The Latest Breaking News from Jason Benetti

"Like a Grateful Dead concert or a remarkable book or a poem or a song, you never know how NBA basketball is going to play out."

More than 100 radio and TV broadcasters were considered. The top 20 follow, with last year’s rank in parentheses. And, new this year, I included the bottom five. Hey, it’s a tough business.

Vin Scully, the "Voice of the Dodgers," died this week at the age of 94. Scott Simon reflects on the announcer's skill calling games for MLB's Los Angeles team.

Benetti is just the latest broadcaster to defect, following Joe Davis in 2014 and Adam Amin in 2020. All three are major players at Fox and respected nationally.

Fox is reportedly looking to add a big name to its college football team.

Benetti, who will remain the White Sox’ TV voice, would leave ESPN, where he has called mostly Group of Five games. He’d have higher-profile games to call at Fox.

Eddie Olczyk’s departure from the Blackhawks has stunned fans.

We also pitted Cubs manager David Ross against Sox manager Tony La Russa — why not? — and asked voters to pick the most important thing when attending a baseball game.

Yesterday, in the Dodgers’ 11–9 win over the White Sox, Chicago manager Tony La Russa made the puzzling decision to intentionally walk Trea Turner on a 1–2 count to face Max Muncy. Many of you probably know what happened, but let’s briefly run through the situation just in case before…

CHICAGO — Steve Stone tweeted some positive news Sunday about a sub-.500 Chicago White Sox team battling through injuries and underachieving players.

On Tuesday, he’ll be in the White Sox’ TV booth with Jason Benetti for the game against the Dodgers. But on June 7, 1982, he sat with Al Michaels and Don Drysdale for the season premiere of ABC’s “Monday Night Baseball.”