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Simone Biles to withdraw from individual all-around final at Tokyo Olympics Via CNBC.com: Simone Biles will not defend her all-around gold medal, USA Gymnastics confirmed Wednesday morning. The 24-year-old superstar has pulled out of the individual competition at the Tokyo Olympic Games to focus on her mental health, her team said. “Simone will continue to be evaluated daily to determine whether or not to participate in next week’s individual event finals,” […]

NBC Quickly Hires Maria Taylor After Her Departure From ESPN Via CNBC.com: Maria Taylor has joined NBC less than a week after her contract with ESPN expired. NBC is formally making the announcement during its primetime Olympic show Friday before a replay of the opening ceremony. Taylor had been with ESPN since 2014 but her contract expired Tuesday. Her last assignment for the network was Tuesday night at the NBA […]

NBA Finals Game 5 Ratings Crash Nearly 50% from 2019 Via Breitbart: The National Basketball Association’s 2021 finals have been a ratings disaster, and Game 5 is no different, with numbers down 49 percent over the 2019 season. Game 5 rolled in at less than 10 million viewers earning only 9.6 million fans, according to SportsMediaWatch. Granted, the game improved seven percent over the dismal 2020 coronavirus year, but it […]

NBA Finals Game 2 Ratings Crash 32% from 2019 Via Breitbart: The National Basketball Association is having a hard time finding an audience for its 2021 Finals, with Game 2 down 32 percent compared to the 2019 season. The ratings did improve a bit over Game 1, however. With its average of 9.38 million viewers on ABC, viewers for Game 2 between the Milwaukee Bucks and Phoenix Suns increased ten […]

ESPN takes Nichols off NBA Finals duty after leaked comments Via APNews: ESPN replaced Rachel Nichols as its sideline reporter for the NBA Finals following a report detailing critical comments she made about Black colleague Maria Taylor. The network announced Tuesday that Malika Andrews would handle that role for the series between the Phoenix Suns and Milwaukee Bucks. Nichols, who is white, has been the sideline reporter for its top […]