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Kathryn Xu

Nico O'Reilly #3 and Harry Kane #9 of England react after a missed chance during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group L match between England and Ghana.

Soccer

What On Earth Is “Match Momentum”?

Tom Ley

Cape Verde supporters cheer on their team

Cape Verde Deserved Better Than Whatever The Hell JP Dellacamera Was Doing

Ray Ratto

Alexi Lalas attends the Fox Sports FIFA World Cup 2026 Media Day event at Lavan on May 21, 2026 in New York City.

Alexi Lalas Has Already Worn Out His Welcome

Luis Paez-Pumar

World Cup Tallies Another Human Rights Abuse

David Roth

Terry Bradshaw (left) and Howie Long (right) on the set of the Fox NFL Sunday broadcast. Cleatus the Robot is in the background. Bradshaw is telling a story about texting someone he thought was Andy Reid and getting offered a chance to buy some pigs.

Terry Bradshaw: A Man I Believed To Be Andy Reid Recently Tried To Sell Me Pigs

Giri Nathan

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - FEBRUARY 07: ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter on set ahead of Super Bowl LIX on February 07, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs will face each other on Sunday. (Photo by Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images)

Journalismism

Adam Schefter Reports That Mark Sanchez Was Stabbed In “Robbery,” Doesn’t Explain His Error

Dan McQuade was a founding member of Defector. He died in January 2026.

Dan McQuade

Tom Brady wearing white-on-white tie and shirt combo in the broadcast booth and sort of looking like a caterer.

Congratulations To Tom Brady On Making His First Holy Communion

Samer Kalaf

AI Aaron Rodgers in an incorrect Steelers hat, looking like shit

Fox Sports Uses AI To Achieve The Impossible: Make Aaron Rodgers Look Deader Inside

Retired football player and Fox Sports analyst Tom Brady looks on prior to Super Bowl LIX between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles at Caesars Superdome on February 09, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Media Meltdowns

NFL Once Again Tweaks Rules To Make Tom Brady Look Better At His Job

Shannon Sharpe and Skip Bayless on Undisputed

Seal Up The Pit That Contains Fox Sports 1

Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including Point B. Handsomest man in the world.

Drew Magary

d coach and FOX NFL Sunday Analyst Jimmy Johnson speaks to the media during FOX Sports Media Day at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on February 06, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Jimmy Johnson Retires From Retirement

Tom Brady and Kevin Burkhardt in front of a green screen that looks like a deserted alleyway.

I Want To Go To The Wet, Empty Alley Where Kevin Burkhardt And Tom Brady Called Last Night’s Game

Lauren Theisen

The Scorebug Snuggery: Super Bowl 59 Goes Big And Brutalist

Dave McKenna

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 27: Skip Bayless is seen on October 27, 2017 in Los Angeles, CA.

Lawsuit Claims Skip Bayless Tried To Pay FS1 Hairstylist For Sex

Patrick Redford

Lalas confusing and infuriating Daniel Sturridge

Love Him Or Hate Him, Alexi Lalas Stinks At His Job

A Rod reacts in semi-horror as a Cookie Monster drone flies toward him

This Is So Stupid

Former MLB Players Impressed By Stuffed Cookie Monster Taped To A Drone: “Amazing Technology”

Israel Daramola

Arts And Culture

Cam’ron And Mase Argue About Sports Now, And It’s Working

Laura Wagner

Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe argue on the show Undisputed

Skip Bayless And Shannon Sharpe Bicker, But Not In The Rehearsed Way

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Chris Thompson

Golf

Report: LIV Golf Will Pay Someone To Air Its Crappy Tournaments

Barry Petchesky

Fox Sports Finds Perfect Billboard At Ground Zero

Tom Brady’s One And Only Job As A Broadcaster Will Be To Exist

Energetic Sibling Gets Goosebumps Whenever He Sees His Favorite Sport On TV

Terry Bradshaw, in a black suit and purple tie, holding his hands up like he's holding a pumpkin (there's nothing in his hands)