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EXCLUSIVE: With the NBA’s 75th season underway, Mike Tollin — who helped produce last year’s Michael Jordan docuseries The Last Dance — has found another basketball legend whose story he’s looking to tell. Tollin’s MSM is planning a new documentary on the life of George Gervin, aka “The Iceman,” who was just named to…

As it gets ready for kickoff in April 2022, Fox Sports’ revival of the USFL has filled out its senior management team, installing several execs with Fox ties. Brian Woods, who founded The Spring League and served as CEO of the developmental organization from 2017 to 2021, will be the USFL’s president of football…

In what is said to be one of the biggest naming-rights deals in U.S. history, downtown Los Angeles’ Staples Center will become Crypto.com Arena beginning Christmas Day. The deal between the Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange and AEG is worth $700 million, according to multiple reports. As part of the deal…

EXCLUSIVE: Draymond Green, a mainstay of the Golden State Warriors’ multiple NBA championships during the past decade, will host a weekly podcast for emerging network The Volume. The Draymond Green Show will have new episodes released every Wednesday during the season. Green will also serve as a strategic advisor to…

Dish Network and Sinclair Broadcast Group, the No. 2 local TV owner in the U.S., have reached a carriage agreement keeping 144 stations in 86 markets on the air. The deal also includes the Tennis Channel, with the network and the stations remaining on Dish TV satellite service and internet-delivered bundle Sling TV…

Sam Huff, the subject of a documentary series that was one of the earliest reality looks at NFL football, died Saturday. He was 87 and passed from “natural causes” in Winchester, Virginia, according to a family lawyer. Huff was known as a hard-hitting linebacker, first for the New York Giants in the late ’50s and…

One day after being placed on administrative leave due to a “professional conduct” investigation, Anaheim Ducks Executive Vice President/General Manager Bob Murray resigned his position, effective immediately, saying he will enroll in an alcohol-treatment program. It’s one of several high-profile sports scandals to…

Today, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers can proudly say, “Luke, I am your fodder,” as he provided the material for a somewhat jokey post by Star Wars icon Mark Hamill, aka Luke Skywalker. Rodgers, who is under fire for missteps in his handling of the Covid-19 protocols of the National Football League, spoke…

Reigning NBA MVP Nikola Jokic has been suspended for one game by the league for an altercation that occurred during the Denver Nuggets’ game with the Miami Heat on Monday. As the 6’11” Jokic brought the ball up on a 5 on 4 fast break, the Heat’s Markieff Morris took a run at the 280-pound Jokic and delivered what…

Amid rising infection numbers in Los Angeles, health-care startup Curative has re-launched its Covid testing site at Dodger Stadium, the company announced today. The site began offering free, drive-thru PCR nasal tests on Monday. People can access the site by entering through the downtown Gate E entrance. Curative…

Two struggling college football teams will get a week off after Cal announced today that “additional” players “tested positive for Covid-19 and are unavailable to practice this week or play in the contest.” The Golden Bears (3-6) were to play USC (4-5) on Saturday. Even with those records, USC-Cal would have been a…

(UPDATED with NFL fines information) 'Oh man," exhaled Aaron Rodgers when confronted today with Saturday Night Live's scathing spoof this weekend of the now admittedly unvaccinated quarterback. Coming less than a week after the now much disparaged Green Bay Packers player admitted he hadn't had the anti-Covid jabs…