Awful Announcing

The former Seattle Times sports columnist who left the paper after it shelved a column on transgender athletes has found a new home. Matt Calkins, who resigned from the Seattle Times last month after 11 years at the publication, has been hired by the Fox News-operated OutKick, according to a report by Ben Mullin in The New York…

Paul Kuharsky is out at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The longtime Tennessee Titans reporter announced on Friday, Sept. 11, that he’d been dropped from the Hall’s Selection Committee, joining the roster of veteran voters swept out as the panel is winnowed from 50 members down to 28 under its overhauled bylaws. Kuharsky had…

Joe Buck has insisted he’s done being the voice of the World Series since leaving Fox, but that could change if MLB’s championship comes to ESPN. Andrew Marchand of The Athletic reported Buck has agreed to a deal with ESPN worth more than $100 million. The six-year extension will keep Buck with ESPN long enough…

Chris “Boomer” Berman is closing in on 50 years at ESPN. Earlier this year, he told Alex Sherman of CNBC that he intends to retire when his current contract, which extends through the 2029 NFL season, expires. After that, Berman, 71, may have a future in calling plays in the NFL. Wait, what? On Monday,…

Joe Buck isn’t walking away from Monday Night Football anytime soon. ESPN has signed its Monday Night Football play-by-play voice to a six-year extension worth more than $100 million, according to Andrew Marchand of The Athletic, lifting his annual salary from roughly $15 million to $18 million. The deal spans ESPN’s first Super Bowl broadcast…