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Who Will Katie Nolan Be At ESPN?

Following months of speculation and a recent report that Katie Nolan had asked to be released early from her contract with Fox Sports, ESPN announced what everyone already expected: Nolan is joining the Worldwide Leader....

ESPN Enters Incomprehensible Partnership With Incomprehensible Media Company

Big news in the world of digital media today, as Ad Age has a scoop about ESPN partnering with Cycle, a “media network” that “evolved from an internal influencer management division at Laundry Service to a sibling content company last year.”...

What, Exactly, Does "All Of Australia" Look Like

Britt McHenry Is Awful At This

Britt McHenry and Tomi Lahren seem to be in a contest to become the latest incomprehensibly irate white woman at Fox News. It’s like Josh McCown and Johnny Manziel battling to lead the Browns. McHenry, the former ESPNer with reporting expertise, is obviously the veteran McCown, while Lahren is the...

What Will <i>SI</i> Do With Peter King's The MMQB?

Peter King’s contract with Sports Illustrated is up after this NFL season. Long famed for his access to the inner workings of the NFL and especially for his mysteriously direct connection to the mind of commissioner Roger Goodell, he may continue on as the face of the MMQB, the football vertical lau...

Ray Lewis Says He Dropped To Two Knees During Anthem Because Of Jesus

Former NFL player and noted nonsense-talker Ray Lewis, who has previously been critical of Colin Kaepernick’s decision to kneel during the national anthem to protest police brutality, linked arms with several Ravens players and went down to two knees before Sunday’s game in London. The act seemed li...

Lou Holtz: I Basically Know What It's Like To Be A Black Man Targeted By Police<em></em>

During my nightly viewing of Fox News, a familiar nasally, barely comprehensible voice called out from the abyss, mumbling, I have opinions about black people protesting!...

Mike Francesa Goes Nuts Over James Franklin Icing The Kicker In A Blowout

In the last few seconds of Penn State’s 56-0 demolition of Georgia State on Saturday, the Panthers lined up to kick a field goal and at least get some points on the board. The 31-yard attempt went through the uprights, but Penn State coach James Franklin had called a timeout just before the ball was...

ESPN's Public Editor Is Mad Online

ESPN public editor Jim Brady published his takeaway from the Jemele Hill situation Friday, and came down firmly on the side of the corporate behemoth against an employee who tweeted opinions about the U.S. President from her private account. It was an offensive and horrifying conclusion, but in Bra...

Stephen A. Smith, Teddy Atlas Lose Their Minds Arguing Canelo-GGG Outcome

ESPN boxing analyst Teddy Atlas went berserk arguing the future of boxing with Stephen A. Smith tonight after judge Adalaide Byrd once again turned in a bizarre and suspicious 118-110 scorecard in favor of Canelo Álvarez at the end of the bout that was officially judged a split draw....

This Is More Offensive Than Anything An ESPNer Could Say About The President

Woooo! Who wasn’t a fan of “The American Dream” Ric Flair and his signature move, the Stone Cold Stunner?...

Your Head A Splode

Here's What ESPN Employees Are Saying About The Jemele Hill Situation On Their Private Message Board [Update]

ESPN spent this week caving to the most cynically motivated people on the fringes of sports media and their manufactured outrage at SportsCenter anchor Jemele Hill’s accurate comments about the president. Thus the network finds itself in the midst of a culture war that’s activated every reactionary ...

The White House And Fucking Tucker Carlson And That <i>Dilbert</i> Shithead And All The Rest Of Them Won't Stop Talking About "MSESPN," They Won't Stop, They Will Never Stop, And The Sweet Release Of The Void Is Calling

Here’s what the president was thinking about this morning:...

Houston NBC Station Cuts Off End Of Texans Game To Report Result Of Texans Game

Fans in Houston watching last night’s Texans-Bengals game on KPRC missed its wacky final play—one punctuated by local hero J.J. Watt demolishing a poor offensive lineman—because the NBC station cut off the end of the broadcast in a rush to report the game’s not-yet-final score....

Don Ohlmeyer Aired An NFL Game Without Announcers And The World Wasn't Ready<em></em>

“All the stuff I’ve done in my career,” Don Ohlmeyer once told an ESPN interviewer, “and that’s what I’m going to be remembered for. It serves me right.”...

Report: ESPN Tried To Sub Out Jemele Hill For Last Night's <i>SportsCenter </i>[Update]

Though ESPN anchor Jemele Hill received a lot of shit for her correct diagnosis of Donald Trump, she appeared on Wednesday’s SportsCenter with Michael Smith as usual. Later in the night, she and the network issued statements to give the notion that they were on good terms. But a new report suggests ...

Trump Never Paid For Charlottesville<em></em>

Now that true dumb fuck Sarah Sanders has chimed in on Jemele Hill on behalf of the White House and demanded her ouster, we are about to enter a new and insufferable acceleration of a “scandal” that involves one sportscaster daring to state the obvious. Already, Hill has tweeted out an apology that ...

SB Nation To Team Site Managers: You Do This For Love, Now Hit Your Quotas

Earlier this week Deadspin published a story about how SB Nation team sites’ traffic accounts for the vast majority of the network’s total traffic, even though the people who staff these sites are primarily paid low monthly stipends or nothing at all. The story detailed, among other things, how a Vo...

ESPN Puts A Band-Aid On The Hand It Cut Off

ESPN’s initial approach to handling SportsCenter host Jemele Hill’s remarks on Donald Trump was supposed to placate both sides, and ended up placating neither. Then the White House called describing the president accurately a “fireable offense.” The network tried a second take Wednesday night, whic...