Friday on ESPN’s “SportsNation,” co-host and CNN contributor LZ Granderson reacted to the Tampa Bay Buccanneers signing free agent quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick to be Jameis Winston’s backup. Granderson argued that if Kaepernick remains a free agent when the season begins, then
Perhaps ESPN is learning. When San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich blasted President Donald J. Trump on May 14, it wasn’t covered on ESPN.com.
During Friday’s “First Take” on ESPN, Stephen A. Smith reacted to Colombian-born Atlanta Braves pitcher Julio Teheran plunking Dominican Republic-born Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista in the thigh the day after Bautista stared at Braves pitcher Eric O’Flaherty and
One would have thought, given the growing evidence of a conservative/Republican tune-out of ESPN over their rampant leftist activism, that the network might have wanted to tone things down politically when picking their new, post-layoff lineup. Instead, on Tuesday, ESPN shot the proverbial bird at America by putting together a lineup featuring all of their usual liberal suspects.
ESPN’s president says that all the layoffs and retooling show that his network is addressing its problems in a “realist” manner. But despite the recognition that the network faces major problems, none of that retooling will take aim at one of its customers’ chief complaints: the network’s liberal bias.
San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich and ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith aren’t fans of President Donald J. Trump.
During Tuesday’s ESPN “First Take” broadcast, ESPN “The Undefeated” writer and former NFL defensive back Domonique Foxworth weighed in on the Seattle Seahawks’ interest in signing Colin Kaepernick in a backup quarterback role. According to Foxworth, owners have been staying
The NFL is poised to put a woman in the booth to call Monday Night Football play-by-play for the first time in 30 years.
ESPN seems to be the big loser in the latest trends for cable pricing plans, analysis shows.
ESPN “First Take” co-host Stephen A. Smith reacted Monday to San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich bashing President Donald Trump this weekend. Smith said Trump has “attributed” to the country becoming a divided nation with his behavior. “[Trump] is tweeting
ESPN seems to have finally reached the point of denial. The more they say that politics has nothing to do with their network’s demise, the more they sound like they’re saying that politics has a lot to do with their network’s demise.
On the heels of ESPN laying off some 100 writers and on-air rate and TV talent, Sports Illustrated announced that they are laying off five of their staffers, including Seth Davis who has been writing for the iconic sports magazine since 1995.
ESPN’s “SportsCenter” announced its Saturday broadcast was sponsored by left-leaning cable news network MSNBC, with the ESPN announcer saying “because information and facts have never been more important.” “‘SportsCenter,’ brought to you by MSNBC — because information and facts have
Friday on ESPN’s “SportsCenter: Coast to Coast,” ESPN Radio co-host Peter Rosenberg said the fact that quarterback Colin Kaepernick remains unsigned in the NFL is “shameful and embarrassing for the league as a whole.” “[T]he bottom line is Colin Kaepernick is
Thursday, ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap weighed in on quarterback Colin Kaepernick remaining unsigned as the NFL’s 2017 preseason minicamps approach. “First Take” host Molly Qerim asked Schaap if the free agent quarterback is being “blackballed” by NFL owners and that is why he
WOODBURY, Conn. (AP) — The wife of longtime ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman died in a traffic crash in Connecticut, the sports network’s president confirmed Wednesday.
Three months into its run, ESPN’s SC6 with Michael Smith and Jemele Hill is still a ratings loser.
The Magic Kingdom seems decidedly less magic nowadays. First, Disney’s sports propaganda wing, ESPN, sheds over 100 employees in response to the network’s numerous political and structural failings, and now we bring news that despite ESPN’s attempts to better the bottom line through layoffs, the network is still destroying Disney’s stock value.
During a time when sports journalists seem to be getting laid off left and right, Tim Tebow, between playing minor league baseball, analyzing college football for the SEC Network, and writing books, has established himself as perhaps the most over-employed man in sports media.
The fall of ESPN is still a hot topic in sports media, but former ESPN commentator Jason Whitlock has a unique point to add to the litany of reasons for the famed cable sports network’s troubles. Whitlock says that left-wing sports blog Deadspin caused ESPN to veer left, and that was the seed that caused the network’s downfall.
The recent mass layoffs at ESPN has re-ignited a contentious debate on just how much politics has led to the downfall of the formerly “Worldwide Leader in Sports.” What’s not debatable, however, is ESPN’s continued left-ward lurch.
We may finally have an answer as to why ESPN has persisted in its leftward lurch despite strong evidence that it cost them their credibility with a large swath of their viewing audience.
Friday, on ESPN’s “SportsCenter: Coast to Coast,” Baltimore Ravens tight end Benjamin Watson weighed in on quarterback Colin Kaepernick continuing to be a free agent in the NFL. He began by discussing the race issue, saying Kaepernick took a knee
Cable industry analysts have been debating the fall of ESPN for months, especially after its recent shedding of over 100 jobs. There has been much speculation that the network’s liberal tilt has alienated viewers even as liberals scoff at the notion. But now we have some statistics showing that ESPN really has lost viewers over its constant infusion of left-wing politics into its sports coverage.
In a long May 2 piece, BuzzFeed.com found itself concerned over the attacks cable sports network ESPN has suffered from conservative websites and commentators upset over the sports network’s constant liberal bias, but despite the attacks, the liberal clickbait site insisted that ESPN’s troubles have little to do with its left-wing politics.
A new YouGov poll shows that sports fans who call themselves Republican are turning off cable sports network ESPN in droves.
ESPN “SC6” co-host Michael Smith had a strong reaction Tuesday to a group of Boston Red Sox fans using racial slurs towards Baltimore Orioles center fielder Adam Jones Monday night with one fan throwing peanuts at him. Gov. Charlie Baker (R-MA)
As the media establishment continues to mull the many reasons for ESPN’s recent mass layoffs, even the “paper of record,” The New York Times, is noting that the cable sports network has lost fans over the constant drumbeat of left-wing politics in its sports coverage.
Sports Broadcasting Giant ESPN Forced to Reinvent Itself
ESPN got rid of close to 100 on-air and frontline talent in a bloodbath of layoffs that began on Wednesday. It was the biggest sports media story of the year and the end result is that a lot of good journalists are now without jobs.
“SportsCenter” anchor Linda Cohn stated on Thursday what Breitbart News has been asserting for years: that ESPN’s constant insertion of politics into their covering of sports news contributed to the Worldwide Leader in Sports Entertainment’s massive loss of subscribers over the last five years.
As the sports media industry stews over ESPN’s mass layoffs, some believe its the leading edge of the coming “sports bubble.”
The fallout over ESPN’s wave of mass layoffs continues to reverberate across sports media, with many trying to assess just why it happened. There are a lot of reasons, granted, but liberal politics is most assuredly one of them.
Proving that it has not learned that its customers tire of left-wing politics forced into sports reporting, on the same day that sports cable network ESPN fired 100 on-air employees and reporters, ESPN Women devoted its webpages to extreme left-wing social justice, resistance, and feminism.
Wednesday during the NBA playoffs coverage on “NBA on TNT,” Charles Barkley took a moment to offer his sentiments on ESPN’s layoffs. Barkley wished everyone well, saying all sports media are “in this thing together.” “[A] lot of people at
ESPN late-night “SportsCenter” host Scott Van Pelt shared his thoughts on the massive ESPN layoffs Wednesday in his “1 Big thing” segment, calling Wednesday a “very difficult day.” Van Pelt expressed sympathy for his departed former colleagues and noted they
Calling the layoffs at ESPN the end of journalism, Jeff Pearlman, an author and former writer for Sports Illustrated, is decrying the firing of a long list of sports reporters. On the other hand, he is particularly upset that the network is still paying millions to the “screaming” Stephen A. Smith.
The era of big cable sports is over.
As his fellows were being fired all around him, ESPN columnist Aaron Schatz launched into a Twitter tirade on Wednesday hinting that he thinks it is racist to complain that there is too much left-wing politics in sports reporting these days.
The gutting of on-air talent at ESPN sounds a death knell over the Bristol Connecticut campus as 100 people are now predicted to be laid off due to the World Wide Leader in Sports Entertainment losing about 200,000 subscribers per month.
