Awful Announcing

"Joe Rogan replacing Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes…my sources say Shane Gillis is replacing Scott Pelley" – Colin Cowherd

The moment you've all been waiting for...Stephen A. Smith goes shirtless

"Kevin Garnett has to watch his mouth…because we need to listen to this man talk basketball" – Stephen A. Smith

Here's the Spurs' lineup intro for Game 1 of the NBA Finals, as seen and heard on the ESPN on ABC broadcast. 🏀📺🎙️ #NBA #NBAFinals

The ESPN on ABC 2026 NBA Finals Game 1 intro. 🏀📺🎙️🎥 #NBAFinals #NBA

Audio issues strike for ESPN and Malika Andrews on 'Inside the NBA' ahead of Game 1 of the NBA Finals.

"Did I hear 11 players have hit home runs on this stretch? Sharing the wealth. Socialists." – Daniel Murphy

"I deserve some credit, so I'm gonna take it…when I called the Knicks out, I almost had a stroke on national television, they didn't lose since" – Stephen A. Smith

NHL fans in Indianapolis have no broadcaster audio for Game 1 of the Stanely Cup Final. Here's how the first goal sounded on WRTV with only the in-arena sound.

"You didn't get hurt in the game. You didn't get hurt in practice. I don't know what the hell you were doing. Were you at home playing with your snakes?" Stephen A. Smith on Mitchell Robinson's pinky

"He's a Benedict Arnold. He is from New York and he's a Spurs fan!" – Stephen A. Smith calls out Cam'ron

"We have never had a non-American face of the NBA that has kind of power…can you be that type of global icon in America when you're not an American?" – Brian Windhorst on Victor Wembanyama

Whoops.

Mike Tirico: "There will be a new champion in the NBA! A new era has dawned! It's Wemby's West! The Spurs are going to the NBA Finals!" 🏀🎙️ #NBA #NBC

Mike Tirico leads the Spurs-Thunder Game 7 open into "Roundball Rock" for NBC. 🏀📺🎙️🎥🎶🦚 #NBA

Reggie Miller clarifies his take that the Knicks will be the favorite in the NBA Finals: "The sentimental, people I think are pulling for the Knicks because it's been a bazillion years since they go to the Finals ... that's what I was trying to say last night."

Mike Tirico learns that he's won an Emmy during the Spurs-Thunder Game 5 broadcast on NBC. 🎙️🏆

ESPN's Lisa Salters and Mike Breen salute Knicks C Mitchell Robinson for opening up about his mental health struggles this postseason. Salters: "Good for him for acknowledging that it's OK to not be OK, and that it's also OK to talk about it. We of course are wishing him nothing but the best."

Checking in on New York

"It's over. Believe it Knick fans! For the first time in 27 years the New York Knicks are going to the NBA Finals! The dream season continues." 🎙️ Mike Breen calls the end of an anticlimactic series that will send the Knicks to the Finals

Shaq's infamous gas prices rant is given the Audio Toon treatment 😆

David Ross shares a great story about how he worked umpire Todd Tichenor to expand his strike zone mid-game.

Charles Barkley: "I'll tell you what, Cleveland- we still got the Browns... You can't say Indians anymore. It's Guardians."

Richard Jefferson: "Travis Kelce... I don't know if his girlfriend is going to like to see him chugging beers like that."

The ESPN on ABC broadcast of Knicks-Cavs Game 3 showed Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce in attendance. "Travis Kelce and his fiancée here at the game." - Mike Breen "As Travis and his girlfriend are in the building, that's always great to see." - Richard Jefferson

"You have to find the soft spots and you squeeze" - Stephen A. Smith

"The Cavs are an embarrassment to the NBA. And if I'm Adam Silver, I would think about fining them for the performance and the effort they're displaying on the floor" – Kendrick Perkins

Spike Eskin returns to WFAN by flipping a few birds to the crowd on CBS Sports Network

"Aaron Rodgers in no way measured up physically to the talent John Elway had. Never in his wildest dreams…you need to go get on YouTube or Google or something" – Michael Wilbon to Stephen A. Smith

"This is about ESPN/ABC and Fox, this is about some turf wars going on there with conference affiliations…nobody should want 24, nobody. We hear all this nonsense about health and safety, what hypocrisy" – Michael Wilbon on CFP expansion

Odd moment postgame as NBC's Zora Stephenson asks SGA about Hartenstein's game-changing D on Wemby: "I'm not sure if it was good to be honest" "Break that down for me" ... "It was alright. It was good." 😅 🏀

Stephon Castle with an INSANE poster dunk in the second quarter of Game 2 over Isaiah Hartenstein. Mike Tirico on the call.

Chris Russo admits he slept through the entire Knicks-Cavs game after taking two Valium. "I had to watch the highlights! That's a terrible job on my part!"

"Starks by the way is coming on the court last night. Starks and Marbury are aiding the Knicks on defense last night. They're on the court, get them off the court!" – Brian Windhorst

WFAN announces Boomer Esiason will be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame

Charles Barkley on the Cavs: "Hell yeah that was a choke job." #NBA

"Last week our government released UFO files, and I was skeptical. I watched last night and I'm thinking, 'Oh, they are among us.' It's Wemby" – Colin Cowherd

"I'm blaming this network, cause every time I turn on all of our shows, except one, I hear about Aaron damn Rodgers…I'm criticizing us…he's irrelevant" – Michael Wilbon

"The umpires did not know the rule. That's basically what this came down to. That is truly embarrassing." – Gary Cohen

"The San Antonio Spurs, on an epic night from their superstar! 41 and 24 boards for Victor Wembanyama! The Spurs take Game 1!" - Mike Tirico 🏀🎙️ #NBA

NBC audio issues during Spurs-Thunder Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals. 🏀📺🎙️🔊😵‍💫 #NBA

Tony Kornheiser: "I am very disappointed in the playoffs, it's like 75% of the games are routs. ... I'm struggling to remember two games in a row that were close, that had drama." 'PTI' debates the huge scoring margins in this year's NBA postseason 🏀

"When is she gonna start winning at the next level? She has not won a playoff series yet. My take is, she has her Pippen, Kelsey Mitchell… "This is not hating on Caitlin Clark, but the stage of 'Wow, who's the new kid?' I'm done with that." - Colin Cowherd on Caitlin Clark

"Let's say hello to our senior insider, Shams Charania, who joins us fresh off brunch..." 😏

"Jaylen Brown, be careful what you wish for. You really want me to start reporting on that level? Locker room? How the organization might think about you? How the city may feel about you? How Jayson Tatum may or may not feel about you?" – Stephen A. Smith

Joe Davis and John Smoltz on the ABS zone and whether MLB should change it. #MLB

ABC wants to get you hyped up for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Knicks and the... Cavaliers?

"I don't think it was necessarily smart for the Chargers social media team to take shots at Vrabel…if there's any sport that felt corporate, it's the NFL. Social media people get fired in corporations for the wrong tweet" – Colin Cowherd

"I'm not a conspiracy guy, but I believe this. I think Sean Payton has a mixed relationship with the league office…NFL does not like friendly fire. Zip it. Look at Denver's schedule, they're punishing them" – Colin Cowherd

Was that Ozzie Guillen on the hot mic?

Dallas Braden: "At this point, (JJ) Wetherholt is in the batter's box. My goodness... Frankly, I'm surprised that nobody has said anything. Because that's egregious." 1B umpire Bill Miller eventually told Wetherholt to move. "It's about time. It's about time. My goodness."

"If we live in a world where Ohio State and Michigan rest their starters for that game at the end of the season, because they've got the potential of five playoff games still sitting in front of them, then college football, as we have known it, ceases to exist." - Mike Greenberg

"They really have lowered the standard of the Los Angeles Lakers. They care more about putting butts in seats and selling jerseys than they actually do about winning championships" - Kendrick Perkins

Don't ask Charles Barkley about the draft.

"Where'd you get this guy from? I've never seen him before. I never met him, I don't know who he is…who's ALONso?” Chris Russo to Alfonso Ribeiro

Chris Russo kissing Stephen A. Smith probably wasn't in the First Take rundown this morning

"Daryl Morey is the most overrated general manager in the history of the NBA. Excuse my French, he don't know his ass from his elbow" – Chris Russo

"You're crazy!" "No, you're crazy!" "You're nuts!" "No, you're nuts!"

Gary Cohen believes managers will have to get a handle on the ABS challenge process because hitters continue to lose challenges in low-leverage situations. "It's just bad for the club."

"The international players have completely taken over our league. It belongs to them…there's no hope for us to take over our league." – Kendrick Perkins

"It was the elbow shot heard 'round the basketball world. And look, sometimes violence is needed to get your point across" – Reggie Miller

Stephen A. Smith thinks the Minnesota Timberwolves might prefer having Victor Wembanyama on the court just so they can push him around "because of how skinny he is"

"The league did what I thought they were gonna do. Prioritize superstardom and views over a person's well-being and health" – Kendrick Perkins on Victor Wembanyama avoiding a suspension

Nick Wright: "Bringing children to press conferences after losses should not be allowed"

USA Sports announcer Kate Scott highlights a new free-throw graphic on the network's WNBA scorebug, which features two tiny balls that get filled in when a player makes a shot, similar to a Three-Point Contest 🏀 📺

"Sometimes we forget because of how sensitive our society is, and everything has to be catered to and extra delicate…but Shaq did stuff like this. Michael Jordan did stuff like this. Isiah Thomas did stuff like this" – Jay Williams on Victor Wembanyama's elbow

Tough scenes in Philly after the Sixers were swept by the Knicks.

Baltimore Orioles pitcher Anthony Nunez with the rare mid-inning gender reveal to his family watching at home.

Kate Scott and Sarah Kustok welcome audiences to USA's inaugural WNBA game presentation. 🏀

Richard Jefferson is out for Game 4 of Knicks-76ers with an illness. Mike Breen and Tim Legler will call the game as a two-man booth.

Noah Eagle: "SPLASH! JAMES HARDEN! THE CAVALIERS BY FOUR! AND IT'S BEEN THE BEARD STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE!" Robbie Hummel: "So much criticism of Games 1 and 2, but give Harden a bunch of credit. At 36 years old, he has absolutely brought it here in Game 3." 🏀🎙️ #NBA

"It's very, very rare that you have a Black man over 300 pounds talking about a hockey assist" – Stephen A. Smith very surprised by Kendrick Perkins dropping a hockey reference

Skip Bayless insists he was right about Tim Tebow...

"Playoff Pee...that's P E E" Skip Bayless' nickname for Paul George

If you have nothing to say about the Cowboys during the NBA playoffs, just compare them to the Knicks

"You've already elevated LeBron James all the way up to No. 2 on your all-time list? I have him at 9!" And we’re off...

For the Yankee fans who can't decide which broadcast to listen to, YES was simultaneously airing Rickie Ricardo, Suzyn Waldman and Michael Kay...

Draymond Green learning he has 43 games with more turnovers than field goals in the playoffs, tied with Kendrick Perkins for the most since 2003…but at least he's not Charles Barkley in a Rockets uniform

Keith Hernandez and Steve Gelbs Lady and the Tramp a $45 Glizzilla

Things got a little tense on the 'Inside the NBA set when Draymond took a shot at Chuck's final years in Houston 😬

"The Mets are playing against the Rockies! Mendoza is on a freakin’ life raft! And we have Lindor sitting here watching the Knick game…watch every pitch of your METS!" – Chris Russo

"It will be me and Skip Bayless reuniting for the first time in nearly a decade…he's got stuff that he wants to get off his chest…but what he really, really wants to get off his chest is me. He wants to get at me" - Stephen A. Smith

Scott Van Pelt on John Sterling.

An ad ends up right on a fan's head during the NHL on ESPN broadcast of Flyers-Hurricanes Game 2. 🏒 📺 😵‍💫 #NHL

Michael Kay: "We're honoring the life and tremendous career of John Sterling. We'll do more of that as the (Yankees) game moves on. But you know, David, he'd probably be angry with us. He'd say, 'There's a game going on, so talk about that.' So, we're gonna do that for John."

"I think that college football should be run by people who like college football. And every decision, every idea I've seen about playoff expansion seems like it's come from people who don't like college football, don't know why we like it... A 24-team playoff would be a disgrace." - Kevin Clark

Absolute masterclass in removing yourself from a camera shot stealthily

Boomer and Gio announce the passing of longtime New York Yankees radio announcer John Sterling. He was 87.

Reggie Miller to the rescue.

'Inside the NBA' on ESPN includes Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel on the "Gone Fishing" graphic for the Boston Celtics.

"Roundball Rock" and Mike Tirico welcome you to Raptors-Cavaliers Game 7 on NBC. 🏀📺🎶🎙️ #NBA

"Can't even break the bat correctly right now. Jeez." Todd Zeile on Francisco Alvarez as the 10-21 Mets are losing... again. 😬

"We're not in Serbia. We're in America. And he got punked yesterday…When we get to talking about top-5 this and top-5 that of all-time. We need to sit back and keep a cool booty." – Kendrick Perkins on Nikola Jokic

"If the PGA decides to punish these (LIV) golfers, we should stay in their ass like white on rice…the players didn't want to leave the PGA, they were forced to." – Stephen A. Smith