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Posted Friday 4/02/21 at 12:49PM EDT
Major League Baseball pulls 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta in response to Georgia's new voting restrictions
The All-Star Game and first-year player draft won't happen in Georgia this year in response to the state's recent new...
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Posted Friday 1/22/21 at 1:29PM EST
Baseball legend Hank Aaron dies at 86
The Hall of Fame slugger for the Atlanta Braves best known for breaking Babe Ruth's home run record -- which...
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Posted Monday 12/14/20 at 1:36PM EST
ESPN lands the rights to a Major League Baseball playoff round that has yet to exist
ESPN will get to show the first round when MLB expands its playoffs from 10 to likely 14 teams, including...
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Posted Wednesday 12/09/20 at 5:02PM EST
Al Michaels is joining the Baseball Hall of Fame
The longtime sports broadcaster has been named the 2021 recipient of the annual Ford Frick Award for baseball broadcasting, which...
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Posted Tuesday 12/08/20 at 2:42AM EST
Family Guy blames Oscar the Grouch for the Houston Astros cheating scandal
The Fox comedy used the Sesame Street character to mock the Astros for using banging on trash cans to steal...
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Posted Tuesday 12/01/20 at 5:06PM EST
HBO Sports and Major League Baseball team for documentary Under the Grapefruit Tree: The CC Sabathia Story
The documentary on the life and career of New York Yankees, Milwaukee Brewers and Cleveland Indians pitcher will premiere on...
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Posted Wednesday 10/28/20 at 8:23PM EDT
This year's World Series was the lowest-rated ever, averaging 9.8 million viewers over six games
The Los Angeles Dodgers' triumph over the Tampa Bay Rays fell below the previous World Series low of 12.
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Posted Thursday 10/22/20 at 1:59PM EDT
There is no definitive data on why sports ratings are down amid the pandemic
"Fewer people are watching television," says Kevin Draper, who delved into the sports ratings decline for The New York Times.
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Posted Wednesday 10/21/20 at 4:35PM EDT
World Series had its lowest-ever viewership with Game 1
About 9.
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TV Today: Rays Face Off Against the Dodgers at the 2020 World Series
You can't say this year's MLB post-season hasn't been exciting.
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Posted Saturday 10/17/20 at 3:41AM EDT
Joe Buck is set to call a game on all seven days next week
The Fox Sports play-by-play announcer is scheduled to call NFL games on Sunday, Monday and Thursday and World Series games...
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Posted Wednesday 10/14/20 at 3:13AM EDT
Michael Schur reflects on his "Fire Joe Morgan" past in wake of Joe Morgan's death
The TV honcho behind Parks and Recreation, The Good Place and Brooklyn Nine-Nine spent the late 2000s posting on the...
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Posted Monday 10/12/20 at 1:51PM EDT
Joe Morgan, Major League Baseball hall of famer and longtime ESPN broadcaster, dies at 77
The Cincinnati Reds legend died at his home on Sunday.
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Posted Friday 10/09/20 at 4:21PM EDT
Why TV ratings are falling for most sports amid the pandemic
The cannibalization of the sports calendar is one reason.
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Posted Wednesday 10/07/20 at 3:09AM EDT
Why are pandemic sports ratings so terrible?
"For an industry reeling from the catastrophic financial effects of the pandemic, huge audiences were thought to be the balm...