The Latest Breaking News from Jason Benetti

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.”

Things we saw and heard Wednesday at Game 2 of the City Series, which the Chicago White Sox won 4-3 to sweep the mini-series.

Benetti is the voice of “MLB Sunday Leadoff,” the NBC-produced package of 18 games that will appear on the network’s streaming service, Peacock. The slate begins Sunday, with the White Sox visiting the Red Sox, the one game that will be simulcast on NBC.

Peacock, NBC’s streaming service, will debut its “MLB Sunday Leadoff” on May 8 with the White Sox-Red Sox game.