Orioles play-by-play television announcer Kevin Brown will return to the booth on Friday night when Baltimore takes on Seattle. According to multiple reports, Brown was inexplicably suspended by the club from his role at the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) for his recitation of facts surrounding the club’s recent struggles playing on the road at Tampa Bay.
Brown released a statement ahead of his return to the booth, while explaining his recent absence as the O’s lead announcer.
“O’s fans – I’m a storyteller,” Brown’s statement began.
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Over the next two years, the NBA and WWE will negotiate new rights deals with broadcast partners. Both brands seek substantial increases, which they expect to receive.
Currently, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) pay the NBA $2.6 billion per year. According to CNBC, the NBA hopes to triple said fee to around $7 billion.
The NBA is willing, unlike nine years ago, to add a third or even fourth broadcast partner. The deals with Disney and WBD expire following the 2025 NBA Finals.
Meanwhile, USA Network and Fox pay WWE a combined $470 million to, respectively, air Raw and SmackDown.
The Las Vegas Raiders added to their running back depth by signing Damien Williams, his agent announced Friday.
Baltimore Orioles television play-by-play announcer Kevin Brown will be reading a statement that may finally address a nearly two-week absence that has drawn the ire of hometown fans and fellow broadcasters when he returns to the booth tonight, OutKick has learned.
There’s no indication as to what Brown will say, but the baseball community has been looking for answers ever since the Orioles TV voice was reportedly suspended for what were universally viewed as innocuous on-air comments about the team’s past performance.
Sound Of Freedom is arguably the biggest movie of the summer that didn’t involve a nuclear physicist or a doll, and now Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. has given his review.
A brief one.
Beckham took to X (we all know it’s just Twitter) to give his take on the film that shines a light on the disturbing world of child trafficking.
Sound of Freedom.
I don’t even kno what to say. That’s heavy.
— Odell Beckham Jr (@obj) August 10, 2023
“Sound of Freedom,” Beckham wrote. “I don’t even know what to say. That’s heavy.
You might not like how this is all going down, but there’s no doubt that it will deliver more can’t-miss games in the future — and the sport could really use more can’t miss games.
The fall of the Pac-12 happened quickly last week when six teams committed to move to other conferences, but the writing has been on the wall for the while. As the Pac-12 tried to get a new media deal with Apple, it became clear that the conference had limited options for exposure.
At one point during its media rights negotiations, though, the Pac-12 had a chance to agree to a new TV deal with ESPN. However, the conference fumbled negotiations, leading to ESPN walking away from the deal.
Tyler Adams will be staying with Leeds United for the foreseeable future after all.
It goes without saying that the Basketball Hall of Fame honors its absolute best each summer. But perhaps more than any other Hall of Fame class in basketball history, this year’s group beautifully encompasses the ever-changing nature of the sport.
On Saturday evening, in no particular order, we’ll see the NBA’s winningest coach—who also has the most highly touted rookie in recent memory—inducted. We’ll see one of his protégés, who first had an all-time WNBA playing career before winning a WNBA crown in her first year as coach, enter the Hall.
As wildly popular as fly-on-the-wall documentaries like Hard Knocks and Netflix’s Quarterback usually are, they sure have a hell of a time getting people to do them.
Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo is the latest signal caller to share that he gave the streamer a “Thanks, but no thanks” when asked to appear in the hit series.
Jimmy G said in a recent interview that he hadn’t sat down to watch the first season of the series, but his brothers did and they liked it.
“They love it,” Garoppolo said, per Adam Hill of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.