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Here's Hannah Storm Anchoring <em>SportsCenter</em> In Spanish On ESPN Deportes
It's "Ladies Week" on ESPN Deportes (yes, "Ladies Week," as opposed to "Semana De Las Señoras") and tonight's SportsCenter features all-female hosts/hostesses. One of the presenters? The awesome Hannah Storm, from "real" ESPN....
Do You Believe In Magic? Restoring The Dodger Way
Over at ESPN, Howard Bryant has a long piece on the rebuilding of a once-proud franchise:...
ESPN Cameras Catch Nebraska Player Appearing To Relieve Himself
Can't a guy get a little privacy/patriotic whizzing?...
ESPN Cancels International X-Games; More Job Cuts Coming
ESPN is canceling the international edition of the X-Games, Reuters reports. ESPN announced the expansion in May 2012 but apparently hasn't found a way to make any money off the games this year. This also means more job cuts are coming to Bristol....
ESPN Gets Back Into The <em>League Of Denial</em> Game (Sorta)
ESPN is aggressively promoting League of Denial, the new book by ESPN reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru on the NFL's concussion crisis, today. There's an excerpt of the book published on ESPN.com. There's a lot of space dedicated to it on the site's front page. There's a story about the ...
How Roger Goodell And ESPN Use Each Other
The NFL Network may not be the monolith the league once envisioned, but Roger Goodell likes having it around for what it forces others to do, particularly ESPN. Goodell alluded to this on Monday while speaking to Hearst employees—Hearst owns 20 percent of ESPN—during the media company's regularly he...
ESPN Fires Longtime Motorsports Announcer After One Gaffe Too Many
Marty Reid has been calling racing on ESPN for 31 years, but he's out of a job after the network announced it's pulling him off the Nationwide Series....
16 Adorable Animals React To BuzzFeeᴅ's Darren Rovell Story
Over the weekend, our pals at BuzzFeeᴅ published a long, insightful profile of sports business cyborg Darren Rovell. We felt compelled to share our thoughts on some of the choicer moments from the story....
A Town Torn Apart
Night creeps in and they run, cleats on concrete, mop-top hair flowing through black ball caps. They're nervous. They're 14 years old. The hipper boys know the unwritten rule: Run to the front of the bus, strap yourself in and hold on. That is more important than batting averages. That, on a 30-minu...
Michelle Beadle's <em>Crossover</em> Is Finished
Crossover, the troubled NBC Sports Network studio show hosted by Michelle Beadle, is "donzo," tweets Beadle. Beadle: out. Shooting elephants in the face: in....
"Bodies Not Created To Be Sexually Involved With Lots Of People," Reports NBA Writer
Over on Kingmovement.com, ESPN NBA reporter Chris Broussard writes:...
Who Is The Most Pompous Sports Pundit? A Scientific Investigation
Of all the stupid rhetorical plays columnists use—issuing thundering imperatives, positioning their banal opinions as the exact midpoints between varieties of unyielding madness, championing their cronies' worthless businesses as examples of the disciplinary power of markets, etc. etc.—the funniest ...
9 Things You Should Know About Skip Bayless, According To Skip Bayless
Skip Bayless told Michael Smith and Jemele Hill yesterday that he gave a Washington Post journalist a list of bullet points of "how I would try to capture me." (The Post recently published a profile of Bayless.) ...
The New <em>SportsCenter</em> Commercial You're Going To See Everywhere
It's been a rough stretch for ESPN and SportsCenter. Ratings for ESPN's flagship show have been sagging, bringing in about 828,000 viewers this year, down from about 1 million last year. Primetime ratings for ESPN and ESPN2 have seen declines too. ESPN's gotten really defensive about it, especially...
Kirk Herbstreit Unhappy ABC Showed KSU-Texas To Only 36% Of The Country
This is fun! We got our hands on some raw, off-air satellite backhaul footage from tonight's Kansas State-Texas broadcast on ABC, and in the post-game we're invited to listen in on Kirk Herbstreit and Brent Musburger discussing the day in college football—and, notably, why so few people were able ...
"Crap On Me Sam Ponder": Your NDSU-Delaware State <i>GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
We don't know much about our friends up in Fargo, North Dakota, but we are learning every day. For example, today on ESPN's College GameDay from North Dakota State, we learned that they enjoy scat play. Which is nice. For that and so much more, join us in our GameDay sign roundup from The Great Nort...
Sal Paolantonio's Postgame Andy Reid Interview Was Weird
Andy Reid had every reason to be happy. His Kansas City Chiefs were freshly 3-0 with a win over his former squad in Philadelphia, and the team building the kind of camaraderie that leads to a Gatorade shower in Week Three. Reid did not seem very happy, though, when talking to ESPN's Sal Paolantonio...
Rick Reilly Just Wrote The Worst Thing. Let's Remember The Good Times.
ESPN's Rick Reilly just published a column about the controversy over the racist nickname of the Washington Redskins in which, after consulting a few Native Americans, he compares those who'd like the team to change its nickname to those who originally restricted Native Americans to reservations. Se...