Matt Yoder
Awful Announcing
Columbus, OH, United States
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To save the NBA All-Star Game it needs to become easier to watch
The NBA All-Star Game is nearly impossible to enjoy as a casual fan. The only hope to save it is to have it resemble an actual NBA game. → Read More
Will Super Bowl LVII set the all-time viewership record?
Fox and the NFL are optimistic Super Bowl LVII will break the all-time viewership record but are the elements in place to do so? → Read More
Viewership Predictions for the 2023 CFP National Championship Game
Will TCU's Cinderella story draw viewers to the CFP National Championship Game or will another potential Georgia win lead fans to tune out? → Read More
Skip Bayless brought this controversy on himself
The strong negative reaction to Skip Bayless' insensitive tweet after Damar Hamlin's collapse has been building up for decades. → Read More
The Awfulies – Awful Announcing’s 2022 Sports Media Awards
Awful Announcing's picks for the best and worst of the year in our sports media awards featuring the big NFL announcing shakeup and more. → Read More
Twitter Wars: Norm Macdonald vs Rick Reilly
Sunday brought one of the weirder Twitter battles in the history of social media. For whatever reason, comedian Norm Macdonald was live tweeting the Final Round of the WGC tournament at Doral. Norm Macdonald’s style of comedy is certainly unique and isn’t for everybody. He’s crossed over into sports several times before, with his Sports Read more... → Read More
Charles Barkley fell asleep on Inside the NBA
The NBA on TNT's Thursday night doubleheader was a snoozer last night. First the Bulls beat the Rockets by 24 points. Then the Thunder beat the Lakers by 29. What happened to flex scheduling in the NBA? At this point, nationally televised Lakers games are being used for torturing criminals. Given that lineup, you can't Read more... → Read More
The top 20 games of the 2010s
As we live in a 24/7 world where sports news and debate and controversy is seemingly always at our fingertips, it’s almost easy to forget why we fell in love with sports in the first place – the games. The epic comebacks, thrilling back-and-forth contests, and heroic moments define what it means to be a Read more... → Read More
The Top 10 Sports Announcing Bloopers of the 2010s The Top 10 Sports Announcing Bloopers of the 2010s
As the 2010s come to an end, Awful Announcing looks back at some of the decade's most memorable on-air bloopers in sports broadcasting. → Read More
College GameDay's duel with Big Noon Kickoff from Columbus is most interesting chapter in Fox-ESPN rivalry in some time
Ever since Fox Sports launched FS1 several years ago, their hoped for competition with Bristol has not gone well. Seemingly every time the network has attempted to go head-to-head with ESPN, it’s resulted in millions of dollars spent on former ESPN talking heads for little impact in the ratings and one cancellation, stop-start, and recasting Read more... → Read More
College football's elite class is more exclusive than ever before
The College Football Playoff looks like it's open for everyone but when you start looking at past trends, it's really open to a certain few. → Read More
College football fanbases aren't happy being stuck with noon ET kickoffs
This year’s college football season has looked a little different on television with the advent of Fox’s Big Noon Saturday being added to the calendar. Before the season, Fox made the unique decision to shift their biggest game of the week outside of primetime, and even outside of the traditional 3:30 PM ET slot all Read more... → Read More
Gary McCord sounds off on CBS Sports axing: "You shouldn't do it this way"
CBS Sports recently made the decision to part ways with two of their longest-tenured sports broadcasters – golf announcers Gary McCord and Peter Kostis. Between the pair of them, they had 60 combined years of experience working for CBS’s golf coverage. Kostis served in a variety of roles as a hole announcer, analyst, and on-course Read more... → Read More
A CitiField foul ball net obstructed a main camera view for NYCFC-TFC
The New York City FC-Toronto FC MLS playoff game on FS1 saw a camera view obstructed by the foul ball netting at CitiField. → Read More
Cincinnati is now officially the capital of postseason misery
The Washington Nationals finally ended years of postseason misery by upsetting the Los Angeles Dodgers on the road in Game 5 of the NLDS on Wednesday night. It was the first ever series victory for the team since moving to Washington in 2005, and going back to the team’s Montreal days, their first playoff series Read more... → Read More
The FIFA World XI vote may be the most absurd in the sports world
There have been a whole lot of questionable awards voting decisions over the years, but this year's FIFA World XI was particularly special. → Read More
NXT draws over 1.1 million viewers in USA Network debut
WWE's move of NXT to USA (for just the first hour this week thanks to Suits) paid off with a good opening average audience of 1.18 million viewers. → Read More
Does the new NFL Primetime on ESPN+ still hold up in today's streaming world?
Nostalgia sells. It’s why every other movie coming out of Hollywood is a “live action remake” featuring legacy titles that will pump out a couple hundred million dollars without much effort. It’s why Netflix just forked over who knows how many hundreds of millions for the exclusive streaming rights to Seinfeld. And it’s why ESPN Read more... → Read More
Patriots WR Antonio Brown accused of sexually assaulting former trainer in lawsuit
Antonio Brown's former personal trainer is suing the Patriots receiver of three separate instances of sexual assault from June 2017 to May 2018. → Read More
USA is preempting the second hour of NXT's first episodes for Suits
The final season of Suits has posed some programming issues for USA and WWE NXT. The second hour of NXT on Sept. 18 and 25 will be only on WWE Network. → Read More