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Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is exclusively for our premium subscribers; you can join them here. Grey Cup sees big year-over-year growth, but challenges remain Head coach Corey Mace and the Saskatchewan Roughriders celebrate their 112th Grey Cup victory with a parade. (CBC News Saskatchewan on YouTube.) When you can cite an 12 percent year-over-year rise in average audience and an 11 percent gain in peak viewership, that's certainly not bad. And that's just what the CFL...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is free for everyone thanks to our premium subscribers. You can join them here. Now, onto the news... VICE TV to explore Bill Belichick/Jordon Hudson, Antonio Brown, sports gambling and more in new Out of Bounds docuseries A Vice image for their "Out of Bounds" debut feature. As discussed back at the launch of this site (almost two full months ago! Time flies...), one of my goals here is to spotlight creative work in the sports space. Part of...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is free for everyone thanks to our premium subscribers. You can join them here. Now, onto the news... Dunk The Halls is back, with a Stitch focus A graphic for Dunk The Halls 2025. (ESPN.) Last month saw the news that ESPN parent Disney had signed an expanded deal with Sony's Beyond Sports for more real-time animated altcasts, including NFL, NBA, NHL, and WNBA broadcasts in the 2025-26 season. The first one announced under that deal was a...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is free for everyone thanks to our premium subscribers; you can join them here to read new and archived premium-only posts (including yesterday's on the CFL context ahead of this year's Grey Cup). Now, on to the news... Roughriders' thrilling Grey Cup win should pay TV dividends Saskatchewan players celebrate winning the 112th Grey Cup. A point we've made here before, but one worth returning to, is how important the quality of any given game is...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media. This post is an exclusive for our premium subscribers: you can join them here for just $5 a month to gain access to all past posts, our Discord server, and more. On to the news... Rule change discussion casts a shadow over 112th Grey Cup 112th Grey Cup posters from the CFL and TSN. The Grey Cup is often one of the biggest parties in Canada each year, with the week leading up to the Canadian Football League's championship game frequently dubbed the "Grand...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is free for everyone thanks to our premium subscribers. You can join them here for just $5 a month. On to the books! Five sports books to check out Almost two decades ago, before any of this "writing as a career" business, I started a sports blog called Sporting Madness. Posts there (from 2006-2017, albeit much less frequent in the later years after people started paying me to write elsewhere) covered a whole range of things, but one infrequent...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media. This post is free for everyone thanks to our premium subscribers. Join them here to get at least two exclusive posts a week for just $5 a month. Now, on to the news... Fox reportedly tabs Drew Brees to replace Mark Sanchez, and puts him in a position to succeed Drew Brees at Super Bowl 50 in February 2016. (Arnie Papp on Flickr, via Wikipedia.) Many athletes have faced challenges going directly from the field to the announcing booth. One example often...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is an exclusive for our premium subscribers. You can join them here for just $5 a month or $50 a year. Now, on to the news... Massive World Series Game 7 numbers in both the U.S. and Canada show Saturday night's value Dodgers' pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto celebrates winning Game 7 of the World Series. (MLB on YouTube.) As I wrote Sunday, the epic 11-inning World Series Game 7 between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers was likely to be...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media. This post is free for everyone thanks to our premium subscribers; you can join them here. With that, let's get to the news. Fake reporter makes up Adrian Wojnarowski story There's a long history of ridiculous social media behavior on many fronts, but one of the most annoying and persistent varieties has been from people who create accounts seemingly from reporters (who don't actually exist), tweet false news, and have that go viral. In the world we live...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is free for everyone thanks to our premium subscribers. You can join them here. Amazing World Series Game 7 could boost MLB long-term A concluding graphic from MLB's Game 7 highlights video. (MLB on YouTube.) There's long been plenty of discussion around which teams leagues and broadcasters would ideally want in their championship series from a business perspective. For U.S. broadcasters in particular, the ideal setup would seem to be two...