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UPDATED: A lawyer representing Fox Sports and the new United States Football League has responded to a lawsuit filed yesterday by an organization of owners and executives from the original, 1980s-era USFL. David Bernstein of Debevoise & Plimpton, counsel to Fox Sports and USFL Enterprises, said in a statement: The…

NBC and Fox will simulcast the return of the USFL on April 16, the first time since the first Super Bowl in 1967 that two rival broadcast TV networks will both air the same live, scheduled sporting event. The primetime, Saturday night telecast from Birmingham, AL, will feature the New Jersey Generals and the…

NBC Sports will televise USFL games along with Fox Sports when the pro football league returns in a new incarnation next spring. Starting in April, NBCUniversal will carry 21 USFL games in 2022, with eight on NBC, nine on USA Network and four on Peacock. Fox will have 22 games, 12 on its flagship broadcast network and…

Programmer Telemundo Deportes will air exclusive Spanish-language coverage of Super Bowl LVI live on Telemundo next year from Los Angeles – calling it the first time the event will be televised on a Spanish-language broadcast network in the U.S. Telemundo Deportes will also be the Spanish-language home of Sunday Night …

Tom Brady, one of the great quarterbacks in the history of the NFL and a six-time Super Bowl champ, has announced that he will not return to his longtime team, the New England Patriots. In two long messages this morning, the 42-year-old Brady tweeted “I don’t know what my football future holds but it is time for me to…