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CHSN inks deal with Comcast, ending long saga for Bulls, Blackhawks, White Sox

Eight-plus months after launching, Chicago Sports Network will finally reach a wider Chicago-area audience. Chicago Sports Network (CHSN), a TV channel that is a partnership between the Chicago Blackhawks, Bulls and White Sox, announced a carriage contract on Friday after a deal was finalized late Thursday night, according to a Comcast spokesperson. CHSN will be […]

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CHSN inks deal with Comcast, ending long saga for Bulls, Blackhawks, White Sox

Eight-plus months after launching, Chicago Sports Network will finally reach a wider Chicago-area audience.

Chicago Sports Network (CHSN), a TV channel that is a partnership between the Chicago Blackhawks, Bulls and White Sox, announced a carriage contract on Friday after a deal was finalized late Thursday night, according to a Comcast spokesperson. CHSN will be available within Comcast’s Ultimate TV package, its highest tier, on Channel 200 in the Chicago area. The channel went live on Friday morning.

“On behalf of the entire CHSN team, we’re proud to welcome Comcast’s Xfinity TV customers to a network built exclusively for Chicago sports fans,” CHSN president Jason Coyle said in a statement. “With more than 300 live Bulls, Blackhawks, and White Sox games each year, along with original programming that highlights Chicago’s pro, college, and high school sports, CHSN delivers the most comprehensive and locally focused coverage available. This deal allows us to reach even more fans across the city and suburbs, deepen connections, and reinforce CHSN as the home for Chicago sports all day, every day.”

When CHSN launched in October 2024, Chicago’s big three pro teams hoped Comcast could continue to feature them just as it had for NBC Sports Chicago, the network the teams left to launch CHSN in October 2024. The teams hoped CHSN would be able to remain on Comcast’s more readily available middle tier, just as NBC Sports Chicago had been. Instead, Comcast didn’t carry CHSN at all.

“Today’s announcement that Chicago Sports Network will now be available on Comcast marks the realization of the original vision for our games reaching to the widest audience possible,” Blackhawks chairman and CEO Danny Wirtz said Friday. “Blackhawks fans have been incredibly patient over the past year as CHSN has worked to create widespread availability of our games, and I couldn’t be more excited for what this means for them. This agreement puts us back in the homes of many Chicagoans who have been missing our coverage, ensuring sports fans across the city are able to enjoy exciting Blackhawks hockey as well as all the programming we have planned for our Centennial celebration next season.”

CHSN has been available on DirecTV and Fubo and through a direct-to-consumer streaming app. But without carriage on Comcast, the teams’ overall viewership plummeted from previous years. Sports Business Journal reported in February that the Bulls lost 63 percent of their viewership from the previous year. Wirtz confirmed a report in April that the Blackhawks were down 78 percent, or 40,000 homes, from the previous year.

Upon launch, CHSN was available to watch for free over the air via antenna in the Chicago area and other regional markets. Now that there’s a Comcast deal in place, the channel will no longer be available over the air in these markets, leaving fans with no free method to watch:

Chicago, Champaign, Springfield, Peoria, Rockford and Quincy in Illinois
South Bend and Fort Wayne in Indiana
Davenport, Iowa

The channel is still available over the air in these markets:

Indianapolis
Milwaukee
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Sioux City in Iowa
Paducah (Ky.), Cape Girardeau (Mo.), Harrisburg (Ill.)

“At the end of the day, the availability of our games on TV this past season was unacceptable — and our fans deserve better,” Wirtz told The Athletic in April. “I am focused on finding potential solutions for next season with our partners at CHSN. We are about to celebrate 100 years of hockey as well as usher in the next generation on the ice. I am committed to ensuring our fans can see that.”

The most obvious solution was always Comcast, but it was unclear whether there was an actual path to a deal. There had been whispers of a possible agreement in late December, which Bulls president Michael Reinsdorf acknowledged in April, but that fell apart.

Wirtz remained hopeful in March, but he was uncertain about the timing.

“I wish I could (have a timeline), and I’ve been hopeful before,” Wirtz said. “But we hope that we have the right pieces to put something together. Unfortunately, as you know in the media world, we are Chicago, and our teams are not the only piece to the puzzle of national media relationships and markets and things. We are, unfortunately, caught in the timing of all those other things that are less about our specific deal and more about how these deals come online across markets across the U.S.”

Comcast carriage, especially on its highest tier, won’t return all of the teams’ viewership from the past, but it should significantly help. Comcast has been moving a majority of its regional sports networks to its highest tier over the past year.

(Photo by Jon Greenberg / The Athletic)

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Game Night Live Week 3

SALT LAKE CITY – The Game Night Live Game of the Week is heading to Pleasant View, Utah, for Week 3 as the UHSAA football season trudges along. The 5A Region 5 Roy Royals (0-2) look for their first win when they travel to take on the 6A Region 1 Weber Warriors (0-2) on Friday, August […]

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SALT LAKE CITY – The Game Night Live Game of the Week is heading to Pleasant View, Utah, for Week 3 as the UHSAA football season trudges along.

The 5A Region 5 Roy Royals (0-2) look for their first win when they travel to take on the 6A Region 1 Weber Warriors (0-2) on Friday, August 29.

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KSL Sports’ Jeremiah Jensen and Stevenson Sylvester will be on the call and have full coverage of the contest and other games throughout the 2024 high school season on Game Night Live.

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Game Night Live: Week 3

Roy Royals @ Weber Warriors

Roy has gotten off to an inauspicious start, losing its first two games by a combined score of 74-19. Senior QB Collin Chapman completed 10 out of 15 passes for 163 yards and a touchdown in a 37-12 loss to Syracuse. Five Royals rushers combined for 133 yards on the ground, led by 65 yards on 13 carries from Howie Howard. Tyson Dickson caught four passes for 77 yards. Drayden Esplin reeled in the only TD of the night.

Weber lost its second straight, ending up on the wrong end of a Brighton comeback bid in a 38-31 Week 2 loss. QB Carter Payne threw for 291 yards and two touchdowns while completing 24-of-45 passes (53.3 percent). Dyson Parker carried the football 14 times, averaging 7.2 yards per rush and finishing with 101 yards on the ground. Josh Hamblin made five catches for 95 yards and a score. Creed DeVries caught the other touchdown pass.

Kickoff for the Game Night Live Game of the Week between Roy and Weber is scheduled for 7 p.m. MT. Kickoff time is subject to change. The game will be broadcast on KSLSports.com and the KSL Sports app.

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High school football rankings, USA Today Network Ohio Super 25

The Ohio Super 25 poll ranks the state’s 25 best teams, regardless of division. Six teams received at least one first-place vote. The USA Today Network Ohio releases its first in-season high school football Super 25 poll, featuring voters from across the state. The Ohio Super 25 poll ranks the state’s 25 best teams, regardless of division. […]

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August 25, 2025

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High school football rankings, USA Today Network Ohio Super 25

The Ohio Super 25 poll ranks the state’s 25 best teams, regardless of division.
Six teams received at least one first-place vote.

The USA Today Network Ohio releases its first in-season high school football Super 25 poll, featuring voters from across the state. The Ohio Super 25 poll ranks the state’s 25 best teams, regardless of division.

The poll is released as the Ohio High School Athletic Association regular season enters Week 2.

The Ohio Super 25 football poll will be conducted weekly throughout the regular season using a panel of sports writers and editors from across the state. Each voter submits a Top 25 with a first-place vote worth 25 points, second place 24, and so on down to one point for 25th.

Here’s this week’s Ohio Super 25.

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Ohio Super 25 high school football rankings

Rank	Team	Total	First-place votes
1	Cin. Moeller	354	6
2	Hoban	335	5
3	St. Edward	304
4	Avon	293	1
5	Cin. Anderson	281	1
6	Cle. Glenville	279
7	Cin. St. Xavier	269	1
8	Walsh Jesuit	257
9	Col. Watterson	245	1
10	Olentangy	200
11	Massillon	193
12	Tol. Central Catholic	183
13	Indian Valley	170
14	Marion Local	169
15	Medina Highland	152
16	Mentor	146
17	Cin. Winton Woods	145
18	Wadsworth	126
19	Kirtland	121
20	Pickerington North	116
21	Lakota West	109
22	Pickerington Central	91
23	Canton McKinley	81
24	Big Walnut	71
25	Harvest Prep	45

Others receiving 10 or more points: Cin. Princeton 40, Cin. Taft 32, CVCA 31, Strongsville 25, Indian Hill 19, Hillsdale 13, Licking Valley 12

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Vote here the Times Recorder High School Football Athlete of the Week.

Vote here the Times Recorder High School Football Athlete of the Week. News Sports Life & Events Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals Week 1 of high school football in the Muskingum Valley is in the books. Four of six teams from the Muskingum Valley League-Small School Division picked up Week 1 wins, while Zanesville scored more […]

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Vote here the Times Recorder High School Football Athlete of the Week.

Week 1 of high school football in the Muskingum Valley is in the books.

Four of six teams from the Muskingum Valley League-Small School Division picked up Week 1 wins, while Zanesville scored more offensive touchdowns in one game that it did all of 2024 in a loss at Johnstown-Monroe.

There were plenty of highlights from which to choose. Here are this week’s nominees for Times Recorder High School Football Athlete of the Week.

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Texas, Ohio State, USC Commits Shine in EPIC Weekend of High School Football

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August 25, 2025

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Highlights from the start of volleyball season in the Texas Panhandle

With schools in across the Lone Star State opening the 2025-26 academic year over the past few weeks, the high school volleyball regular season is underway. Following a strong 2024 campaign that saw Bushland and Randall reach the UIL state championships, with the Lady Falcons taking home another title, the Amarillo area should be in […]

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August 25, 2025

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Highlights from the start of volleyball season in the Texas Panhandle

With schools in across the Lone Star State opening the 2025-26 academic year over the past few weeks, the high school volleyball regular season is underway.

Following a strong 2024 campaign that saw Bushland and Randall reach the UIL state championships, with the Lady Falcons taking home another title, the Amarillo area should be in for a solid year again in 2025.

The first few weeks of the season have featured a combination of intriguing non-district games and big tournaments, including Randall’s upcoming Raider Showcase. Borger has also participated in multiple tournaments, finishing third in the gold bracket at Burkburnett’s event early in the season.

Here is a look at the top performers from last week in Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle.

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Harlea Adams, River Road

Adams tallied 22 digs, seven kills and seven aces in the Lady Cats’ win against Miami.

Addy Bridges, Borger

Bridges logged 37 kills, 18 aces, 16 blocks, five assists and a dig at the Lu Allen Memorial Volleyball Tournament, helping the Bulldogs finish third in the silver bracket.

Gracie Froneman, River Road

The Lady Cats’ sophomore recorded 14 kills, 12 digs and 11 assists in River Road’s win against Miami.

Chelsea Medina, Borger

Medina finished with 53 assists, 25 digs, five aces and two kills at the Lu Allen Memorial Volleyball Tournament, helping the Bulldogs finish third in the silver bracket.

Idaly Sotelo, West Plains

Sotelo led the Lady Wolves with 22 digs against Lubbock-Cooper Liberty.

Kynzie Ward, West Plains

Ward finished with a team-high 13 kills and seven blocks against Lubbock-Cooper Liberty.

Bella Wineberg, West Plains

Wineberg notched 18 assists and three aces against Lubbock-Cooper Liberty.

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17:14 Joschi Schelb (1) Assisted by: Francesco Di Ponzio GOAL by RUT Schelb, Joschi Assist by Di Ponzio, Francesco. 1 0 31:12 Mikkel Lejbowicz (2) Unassisted GOAL by SHU Lejbowicz, Mikkel. 1 1 71:00 Agustin Resch (1) Assisted by: Hugo Gerbore GOAL by SHU Resch, Agustin Assist by Gerbore, Hugo. 1 2 81:25 Jude Essuman […]

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August 25, 2025

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