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At Least One ESPN Program Bans The Use Of "Redskins"
Our friend Josh Levin over at Slate made a fascinating discovery today: Back in the mid-2000s, when ESPN broadcast the finals of the National Scrabble Championship, a total of 170 words were prohibited from being used during the game. One of them was nickname of Washington's NFL franchise, which Sla...
Living The #HartfordLife: A Tribute To Fired ESPNer Hugh Douglas
After he was hired by ESPN to be a studio analyst, former Philadelphia Eagle Hugh Douglas moved to Hartford, Conn., to be closer to ESPN's Bristol compound. Moving from Philadelphia to Hartford was a bit of a culture shock for Douglas, and he used his Twitter account to constantly update his followe...
Hugh Douglas Fired By ESPN
SI's Richard Deitsch reports that Hugh Douglas has been let go by ESPN, two week after a drunken altercation with Numbers Never Lie co-host Michael Smith, in which Douglas called Smith "Uncle Tom."...
"In New York, Keith Olbermann, ESPN."
Keith made his SportsCenter return after 16 years, about 104 miles southwest from Bristol. He looked orange. That Hershey's sign is soooo very distracting, as is all of Times Square. But Olbermann's Yankee fan/A-Rod essay was nice. ...
What Is Nate Silver's New ESPN Site Going To Look Like?
Nate Silver's ESPN-owned FiveThirtyEight site is not going to be The Nate Silver Show + a few contributors. Silver's plan is to make it a Grantland II, of sorts. ...
ESPN Fight: Hugh Douglas Called Colleague Michael Smith "Uncle Tom"
Last Thursday, at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention and Career Fair, Hugh Douglas, the former Eagle and current NFL analyst for ESPN, was very drunk. A day later he would be both drunk and combative, and, as The Big Lead first reported, he and an ESPN colleague would nearly c...
ESPN: Japanese Little Leaguer's Favorite Singer Is "Wandai Wrection"
It's not quite Captain Sum Ting Wong, but the spelling you are looking for is "One Direction."...
ESPN's John Clayton Says Some Random Shit About Johnny Manziel
So what happens to Johnny Manziel if the NCAA decides he's no longer eligible to play college football because he allegedly sold his autograph? Last night during SportsCenter, John Clayton explained that Manziel could turn pro and enter the supplemental draft later this month, "if indeed he does qua...
Fair Play?
Robert Lipsyte, ESPN's Ombudsman looks at why the first-rate documentary, Let Them Wear Towels, was seemingly buried when it was aired on the same night as the All-Star Game. ...
This Is What It Looks Like When An ESPN Network Goes Off The Air
The Worldwide Leader In Sports became a bit less world-wide last night, as ESPN shut down operations around much of the globe while handing over control of its channel in the UK and Ireland to British Telecom. Here's what overseas viewers watching ESPN America saw in the network's final moments:...
The Trouble With ESPN's Big Johnny Football Story
The most interesting passage in Wright Thompson's new and much-discussed profile of minor league football player Johnny Manziel comes about three-quarters of the way into the story, which is long and rich with detail, so that you could forgive a reader whose eye ran past it. At this point in the pi...
ESPN Clumsily Promotes Miguel Cabrera As Lefty With Botched Photoshop
Eagle-eyed reader Dan spotted this during last night's SportsCenter, during which the WWL promoted highlights of the Nats-Tigers game with this graphic of Stephen Strasburg and Miguel Cabrera. Notice anything wrong? ESPN magically turned the league's best hitter into a lefty....
ESPN's July Ratings Are Down, Too
This is starting to feel like a thing. ESPN's ratings were down in the first half of the year—alarmingly so in the spring—which prompted ESPN's PR machine to swing back hard, labeling the drop a bizarre fluke, an aberration. Well, July numbers are in and ... ...
This Is Just The Saddest Thing Written About The Jaguars
ESPN.com will dedicate a blogger to each and every NFL team. Makes sense—fans can't get enough football. Well, most fans. From Poynter's story on the announcement:...
ESPN Closed Captioning: "That Is It From The Paedophiles"
This kind of amazing clip comes from the ESPN UK broadcast of the Gold Cup final between the United States and Panama. Christ, closed captioning guy....
What I Learned From A Year Of Watching <em>SportsCenter</em>
Thirty-three years and more than 50,000 episodes on, SportsCenter is less a television show or a convenient way to catch up on the day in sports than a great mechanical contraption gone awry, its parts moving independently not just of one another but of any obvious directing intelligence. ...
It's Something More
Chris Jones delivers a good one for ESPN the Magazine:...