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Novak Djokovic is not happy with Wimbledon.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMelissa Stark clearly knows the value of staying in touch.The veteran sportscaster served as the sideline reporter for “Monday Night Football” between 2000 and 2002, when she was just 26 and the game — then one of TV’s biggest weekly events — was still broadcast on ABC. She worked with everyone from the legendary TV executive Don Ohlmeyer to “MNF” announcers like John Madden and Dennis Miller —  and with Fred Gaudelli, the producer who would move on to work for NBC Sports and oversee “Sunday Night Football,” then all of NBC’s NFL coverage.

Ajax have done 'everything they can' to keep Manchester United manager-elect Erik ten Hag but are preparing for his exit. That's the message from Gerry Hamstra, who was recently appointed as technical manager for the Eredivisie giants.

NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is celebrating his 75th birthday on Saturday with a fun new crossover video where ESPN and the NBA team up to promote Universal Pictures' Jurassic World: Dominion.Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's all-time leading scorer, appears in the ad along with NBA legend and current ESPN broadcaster Richard Jefferson and current NBA star Scottie Barnes, who, fittingly, plays for the Toronto Raptors.The ad also features a brief appearance by actor Jeff Goldblum, reprising his role as Ian Malcolm from the original Jurassic Park in Jurassic World: Dominion, arriving in theaters June 10. Kareem:NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is celebrating his 75th birthday on Saturday with a fun new crossover video where ESPN and the NBA team up to promote Universal Pictures' Jurassic World: Dominion.The video begins in the ESPN offices where Barnes catches up with Jefferson, asking, 'What's up with all the dinosaurs in the office?'The ad also mimics the now-famous Jurassic Park shot of a beverage rippling in a mug, as Kareem speaks up, thinking that Barnes was talking about him.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. You know spring has officially arrived when the NBA Playoffs begin.The anticipated tournament will kick off on April 16, following the NBA’s play-in tournament that decides the final two seeds in each conference. The Brooklyn Nets and Minnesota Timberwolves snatched up No.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. The Kardashians will begin their reign over the streaming world this week. A new iteration of the famous family’s reality show will arrive on Hulu this Thursday, the first time their lives will be documented on screen since they wrapped up their 20-season long run of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” on E! last year.Donning a simpler title, “The Kardashians” has been promoted as a more premium version of the original show that first aired in 2007.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. If you have a tendency to leave shopping to the very last second, you’re certainly not alone.

His ex-fiancee Jennifer Lopez announced her engagement to Ben Affleck on Friday, April 8 via her website.And two days after she revealed she's engaged again, Alex Rodriguez got trolled by his ESPN Sunday Night Baseball co-host Michael Kay about it on live TV, which was shared on Twitter.'It's a great time in sports. You have a new Masters champion, NBA playoffs are about to start, baseball's in full swing, people getting engaged,' Michael said.

Alex Rodriguez probably just wants to watch baseball in peace, and not think about his ex-fiancée Jennifer Lopez‘s recent engagement to Ben Affleck! But A-Rod’s ESPN 2 co-host Michael Kay clearly wanted to needle the former baseball star a little bit all the same!

Alex Rodriguez can take a little trolling in stride.

Too soon? Alex Rodriguez found himself on the receiving end of some teasing about ex Jennifer Lopez‘s engagement to Ben Affleck — and his reaction was priceless.

Sad news for football fans…

J. Kim Murphy Dwayne Haskins, who signed as a quarterback to the Pittsburgh Steelers, died early Saturday morning after being struck by a vehicle on a South Florida highway. He was 24 years old.Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman Lt.

Dwayne Haskins has sadly died at the age of 24.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThere’s a new regular Joe calling baseball games on Fox.Joe Davis, a veteran sportscaster who has been known on the West Coast for calling Los Angeles Dodger games and as a Fox Sports regular, will take over as the lead play-by-play announcer for Fox Sports’ Major League Baseball coverage. He succeeds Joe Buck, the longtime Fox baseball and football announcer who has moved to ESPN to work on “Monday Night Football.” Davis will join John Smoltz in the network’s lead baseball booth.“If you had asked me when I was 10 what I wanted to do when I grew up, I would’ve told you ‘Call the World Series.’ So when I say this is a dream-come-true, I really mean it,” said Davis, in a statement.  Davis and Smoltz, along with reporters Tom Verducci and Ken Rosenthal, are expected to call Fox’s coverage of the 2022 MLB All-Star Game, MLB at Field of Dreams Game and the MLB post-season Postseason, including its 25th Fall Classic.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Tiger Woods is set to play at the Masters golf tournament this week, marking the first time the golfing champion will compete after suffering serious injuries in a car wreck in February of last year.The Masters main tournament kicks off at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia on Thursday, April 7. While eyes will certainly be on Woods, who will be contending for his sixth green jacket this year, Spanish golfer Jon Rahm is currently favored to win the revered title.

Manchester United are finalising the appointment of Erik ten Hag as their next manager, according to a report.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorESPN has clambered aboard the NFT bandwagon: The sports giant is going into business with Tom Brady, angling to sell fans on the idea of owning a digital piece of the famed NFL quarterback’s legacy.ESPN inked a multiyear deal with Autograph, the NFT startup co-founded by Brady, to release its first nonfungible tokens. NFTs provide a way to authenticate ownership of digital content, using distributed blockchain networks — and media and entertainment companies have flocked to NFTs as a way to generate incremental revenue and boost fan loyalty.The collaboration kicks off Wednesday (April 6) with the release of an NFT collection based on “Man in the Arena: Tom Brady,” the 10-part ESPN Plus documentary series produced by Religion of Sports, a media company in which Brady is also a co-founder.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSome people who tune in ESPN2 for an April 6 NBA match-up between the Brooklyn Nets and the New York Knicks may think they’ve gone back in time.The game will open in black and white and use graphics that evoke ABC’s 1960s coverage, then shift to a look that mirrors CBS’ NBA telecasts of the 1970s and 1980s. Look for a presentation that emulates NBC’s 1990s telecasts as well, complete with that network’s signature music.

Tiger Woods has had some of the most memorable moments of his career at Augusta National golf course. Now, he may be gearing up for another.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDisney has hired Jeremy Doig, an 18-year veteran of Google, as the new chief technology officer of its streaming organization, leading the global technology teams that run Disney Plus, Hulu, ESPN Plus and Star Plus.Doig takes over for Joe Inzerillo, a key architect of Disney Plus and the Mouse House’s other streaming services, who joined SiriusXM as chief product and technology officer in January.Doig will start at Disney next month and report directly to Michael Paull, president of Disney Streaming.At Google, where Doig was most recently VP of engineering, he led development of new standards for video technologies powering YouTube and the Chrome browser. That included adoption of compression approaches for audio and video, media streaming protocols for real-time and on-demand delivery, and spatial experiences.