ESPN’s return to NHL broadcasting showed a lot of potential
After seventeen years away, the NHL made a welcome return to ESPN on Tuesday.
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ESPN NBA reporter Dave McMenamin signs multi-year extension with network
Will McMenamin cover another Lakers championship team?
ESPN hasn’t yet embraced sportsbook ads during NFL games but it may be due to a different strategy
Monday Night Football has only had two DraftKings ads so far this season. Compared to the other three networks, ABC/ESPN isn't maximizing their gambling ad space.
Tom Brady bashed ESPN’s Twitter account for quoting his podcast without a link
"Apparently gone are the days of including a link to the show..."
Todd McShay announces he’s taking time off to ‘focus on my health and my family’
McShay struggled to get through a sideline report during Saturday's Alabama-Miami game.
ESPN’s T.J. Quinn wrote a powerful piece on the battles he and Clemson DL Justin Foster have had with long-haul COVID-19
"I still have days when I feel like hell, and I don't know what to make of them."
ESPN is looking to license its brand to sports betting companies, has had talks with DraftKings and Caesars
The question is if there's a sports betting company willing to pay ESPN's requested price.
ESPN announces expanded rights deal with the WAC
ESPN+ is quickly becoming the home for many smaller conferences.
Veteran NBA reporter, analyst Jackie MacMullan retiring from ESPN
The acclaimed NBA reporter and columnist joined ESPN full-time in 2008 after leaving the Boston Globe.
The case of ESPN’s involvement in conference realignment has suddenly (and intentionally) gone cold
LZ Granderson leaves ESPN after 17 years: “ESPN is not the same company it was when I started and I’m not the same...
"When my boss said 'You know so much about the NBA I forget that you’re gay,' I was angry, but I kept grinding. Setbacks, victories."
John Skipper discussing ESPN’s possible role in Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC adds fuel to the fire of Big 12 interference accusations
"I would not assume that this is just happening, that one day the Texas and Oklahoma guys woke up, I would guess that it’s a logical sequence of events that ESPN now has all of the SEC, now they bring Texas and Oklahoma in."
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."
