FS1 host Colin Cowherd weighed in Thursday on the departure of former Spurs television play-by-play announcer Jacob Tobey, reacting on-air after learning Tobey was no longer with the organization following allegations of an affair that spread across social media earlier this week.<\/p>\n
“I learned something new today…that you can get fired in America for cheating on your girlfriend. I had no idea that was legal,” Cowherd said during The Herd. “Not your wife \u2014 a girlfriend. I feel like he should hire an attorney.”<\/p>\n
Cowherd’s comments came after Front Office Sports reported\u00a0Tobey was out as the Spurs’ lead television play-by-play announcer. The report followed social media allegations that Tobey had an affair with the sister of a Spurs player.<\/p>\n
The allegations surfaced after\u00a0Tobey’s girlfriend allegedly posted them to his Instagram account earlier this week. Screenshots of the post quickly spread across social media before it was removed.<\/p>\n
Spurs Sports & Entertainment declined to comment. However, a source familiar with the situation, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed\u00a0Tobey stepped down from his role.<\/p>\n
The departure marked an abrupt turn for\u00a0Tobey, who announced just last month that he had signed a multiyear extension to remain the television voice of the Spurs alongside former Spur and NBA champion Sean Elliott.<\/p>\n
“I love this city and community and I’m excited to continue to be along for the ride. Thank you,”\u00a0Tobey wrote on social media after announcing the extension.<\/p>\n
Tobey joined the Spurs’ broadcast team in 2024 and quickly became one of the NBA’s youngest lead television play-by-play announcers. Before arriving in San Antonio, he worked at Denver television station 9NEWS and called games for Fox Sports and the Pac-12 Network.<\/p>\n
Earlier in his career, the Massachusetts native served as a weekend sports anchor at\u00a0KJRH-TV in Tulsa, where he covered the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, the University of Tulsa and the Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n
A 2018 graduate of Suffolk University,\u00a0Tobey also completed internships with the Boston Celtics and New England Patriots. Last year, Front Office Sports named him one of the nation’s rising young play-by-play broadcasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FS1 host Colin Cowherd weighed in Thursday on the departure of former Spurs television play-by-play announcer Jacob Tobey,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-368576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}