Ariel Helwani dons Canadian flag on SportsCenter after Raptors’ win, says “this is a team winning for an entire country”
Helwani gave a passionate speech about what he thinks the Raptors' win meant to Canada.
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Todd McShay says he could be leaving ESPN for the Jets front office
New Jets GM Joe Douglas is a former college teammate of ESPN's Todd McShay, and McShay says he's "in the mix" for a position in the Jets front office.
NBA Finals Game 3 ties decade-plus low, provides worst overnight of the series
This year's NBA Finals continues to not produce great U.S. numbers.
Monday Night Football gets new director as ESPN continues its changes on the NFL
Jimmy Platt takes over for long-time director Chip Dean
Ranking the 10 regular-season CFL games in June, all of which will be on ESPN’s networks or ESPN+
Some of the most promising matchups will be on ESPN+ rather than linear TV.
ESPN’s Game 2 Teen Stream showcased some gucci technology but broadcast far from being hundo p
NBA Finals Game 2 overnight ratings down from last year, but it’s not all bad news
The overnights are down 20 percent compared to last year’s Finals.
Baxter Holmes talks to Zach Lowe about response to his Lakers’ piece, Magic’s reaction: “He was in the same building I was in”
"He was in the same building that I was in. I was on a different floor and was watching what he said. And then I had to do interviews about my response to him."
Dan Patrick on ESPN’s handling of their own story: “You can’t just brush it off because you’re friends with Magic Johnson.”
"Your own reporter, in your building, in your company, did a vetted story, a thorough story, interviewing a lot of people here. And you can't just brush it off because you're friends with Magic Johnson. I would have had the reporter on and then you could have had a legitimate back-and-forth and really good content there."
Former ESPN anchor Jay Crawford is becoming a local news anchor in Cleveland
"Jay has lived and breathed Cleveland from his national anchor seat and we are happy to have one of the city’s biggest fans join the WKYC team."
ESPN, the AP, and the Washington Post all led news of Bill Buckner’s death with his World Series error
Putting Buckner's error on the ticker/in a tweet/in a headline was an unusual move by obituary standards, and it took some criticism.
ESPN2’s alternate broadcast of Warriors-Blazers was not received well
Interesting idea, horrible execution.
Disney acquired Fox’s stake in DraftKings despite Bob Iger’s comments about not facilitating gambling
Disney CEO Bob Iger said in February "I don’t see The Walt Disney Company, certainly in the near term, getting involved in the business of gambling, in effect, by facilitating gambling in any way." Well, they're doing so at the moment thanks to their stake in DraftKings.
Jimmy Pitaro says ESPN will continue VR/AR/isocam experiments, especially online: “We do not believe that AR or VR is a fad.”
"We’ve been leaders in the virtual reality and augmented reality space for a long time now. We’ve already developed content for the Oculus [VR headset] and are willing to make our content available in those spaces."
Disney has explored acquiring the rights to NFL Sunday Ticket for ESPN+ when DirecTV deal expires
In March, questions swirled surrounding what would be next for the NFL Sunday Ticket package. The NFL was reportedly...
