The 6 p.m. edition was originally anchored by Kevin Frazier (previously co-anchor of The fX Sports Show) with James Worthy and Craig Simpson as analysts; the 10 p.m. report was co-anchored by a rotating team, featuring three holdovers from Press Box (Alan Massengale {himself an ex-SportsCenter anchor}, Tom Kirkland and Randy Sparage), alongside newcomers Dwayne Ballen, Suzy Kolber (also previously of ESPN), John Walls, Paul Rudy and Jeanne Zelasko.
[2] Regular segments of the show included the introduction of the sports headlines at the top of the show with a spinning CGI jumbotron, FoxTrot (which provided a graphically-enhanced recap of games the broadcast was not covering in-depth),[3] FoxScopes (where analysts would put a specific player under the titular "FoxScope" to examine their moves),[4] Stuff You Didn't Know (featuring lesser-known sports factoids)[5] and long-form Spotlight reports.
[11][12] Other format changes included the addition of more analysts, answering viewer emails on the air, and ending each broadcast with the Final Cut, an extended montage of sports highlights set to music.
[16][17] During the program's tenure as NSR, anchor Kevin Frazier (now at Entertainment Tonight) briefly gained attention for refusing to say the name of tennis phenom Anna Kournikova on-air because she had never won a singles tournament.
[19] The set and anchors of the NSR also appeared on another Fox production, the short-lived sitcom Inside Schwartz, analyzing the decisions of the lead character.
[30] In 2002, the NSR was cancelled outright due to declining ratings; FSN opted to instead air two-and-a-half minute news capsules, twice an hour, during primetime programming on nights that did not have live sporting events (beginning at 5:30 PM and continuing to 2:00 AM), as well as four newsbreaks per hour during The Best Damn Sports Show Period, which by this time had become FSN's flagship show (rumors of the NSR's demise in the face of Best Damn's popularity had begun to circulate in December 2001).
FSN successor Bally Sports debuted The Rally, produced by sister network Stadium, in 2022 to fulfill the role of a flagship news and analysis show.