John Skipper

A recent L.A. Times story in which the president of ESPN admitted that the network had become too political, set-off a Twitter debate between two former high-profile ESPN personalities.

ESPN stalwart Bob Ley warned former ESPN President John Skipper that the network was drifting too far to the political left, a report says.

ESPN’s former chief, John Skipper, quit the network months ago to deal with his drug addiction problems. However, now critics are blaming him for the “expensive calamity” that is the network’s newly launched morning show, Get Up!

A cocaine extortion scandal apparently led to the abrupt departure of previous ESPN President John Skipper, according to a shocking new report.

A report surfaced on Friday, claiming that CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker was being eyed by Disney as a potential successor to recently resigned ESPN President John Skipper.

ESPN President John Skipper resigned Monday, citing his substance abuse problems. Dan Le Batard of ESPN Radio’s “Dan Le Batard Show” learned of Skipper’s resignation as his show was live Monday morning and the host broke down, saying he is

ESPN President John Skipper has resigned his position, to deal with a substance abuse issue.

Both cable sports network ESPN and the National Football League have been losing fans and revenue hand over fist, but despite the cascading failures both entities have offered their chief executives huge contract renewals.

ESPN canceled its new late-night show, “Barstool Van Talk,” after only one episode. The move comes on the heels of complaints by ESPN host Sam Ponder that the doomed show’s host and the Barstool site itself, had made offensive comments towards her child, and made light of offensive comments towards her.

According to reports from a private employee meeting held in Los Angeles on Wednesday, ESPN President John Skipper fired back at those he views as ESPN’s detractors. Specifically, Skipper harshly criticized President Trump, rival media boss Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, and Clay Travis of Outkick the Coverage.

Reports of ESPN’s demise is an entertainment sports programming network, and it’s corresponding rise as a political organization, have been greatly exaggerated, according to ESPN President John Skipper. On Friday, Skipper sent out an internal memo to all ESPN employees, reminding them that they are in fact, “not a political organization.”

Cable sports network ESPN has announced that Connor Schell has been promoted to the second most powerful position in the company just under ESPN President John Skipper. But the new No. 2 won’t be much help for ESPN to shed it’s far left image because Schell is an extreme liberal and a virulent Trump hater.

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.

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.

ESPN reportedly told Keith Olbermann that if he wants to keep his sports program on ESPN then if he can no longer engage in commentary.

In an animated short done by Cleo the Dog Productions, former head of Grantland and host of the “B.S. Report” Bill Simmons faced down former ESPN colleagues that he had beefs with over the years in an old Western style format. In

A week after former ESPN columnist and reporter Bill Simmons learned via Twitter that his contract would not be renewed in September by ESPN, it has been announced that ESPN and Simmons have worked out an agreement that formally ends