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The New England Patriots were on the wrong end of an inadvertent whistle during their game against the Buffalo Bills Monday night, and it may have cost them a huge play. Tom Brady scrambled out of the pocket to keep a play alive early in the third …
Whoever handles tweeting from the Wisconsin athletics account got a lesson in the perils of scheduled tweets on Saturday. The UWBadgers account sent out a pre-scheduled tweet on Saturday about how the women’s basketball team looked to emulate …
Reporter Sarah Davis fell victim to one of the most common broadcasting slip-ups we see. While doing a report during Thursday’s Boston Bruins-Colorado Avalanche game for NESN, Davis tried to say herniated disk, but you can guess what she ended …
The NFL has admitted that a mistake was made with the game clock near the end of regulation in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ win over the San Diego Chargers Monday night. In a statement on Tuesday, NFL spokesman Mike Signora acknowledged that an …
The NFL has to be relieved that the Pittsburgh Steelers scored a touchdown as time expired to beat the San Diego Chargers Monday night. Otherwise, league officials would be faced with a flurry of difficult questions about what happened to the game …
Texas governor Greg Abbott is going to catch serious flack from Houston Astros fans for possibly jinxing the baseball team. Abbott’s Twitter account sent a tweet congratulating the Astros for advancing to the ALCS Monday and challenged the …
There was a bizarre broadcasting moment at the end of Saturday’s Clemson-Notre Dame game when ESPN cut to its studio during the middle of Dabo Swinney’s postgame interview. The Tigers stopped the Fighting Irish on a two-point conversion …
ESPN anchor Linda Cohn was burned by a hot mic during an episode of “SportsCenter” on Thursday. Cohn must have been having a conversation off air about NBA free agency, because when the show re-joined and went live, she was caught on-air …
Roger Goodell had several months to prepare for the NFL draft, yet he still somehow managed to mispronounce Marcus Mariota’s name when the Tennessee Titans selected the quarterback second overall on Thursday night. Goodell misspoke and …
Just when you thought a trophy presentation couldn’t get any worse than what the Chevy guy did during the World Series last October, someone goes out and gives him a run for his money. Tom McGinnis, who is a member of the NCAA Men’s …
We all know Dick Vitale has a tendency to get overexcited about stuff, and we were reminded of that when he made an embarrassing mistake on Twitter Saturday. All Dickie V. wanted to do was share a photo of himself meeting with two fans at a First …
FOX Sports Tennessee had some serious “technical difficulties” during the broadcast of the Nashville Predators’ game against the St. Louis Blues on Thursday night. As Jim Diamond of Rinkside Report first noted on Twitter, fans who …
A surprisingly successful season continued for the New York Islanders on Monday night as they came away with an overtime victory over the Washington Capitals. We’ll talk more about that after we discuss the painfully awkward exchange that took …
I will be the first to admit that I used to mix up the Harbaugh brothers all the time. When Jim first took the head coaching job with the San Francisco 49ers, I accidentally referred to him as John more than once. But I never mixed up their faces. …
ESPN did the impossible on Thursday night: they got both the USC and UCLA fan bases to unite over a common issue. During the USC-Cal game, ESPN displayed a graphic that accidentally called USC the “UCLA Trojans.” We’ve never seen an …
The legendary Gus Johnson made a hilarious mistake while doing the play-by-play for the TCU-Kansas State game on Saturday night, and it wasn’t even caused by overexcitement. Johnson, who is known for his enthusiastic calls, accidentally …
