officially starting on Thursday, September 5, with an encounter between the Baltimore Ravens and the Kansas City Chiefs. In a video the NFL social media team shared online, Swift has featured five times in the 30-second clip, dividing fans. The hype…