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ESPN Dipshit To English-Speaking Ichiro: Speak English!!!
ESPN SportsCenter anchor and former WWE commentator Todd Grisham, who fancies himself a tough man, has a tough message for True Hit King Ichiro: This is America, learn some English!...
Panel of Droids Discuss Liverpool and Barcelona's Prospects
Towards the end of the halftime break in Liverpool-Barcelona on Saturday, ESPN’s Ian Darke sent viewers from Wembley Stadium back to the studio, which sometime during the commercial break had moved to the Mos Eisley Cantina....
Skip Bayless: ESPN Held Me Back, My Fox Sports Takes Will Be Hotter<em></em>
Skip Bayless, a circus clown who peddles shitty sports takes on TV, will debut a new show on Fox Sports 1 on September 6, he told The Hollywood Reporter this morning. It will go head-to-head with First Take, and Bayless says the takes will be even spicier. ...
What Did The UFC's Sale Reveal About The Live Sports Rights Bubble?
Earlier this month, the UFC was sold for $4 billion to, of all places, WME-IMG, the talent agency best known for its co-CEO Ari Emanuel, the inspiration for Entourage’s Ari Gold. SportsBusinessJournal had a good piece recently detailing some of the behind-the-scenes negotiating over the deal in whic...
College Football Playoff Caves To ESPN, Sanity; Semifinal Games Move To Weekends And Holidays
The College Football Playoff semifinals are abandoning New Year’s Eve, mostly, after this past year’s disaster that saw ratings plummet 36% and forced ESPN to issue free make-good ads during the national championship game....
Sources: Securities Class-Action Firm Exploring Lawsuit Against ESPN Parent Company
Deadspin has learned that ESPN’s recent loss of three million cable subscribers, which was followed by a significant drop in its parent company’s share price, has attracted the attention of a high-powered law firm that specializes in bringing class-action lawsuits on behalf of defrauded investors. ...
Report: Tom Jackson Is Leaving ESPN
Tom Jackson has been with ESPN since 1987, and programs he has anchored (including NFL Countdown and NFL Primetime) have won seven Emmy Awards over that time. His partner Chris Berman is possibly leaving after this season, but according to a report from Pro Football Talk, Jackson is leaving ESPN and...
Zach Lowe Re-Signs With ESPN After Strong Pursuit By Bleacher Report
ESPN has re-signed superstar basketball reporter Zach Lowe to a multi-year contract, according to multiple industry sources. Lowe joined Grantland from Sports Illustrated in October 2012 and spent three years there before transitioning to ESPN.com, after ESPN pulled the plug on Grantland. His contra...
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Lou Holtz Is Really Going For It At The RNC
Donald Trump may not have been able to convince any famous athletes to speak at this week’s Republican National Convention, but he did get Lou Holtz’s support, dammit, and Lou Holtz is giving it everything he has....
Nick Saban Gets Testy When Paul Finebaum Asks About Cam Robinson, Keeps Arguing With Him Off-Air
Alabama football head coach Nick Saban, who never seems pleased, seemed especially displeased with radio host Paul Finebaum today on SEC Network. Finebaum asked about his decision to not suspend two players after they were arrested on drug and weapons charges, and Saban pushed back....
Max Kellerman Replaces Skip Bayless On <i>First Take</i>
ESPN has officially announced that Max Kellerman will be Skip Bayless’s replacement on First Take, confirming weeks of reports that he was the leading contender for the job of sitting stone-faced while Stephen A. Smith yells. Kellerman will give up his radio show and duties on SportsNation to take t...
Longtime ESPN Executive To Become New Syracuse Athletic Director
ESPN executive vice president John Wildhack, who has been with the network since its inception and was one of president John Skipper’s top lieutenants, has been named the new athletic director at Syracuse University....
ESPN Interrupts Wimbledon Coverage To Let Stephen A. Smith Destroy Chris Broussard
Today Serena Williams beat Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-5, 6-0 with a blistering nuclear warhead of a second set, but that destruction pales in comparison to the wasteland of Chris Broussard left by one Stephen A. Smith as they debated Kevin Durant’s signing with the Golden State Warriors....
Remember When Bill Simmons Wrote A Bunch Of Bullshit About O.J. Mayo And Kevin Love?
O.J. Mayo received an at-least-two-year ban from the NBA today, for repeat violations of the league’s anti-drug program. This is not exactly important news for the NBA, because O.J. Mayo is busted and terrible and probably was on a plane to China when the decision was made anyway. However, it’s an o...
Safe To Say Scott Van Pelt Won't Be Missing Skip Bayless
Tonight’s conclusion of the NBA season also means the imminent conclusion of Skip Bayless’s tenure as a polluter of ESPN’s airwaves. Many of his co-workers, it seems, are happy to see him leave....
Stephen A. Smith Thinks Ayesha Curry Should Act More Like LeBron's Wife, And Be Quiet
Stephen A. Smith has weighed in on Ayesha Curry’s thoughts on the NBA being rigged. The First Take goon called her classless and said she shouldn’t bring attention to herself....
Mark Fuhrman Was the Biggest Winner In The O.J. Trial
O.J. Simpson is imprisoned and broke and universally accepted as a multi-murderer. That’s likely about the same condition he’d be in if he’d been convicted of killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. So a case can be made that, in the end, he got away with nothing....