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Ahead of the Kentucky Derby, DraftKings’ DK Horse app was the most-downloaded free sports app, followed by the Churchill Downs Inc.-owned TwinSpires, per data from Sensor Tower. But while DK Horse on Saturday saw a 45% drop in year-over-year downloads, TwinSpires was up 56%. DK Horse still maintaine...

The MLB-produced broadcasts of Brewers games on TV this season have “featured new technological innovations,” according to JR Radcliffe of the MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL. Those include “drone shots outside American Family Field,” a “dirt camera right in front of home plate and a look inside the dugo...

The Big Ten has notified the ACC and ESPN that it “owns the rights” to the neutral-site basketball game between Duke and Michigan at Madison Square Garden next season after the game was set to be included in a deal between Duke and Amazon, according to Ross Dellinger of YAHOO SPORTS. Duke collaborat...

Former Yankees radio play-by-play voice JOHN STERLING, whose voice became the “soundtrack of spring, summer and quite a few Octobers to generations of Yankees fans,” has died at 87 years old, according to Don Burke of the N.Y. POST. Sterling, the radio voice for 36 seasons, was behind the microphone...

Longtime Yankees radio play-by-play voice John Sterling has died at age 87 (X, 5/4). Sterling, who worked as the team’s radio voice from 1989-2024, called more than 5,000 regular-season games in a row for the team. He retired in 2024, but returned to call the Yankees’ 2024 playoff run (SBJ). THE ATH...

NBC’s great weekend on the track at Churchill Downs was also felt on the airwaves, as the network drew 19.6 million viewers for the Kentucky Derby, marking the race’s best audience since 1983 on ABC (before the people meter era). It’s easily NBC’s best audience yet for the race, dating back to when ...

Warriors F Draymond Green will be making three upcoming appearances on “Inside the NBA” on ESPN, filling in for Kenny Smith starting on Wednesday. Green, who is repped on the media side by WIN Sports’ Josh Pyatt, will be doing so as a TNT employee, similar to the other members of the show. His other...

Broadcaster Jason Benetti was profiled on NBC’s “Sunday Today” on Sunday, with the net’s Willie Geist noting Benetti has “climbed the ladder from local radio to the big leagues” over the past 20 years and now serves as the voice of both the Tigers and NBC’s “Sunday Night Baseball.” NBC’s Anne Thomps...

Versant has “sold the assets of SportsEngine to Playmetrics,” part of a strategy to “refine its holdings and focus more closely on different types of assets.” Financial terms of the transaction were not revealed. SportsEngine “provides technology and services tied to team and tournament management o...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- New Apple CEO John Ternus is not just a fan of motorsports, but he is also an amateur racer, something that could bode well for F1 as the global auto racing series looks for a seamless transition with the outgoing Tim Cook.