ESPN’s final year with Major League Baseball’s wild-card round was a historic one. The network announced Monday that the wild-card round of the playoffs last week averaged 4.6 million viewers. That’s ...

ESPN MLB analyst Ben McDonald caught some flak for his reaction to the network’s promotion of one of the first NHL games of the season between the Chicago Blackhawks and Florida Panthers. McDonald was ...

The MLB playoffs are underway, and the NHL regular season starts next week. So ESPN tried to get in a little cross-promotion for its Oct. 7 NHL tripleheader that will include the Florida Panthers ...

Ben McDonald and Kevin Brown have spent seven years broadcasting MLB games together for the Baltimore Orioles’ regional network MASN (Mid-Atlantic Sports Network), with the latter calling play-by-play ...

1. During Wednesday’s Padres-Cubs playoff game on ABC, play-by-play announcer Kevin Brown read a promo for ESPN’s coverage of the NHL season opener next week. Brown playfully tried to bring analyst ...

The NHL signed a seven-year media deal with ESPN/ABC to bring pro hockey back to the Worldwide Leader in 2021. Suffice it to say, MLB analyst Ben McDonald hasn’t been tuning in very much over that ...

A rising star ESPN sideline reporter is blowing up on social media during the 2025 MLB postseason. The 2025 Major League Baseball postseason started on Tuesday, with the Wild Card Round. There are ...

An ESPN MLB announcer is getting called out for admitting that there's "zero chance" he'll be watching hockey. In 2021, the NHL announced a 7-year rights deal with ESPN. The league returned to ESPN ...

ESPN and MLB agreed to part ways at the conclusion of the 2025 season, ending a long partnership with the two sides. The reason for the divorce ultimately came down to how ESPN covered the league.

Weeks after reports first became public about how Major League Baseball would divvy up its short-term media rights agreements after ESPN opted out of its Sunday Night Baseball package earlier this ...