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ESPN is set to hire Pete Thamel from Yahoo in a college football insider role
This should increase the percentage of college football news that ESPN breaks, but by how much?
ESPN football analyst Robert Griffin III wants to play again, interested in return to Washington
"If your guy goes down, make the call. Wouldn't it be a great story?"
Holly Rowe will join Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit on ESPN’s top CFB team, filling Maria Taylor’s sideline role
"I’m excited to join what’s been established as the best team in college football with Chris and Kirk, and I hope to be the world’s best teammate to them."
Big 12 sends ESPN a cease-and-desist, says ESPN’s been talking with at least one conference beyond SEC on adding Big 12 members
"I am aware that ESPN has also been actively involved in discussions with at least one other conference regarding that conference inducing additional Members of the Big 12 Conference to leave the Big 12 Conference."
Sam Acho has joined ESPN’s college football coverage, will appear on ESPN2 studio show and call selected games
Acho will appear on the ESPN2 CFB studio show this fall, will call selected games, will appear on ESPN Radio, and will also contribute NFL and NCAA insights across ESPN's weekday studio shows.
ESPN wants to reduce emphasis on College Football Playoff, cover more schools for the sport’s benefit
ESPN's Lee Fitting says "it’s time to take a little reset."
Brian Custer moves from Fox Sports to ESPN, where he’ll call college sports and host SportsCenter, fulfilling a teenage dream
"When I was a teen, I was like, ‘Man, I want to be on SportsCenter.' When I started my broadcasting career it was without question on my vision board."
Early CFB highlights include ESPN Events games in Houston and Vegas, Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff going to Minneapolis and Madison
Week 0 games are back on both ESPN and Fox, and both networks also have a strong Week 1 lineup.
ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit publishing memoir, ‘Out of the Pocket,’ to be released August 17
The autobiography is co-authored with Gene Wojciechowski.
Kirk Herbstreit says coaches tell him “teams are opting out,” thinks Michigan “waves the white flag,” apologizes (updated)
"I've talked to a lot of coaches around the country that say they really feel teams are opting out to avoid playing games because they don't want to get humiliated. They don't want to lose with the team that they have."
Dave Flemming and Rod Gilmore wound up discussing one of Zeno’s paradoxes on the Oregon-Oregon State broadcast
"You can almost keep doing it. They can never put you in the end zone."
ESPN’s Shelley Smith shared a story of her niece getting hit in the head with ice at a past Oregon-Oregon State game
"Once I was here with my niece Vanessa, who was wearing a Ducks' jacket, and she got hit on the head with a chunk of ice. It didn't knock her out, but it knocked her silly."
