Nobody can predict what sports TV is …

Nobody can predict what sports TV is going to look like over the next few months. But it’s a safe bet that Sunday’s race will kick off at least a mini-boomlet of announcers calling games from afar. Joe Rogan may have entered the UFC Octagon last weekend, but Fox is committed to having Joy and Gordon work in a studio for at least two weeks. Last month, Mike Breen said on Real Sports that he expected many NBA games to be called from a studio, too. ESPN executive Stephanie Druley told Sports Business Daily, “If you told me that 90 percent of NBA or MLS had to be done via Bristol, I’d have no issue with it.”