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 NBC confirmed on Tuesday that Mike Tirico will be the new play-by-play voice on Sunday Night Football, paired with Cris Collinsworth. Another ESPN alumnus, Melissa Stark, will be working the sidelines, as she did for a few years on Monday Night Football. Tirico has filled in for Al Michaels on a few occasions the last couple of seasons, so there's already chemistry between him and Collinsworth. The new team will debut at the Hall of Fame game this summer.

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The Boston Red Sox honored the late Jerry Remy, former player and color analyst, prior to a game against Toronto. What has Sox fans up in arms is the fact that former play-by-play announcer Don Orsillo, now with the San Diego Padres and occasionally on Fox, had recorded a message to be played, but Sox ownership and/or NESN decided not to play it. Orsillo spent 15 seasons calling Red Sox games before leaving for San Diego, succeeded by ESPN's Dave O'Brien, a former Mets announcer.

The truth will come out eventually, but for now, I'm guessing the dreaded time constraints got in the way.

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The worst kept secret of the current season of The Masked Singer was finally revealed Wednesday.

Yes, this was the night where America's Disgrace, Rudy Goofiani, was revealed as Jack-in-The-Box, and judge Ken Jeong walked off in protest.

Apparently, Rudy needed the money, since Citizen Pampers isn't paying his bills to him.

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Tabloid Carlson is getting raked over the coals for his latest "documentary", discussing men losing testosterone and "testicle tanning". Late night hosts Seth Meyers & Jimmy Kimmel, in particular, have had fun with Carlson's latest attempt at long form "journalism". He's better off being a spokesman for Viagra or Cialis.

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You can tell that Vince McMahon has his fingerprints all over NXT these days, even if he doesn't fly to Orlando. Shawn Michaels has been running the show for nearly 8 months since his best pal, Paul "Triple H" Levesque, was sidelined with cardiac issues in September.

Proof of McMahon's contributions come in the form of two top heels for the brand.

Tony D'Angelo is being presented as a modern day mobster, and his debut just happened to take place not long after The Sopranos prequel, "The Many Saints of Newark", hit theatres. He's currently feuding with former cruiser champion Santos Escobar and his Legado del Fantasma faction. 

Joe Gacy started as a cult leader of sorts, not unlike Bray Wyatt (Windham Rotunda), but as he pursues current NXT champ Bron Breakker (Bronson Rechsteiner), Gacy has gone completely cuckoo, hiring druids to attack Breakker at the end of Tuesday's show. In this writer's opinion, D'Angelo has done more over the last 7 months to earn a title shot than Gacy has. Gacy will not be a champion. D'Angelo potentially could be. That's all I'm going to say about that.