Let’s hear it for the NFL. NFL Films executive Vince Caputo is certainly listening. For him, football is as much about the sounds as the sights. He headed a years-long NFL Films project to build a ...

Wendel Stevens has spent decades mixing sound for live football broadcasts. During a game, he's thinking about the sound of the announcers' voices, when to play the iconic theme music, what players ...

Big league players will still hear the roar of the crowd even though the stands will be empty when the baseball season opens next week. Taking a cue from two European soccer leagues, Major League ...

Even with more than 20,000 fans expected at Super Bowl LV, the NFL will still provide artificial crowd noise for Sunday’s broadcast, as it has for every game this season. But the league won’t be using ...

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One of Molly Solomon's favorite memories from the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics was watching Lindsey Vonn in the start house. Cameras would focus on the skiing great, with microphones picking up her ...