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After UCLA fired its basketball coach, former UCLA player and NBA Hall of Famer Bill Walton advised the school to hire Barack Obama as its next coach.

Football during Christmas weekend has been an American tradition, but this year’s Christmas Eve game on Monday hit a record low in TV ratings.

Former ESPN host and current writer for the Atlantic, Jemele Hill, says she thought she was merely stating the obvious when she called President Trump a “white supremacist” on Twitter last year.

ESPN’s Max Kellerman has turned the controversy involving LeBron James’ posting of song lyrics containing Jewish stereotypes on its head, by claiming that it is James who is the “victim.”

In a discussion of the ups and downs of ESPN’s flagship program, SportsCenter, network executive Norby Williamson reveals that a renewed focus on sports, instead of politics, has led to a resurgence in growth.

Former ESPN host and current Atlantic writer Jemele Hill slammed the Seattle Seahawks for inviting psychology professor and frequent political correctness critic, Jordan Peterson, to talk to the club.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Mack Brown turned around North Carolina’s football program once before, and the Tar Heels believe he could do it again.

According to Disney’s recently released annual report, sports network ESPN has lost 2 million domestic subscribers over the course of 2018.

The last couple of years haven’t been the best for the NFL, with attendance and TV ratings dipping, in part due to some players protesting  during the anthem.

Nov. 18 (UPI) — Cleveland Browns general manager John Dorsey says the team has not discussed hiring Condoleezza Rice as a coach, disputing an ESPN report.

Former ESPN host and current Atlantic writer Jemele Hill doubled down on her accusation that President Donald Trump is a “white supremacist,” in a visit with left-wing Late Show host Stephen Colbert.

College basketball analyst Jay Bilas believes players will eventually be paid, and tells PodcastOne Sports Now that he’s not sure top players will forgo a year on the big stage in college to play in the NBA’s developmental league.

Former ESPN host and current Atlantic writer Jemele Hill, slammed white women who she says torpedoed the candidacy of Beto O’Rourke in last night’s Texas Senate race.

With so many Americans streaming in to voting booths today to cast their vote on the future direction of the country, there’s one prominent American political/sports figure who — if he still believes what he said two years ago — definitely will not.

Controversial social justice warrior and former ESPN host Jemele Hill, is set to come back to TV by narrating Showtime’s Shut Up & Dribble. A three-episode documentary produced by LeBron James, which delves into athlete activism and the changing role of NBA players.

In an interview with Complex Sports, former ESPN host and current Atlantic writer Jemele Hill, said that there will always be “somebody” who seeks to disqualify the humanity of black athletes.

Ratings for Monday Night Football fell to a near season low this week, as the New York Giants took on the Atlanta Falcons at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Having Booger McFarland perched atop a large viewing crane, was likely hailed as a great innovation and fun idea at ESPN headquarters. However, for the fans paying top dollar for lower bowl seats at NFL stadiums, the crane is producing an entirely different reaction.

Former ESPN host Jemele Hill said the police are killing unarmed black men in “state-sanctioned killings,” during an appearance during a Baltimore town hall event sponsored by OZY online magazine editor Carlos Watson.

After years of denials, Disney CEO Bob Iger is finally on record admitting that ESPN went too far to the left by saturating their coverage with liberal politics. And ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro agrees with him.

Heavyweight boxer Deontay Wilder has apologized for delivering a knockout blow to a TV mascot while appearing on Nacion ESPN last week.

Thursday on his ESPN Radio show, Stephen A. Smith reacted to seeing rapper Kanye West meeting with President Donald Trump in the White House, saying he does not “like the look.” Smith admitted his ESPN platform is “not the time

NEW YORK (AP) — Tennis great Billie Jean King and journalist Jemele Hill are being honored for working to fight homophobia in sports.

Former ESPN host Jemele Hill says that she believes part of the reason why she and her on-air partner Michael Smith were labeled as “too political,” is because they’re black.

Former ESPN host and outspoken liberal commentator Jemele Hill is set to join the Atlantic, as a staff writer.

CNN’s ratings last week once again fell short–not only of their competitors like Fox News and MSNBC–the network’s ratings fell behind HGTV, the Hallmark Channel, and the History channel last week.

Friday on ESPN’s “First Take,” Stephen A. Smith reacted to safety Eric Reid signing a one-year deal with the Carolina Panthers and weighed in on the possibility of fellow National Anthem-kneeler Colin Kaepernick’s chances of getting back into the league.

Fox Sports Radio’s Clay Travis, author of Republicans Buy Sneakers Too: How the Left Is Ruining Sports with Politics, noted how sports media figures are ten times more likely to financially support Democrats than their political media counterparts. He offered his remarks in a Wednesday interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.

Former NFL star and ESPN Radio host Mike Golic went after the NFL Tuesday in response to its new, controversial roughing the passer rules. The “Golic and Wingo” co-host slammed the league for trying to protect quarterbacks in a way

ESPN commentator Jason Witten is taking slings and arrows from the PC left after his proclamation that the NFL is going “a little bit to the left wing” with the surge of roughing the passer calls.

Disney’s Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger admitted in a revealing interview released Thursday that ESPN became too political, an issue Hollywood’s most powerful man says the sports network’s president is trying to fix.

ESPN “The Jump” host Rachel Nichols discussed the sexual harassment investigation involving the Dallas Mavericks organization Wednesday with owner Mark Cuban. Nichols pressed Cuban on his lack of knowledge and action regarding sexual misconduct within the organization he ran. “I’m

Tuesday on ESPN’s “First Take,” co-host Stephen A. Smith reacted to the New England Patriots trading for troubled wide receiver Josh Gordon, who the Cleveland Browns were prepared to cut after his long history of drug and alcohol abuse. Smith

The ratings for Week Two’s Monday Night Football game between the Chicago Bears and the Seattle Seahawks, crashed to the lowest numbers ever recorded for a Week Two Monday night game.

Controversial ESPN host Jemele Hill announced on Twitter that Friday was her last day at the network, putting an end to the speculation on just when she was going to leave. 

Monday on ESPN’s “Get Up,” reporter Maria Taylor defended Serena Williams’ meltdown at the U.S. Open after tennis umpire Carlos Ramos accused her of illegally receiving coaching. According to Taylor, Williams snapped because of “everything that she has dealt with her