“You have to know when to hold ’em,” Kenny Rogers sang, “know when to fold ‘em.” Bob Elson, a gin rummy whiz, had pigeons in ...

In 1974 CBS president Bob Wussler hired Jane Chastain, who was a well-prepared, terrific sports reporter who understood pro ...

A quiet fellow, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra is beginning to get some well-deserved attention. He’s been with Miami for 15 seasons and won two titles. Michael Malone has also bounced around, four ...

Joe Buck will be back in did Major League Baseball after many years calling baseball nationally. Buck, 55, started his career in Football and basketball telecasts. He’s the son of icon Jack Buck, an ...

Some of the commentators and event analysts of the recently concluded Paris Olympics were considerably better than those in the last few Olympic Games televised by NBCUniversal. But that doesn’t mean ...

As State sisters, stare one another in their rivals’ eyes, the longtime contenders, Michigan State Spartans and Michigan Wolverines are now marred for a variety of reasons. CBS, Fox, ABC NBC and Fox ...

Like it or not, TV is still considered an analyst’s medium. The role of a second announcer evolved slowly, mostly in the 1960s. Few of the early telecasts were defined and established. It took lots of ...

On Friday, I got this unsolicited note from a man who had quite an impact on TV play-by-play. It was sent by Mike Patrick who had great influence on the NFL, college football, college basketball, the ...

The NFL expanded to 32 teams for the 2002 season with the addition of the Houston Texans, where it has remained ever since. Twenty years later, the television and overall media landscape have shifted ...

Network broadcasting has come a long way dealing with point spreads since Jimmy The Greek used to get around it by saying, “The Cowboys will win by a field goal.” That, of course, was nearly 50 years ...

Baseball broadcast historian Curt Smith, author of The Presidents and the Pastime, also penned the seminal book, Voices of the Game In 1962, ABC television named Curt Gowdy to broadcast the ...

The 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs started on Monday, the first postseason of the new seven-year American TV deal with ESPN and Turner Sports. This is the first time there has been more than one NHL ...