Victor Rojas, an ESPN broadcaster and the head baseball coach at Hastings College, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, he revealed in a social media post Thursday. “A week ago, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer,” Rojas wrote in a statement posted to X. “Thanks to yearly checkups and PSA tests, we caught it early, … Read more
Less than two months after losing his job as the Spurs’ play-by-play announcer following accusations of an affair with a relative of a San Antonio player, Jacob Tobey is back in the booth. Tobey announced Friday that he is returning to the Spurs’ broadcast, acknowledging that he still has work to do to rebuild trust … Read more
It’s one thing to not use shampoo every day. It’s another thing to never use it. For Orioles color commentator Ben McDonald, the latter is apparently the case. During the Orioles-Phillies game Sunday, McDonald told MASN play-by-play announcer Kevin Brown that he’s never used shampoo in his life and instead uses a bar of soap … Read more
In case former Spurs announcer Jacob Tobey is seeking advice on his next move after being fired for an alleged affair with a player’s sister, the law office of Colin Cowherd is here to help. “I learned something new today, that you can get fired in America for cheating on your girlfriend. I had no … Read more
A change is coming to the Spurs broadcast booth after shocking allegations exploded on social media. Jacob Tobey is out as the team’s play-by-play announcer after his girlfriend accused him on social media of cheating with a relative of a Spurs player, per Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports. Earlier this week an Instagram Story … Read more
Shots were fired by the Cleveland Guardians television broadcast Tuesday night. After Yankees infielder Jazz Chisholm appeared on “The Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon on Monday, Cleveland radio play-by-play man Tom Hamilton had some jokes after the star second baseman said “for sure” that the Bronx Bombers would win the 2026 World Series. “Well, he … Read more
Dave Portnoy was not amused by the amount of passion from the Amazon Prime Video broadcast booth during Friday’s NBA playoff game between the Celtics and 76ers. Portnoy was livid by the announcing crew’s enthusiasm during the first-round Game 3 matchup, posting a video on X captioned, “This may be the worse annoucing (sic) crew … Read more
LIV Golf commentator David Feherty is writing off talk about the rebel league’s possible shutdown. With rumors swirling about LIV’s coming demise, Feherty opened the golf league’s first-round broadcast from Mexico City on Thursday with some strong words. “I’ve been in the professional game for 50 years now and I don’t think I’ve ever had … Read more
Ex-MLBer Ben Davis is giving NHL players a run for their money when it comes to pain tolerance. The NBC Sports Philadelphia analyst for Phillies game revealed that he accidentally cut himself to the bone with a chainsaw and had not yet gone to the hospital or received stitches, as of Tuesday. “It was only … Read more
The new “Sunday Night Baseball” has its voice. NBC Sports announced Wednesday that Jason Benetti will be the play-by-play announcer for the network’s new “Sunday Night Baseball” package on NBC and Peacock, something that had been widely expected for some time now. His first game on-air for NBC this season will be on March 26, … Read more
Tim Saunders blew it, live on air. The Flyers play-by-play man was suspended by the team Friday after an unfortunate hot mic moment during the third period Thursday’s radio broadcast of a game against the Sabres. As the game went to an ad break around the seven-minute mark, Saunders threw to commercial — or, what … Read more
Sometimes the true feelings come out on a hot mic. MSG analyst and former Rangers captain Dave Maloney seemingly forgot he was on live television Sunday when he let out a “F–k” while reporter John Giannone spoke during the Blueshirts’ 2-1 home loss to the Red Wings. “At that moment, the Rangers and about 18,000 … Read more
Orioles broadcaster Brian Roberts apologized for a joke he made on the air that took a dig at Canadian baseball fans during Baltimore’s weekend series with the Blue Jays. Roberts, a former two-time All-Star infielder, questioned the “baseball IQ of some Canadians” during the MASN telecast on Saturday. But by Sunday, he had a bit … Read more
While the YES Network broadcast was in full misery mode watching the Yankees melt down Friday night, the Marlins’ broadcast crew one booth over was taking a victory lap. Tommy Hutton, the analyst on the FanDuel Sports Marlins telecast, perhaps took some exception to the amount of Yankees fans who showed up in South Beach and … Read more
Orioles announcer Ben McDonald was hospitalized after falling 25 feet from a deer stand Thursday morning, he revealed in an X post. McDonald, who said he suffered a “severe concussion” along with two cracked vertebrae and doesn’t remember anything from the scary incident, shared a video of him in a hospital bed asking what happened. … Read more
Yankees radio announcer Dave Sims has no regrets about taking time off in May to see his son, despite his WFAN colleague’s dismay. Sims, in his first year in the Yankees booth after taking over for the retired John Sterling, addressed Boomer Esiason criticizing him for taking the Yankees-A’s series off just more than a … Read more
BBC commentator Andrew Castle apologized Tuesday after referring to Trinity Rodman as “Tiffany” during boyfriend Ben Shelton’s fourth-round victory at Wimbledon on Monday. “Andrew apologizes for mispronouncing Trinity Rodman’s name during the Ben Shelton vs. Lorenzo Sonego match,” a BBC Sport spokesperson said in a statement obtained by The Sun. Rodman, a member of the … Read more
Sportsnet host Jamie Campbell wasn’t going to let Michael Kay get away with his Blue Jays jab. After the Blue Jays completed their four-game sweep of the Yankees on Thursday, Campbell threw some shade during the postgame show toward Kay — while not referencing the play-by-play announcer by name, but referring to him as a … Read more
Pat McAfee doesn’t even have to be somewhere to end up in the middle of a controversy. While broadcasting a seven-on-seven soccer tournament, TST announcers Sebastian Salazar and Herculez Gomez called out McAfee for not being present as the team he owns, the CONCAFA Soccer Club, played a semifinal game where the winner of the … Read more
Doris Burke is receiving a lot of love this weekend. While at Oklahoma City’s Devon Park on Friday for the Women’s College World Series between Texas Tech and Texas, Richard Jefferson put out an endorsement for his broadcast partner. He joined the SEC Network pregame show dressed in a “My Favorite Broadcaster is Doris Burke” … Read more