One of the most influential hoops voices in sports media will be back in action for the NBA’s pivotal 2025–26 season.
Michelle Beadle’s Run It Back has been renewed for a fourth season, a FanDuel spokesman confirmed to Front Office Sports. The sports betting giant is bringing back the show’s entire crew under new contracts, including Beadle, Chandler Parsons, and Lou Williams.
Beadle also confirmed her show will be returning via a statement to FOS. “This is our fourth season together and we’ve got this thing running on all cylinders,” she says. “Can’t wait to get back to talking about the best league in the world.”
Run It Back will appear on FanDuel TV and the new FanDuel Sports Network as well as stream on YouTube. The show could score additional distribution platforms in the coming months before tip-off. The FanDuel Sports Network was formed when the nation’s No. 1 sports betting platform finalized a deal to slap its name on the RSNs owned by Main Street Sports (formerly Diamond Sports Group) that previously operated under the Bally Sports brand.
Beadle was closely associated with the NBA during her previous stints at ESPN and YES Network.
She got her big break covering the NBA for YES before joining ESPN in 2009 as costar of SportsNation with Colin Cowherd. The show was a surprise hit—and Beadle became a major star at the four letters, hosting NBA Countdown and Get Up with Mike Greenberg. But Beadle ran afoul of her bosses at ESPN and became a free agent in 2019 when they bought her out of her contract. Last year, Beadle also cohosted the Over the Top podcast with Peter Rosenberg on Wondery.
During her time at ESPN, the outspoken Beadle ripped the network’s biggest star, Stephen A. Smith, for his comments about the Ray Rice domestic violence video. When Smith inadvertently took her time slot on SiriusXM Radio this June, Beadle told FOS there was “no love lost” between them. “Not a fan,” she said.
All eyes will be on the NBA this fall, as new media-rights partners NBC Sports and Amazon Prime Video face off with incumbent ESPN/ABC to deliver the best hoops coverage. NBC, Prime, and ESPN have been on a hiring spree to gear up for the three-way competition.
