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More details about the local broadcasting arrangements for the three teams will be available in the coming months.

There will officially be a new way to watch the Chicago Blackhawks, Bulls, and White Sox following the 2024 MLB regular season. The three teams are departing the NBC Sports Chicago regional sports network (Rsn), but fans won’t have to worry about reduced access to their games going forward if reporting surrounding the move is accurate. The Athletic offered the first details about the new arrangement for the three teams, which have all agreed to a deal with Standard Media Group to broadcast their non-national games in the Chicago area starting this fall.

Key Details: The deal with Standard will reportedly include broadcast and cable channels, as well as streaming options. The Bulls, Blackhawks, and White Sox see their current deal with NBC Sports Chicago expire in October. Warner Bros. Discovery left...

Sinclair Broadcasting Group (Sbg) has enough regional sports network (Rsn) problems on its plate. Its subsidiary Diamond Sports Group — which operates 19 RSNs under the Bally Sports brand — is currently undergoing bankruptcy court proceedings. Given those troubles, it’s not terribly surprising the company has decided to pull away from another of its regional sports ventures.

According to Front Office Sports, Chicago Bulls and White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf has taken majority control of Stadium, the Chicago-based multiplatform sports network featuring exclusive live and on-demand games and events, extensive highlights, classic games, original programming, and daily live studio programming. Reisndorf bought out Sinclair’s stake in Stadium, making his Silver Chalice media company the primary stakeholder in the network.

A source close to the deal told Fos that the new ownership structure will be accompanied by big moves down the line for the channel. Given that the broadcasting deal with NBC Sports...

The Prostate Cancer Foundation (Pcf) 26th Annual New York Dinner took place at Restaurant Daniel in New York City, raising 4 million to support its research programs.

Idina Menzel at Prostate Cancer Foundation (Pcf) 26th Annual New York Dinner

The end-of-the-year benefit supported Pcf’s programs and celebrated the millions raised and achievements made in the past quarter-century through the Pcf. The charitable organization founded by Michael Milken is dedicated to identifying and funding groundbreaking cancer research programs.

The memorable evening welcomed leaders in medicine, top research scientists, and distinguished New York City socialites. The gala began with a lively cocktail reception and the lavish dinner party with Master Mentalist Oz Perelman gave way to a special musical performance from Idina Menzel.

Michael Milken and Charles Ryan’s update on the work of the Foundation encompassed the on-going work of the Pcf’s Young Investigator (Yi) program as well as the...

Since its premiere four weeks ago, ESPN’s “The Last Dance” has captured the attention of basketball fans across the nation as they seek content during a time when professional sports have ground to a halt. The 10-part documentary following NBA legend Michael Jordan and six-time champions the Chicago Bulls will air its final two parts this Sunday on ESPN.

The documentary weaves together archival footage from the 1997-98 NBA season and interviews with Jordan himself, Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, head coach Phil Jackson and other major NBA figures.

Though “The Last Dance” was originally scheduled to debut in June around the time of the NBA Finals, shutdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic led ESPN to move up the documentary’s premiere. Two new episodes have aired each Sunday since its launch on April 19, building more buzz and positive word of mouth over the past month.

“The Last Dance” will air on ESPN.

In Episodes Seven and Eight of The Last Dance, there are tears. Michael Jordan cries over the shocking loss of his father in 1993. His friend Ahmad Rashad wells up at the memory of tying a trembling Jordan’s tie for him on the day of the funeral. Members of the ’94 Bulls (a team that was Jordan-free as His Airness dabbled in professional baseball) recall a tearful postgame speech by Bill Cartwright. Heck, Jordan’s personal trainer cries while speaking about his number-one client’s intense dedication to his job.

Perhaps most surprising,...

Michael Jordan, who won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls, is widely considered the best basketball player of all time.

The story of how Jordan, and his Bulls teammates, dominated in the 1990s is the subject of ESPN and Netflix’s ten-part documentary series The Last Dance, directed by Jason Hehir. The series launches on April 19 after the Disney-owned sports network and the streamer moved it up from its planned June premiere.

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It is, surprisingly, the first time that Jordan has agreed to sit for a long-form documentary about his life and career.

Jordan and the NBA were already on board...

With the cancelation of the NBA, NHL and Mlb these past couple of weeks, sports fans have been hungry for new content. Now, ESPN and Netflix have joined forces to deliver on that front with a captivating new docuseries that charts the Chicago Bulls run for a Championship during Michael Jordan's last season with the team.

On April 19 ... It Begins...

In a sports starved world, ESPN and Netflix have moved up the premiere date of highly-anticipated Michael Jordan documentary series The Last Dance to April 19 from June 2.

The 10-part series on Jordan and the Chicago Bulls’ quest for a sixth NBA Championship in 1998 – produced by Mandalay Sports Media, in association with NBA Entertainment and Jump 23 – will air on ESPN in the U.S. on Sunday nights over five weeks from April 19 through May 17. It will be available outside of the U.S. on Netflix.

The series, directed by Jason Hehir, chronicles Jordan and the 1990s Chicago Bulls and...

Mark Lazarus was an executive at Turner Broadcasting in the 1990s when the company was the NBA’s sole national cable-tv partner. As such, he had a front-row seat for the hand wringing that occurred when Michael Jordan abruptly left pro basketball in 1993.

“There was a ratings hit,” says Lazarus, who became president of Turner Sports in 1998 and now serves as chairman, NBCUniversal broadcast, entertainment and lifestyle group, sports and news. Jordan was the undisputed face of the league and its top attraction. “Who was going to take that mantle? Who was going to be the next guy up?”

Jordan would return to the game in 1994, then retire again, then un-retire again, then retire again. All the while the succession question loomed. Kobe Bryant, who joined the Los Angeles Lakers in 1996 — when he was 17 years old and the Chicago Bulls began their fifth of six championship runs with Jordan — wasn...

The Chicago White Sox and the New York Yankees will play a 2020 regular season Major League Baseball game at the site where “Field of Dreams” was filmed. Fox’s “Mlb at ‘Field of Dreams'” event in Dyersville, Iowa, will not only be the first at the movie site turned tourist attraction, it will actually be the first ever Major League game ever played in Iowa.

The Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020 game will be considered a White Sox home game with Fox’s coverage beginning at 7 p.m. Et and 6 p.m. Ct. The following day will be an off-day, with the two teams resuming their three-game series back in Chicago on Saturday.

Later this month, Mlb will begin construction on a temporary 8,000-seat ballpark at the Dyersville site for the pro game. The plan is for a pathway through a cornfield to take fans to the ballpark, which will overlook the actual movie location,...

Veteran Chicago White Sox slugger Adam Laroche says he is retiring from the game of baseball after being asked by his team's management not to bring his 14-year-old son, Drake, to the ballpark anymore. On Friday, the Mlb athlete explained on Twitter that his decision to step away from his $13 million contract was the result of a conflict with White Sox Executive Vice President Ken Williams. "The White Sox organization is full of people with strong values and solid character. My decision to walk away was simply the result of a fundamental disagreement between myself and Ken Williams," he wrote on social media.

Veteran Chicago White Sox slugger Adam Laroche says he is retiring from the game of baseball after being asked by his team's management not to bring his 14-year-old son, Drake, to the ballpark anymore. On Friday, the Mlb athlete explained on Twitter that his decision to step away from his $13 million contract was the result of a conflict with White Sox Executive Vice President Ken Williams. "The White Sox organization is full of people with strong values and solid character. My decision to walk away was simply the result of a fundamental disagreement between myself and Ken Williams," he wrote on social media.

As people across the country gather on Thursday to give thanks for family, friends and a shared bounty, a new film from HBO and Sports Illustrated celebrates another mutual American experience.

"Sport in America: Our Defining Stories," debuting Nov. 28 on HBO, examines how the shared thread of sports has united the country over the years and helped shape the national character.

"[The film] is really very much about why sports matters to people in ways that we actually don't realize," explains James D. Stern, who directed the film for Endgame Entertainment. "You know, we talk about our parents, we talk about our kids, we talk about our politics, we talk about race. And all those things we talk about oftentimes through the safety valve of sports.

"This is sort of the intersection where sports and family and America meet," he says to Zap2it.

The 95-minute documentary includes the personal stories of...

DVD Release Date: April 24, 2013

Price: DVD $30.00

Studio: Ciesla Foundation

The dynamite 1998 documentary film The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg directed by Aviva Kempner (Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg) looks at the Detroit Tigers’ hard-hitting Hall of Fame first baseman whose accomplishments extended beyond the field as American’s first Jewish baseball star.

The movie depicts how during the Golden Age of Baseball, Hank Greenberg’s achievements rivaled those of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Additionally, it shows how Greenberg helped break down the barriers of discrimination in American sports and society and how he was a beacon of hope to American Jews who faced bigotry during the Depression and World War II.

Included in the film are some 47 interviews with Hank Greenberg and his family members; sports figures Ira Berkow, Ernie Harwell, Joe Falls and Dick Schaap; fellow payers Bob Feller, Charlie Gehringer and Ralph Kiner; fans Alan Dershowitz, Congressman Sander Levin...

From basketball marathons to spin-a-thons, students in high schools across the nation are coming up with creative fundraising ideas.

By Jayson Rodriguez

A young girl waits in line to receive water in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Wednesday

Photo: Thony Belizaire/ Getty Images

While the American Red Cross and Wyclef's Yele Haiti have helped raise funds for relief victims via text messaging, the country's high schools have also been creative when it comes to helping the earthquake-ravaged nation.

Basketball marathons, spin-a-thons and casual dress-down days are just a few of the innovative ways students are raising money for survivors of the devastating earthquake in Haiti.

"The students were very concerned what we could do to support the efforts," Principal Leonard Kassan of the High School for Service & Learning at Erasmus in Brooklyn, New York, told MTV News. "Once it was on television, of course, it opened up the doors for them to...