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Mike Tirico will anchor NBC's Olympic primetime show outdoors for the first time in the network's Olympics history, hosting from a fifth-floor studio deck with a panoramic view of the Tokyo skyline and landmark Rainbow Bridge. The Today show will also broadcast each day from this NBC Olympics outdoor set designed by…

UPDATED, 5:48 PM: Two days before the start of the 2021 NHL season, NBC Sports and its longtime hockey analyst Mike Milbury have parted ways. The news comes more than four months since he was suspended for “insensitive and insulting” remarks about women. “We are grateful to Mike for all of his contributions to our…

Lacrosse may not leap to every mind when thinking of sports media juggernauts, but the centuries-old game is rapidly becoming a buzzy new draw with a fast-growing, young-skewing audience. The Premier Lacrosse League leveraged the momentum this week, announcing a merger with more established predecessor Major League…

UPDATE: In an upset, 8-1 shot Authentic won the Kentucky Derby, holding off the charge of favorite Tiz the Law down the stretch and clocking in for the victory at 2.61. EARLIER: There are no fans allowed at today’s running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky. But there’s plenty…

Hockey analyst Jeremy Roenick filed suit Friday in Manhattan Supreme Court against NBC Sports, saying he was wrongfully dismissed for making a comment about a desired “threesome” with an on-air partner while other commentators said equally racy remarks and went unpunished. Roenick, age 50, said the network applied a…

Fox has sold NBC Sports media rights to the United States Golf Association, including the U.S. Open with years of the deal left running through 2027. NBC owns the Golf Channel and has rights to the PGA Tour. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the story, said Comcast's NBC Universal is paying significantly…

English Premier League is set to pay tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement by replacing players' names on the back of their shirts with a message from BLM. The league, which is set to restart with two games on Wednesday June 17, will see the names replaced for the first 12 matches of the season. NBC Sports will…

This year’s NTT Indycar Series Genesys 300 is racing from NBC Sports to NBC for the first televised primetime of the series since 2013. The race from Texas Motor Speedway is set to air on June 6 at 8pm ET moving from its originally scheduled window on NBCSN. Programming will kick off at 1:30pm ET on NBC Sports Gold…

Editors' Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that already has claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Deadline's Coping With COVID-19 Crisis series is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences…

The PGA Tour has announced a new nine-year domestic media rights portfolio for 2022 to 2030, extending deals with ViacomCBS and Comcast/NBC Sports and establishing a new long-term relationship with Disney and ESPN+. The PGA called the package “the culmination of a long-term strategic planning process to best serve…

International Women’s Day arrives on March 8, and NBC Sports Network will celebrate by using an all-female crew to broadcast and produce game coverage of the St. Louis Blues vs. Chicago Blackhawks National Hockey League matchup. The game will mark the first NHL contest broadcast and produced solely by women in the…

Things went from bad to worse for Jeremy Roenick today, and the longtime NHL player-turned-commentator isn’t happy about it. NBC Sports, which had suspended Roenick during Christmas week over inappropriate comments about a colleague in a podcast, said that he will not be returning to his job. Always known for being…