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<i>First Take</i> Moved To ESPN As Skip Bayless Closes In<em></em>
Amid huge ratings declines, ESPN execs have decided to move First Take from ESPN2 to ESPN beginning in 2017, reports John Ourand. It will still occupy its 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. ET time slot, meaning the 10:00 a.m. SportsCenter hosted by Hannah Storm and the 11:00 a.m. SportsCenter hosted by David Ll...
Mark Cuban Really Believes Banning ESPN Reporters Could Forestall The Coming Robot Content Wars<em></em><em></em>
Late Sunday night, word began trickling out that Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban had revoked the credentials of two ESPN reporters, Tim MacMahon and Marc Stein. The initial reporting suggested that Cuban was upset that MacMahon would be spending less time on the Mavericks beat this season, as he’s...
ESPN Is Hemorrhaging Subscribers And Pretending It Doesn't Matter
ESPN is doing a very bad job of pretending it isn’t deathly afraid of rapidly declining subscriber numbers. At the end of October, Nielsen released its monthly television subscriber numbers report, and it showed a loss of 621,000 subscribers for ESPN and similar losses for ESPN2 and ESPNU. Other net...
Mark Cuban: I Banned Those ESPN Reporters To Win The War Against Robots
Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks pulled the credentials of experienced ESPN reporters Marc Stein and Tim MacMahon this weekend under mysterious circumstances. There was no obvious motive for the Mavericks to do so, and Cuban hasn’t said much to clear it up—but he broke his silence this evening. C...
Randy Moss Catches Fish
Two Monday Night Footballs ago, Randy Moss showed off his kicking skills. This week, he caught a dang salmon with one hand....
Dallas Mavericks Revoke Credentials Of Two ESPN Reporters
The Dallas Mavericks revoked the season credentials of ESPN reporters Marc Stein and Tim MacMahon, according to multiple reports:...
Grab 'Em By The Saban: Your Baton Rouge <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
ESPN’s College GameDay went to LSU today. Here are some signs fans brought to the broadcast—with some help from SEC Nation....
Free Mustache Rides: Your Salt Lake City <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
ESPN’s College GameDay aired live from Salt Lake City this morning. Here are some signs people brought to that event. Yes, Mormonism is involved!...
Doug Gottlieb Is Too Soft To Stand By His Incorrect Takes
Here is a timeline of events:...
Randy Moss Could Probably Get A Kicking Job With The Cardinals Or Seahawks<em></em>
I mean, if he can do 28 yards in dress shoes, I’m sure he can double that in cleats, why not?...
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A Tuscaloosa <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
ESPN’s weekly native advertising broadcast known as College GameDay set its temporary roots in Tuscaloosa today for the big aTm-Bama game. People brought signs, yes, and they also had signs in Lexington where SEC Nation was broadcasting its superior program....
ESPN’s Darren Rovell: I’m A Robot, I Pity The Humans<em></em>
This evening, at 10:21 p.m. EDT, Darren Rovell reached his terrifying final form....
Report: Chris Broussard Is Leaving ESPN For Fox Sports
ESPN basketball analyst Chris Broussard is finalizing a deal to decamp for Fox Sports, according to Sporting News’s Mike McCarthy, where he is likely to pair with former NBAer Jim Jackson on FS1. McCarthy previously reported that Broussard’s ESPN contract was expiring in mid-September, and I have be...
Story On Fox Sports 1 Ratings Reads Just Like A Fox Sports 1 Press Release<em></em>
Nielsen’s television ratings determine almost alone whether a TV show is considered successful, whether it stays on the air, and how much advertisers pay to run commercials during it. They are incredibly important to everybody in the television business, and reporters breathlessly cover them, from t...
This Rude Tweet About The Knicks Is Factually Wrong But Spiritually Correct
ESPN’s NBA-focused Twitter account @ESPNNBA has been doing that thing where a Twitter account counts down the days until the beginning of some new season with photos that correspond to whatever number of days is left until the start of whatever is being anticipated. Today, the account tweeted an ima...
Skip Bayless Is Gaining On ESPN In A Ratings War That Doesn't Matter<em></em>
ESPN’s flagship shoutfest, First Take, has long and rightly been reviled for degrading everyone and everything it touches. Until co-host Skip Bayless departed earlier this year, that didn’t seem to matter at all to its loyal core audience, which happily tuned in each day no matter how repulsive or j...
ESPN's Ed Werder Is Extremely Offended By Newspapers Accurately Quoting Presidential Candidate
ESPN reporter Ed Werder takes great offense at media outlets accurately reporting the content of a recently-leaked video featuring Donald Trump—namely, to outlets quoting the Republican nominee on one of his preferred methods of interacting with women, to “grab them by the pussy.” The fact that new...
Jeff Van Gundy Advocates Zero-Tolerance Policy For Domestic Violence Offenders
The Houston Rockets and New York Knicks met in the preseason this evening, and ESPN announcer Jeff Van Gundy used the occasion of Derrick Rose’s first appearance with the Knicks to make some points about domestic violence and how Adam Silver and the NBA should deal with players who are convicted of ...