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Report: The NFL And ESPN Are Bugging The Heck Out Of Each Other
ESPN and the NFL are getting on each other’s nerves. A new report from Sports Business Journal outlines a slow boil of escalating feuds, which could eventually end the partnership of the two sports giants....
Will Cain Is An Idiot
Former LSU running back Derrius Guice said he was asked by one NFL team at last week’s combine whether he liked men, and asked by another team if his mother was a prostitute. There’s a question of whether that first one is even legal, but both are, by any measure—and as already admitted by the leagu...
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Jemele Hill Denies That Chris Berman Left Her A "Racially Disparaging" Voicemail [Update]
Ex-ESPN employee Adrienne Lawrence filed a discrimination lawsuit against the company this past weekend, and her suit included the claim that Chris Berman left SportsCenter host Jemele Hill a “threatening and racially disparaging voicemail.” Hill released a statement this evening, confirming that sh...
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Lawsuit Claims Chris Berman Left "Racially Disparaging" Voicemail For Jemele Hill [Update]<em></em>
Former ESPN employee Adrienne Lawrence filed a discrimination lawsuit against the company over the weekend, in which she accuses SportsCenter anchor John Buccigross of sexual harassment. The suit also contains an eye-popping claim about longtime ESPN host Chris Berman....
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Former ESPN Employee Who Accused John Buccigross Of Sexual Harassment Files Discrimination Lawsuit [Update]<em></em>
Former ESPN employee Adrienne Lawrence, who spent two years working for the network through a fellowship program, has filed a lawsuit against ESPN alleging that she was the victim of sexual discrimination and harassment....
<i>Mike & Mike</i>'s Mike: I'm A New Mike
How is Mike without Mike? Fantastic, if Mike is to be believed....
ESPN Retracts Correction In Sean Miller Wiretap Story, Reaffirms Original Timeline
The Arizona-ESPN saga is continuing to heat up, and shortly after Arizona’s Sean Miller vehemently castigated ESPN’s reporting, the Worldwide Leader doubled down on its initial scoop that Miller had knowingly violated NCAA rules....
Does GRRM Have No Pages Because He's Too Busy Going To Dead Shows In Mexico With Miami Radio Hosts?
Here are the facts: The Winds Of Winter, the sixth book in George RR Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire series, is still not out. Science predicted it would come out about a year ago, and the first chapters surfaced in 2011 (though they were cut from his previous book). GRRM himself claimed he was mont...
A Disgusted Bill Walton On Arizona's Role In FBI Investigation: "I Wish I Were Out Riding My Bike Up A Mountain Instead Of Being Here"
ESPN basketball analyst and lifelong Pac-12 maven Bill Walton reacted in disgust when asked by Dave Pasch to respond to the news that Arizona coach Sean Miller was caught on an FBI wiretap arranging a $100,000 payment for recruiting purposes, calling the scandal an incident on par with the Malice at...
ESPN's Rachel Nichols Drops Strong Monologue On Mavericks Sexual Harassment Report
Rachel Nichols led off The Jump this evening with a tremendous monologue on the questions posed by Sports Illustrated’s bombshell sexual harassment report about the Dallas Mavericks. Nichols, who writes these monologues herself, went in on Mark Cuban for his baffling insistence that he didn’t know a...
Jamie Foxx Is Not Here To Answer Your Questions
“Did we lose him?”...
Source: ESPN.com Altered A Headline And Buried Stories To Placate Advertisers
ESPN.com altered the published headline of one story and deleted Twitter and Facebook posts about it, and halted the promotion of another story, all under pressure from advertising partners, according to an ESPN source and internal emails viewed by Deadspin....
Fox Sports Has Completely Ignored The Larry Nassar Sex Abuse Story
More than 150 women have come forward to say that former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar sexually abused them. The abuse spanned decades and happened under the eye of USA Gymnastics, Michigan State University, the U.S. Olympic Committee, parents, gymnastics coaches, counselors, and law enforcemen...
Draymond Green Was A Dick To ESPN's Brian Windhorst For No Good Reason
During a conversation about Kevin Durant’s battle with the NBA’s officiating staff on yesterday’s NBA Countdown, Brian Windhorst offhandedly mentioned that Draymond Green had previously and publicly said “every referee should be fired.”...
Chris Fowler Would Really Like Everyone To Be Nicer To Pizzagate Truther Tennys Sandgren
When it became clear late in the third set that American Tennys Sandgren was probably going to lose his Australian Open quarterfinal match to South Korean 20-year-old Hyeon Chung, ESPN commentators Chris Fowler and Patrick McEnroe decided it was the time for a perfunctory discussion of how Sandgren ...
Jalen Rose Tells Paul Pierce He's Being Petty About The Isaiah Thomas Video Tribute Fracas
Paul Pierce has made a big stink about the Celtics having the audacity to briefly honor Isaiah Thomas with a short video tribute before the Cavs visit the Celtics next month, and now that Thomas has formally asked the Celtics not to thank him, Pierce looks like a selfish asshole. Rather, as Jalen Ro...
Aly Raisman Says USA Gymnastics Should Stop Sending Athletes To Karolyi Ranch
The Karyolyi ranch in Huntsville, Texas, has been USA Gymnastics’ training center for the sport’s most elite talent since 2001. Owned and operated by coaching legends Marta and Bela Karolyi, a list of gymnasts that now includes Simone Biles and Aly Raisman say it was the perfect environment for form...
Football Writer Cian Fahey Says He Left ESPN After Being "Ignorant" At A Bar
Football writer Cian Fahey said today that he resigned from ESPN after he “drank too much at a bar and treated American strangers like I would my Irish friends.” The Dan Le Batard Show executive producer Michael Ryan Ruiz mentioned Fahey leaving the Worldwide Leader during today’s broadcast, and Fah...
ESPN: It's Bad That We Keep Squeezing Juicy Quotes Out Of LaVar Ball<em></em><em></em>
“There’s always oxygen somewhere,” reads an article on ESPN.com this morning, criticizing the Los Angeles Lakers’ front-office muckety-mucks for their radio silence on the antics of hot-taking sports dad LaVar Ball, “and a firebrand like Ball will always find it.” This seems a bit rich, coming from ...
Steve Kerr On LaVar Ball Coverage: "If You Package That Irrational Nonsense With Glitter And Some Ribbon, People Are Going To Watch"
If you found Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle’s assessment of ESPN’s LaVar Ball coverage today underwhelming—essentially, The network should not print his opinions because he dares to criticize a coach—then here is something more nuanced and persuasive on the topic, from Golden State Warriors head...