In Boston, Jon Couture wrote the Revolution will have seven of their remaining MLS matches this season “aired as late-night replays on Fox 25.” The first of eight replays was carried Monday night. While live broadcasts of the team’s games will remain on Apple TV, Fox 25 “will re-air a selection of them for its audience” at 11:30pm the Monday after they are played. At “least a dozen” of the league’s 30 teams have announced deals similar to the Revolution’s with Fox 25 since the start of last season, offering game replays “as a way to increase local exposure” (BOSTON GLOBE, 5/18).
TRUE FAN: In N.Y., Erich Richter noted Mets dugout reporter Steve Gelbs had to leave the game against the Yankees early on Sunday after his son “suffered a ‘scary fall,’ forcing him to go to the hospital.” Gelbs wrote on X his son “is doing well.” The son’s first question when his father walked into the ER was, “Did the Mets win?” (N.Y. POST, 5/18).
6TH MAN TO LEAD MAN: NBCNEWS.com’s Rohan Nadkarni wrote listeners are “likely well aware of the enthusiasm” former NBAer Jamal Crawford brings to NBC’s NBA broadcasts as the network’s lead analyst. When the NBA returned to NBC this season, Crawford “hit it off” with announcer Mike Tirico and Basketball HOFer Reggie Miller “instantly.” Crawford said that he is “having so much fun calling games” that he “often finds himself having to tone it down during the broadcast” (NBCNEWS.com, 5/18).
