SPORTS.YAHOO.COM
TNT Sports announces broadcast team for 2026 FIBA Womens World Cup
Credit: Brett Davis-Imagn Images / Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn ImagesTNT Sports has finalized the on-air group that will carry its coverage of the 2026 FIBA Womens Basketball World Cup.The tournament tips off Sept. 4 in Berlin and runs through Sept. 13, with TNT presenting all 36 games across TNT, truTV, and HBO Max as part of its multiyear rights deal with FIBA, an agreement that also covers the 2027 mens World Cup and EuroBasket 2029. USA Basketball, fresh off a perfect run through World Cup qualifying in San Juan, enters the tournament chasing a fifth straight world title, with Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers, and Angel Reese all making their senior national team World Cup debuts.Lauren Jbara will host TNTs studio coverage, with Renee Montgomery and eight-time WNBA All-Star Tina Charles serving as the primary analysts. Candace Parker, who serves as Prime Videos lead WNBA game analyst and leads TNTs Unrivaled studio coverage, will also make select appearances.Some of those names carry over directly from TNTs Unrivaled coverage. Jbara and Montgomery have worked alongside each other in that studio since the leagues January 2025 launch, part of a broadcast lineup that also included Lisa Leslie as game analyst and Taylor Rooks, Allie LaForce, Stephanie Ready, and Ros Gold-Onwude rotating through sideline duty, all working out of Unrivaleds single-venue Miami facility that first season.Montgomerys legend has only grown since. When Kenny Smith fell ill during this past Marchs NCAA Tournament, CBS turned to Montgomery to step in on the main studio desk in New York, pairing her with host Adam Zucker,Clark Kellogg, and Charles Barkley for the networks Round of 64 coverage without so much as a hiccup in the broadcast. Given her accomplishments in basketball as a player and owner, as well as her activism and community leadership, its no surprise she succeeds in whatever she does.Brendan Glasheen will handle play-by-play, joined by analyst Sarah Kustok, with Allie LaForce reporting from the sideline. Glasheen serves as the primary broadcaster for the Connecticut Sun (which finished No. 1 in AAs 2025 WNBA announcer rankings) and Maine Celtics during their respective seasons, work thats carried over into his role calling Unrivaled games as well. Kustok is part of the Brooklyn Nets YES Network booth that finished second overall in Awful Announcings 2025-26 local NBA announcer rankings. Shes also a game analyst on NBC and Peacocks WNBA package, in addition to being tabbed as the lead color commentator for USA Network. She also contributes to Fox Sports NFL coverage as a sideline reporter and appears as a panelist on CBS Sports We Need to Talk.LaForce, meanwhile, signed a multiyear contract extension earlier this year to remain TNTs lead sideline reporter across college basketball, Unrivaled, and the networks other properties. A northern Ohio native, she began her national career at CBS Sports covering the SEC and NCAA Tournament before joining TNT Sports in 2018, where shes since become a regular presence across the NBA, NCAA Tournament, and now the FIBA Womens Basketball World Cup.The post TNT Sports announces broadcast team for 2026 FIBA Womens World Cup appeared first on Awful Announcing.
0 Kommentare 0 Geteilt 292 Ansichten 0 Bewertungen