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staff writer, host @awfulannouncing.bsky.social ✉️ brendonk14@gmail.com

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The 2025 Awful Announcing sports podcast power list Is “podcast” a four-letter word now? Since our inaugural Sports Podcast Power List last year, when we wrote that the sports podcast was “as big as ever” and highlighted the cottage industry sprouting up around sports podcasting and its push into video, the industry has moved quickly in that direction. No longer merely a niche, Read more... The post The 2025 Awful Announcing sports podcast power list appeared first on Awful Announcing.
30.10.2025 14:05 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 6    📌 6
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Gilbert Arenas is the past, present, and future of sports content This article was published in conjunction with the 2025 Awful Announcing Sports Podcast Power List. To read more about the sports podcast and digital video space and the people guiding it right now, click here. For as long as there have been people whose jobs are to entertain audiences, there have been people like Gilbert Read more... The post Gilbert Arenas is the past, present, and future of sports content appeared first on Awful Announcing.
30.10.2025 14:23 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2
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ESPN's Michael Wilbon appears quite glad to see retiring Auburn coach Bruce Pearl go:

"He had become a divisive person, it seems to me, intentionally. And I hope there was pressure to just get him out."

22.09.2025 22:30 — 👍 100    🔁 6    💬 20    📌 7
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"I wish my wife or any of my family members would have tried that nonsense. They would've been banned from coming to any games for the rest of my career."

- Kendrick Perkins on the altercation between John Haliburton and Giannis last night

30.04.2025 22:09 — 👍 26    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1

Pressure to do what exactly?

I still haven’t heard from the Unrivaled camp or WBB media what the end game would actually be here

14.04.2025 01:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Bluesky says ‘sports is a top priority’ amidst massive growth spurt Last year a wave of sports media and league and teams opened Bluesky accounts, in part a reaction to Elon Musk’s takeover of X, the formerly named Twitter. X became a right wing hangout, and Musk’s algorithms significantly reduced the reach of story links in X posts, destroying a key reason journalists posted on the Read more... The post Bluesky says ‘sports is a top priority’ amidst massive growth spurt appeared first on Awful Announcing.
10.04.2025 15:01 — 👍 598    🔁 84    💬 30    📌 84

Being Democrats

14.03.2025 03:16 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Somehow this is exactly what hurt Kamala and Newsom learned zero lessons from it

06.03.2025 16:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bogdan Bogdanovic playing a “24” pinball machine, this and only this

25.02.2025 04:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Like…running for president

11.02.2025 00:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Breaking the NBA What did we want from the overnight Luka Doncic news cycle?

In today's "The A Block," @brendonkleen.bsky.social says the reaction around Shams Charania breaking the Luka Doncic trade proved Woj's "It's just vapor" quip correct.

03.02.2025 20:07 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Dave Pasch is still chasing 'a whole new way of broadcasting' Dave Pasch still upholds the spirit of Bill Walton everyday in the way he gives to the audience and his colleagues at ESPN.

One of the best pieces ever published by @awfulannouncing.bsky.social. Dave Pasch is special. awfulannouncing.com/espn/dave-pa...

23.12.2024 19:25 — 👍 20    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you so much Gail!

23.12.2024 20:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Counterpoint: they did televised hearings for weeks about Jan 6 and the right turned it into a cause while the average American memory holed it

03.12.2024 16:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Michael Scott inside joke meme except it’s me with “Good Advice”

02.12.2024 23:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Someone put me in a starter pack

02.12.2024 23:51 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Skattebo's Sports Bar and Grill in Tempe is gonna print money

23.11.2024 21:45 — 👍 280    🔁 34    💬 15    📌 2

Pat McAfee is pretty damn good at running through film and highlights when he wants to

23.11.2024 16:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Play-By-Play: Netflix’s Paul vs. Tyson disaster, ‘Inside the NBA’ to ESPN, can Bluesky sustain? It’s time for another episode of The Play-By-Play, Awful Announcing’s weekly sports media news podcast. On the latest episode, Awful Announcing’s Brendon Kleen and Ben Axelrod discuss: Netflix’s Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson disaster. Warner Bros. Discovery’s…
20.11.2024 16:51 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Former CEO, ‘Pardon My Take’ hosts open up on challenges of working at Barstool Sports Say what you want about Barstool Sports, but being in the fire there every day isn’t easy. In a new documentary released on the Pardon My Take YouTube channel about the show’s very short-lived Barstool Van Talk late-night show on ESPN, the show’s hosts…
20.11.2024 01:16 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 2

Having the best team in the NBA be boring to watch sucks

20.11.2024 01:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Herbert > Burrow

18.11.2024 04:43 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I BELIEVED

18.11.2024 04:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Abolish NFL kickers

18.11.2024 04:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tony Romo is great at his job

18.11.2024 00:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The thing about Devin Booker’s “slow start” wasn’t just the cold streak

When he plays *like this* he doesn’t have cold streaks

When he passes up 3s and doesn’t get to the line, he’s prone to cold streaks

If he keeps playing like this, his floor is so high

17.11.2024 22:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And so much money

17.11.2024 04:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think the answer to #2 is yes…get ready for more leaks that he wants to be on Monday night countdown

17.11.2024 03:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

INSIDE THE NBA FOREVER

17.11.2024 03:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

People have liked boxing forever and boxing has been problematic forever lol this is a very un-2024 event if we’re being real

16.11.2024 05:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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