Mike Tirico: Joe Buck’s ‘MNF’ broadcast of Damar Hamlin game should be taught at journalism schools
"Joe's work that night, you should show that to everyone who's going to be on a live broadcast."
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ESPYS camera awkwardly panned to Damar Hamlin during comment about death
It seemed like a failed attempt at tugging on the heartstrings of the viewer.
Associated Press clarifies NFL Comeback Player of the Year criteria
The award will be for players who returned from injury or illness instead of bouncing back from a bad year.
Bill Maher mocks ‘Babyland’ for stopping NFL game after Damar Hamlin collapsed
"There's no crying in football."
Bomani Jones calls out NFL for celebrating Damar Hamlin return: ‘Nothing inspiring about what happened’
"We'd all be better off acting like it didn't happen."
Jim Trotter: NFL covered up push to resume game after Damar Hamlin cardiac arrest
Jim Trotter filed a civil lawsuit against the NFL this week for retaliation and racial discrimination, but he...
Damar Hamlin documentary coming from NFL Films, Skydance Sports
Bills safety Damar Hamlin will be featured in a new documentary coming soon.
ESPYS special honorees include USWNT, Liam Hendriks, Bills training staff, Dr. Richard Lapchick
The USWNT will receive the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage, while Hendriks will receive the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance.
Bomani Jones says Skip Bayless’ Damar Hamlin tweet wasn’t wrong: ‘That was the ridiculous outrage machine of social media.’
"Every single person that came and brought the hammer down on Skip was wrong."
NASCAR on Fox voices talk covering Ryan Newman’s 2020 Daytona 500 crash, Damar Hamlin parallels
"It's the toughest thing you do in sports broadcasting, having to turn that corner from broadcasting a sports event to being at the center of a news story like that."
Damar Hamlin gives first interview with Good Morning America after scary injury
"My vision was about playing in the NFL, and being the best player that I could be. But God’s plan, was to have a greater purpose than any game in this world."
NBC’s Tony Dungy references Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest in anti-abortion speech
"Every day in this country, innocent lives are at stake. The only difference is they don’t belong to a famous athlete, and they’re not seen on national TV. But those lives are still important to God and in God's eyes."
Joe Buck frustrated by narratives overshadowing Damar Hamlin story
"The frustrating thing to me after this has kind of settled, is what took place on that field is overlooked. And it shouldn’t be"
Stephen A. Smith didn’t support Shannon Sharpe’s FS1 absence after Skip Bayless tweet: ‘That’s your chair’
"I don’t give a damn if you were in the chair and had nothing to say and you just wanted Skip to talk. You don’t miss sitting in that chair"
Craig Carton stuns FS1 studio with a Skip Bayless joke: ‘You can laugh, I’m just teasing’
Carton’s joke about Bayless is a continuation of Fox employees showing a newfound willingness to taunt FS1’s most valued personality
EA Sports removing controversial celebration from Madden after Damar Hamlin incident
While EA Sports recognized the need to eliminate the CPR celebration from Madden, not all NFL players were as quick to reach the same conclusion.
Joe Buck: NFL never corrected on Bills-Bengals resuming after Damar Hamlin incident
"If what I said on national TV with the eyes of the world watching was wrong in the view of the league, I would have been corrected -- immediately. And I was not."
Skip Bayless contradicts himself with Damar Hamlin tweet
"As I said again and again on Monday night, all that matters is Damar Hamlin."
Michael Strahan calls out fellow Fox employee Skip Bayless over ‘inhumane’ Damar Hamlin comments
"There were things done here, by somebody at this network, that were inhumane."
Rex Ryan breaks down on ESPN while discussing Damar Hamlin
"This guy is a legend. A legend."
Charles Barkley couldn’t stop trolling Skip Bayless-Shannon Sharpe feud on Inside the NBA
"Trust me, just like Shannon, I know what it’s like to work with somebody you hate"
Skip Bayless brought this controversy on himself
The strong reaction to Skip Bayless' insensitive tweet after Damar Hamlin's collapse said more about the tweeter than the tweet itself.
Stephen A. Smith tells America to ‘calm down’ over Bart Scott’s Damar Hamlin breakdown
"People are walking around acting like Bart Scott...was alluding to Tee Higgins doing something like that on purpose. He did no such thing"
Doug Gottlieb slams Skip Bayless’ ‘bullsh*t’ claim that no one at Fox had an issue with his Damar Hamlin tweet
"In what world does he think no one had a problem with it when the person sitting across the desk from him clearly had a problem with it"
Bills-Bengals becomes most watched MNF game in ESPN era
It's not a record to celebrate, but ESPN averaged nearly 23.8 million viewers as they covered Damar Hamlin's collapse.
