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Saudi Arabia has been confirmed as host of the 2034 soccer World Cup. The tournament will come just 12 years after Qatar hosted the world’s biggest global soccer tournament. In the past half hour, Saudi Arabia has been confirmed by the sports governing body FIFA. Saudi Arabia ran unopposed for…

Caitlin Clark finished her first season as a professional basketball player in the WNBA and was recently named Time’s Athlete of the Year. The Indiana Fever star set rookie season records, including a WNBA league record for assists in a single season. With the added attention Clark has been…

Netflix has drafted its on-air talent roster for NFL Christmas Gameday, which will be broadcast live from Pittsburgh, Houston, and Los Angeles. Broadcasters will include father and son Ian and Noah Eagle, JJ Watt, and brothers Devin and Jason McCourty. The Kansas City Chiefs will face off…

The College Football Playoff bracket was finalized Sunday, setting the stage for the first year of a 12-team postseason that will eventually crown a national champion January 20 in Atlanta. After an intense Saturday that saw No. 1 Oregon solidify its top ranking with a victory over Penn State in the…

It’s a full weekend at NBC for Saturday Night Live star Heidi Gardner, the latest celeb to appear in a Sunday Night Football promo. The Kansas City native hyped up the Chiefs ahead of their hometown game against the Los Angeles Chargers while jamming out to Natasha Bedingfield’s ‘Unwritten’ in the…

If Denis Villeneuve‘s Dune Messiah doesn’t pan out, Timothée Chalamet might just have a future as an ESPN commentator. The Oscar nominee appeared Saturday on College Gameday at the Texas-Georgia SEC title game in Atlanta, where he made some surprisingly well-researched predictions, including a…

Amazon says its internal data points to a 10% uptick in customer engagement with interactive ads on this year’s Black Friday NFL game compared with last year’s debut edition. The inventory was certainly there, with a 30% year-over-year increase in interactive ads. About 40% of the brands with a…

Hall of Famer Randy Moss is stepping away temporarily from his role as an analyst on ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown to deal with a “personal health challenge,” the network announced today. “Pro Football Hall of Famer Randy Moss will step away from Sunday NFL Countdown for an extended time to focus on a…

Former ESPN NBA insider Adrian "Woj" Wojnarowski, who retired from the sports channel in September to become general manager of the men's basketball program at his alma mater, St. Bonaventure, has revealed that his departure from ESPN followed a diagnosis of prostate cancer. The disclosure came in an…

Executives from WWE and Netflix teamed up to reveal their plans for the upcoming debut of Raw with the media on Tuesday as the series prepares to pivot from linear to streaming on January 6 live from Los Angeles. The excitement at the Netflix headquarters in Los Angeles was palpable from both sides…

The Las Vegas Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs went head-to-head in the NFL’s second annual Black Friday matchup on Prime Video, which was a smashing success for the streamer with 41% growth over last year’s inaugural game. The game averaged 13.51M viewers Friday, peaking at 17.43M at the top of…

The NFL once again set a viewership record for its Thanksgiving tripleheader. All three games averaged 34.2M cross-platform viewers on Thursday, which is the highest Thanksgiving Day average on record (dating back to 1988), according to the league. Streaming alone delivered an average minute…