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Grand Central Sports Management Adds Basketball Agency

NEW YORK —  Grand Central Sports Management, which was formed this September, announced the launch of Grand Central Basketball, an agency representing professional basketball players in the NBA and other professional leagues. Mike Bristol has been appointed as the head of basketball operations, bringing with him decades of success in sports management, marketing, broadcast, ESPN Syracuse, and philanthropic […]

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Monday Night Football Reels In 16.5 Million Viewers

ESPN’s Monday Night Football matchup this week between the Cincinnati Bengals and Jacksonville Jaguars delivered 16.5 million viewers (ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPN Deportes and NFL+), the most-watched Week 13 MNF game since 2010 (Jets-Patriots). The audience of 16,484,000 was up 46% year-over-year (Saints-Buccaneers). Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli generated 1 million viewers on ESPN2. Season-to-date, Monday Night Football is […]

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NY Mets Hire New President of Business Operations

FLUSHING – The New York Mets announced that M. Scott Havens, former CEO of Bloomberg Media, has been appointed the team’s President of Business Operations. In this role, Havens will be responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership for the New York Mets, overseeing the Senior Leadership Team for all Front Office functions except Baseball […]

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Former Syracuse Coach Jim Boeheim to Make Debut on ACC Network

Former Syracuse men’s basketball coach Jim Boeheim, who retired in March after 47 years at his alma mater, is becoming a TV broadcaster. Boeheim has joined ESPN and will make his analyst debut this Saturday, Dec. 2, on ACC Network. Boeheim will call the Florida State at No. 17 North Carolina men’s college basketball game […]

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TNT, TruTV to Air College Basketball Opening Games

Warner Bros. Discovery Sports, in association with Position Sports and the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, announced that the 2023-24 college basketball season will tip off on its networks and streaming platform Max with the exclusive presentation of the 2023 Hall of Fame Series Las Vegas on Monday, Nov. 6, from T-Mobile Arena. ESPN has traditionally aired college basketball tip-off […]

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NBA Reveals Special Courts for In-Season Tournament

The NBA has unveiled the official courts that teams will play on for the first ever NBA In-Season Tournament, which tips off on Friday, Nov. 3 with a doubleheader on ESPN as the Knicks visit the Milwaukee Bucks at 7:30 p.m. ET and the Denver Nuggets host the Dallas Mavericks at 10 p.m. ET. The […]

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ESPN Reports Stellar Ratings for NBA Opener

ESPN had its most-watched NBA opening night in 11 years and its second-most watched opening night ever, according to Nielsen. Viewership for the season-opening doubleheader was up 80 percent from last year. The first two games of the season on ESPN Wednesday generated an average audience of 2,756,000 viewers, up from 1,532,000 viewers in 2022. […]

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ESPN’s New NBA Broadcast Team Debuts This Friday

ESPN’s new lead NBA broadcast team makes its debut this Friday on the ESPN2 sports cable network in a preseason game between the Golden State Warriors at the Los Angeles at 10:30 p.m. Eastern time. Long time play-by-play man Mike Breen is joined by Doris Burke and former NBA player and coach Doc Rivers. ESPN […]

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Aaron Rodgers Boosting Jets’ Ticket Sales on Stubhub

NEW YORK — With the Super Bowl set for Las Vegas this winter for the first time, the hometown Raiders return to the #1 position for NFL tickets according to Stubhub. This is the second time the Raiders are on top since relocating to the entertainment capital, besting the always top-selling Dallas Cowboys by 30%, who […]

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Prize Money for U.S. Open Tennis Tournament

The payouts for the 2023 US Open tennis championship in Flushing will total $65 million, a new all-time high for the tournament. This year’s total marks an 8% increase from 2022’s total of $60 million, and includes $3 million awarded to the men’s and women’s singles champions. That sum is a 15% increase from the $2.6 million taken […]

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NBA Releases Winners of 2023 Regular-Season Awards

The National Basketball Association has released the voting totals and voter ballots for annual awards for the 2022-23 NBA regular season, as selected by a global panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters. The balloting was tabulated by the independent accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP. NBA Clutch Player of the Year VOTING TOTALS | VOTER BALLOTS Winner: De’Aaron […]

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Yankees Home Opener Vs. Giants on Thursday Afternoon

The New York Yankees will open the 2023 regular season at Yankee Stadium on Thursday, March 30, with a 1:05 p.m. game against the San Francisco Giants. What’s unusual about this Opening Day game is the Yankees will face San Francisco in the opener for the first time in franchise history. It marks just the second […]

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U.S. Open Awards $60 Million in Total Prizes

The 2022 US Open will award more than $60 million in total player compensation for the first time in the event’s history, topping the record-breaking $57.5 million number from 2021. The two-week event at the National Tennis Center in Flushing ends this Sunday and the winner of the men’s and women’s singles final will each […]

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ESPN Re-Signs Stephania Bell to New Contract

ESPN has re-signed senior writer and injury analyst Stephania Bell to a new, multi-year contract to remain with the company. Bell joins NFL insider Field Yates, writer and analyst Mike Clay, and NFL writer and analyst Matt Bowen in re-signing with ESPN this NFL offseason, in addition to fantasy and sports betting analyst Liz Loza […]

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IBM Renews Partnership With US Open for Five More Years

ARMONK, NY — IBM and the United States Tennis Association (USTA) have announced a five-year renewal of their longstanding, 30-year partnership. From the launch of USOpen.org in 1995 to the introduction of the mobile app in 2009, and last year’s debut of the IBM Power Index with Watson, IBM and the USTA have collaborated for more than three decades, […]