CW Sports content — including PBA Tour shows — to air live on ESPN App

In most respects, The CW did a solid job covering the 2026 PBA Tour in the first year of its deal with PBA. The main legitimate complaint I saw from bowling fans was that live PBA Tour shows were not available on The CW app, as they were on the FOX Sports app when FOX was a PBA broadcast partner and the ESPN App when ESPN was a PBA broadcast partner. The good news is those fans will have an option next year that they didn’t have this year, under a deal between ESPN and The CW announced in ...