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Sports fans were hungry and the NFL gave them plenty to consume. The first round of the 2020 NFL Draft on Thursday delivered record-high numbers for the league, despite being confined to a makeshift broadcast delivered from basements and living rooms around the country due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has shut down most sports …
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Mike Francesa folded, but the man behind the popular Twitter handle that for years posted video clips of Francesa still says: No tweets for you. After Francesa said he and WFAN’s parent company, Entercom, would not allow clips of his show to be posted without their consent, Francesa reversed course in a tweet Thursday saying …
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ESPN NFL Draft mainstay Todd McShay announced that he’s unable to work Thursday’s telecast because he’s at home recovering from the coronavirus. McShay, 43, had recently been working from home instead of at ESPN’s headquarters in Bristol, Conn. He was last in Bristol on March 3, according to The Post’s Andrew Marchand. A football analyst …
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Amid the biggest dearth of sports in a century, ESPN has swooped in to rescue us with “The Last Dance,” a docuseries about Michael Jordan’s final year with the Chicago Bulls. While the highly anticipated show’s first installment doesn’t offer too much that wasn’t already public knowledge, it’s still a fascinating look into perhaps the …
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Long before he was an electee to the Basketball Hall of Fame, Mike Breen was an intimidated 18-year-old freshman attending a workshop at Fordham’s renowned college radio station, WFUV, in the fall of 1979. Breen felt sheepish next to the juniors and seniors leading the seminar and contemplated delaying the start of his broadcasting training. …
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Dan Fouts, who was sentenced by CBS to call many Jets telecasts, never failed the 1 p.m. NFL Sunday Wince Test. You know the Wince Test? That’s when you find out who the announcers will be on the CBS and Fox early games. Too often the likes of Daryl “Moose” Johnston, “Hollerin’ ” Kevin Harlan and …
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The NFL draft is one week away on Thursday, April 23, and the television production plan between ESPN and NFL Network has progressed. So let’s give you the latest rundown of the 11 most important points. 1. Roger Goodell will announce the picks from his Bronxville basement. The NFL is still going over how it …
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Drew Brees is signing with NBC Sports over ESPN in a move that will make him a fixture on NFL telecasts after he finishes playing, The Post has learned. In a contract that will begin after Brees retires from the Saints, the 41-year-old will be groomed as the potential replacement for Cris Collinsworth on “Sunday …
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CBS Sports has let go of its No. 2 NFL game analyst, Dan Fouts, The Post has learned. CBS is now targeting Fox’s second NFL analyst, Charles Davis, according to sources, as a potential replacement. Fox is trying to retain Davis. CBS has also eyed its own analyst Trent Green as a potential replacement for …
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Chris “Mad Dog” Russo, alongside Mike Francesa, helped build WFAN into a sports-talk giant, having the No. 1 afternoon drive-time show in the area for years. Now, watching from a distance, he isn’t sure what to make of the station’s direction. So many of its big names are gone, Russo pointed out, from Don Imus …
Sports fans were hungry and the NFL gave them plenty to consume. The first round of the 2020 NFL Draft on Thursday delivered record-high numbers for the league, despite being confined to a makeshift broadcast delivered from basements and living rooms around the country due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has shut down most sports …
