Baseball

10/9/2026 |  MLB’s Next 5 Years: Realignment, Expansion, and 154 Games? (Front Office Sports) By 2031, Major League Baseball is set to look radically different from what it does now—even if only a small portion of the ideas on the table in current labor talks become reality.
Team owners’ new proposal for a 154-game regular season and expanded playoffs is just part of a sweeping set of changes that could hit the league over the next half-decade.

10/7/2026 |  MLB Division Series Extends Postseason Ratings Streak (Front Office Sports) After a banner MLB wild card series, the Division Series is off to a similarly strong start.
Fox Sports said Wednesday that it averaged 3.2 million viewers for its initial two days of coverage of the NL Division Series involving the Braves and Dodgers, as well as the Padres and Brewers. 

10/1/2026 |  After topping regular season, Red Sox-Yankees dominates first day of playoffs (Sports Media Watch) After all these years, Red Sox-Yankees is still the biggest television draw in baseball.
Tuesday’s Red Sox-Yankees MLB American League Wild Card Series Game 1 averaged 7.3 million viewers across NBC platforms, per a Nielsen-measured audience that includes NBC’s first-party streaming data — marking the second-most watched Wild Card game under the best-of-three format that began in 2022. Only last year’s Red Sox-Yankees Game 3 on ESPN averaged a larger audience (7.4M).

10/1/2026 |  Texas-Tennessee scores big Noon audience for ABC (Sports Media Watch) ABC swept a second-straight college football Saturday, led by the biggest Noon audience of the young season.
Last Saturday’s Texas-Tennessee college football game averaged a 4.6 rating and 9.75 million viewers on ABC, marking the largest Noon ET audience of the young season and third-largest across all windows. Texas has played in two of the top three, with their week two win over Ohio State placing first (13.99M).

9/30/2026 |  How to watch the Red Sox vs. Yankees: Channel, live streams, odds, venue (Business Insider) The MLB Wild Card games are playing out, and an iconic rivalry has been reignited in the American League East. We've rounded up everything you need to know about how to watch the Red Sox vs. Yankees, including channels and live streaming options for the entire series.