Preview The US Sumo Open goes down Saturday, May 11, at the Walter Pyramid arena at Long Beach State University in Long Beach, California. The event promises 150 back-back matches featuring competitors from forty countries. Among the competitors are five World Sumo Champions. One of those champions is Mendee from Mongolia who won the heavyweight and openweight golds at the 2022 world championships. The former Ichinojo (Altankhuyag Ichinnorov) is a special guest at the event. He once held the...
Preview Sumo returns this weekend for the 15-day long natsu basho (summer tournament). The event goes down at the historic Ryukku Kokugikan in Tokyo. There, for each day of the tournament, hundreds of wrestlers will compete daily to try and improve their ranking in the sport. The makuuchi (top division) will also be competing for an Emperor’s Cup and the opportunity to become living legends in the sport. This tournament’s field includes a highly competitive san’yaku (class of upper ranked […]...
Warner Bros Discovery in Spain, AMC Networks International Southern Europe and Spanish pubcaster RTVE are among a host of broadcasters in Iberia and Hispanic US to have acquired documentaries from factual producer and distributor Off the Fence.
The National Post is reporting that Rex Murphy, the pro-oil pundit who was at once the steady stickhandler of a national call-in radio show and a driver of divisive online discourse, has died. The newspaper, where he worked as a columnist, said in an obituary on its website that Murphy died at age 77 following a battle with cancer. Former prime minister Stephen Harper expressed his condolences on social media. "Rex Murphy was one of the most intelligent and fiercely free-thinking...
For months now, the dominant narrative around women’s basketball—and for good reason—has been about how a rising generation of players, led by Caitlin Clark, has boosted the sport to heights previously unreached. But what’s gotten a bit lost in that conversation is the fact that those young hoopers are building upon a foundation, both on the court and in the media, built by their predecessors and peers. Chiney Ogwumike sits right at that generational intersection: she was a two-time All-Star and...
Apple Music today launched new Shazam-powered playlists that track what is being played the most across terrestrial broadcast radio stations. The Radio Spins charts are also available on the Shazam website. Using their music recognition technology, Shazam is now logging what songs are being played on tens of thousands of radio stations worldwide, to help users discover more insights about what music is trending globally. more
In its submission to the TRAI, Sony disagrees with the idea of the regulation of OCCPs (Online Curated Content Providers) such as streaming services being included within the National Broadcasting Policy framework, noting the same would create "immense confusion within a well settled environment."
Perhaps you may have missed it at the Twilight of an 8-0 shutout at the hands of the Miami Marlins on Friday, but SNY had quite the callback to one of Keith Hernandez’s most infamous moments. Over a decade ago — we can’t believe it’s been that long either — the longtime New York Mets
One of the San Francisco Giants broadcasters was on the scene for one of the most chaotic scenes in professional golf history. Dave Flemming is in Louisville, Kentucky, to broadcast the PGA Championship for ESPN and was on the scene when Scottie Scheffler was arrested by Louisville police. Scheffler, who won the Masters in April and is ranked as the No. 1 golfer in the world, was put in handcuffs and taken to jail for not following police orders during a pedestrian fatality investigation. Police...
Joe Buck hasn’t called a baseball game since his Fox departure. Buck confessed to missing calling local baseball games but also acknowledged that the sport had evolved beyond what he knew. The game has undeniably undergone many rule changes since his days as the iconic voice of Major League Baseball on Fox. However, his voice remains
Morales filled in for usual play-by-play TV announcer Todd Kalas during Monday's game against the Oakland Athletics, whose full-time announcer is Jenny Cavnar. It marked the first time that two women served as play-by-play announcers during the same MLB regular-season game.
On a recent podcast episode, Bill Simmons revealed that NBC outbid TNT for the rights to air future NBA games