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ESPN Blames Cardale Jones's Inexperience For Loss That Hasn't Happened
ESPN obviously has a number of graphics and stories ready so that no matter how tonight's national title game proceeds, they'll be ready with the instant analysis. If Ohio State loses and substitute QB Cardale Jones plays poorly—which doesn't look likely, given how well Jones is doing—ESPN will focu...

Hannah Storm Shuts Down Makeup Artist On <i>SportsCenter</i>
Get the hell out of here, makeup. Hannah Storm doesn't need your last-second fix. We're live and talking about Aaron Rodgers....

ESPN Wants Nothing To Do With The Knicks
When the NBA released the national TV schedule in August, the Knicks appeared across ESPN, ABC, and TNT a total of 16 times, tied for ninth most in the league. The NBA has long catered to fans of large market teams—the LOLakers got 20 national TV games even though everybody knew they would be awful ...

Keith Olbermann Has A Great Stuart Scott Story
On yesterday's episode—the same one where he re-aired Stuart Scott's 1993 ESPN2 debut—Keith Olbermann decided to honor what he called Scott's "professional courage." Specifically, the time an ESPN executive, piqued by Scott's unique catchphrases, called the anchor into his office and told him he was...

Here's Jason Whitlock Pretending To Like And Respect Stuart Scott
ESPN's Stuart Scott, 49, died yesterday, finally succumbing to a long bout with cancer. The SportsCenter anchor was given a sendoff befitting a hero by the many friends he made over his two decades on the air, because to many, that's what he was. ...

Here Is Stuart Scott's First ESPN2 Sportscast, From October 1, 1993
As promised, Keith Olbermann dedicated the second segment of his program today to a re-airing of Stuart Scott's sportscast from the 1993 inaugural episode of SportsNight—the program that launched ESPN2....

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Rich Eisen, Hannah Storm, & Others React Live To Stuart Scott's Death
Our media criticism in these parts often accuses television of being so lacking in basic sensibility that it has become post-human. Stuart Scott's death at 49 prompted a reminder that, yes, these are real people on TV; there's no more accurate a depiction of this than the tentative and often fragile...

ESPN's Stuart Scott Dead At 49
Stuart Scott died this morning at the age of 49. Scott was diagnosed with cancer in November 2007. ESPN has a lengthy obituary up, and ESPN2 spent much of Sunday talking with current and former ESPN personnel about their friendships with Scott....

The ESPN NFL Playoffs "Run The Jewels" Promo Everyone's Talking About
ESPN's first-ever NFL playoffs broadcast is a big moment for the network, and they've been promoting today's Cardinals-Panthers game with a cool trailer featuring the instrumental version of the opening track from the first Run The Jewels album. The Worldwide Leader doesn't appear to have put the vi...

Maybe "Bull" Isn't The Best Nickname For A Running Back Named "Conner"
There's no way this was done intentionally, but I'm pretty sure Pitt running back James Conner would prefer for his nickname to be anything but "Bull."...

WatchESPN Goes Down During One Of Biggest ESPN Broadcasts Ever
ESPN is airing today's Rose Bowl and the historic start to the college football "playoff," but viewers hoping to tune in via tablet, computer, Xbox, Roku, or any other device have been shafted by the Worldwide Leader's online video service going down at the most inopportune time....

Hey, What Happened To The Juicy LeBron Quote In This ESPN Story?
Earlier today, ESPN's Brian Windhorst and Marc Stein wrote about how Cleveland Cavaliers coach David Blatt is struggling to communicate with his players, and how LeBron James wasn't exactly giving him a ringing endorsement. It turns out that the story originally featured a much stronger quote from L...

So What Happened With The FSU Player And The Crack-Smoking Prostitute?
On Christmas Eve, while most of America was indulging in Christmas carols, bad bowl games, and General Tso's chicken, Tallahassee police released information on two investigations involving Florida State athletes. That seemed to all but ensure that nobody would actually read them, so I'm revisiting ...

ESPN's Hollywood-Style Sam Ponder Camera Angle Was Weird
For Samantha Ponder's halftime interview last night with USC head coach Steve Sarkisian, ESPN used an approach rarely seen in television: a long lens, with shallow depth of field. It looked less like live sports programming—and more like Hollywood....

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Tallahassee Police To ESPN: Go Fuck Yourselves
It's Christmas Eve, which means it's the perfect time to dump a nasty story you hope the media will ignore! And that's exactly what Tallahassee police did today while flipping two big ol' birds at ESPN....

ESPN3 Is Finally Arriving For DirecTV Customers
A new deal announced today between DirecTV and Disney will make live and on-demand ESPN content available to subscribers of the satellite service, finally extending WatchESPN and ESPN3 to its 20 million subscribers....

Good One, Ed Werder
ESPN's Ed Werder had a thought (which he later deleted) regarding the two cops killed in Brooklyn Saturday. It must have sounded better in his head, because on Twitter, it came across as smarm from a penis with a silly mustache. Protest what, Ed?...