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Gregg Winik, who won an Emmy last year for producing the Michael Jordan-Chicago Bulls docuseries The Last Dance, has been named the NBA’s President of Content & Executive Producer. Winik will oversee the development and production of live games and other programming on all platforms, including content within the…

JB Perrette, Discovery’s president and CEO of streaming and international, acknowledged the company’s struggles in the sports arena even as it has gained scale in recent years. “We’ve learned a lot over the last eight years, and we’ve made a lot of mistakes, frankly, in doing it in the sports space in particular,” 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…

EXCLUSIVE: Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal wants the world to know about an overlooked star of the game, Lusia "Lucy" Harris, the woman Shaq calls "the greatest of all time." "She’s a power center. I’m a power center. She was dominant," O'Neal tells Deadline about Harris. "For a long time she was denied the…

There were two big winners for the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night. While the NBA basketball team was pounding the Oklahoma City Thunder, beating them 116-95, former Lakers guard and current South Bay Lakers player Andre Ingram was a cash winner on the syndicated game show Wheel of Fortune. Ingram appeared Friday…

Friday night was coming up fives in primetime for the major networks, as five – count ’em – five shows tied for the top demo mark on the evening. The CBS crime drama lineup was the king of Friday night, as SWAT, Magnum PI, and Blue Bloods all came in with an 0.5 rating in the 8 PM to 11 PM span. Blue Bloods also had…

Al Unser Sr., a four-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 and member of one of racing’s most prominent dynasties, died of cancer yesterday at his home in Chama, N.M. He was 82. His death was announced by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and his son, Al Unser Jr. “My heart is so saddened,” tweeted Unser Jr. this morning…

Arguably the greatest soccer player of all time, Pelé, was admitted to Sao Paulo’s Hospital Albert Einstein on Wednesday according to his doctors. It is the second time in the past few months the three-time World Cup winner has been admitted for treatment on a tumor in his colon. In September, doctors operated on the…

UPDATED: Tiger Woods announced his return to competitive golf this morning. It’s not The Masters, but Woods will play alongside his 12-year-old son Charlie in the PNC Championship on December 18. Previously known as the Father/Son Challenge, the event is 36 holes and pairs players who have won major champions with a…

Endeavor-owned IMG has acquired the presenter of the Mutua Madrid Open, a notable clay-court tennis tournament, as well as the 109-year-old Acciona Open de España golf tournament. In an announcement, IMG said it has set a deal with Super Slam Ltd. and its affiliates the acquire the tournaments. Approval from…

Medina Spirit, the three-year-old thoroughbred racehorse whose 2021 win at the Kentucky Derby drew controversy when he later tested positive for a corticosteroid, died this morning after collapsing after a track workout at Santa Anita Park in California. According to the Paulick Report, a horseracing news publication…

Endeavor Group Holdings CEO Ari Emanuel dismissed the pending acquisition of ICM Partners by CAA as “the type of merger we did 10 years ago.” During an appearance at an online conference hosted by investment bank UBS, Emanuel said his company competes with CAA primarily in film, TV and music. “When we saw where the…