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Mike Confuses Not-Mikes For Mike

It’s been a few weeks since Mike Greenberg (Little Mike) started his post-Mikes career as the host of Get Up!, a morning show which does not feature Mike Golic (Big Mike). On the eve of the show’s launch, Little Mike gave an interview in which he expressed what seemed like wistful longing for his ol...

Here Is An Unbelievably Useless ESPN Report About Tom Brady

The headline on ESPN scoopmaster Adam Schefter’s latest report about Tom Brady—“Sources: Tom Brady has yet to commit to playing ‘18 season for Pats”—probably won’t get your juices flowing. “Yet to commit” doesn’t mean he won’t, or that he’s even been asked to, and so I imagine you’ll go into the sto...

Looks Like Woj Got A New Word-A-Day Calendar

“... a punishment that will vanquish him from the postseason roster, league sources told ESPN.” [ESPN]...

ESPN Brought To Its Knees By Reply Allpocalypse

Today we can add ESPN to the fraternity of organizations that has seen its employees thrust into a reply allpocalypse. Witness now some of their journey into the hellish depths....

That's Bad Timing

ESPN: We're Trying Again To Get Video Of The Boy In The Bathroom<em></em>

For the record, they are talking about this video....

ESPN's New $4.99-A-Month Service Is Taking Away Some Programming On ESPN3

Today ESPN announced the official launch date (April 12) of its new subscription streaming service, called ESPN+. In addition to studio shows and an on-demand library, ESPN+’s main draw is “thousands of live sports events,” which according to the release includes MLB, NHL, and MLS games, as well as ...

Mookie Betts On Fly Ball While Chatting With ESPN: “I Ain’t Getting This One, Boys”

Mookie Betts chatted with the ESPN announcing crew during the top half of the third inning in a spring training game today. Hey, it’s an exhibition game....

Ronda Rousey Misunderstands Question, Gets All Cranky About Time Travel

Behold, the most cringe-inducing TV appearance you will see all week. Mike from ESPN’s Mike & Trey asked Ronda Rousey a pretty basic question, albeit with some slightly odd verbiage, about whether or not she would ever want to return to the UFC octagon. Rousey thought he was asking about time travel...

Mike Misses Mike?

It’s been a few months since the Mikes stopped hosting Mike & Mike together every morning on ESPN radio. Since the dissolution of this Mike partnership, Mike Golic (Big Mike) has started a new radio show with a new Mike named Trey, and Mike Greenberg (Little Mike) has been hard at work preparing to ...

We Asked A Sports Science Expert If LeBron Could Have Really Gained Seven Pounds During A Basketball Game

In a revealing piece about LeBron James’s too-good-to-be-believed body and injury prevention, this anecdote from ESPN’s Brian Windhorst stands out:...

ESPN Paid The Air Force Almost $75,000 For Food, And Other Random Things From A Military Invoice

At the beginning of this college basketball season, ESPN brought Texas A&M and West Virginia all the way to Germany for a game at Ramstein Air Base. For the entire trip, ESPN Productions, Inc. paid the Air Force a total of $140,129.45, according to an invoice obtained via Freedom of Information Act ...

ESPN Employees "Blindsided" By John Skipper's Cocaine-Extortion Story

In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, former ESPN president John Skipper elaborated on the “substance abuse” issue that he had previously said caused his resignation from the network last December. In the interview, Skipper said someone who sold him cocaine (Skipper described this person as a...

John Skipper Says He Left ESPN After Someone He Bought Cocaine From Tried To Extort Him

Former ESPN president John Skipper cited a substance abuse problem as the cause for his resignation when he left the network last December. There have since been no details revealed about the nature or severity of that problem, but in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published today Skipper ...

Welcome To Hell

This is what is currently airing on ESPN. The network decided that today would be a good day to dedicate what I assume is 19 hours of programming to a show in which roughly 37 people sit around some folding tables and talk football while waiting for NFL free agency to officially begin at 4 p.m. ...

A Guy Did Some Weird Magic On ESPN<i> </i>And I Don't Like It

On yesterday’s broadcast of ESPN’s Tournament Challenge Marathon, a mentalist (just a made-up term for a magician) did a trick on Mike Greenberg and Jalen Rose:...

Darren Rovell Plays Basketball Like A Tortured Soul Who Writes About Sports Business<em></em>

ESPN sports business reporter and press-release dumpster Darren Rovell plays D like he has suddenly been stricken with scoliosis. This was true in 2016 when he flailed and yelled at Kristaps Porzingis, and it was still true this weekend when he took on AND1 Mixtape star Philip “Hot Sauce” Champion a...

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...

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...