The Queue

Watching your favorite Boston teams can be complicated — and expensive. Save on sports streaming with these three deals.

By Kevin Slane

November 18, 2025 | 9:40 AM

3 minutes to read

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Did you enjoy watching the Patriots improve to 9-2 with a win over the New York Jets on Thursday Night Football? If you’re a YouTube TV subscriber and don’t have access to Amazon Prime Video or a TV antenna, then you probably didn’t. 

It’s now been more than two weeks since Disney pulled their channels from YouTube TV in a carriage dispute, which includes local ABC affiliates like WCVB-TV and WMUR-TV that broadcast Patriots games when the team plays on cable channels like ESPN or streaming services like Prime Video. 

Given the stalemate has no end in sight — and that there’s never a bad time to explore your cord-cutting options — I decided to put together a quick guide to the various sports streaming options for Boston sports fans.

Since that guide focused on advice for watching each of Boston’s Big 4 sports teams, I wanted to use this edition of The Queue to highlight a few more sports streaming recommendations.

3 streaming deals for sports fans

Best overall deal: ESPN Unlimited

As much as I don’t want to reward Disney for its role in depriving YouTube TV subscribers of a Patriots game, the company’s new streaming service offers the widest range of sports that most Americans care about watching at the best price point. If you sign up now for $29.99 a month (or $299.99 a year), you get 12 free months of Disney+ and Hulu included, which works out to more than $150 in savings.

Best deal for Celtics fans: Peacock + NBC Sports Boston 

If you care about watching every Celtics game, adding NBC Sports Boston to an existing Peacock subscription for $15 a month is a better deal than the premium sports tier that cable and OTT providers offer. If you use Comcast as your internet provider, you may already have access to a free or discounted Peacock subscription, which sweetens the deal.

Best seasonal deal: Paramount+ 

Paramount+ doesn’t have the same reach as Netflix, Prime Video, or the Disney streamers (Disney+ and Hulu), but they have the cheapest base plan ($7.99 a month) and have a surprisingly solid collection of live sports deals. If you’re a cord-cutting dad whose TV antenna can’t pick up WBZ-TV, it has most Patriots games, every other NFL game on CBS, and the best golf coverage. It’s especially great in the spring, when it has March Madness multi-view and the later rounds of European soccer matchups in the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League.

Play or Skip

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Press play on these movies:

“Eddington” (2025): Ari Aster’s contemporary Western is not a comfort watch, telling a tale of rapid social decay set in a fictional New Mexico town at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a local sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) chafes under the mask mandates of the town’s mayor (Pedro Pascal), he decides to challenge the incumbent, using every tool — including venomous social media posts, scurrilous accusations of pedophilia, and recruiting a prominent cult leader — at his disposal. (HBO Max)

“Freakier Friday” (2025): Twenty two years after Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan’s 2003 body swap comedy, this legacyquel ups the ante by taking inspiration from Lohan’s 1998 movie “The Parent Trap.” There are four people who have swapped bodies this time: Lohan’s Alice, Curtis’ Tess, Alice’s daughter Harper, and her stepsister Lily, who decide to use the body swap as a way to break up their parents. Your mileage may vary if you weren’t already a fan of the aforementioned films, but Lohan and Curtis can still draw plenty of laughs decades after their respective career peaks. (Disney+)

“Nouvelle Vague” (2025): If you’re a fan of French New Wave films, Richard Linklater’s ode to Jean-Luc Godard is a fun watch, with the movie trailing the legendary director (played here by Guillaume Marbeck) as he makes his landmark 1960 film “Breathless.” (Netflix)

But go ahead and skip this show:

“Malice” (2025): Jack Whitehall (“Bad Education”) is doing his best Tom Ripley impression, clearly hiding something from authorities investigating an incident involving his wealthy employer (David Duchovny). But while Netflix’s “Ripley” was one of the best shows of 2024, this one lacks all the dramatic tension. (Prime Video)

End Credits

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Until next time, good stream hunting, everyone!

— Kevin