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What Did Katie Nolan Call Donald Trump?
Katie Nolan went on Viceland’s Desus & Mero earlier this week, offering some thoughts on her new gig at ESPN and Donald Trump. Here’s a brief clip of her discussing the latter, with the first phrase that she uses to describe the president bleeped out by the show:...
My New Year's Gift To You Is Leaving This Caption Up To The Commenters
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ESPN: Our Employee Jon Gruden Will Be Next Raiders Coach
ESPN is reporting its employee Jon Gruden will leave the company after eight years and take his turkey hole to the Raiders, where he started his head coaching career 20 years ago. The deal to bring Gruden back to coaching could include giving him a chunk of team ownership, again according to ESPN. ...
Live Television Is A Wonderful, Magical Thing
Here is ESPN reporter Diana Russini, with an all-time brilliant live demonstration of the ferocious arctic cold of Foxborough, Massachusetts, this morning:...
The SEC Network Yule Log Is Our Nation's Greatest Contribution To Avant-Garde Cinema
My family only has a few Christmas traditions, among them cinnamon rolls, trips to the dog park, bike rides, and yard work. But the most important tradition—one that gets us up early on Christmas morning—is the SEC Network Yule Log, which is just like other yule log broadcasts except that the orches...
Dan Le Batard Breaks Down On Air After John Skipper Resigns From ESPN
ESPN President John Skipper announced this morning that he is stepping down from his position, citing a substance abuse issue as the reason for his resignation. ESPN radio personality Dan Le Batard learned about Skipper’s resignation while he was live on the air this morning, and found himself fight...
ESPN President John Skipper Resigns, Cites Substance Addiction As Reason
ESPN President John Skipper announced today that he is resigning and cited a substance addiction as the reason....
What Disney's Acquisition Of 21st Century Fox Means For Sports Fans<em></em>
A blockbuster media consolidation deal announced this morning sees Fox handing over nearly its entire empire to ESPN’s corporate parent Disney, with the exceptions of Fox News and the national Fox Sports networks FS1, FS2, BTN, Fox Deportes, and Fox Soccer Plus. Disney will now possess 22 Fox Sports...
<i>Boston Globe</i> Report On ESPN Reveals Pregnancy Discrimination, Other Gendered Horrors<em></em>
A report published today by the Boston Globe details sexual harassment and gender discrimination at ESPN, including a former SportsCenter anchor feeling forced to stay on air while she was having a miscarriage so as not to jeopardize her job and another sending shirtless pictures of himself to a you...
ESPN Suspends Donovan McNabb, Eric Davis After NFL Network Sexual Harassment Suit
ESPN has suspended analysts Donovan McNabb and Eric Davis after a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles named the former NFL Network personalities among those alleged to have committed sexual harassment against a network wardrobe stylist....
ESPN Will Lay Off 150 Employees Today
Here’s the memo, hot off the presses, from ESPN President John Skipper:...
Bill Walton Would Fuck You Up
Care to face off against the weather-beaten tree that is Bill Walton in a fight? As evidenced by this training footage, courtesy of Walton’s broadcast partner Dave Pasch, absolutely not. Bill’s a goddamn force. He can take on two opponents at once:...
Hosting An NFL Pregame Show Seems Like A Shitty Gig
Samantha Ponder replaced Chris Berman this year as host of Sunday NFL Countdown on ESPN, where she shares a set with Rex Ryan, Randy Moss, Matt Hasselbeck, and Charles Woodson, along with updates from Chris Mortensen, Adam Schefter, and Louis Riddick. Hosting these kinds of shows sometimes looks, to...
The Curtain Falls On The Mikes
Today was the final episode of Big Mike and Little Mike. Take a moment to remember them....
Nothing Lasts Forever, Not Even The Mikes
After 18 years, Mike Golic (Big Mike) and Mike Greenberg (Little Mike) will conclude their ESPN radio show Mike & Mike on Friday and go their separate ways, though they’ll both remain at the network. Big Mike will start a new show with his son, Mike Golic Jr. (New Mike), and Trey Wingo, who is not a...
ESPN's <i>30 For 30</i> On Ric Flair Glorifies Decades Of Sexual Misconduct
On Tuesday night, ESPN premiered its latest 30 for 30 documentary, one the network had been developing and hyping for years: Nature Boy, the story of legendary pro wrestler Ric Flair, widely considered the greatest of all time. The film—which was, according to director Rory Karpf, in its third cut a...
I Call That The Turkey Hole
In which Jon Gruden speaks at length about turkey holes:...
ESPN's New Social Media Policy: Don't "Embroil The Company In Unwanted Controversy"
ESPN distributed new social media guidelines to its employees Thursday, which reinforced some existing rules about not breaking news exclusively on social media, respecting colleagues, and—oh wait, here’s a new thing: “Do nothing that would undercut your colleagues’ work or embroil the company in un...
El Líder Mundial... En Osos
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ESPN Cancels Barstool Sports TV Show After One Episode
ESPN has pulled the plug on PFT Commenter and Dan Katz’s weekly show Barstool Van Talk after just one episode. (The next episode would have been scheduled to air Wednesday morning at 1 a.m. ET.)...