Monday on ESPN’s “Pardon the Interruption,” co-host Tony Kornheiser speculated that one day he would have the chance to vote for Dallas Mavericks outspoken owner Mark Cuban. Kornheiser added that if he does have that chance to vote for the
As sports cable network ESPN continues to bleed cash, another round of layoffs is about to hit that will reportedly take out some well-known reporters and on-air faces.
Let no one tell you that rampant political correctness bordering on hysteria can’t have life-threatening consequences. If they do try to tell you that, you can tell them to go talk to Doug Adler.
In a long piece at ESPN, Jayson Stark criticized Major League Baseball for avoiding the pitfalls besetting the NFL and the NBA as players dive into liberal political causes and insisted that baseball should be used as a platform to drive social politics.
Friday on ESPN’s “First Take,” co-host Stephen A. Smith weighed in on free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s decision to no longer kneel for the national anthem. Smith, who blasted Kaepernick Thursday for “looking incredibly opportunistic” for saying he would not
During Thursday’s “First Take” on ESPN, co-host Stephen A. Smith reacted to the report that quarterback Colin Kaepernick is ending his national anthem protest for the 2017 season. Smith said Kaepernick is “not fooling anybody” with his “incredibly opportunistic” decision
Thursday ESPN announced “Josh Hart has led our @Wendys #WoodenAward board nearly the entire year,@KUHoops’ Frank Mason has forced a change,” four days after Breitbart Sports made the same announcement (Mason Passes Hart for POY).
A conference on race took place at The Crossing Church in Tampa Bay, Florida, last week. The forum, titled “Under Our Skin,” attracted sports figures such as Super Bowl champion Tony Dungy, former player Ben Watson, and current ESPN anchor Sage Steele. The forum’s purpose was to “discuss the intersection of race and faith in America today.” That topic certainly got plenty of coverage at the conference. What’s more notable, however, is how no one in the sports media covered what was actually said there.
Once an indispensable sports powerhouse, cable TV network ESPN has gone from must-see-TV for millions of sports fans to financial boondoggle for owner Disney with the network losing up to 10,000 subscribers a day, a report says.
During the Australian Open last month, ESPN3 fired Mike Adler from his job calling tennis matches over a comment he made when Venus Williams faced off against Stefanie Voegele.
A year that saw arguably the five greatest championship game performances of all-time should have helped right the ship for ESPN, and at the very least stopped the trend of massive subscriber losses which have plagued the Bristol-based sports giant for the last few years.
Thursday, former NFL offensive lineman Kyle Turley called President Donald Trump “the poster boy for Alzheimer’s disease,” adding that it is “starting to show.” ESPN “Outside the Lines” host Bob Ley shot down Turley’s claims, but Turley doubled down, saying
During the Wednesday “Outkick the Coverage” broadcast on Fox Sports Radio, FS1 personality Jason Whitlock weighed in on his former employer ESPN’s increase in political coverage, saying the company has gone political in attempt to turn the world into more
The co-host of ESPN’s Russillo and Kanell Show, Ryen Russillo, admits he no longer knows what his job is anymore. Politics are so pervasive in sports radio now that he is at a loss for what he should be talking about. He came to his current profession because he loves to talk about sports, but that appears to be an outdated business model.
Monday, ESPN Radio “The Dan Le Batard Show” host Dan Le Batard weighed in on the amount of subscribers his employer has lost recently, blaming it on new technology and not politics because “the company doesn’t have politics.” “So many
During Monday’s “The Dan Le Batard Show” on ESPN Radio, host Dan Le Batard slammed his employer for sending out a memo telling employees how to discuss the temporary immigration ban from several countries by President Donald Trump. Le Batard
The disruptions caused by protesters at Los Angeles International airport caused ESPN host Sage Steele to miss a flight. Now Steele is under attack for jumping to Instagram to rail about the protests that caused her such inconvenience.
During the Thursday edition of “The Dan Patrick Show” on NBC Sports, retiring ESPN broadcaster Brent Musburger blasted former ESPN host and now GQ host Keith Olbermann over calling for President Donald Trump to resign. Musburger said Olbermann, who used to work
NEW YORK (AP) — Brent Musburger is calling it a career at ESPN after being the play-by-play man in the booth at sporting events enjoyed by millions of Americans, most prominently when he was the lead voice for CBS Sports in the 1980s.
On Tuesday’s Fox Sports Radio show “Outkick the Coverage,” host Clay Travis reacted to Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones’ arrest video, saying its coverage would be much different if Jones were white like swimmer Ryan Lochte, Duke’s Grayson Allen
“Baracketology,” became an annual thing at ESPN over the last eight years. Featuring then Commander in Chief Barack Obama, a white board, a sharpie, and Andy Katz as Obama made his NCAA Championship picks during March Madness.
ESPNW, the site which focuses on women’s sports, has apparently also decided to start focusing on women’s political activism. ESPNW chose Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day to tweet out a call for people participating in Saturday’s Women’s March to share their stories with the “sports” network.
Friday before the inauguration, ESPN aired a piece promoting now President Donald Trump as the new “First Fan in Chief” who “could have more connections to sports than any other.” ESPN noted how Trump in 2004 told former “SportsCenter” host
A large share of fans responded to the NFL’s tactile endorsement of Colin Kaepernick’s anti-American message by refusing to tune into games, prompting a huge decline in TV ratings.
ESPN “First Take” host Stephen A. Smith weighed in on the backlash after comedian and “Family Feud” host Steve Harvey met with President-elect Donald Trump last week to discuss partnering with Trump Department of Housing and Urban Development nominee Dr. Ben Carson to work on restoring
During Monday’s “First Take” on ESPN, college football analyst and professional baseball player Tim Tebow discussed not changing positions in the NFL and his pursuit of becoming a Major League Baseball player when pressed by co-host Max Kellerman. Tebow said
Thursday, ESPN “First Take” co-host Stephen A. Smith addressed professional athletes who use marijuana despite its usage being against league rules, telling them to submit to league rules or else be unemployed. According to Smith, the athlete who uses marijuana
Last May, ESPN announced that iconic announcer Chris Berman, a sportscaster with the network since 1979, would leave after the 2016 NFL season. The network did not plan to renew his lucrative contract, in perhaps a belt-tightening move.
During ESPN’s Wednesday college basketball coverage of the Washington Huskies-Oregon Ducks game, the graphic viewers saw on the screen named the announcers as Bill Walton and “Dave??”
In a Fox Sports 1 essay for “Speak for Yourself,” Jason Whitlock blames the progressive media for overhyping Ronda Rousey as a better female athlete than tennis star Serena Williams. “I blame us, the media — we bought and sold [Rousey’s] hype. We
Bobby Bowden has quite the theory when it comes to the topic of men who wear earrings.
Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman has launched a boycott of the media. Well, he’s launched a boycott of all media not named Ed Werder. According to Curtis Crabtree of KJR and Pro Football Talk, Sherman said the media ticked him off, so from now on Sherman will only speak to ESPN’s Ed Werder, and on social media.
During Monday’s Sugar Bowl matchup between the Auburn Tigers and Oklahoma Sooners, ESPN commentator Brent Musburger attempted to discuss the 2014 video of Sooners running back Joe Mixon punching a 22-year-old female in the face that led to broken bones. Mixon sat
One struggles to put into proper perspective the sheer collapse that has befallen the “worldwide leader.” Yet, while the final numbers from 2016 start to come in, that perspective has started to take shape.
Fox News covered politics as a competition in 2016. Viewers rewarded the network with the highest ratings on cable television. ESPN depicted competition as politics in 2016. Viewers punished them by ditching their subscriptions.
A Texas Uber driver who struck up a conversation about football got the shock of his life after criticizing Texas Longhorns coach Mack Brown, and then turned around to see the coach sitting right there in his back seat.
During Friday’s “First Take” on ESPN2, co-host Stephen A. Smith reacted to the report that President-elect Donald Trump and Tiger Woods are going golfing together, saying it “comes off incredibly disingenuous” because it was made public beforehand. “The fact that it’s something that’s
Despite admitting that it has gone too far to the left by mixing liberal politics with its sports commentary, ESPN announced the return of liberal-ranter Keith Olbermann to the network to host a 25th anniversary special on ESPN Radio.
Wednesday, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said on ESPN Radio’s “The Dan Le Batard Show” that she is “worried” about what a Trump presidency will do to the press. Maddow believes the Trump administration would “crumble” the profession with an attack, noting President-elect
Earlier this month we brought you the story regarding media and industry speculation that Disney, panicked by massive ESPN subscriber loss, might sell ESPN in order to stop the bleeding.