Awful Announcing
ESPN has turned down at least three news outlets' requests for comment on a highly-controversial map they ran over a day ago.
"For Olivia Dekker, Dusty Dvoracek and our entire crew, I'm Mark Jones. The Hokies get their first conference win of the year." "Oh, hang on!"
"How do these things keep coming out of your mouth Doug?"
Both networks got the news out around the same time, but that was only as a ticker update on ESPN as opposed to Fox addressing it on-screen during studio programming. And that's a limitation of ESPN's pre-taping of studio programming.
Carriage disputes are causing more than 12,000 lost subscribers a day for AT&T. Ouch.
'Well, if Herbstreit has a private plane, why can't I have a private plane?'
Reports suggest there is time, but that may not be the case.
Why, yes, a video of Snoop Dogg and Queen Latifah rapping about ESPN executives is what we were all expecting for ESPN's 40th anniversary.
Andrew Luck's decision is causing all hell to break loose in the sports media world.
This is the first part of Gold-Onwude's "next chapter" post-Turner, but it's unclear what else she'll be doing, and whether that will be at ESPN or not.
Del Rio will begin his tenure at ESPN on Friday.
According to Andrew Marchand of The New York Post, Van Gundy may even wind up calling some top games for Turner.
Disney's quarterly earnings were a mild disappointment, but the Disney+/ESPN+ bundle has a lot of potential.
The new podcast will launch in October and feature new 18-25 minute episodes each Monday through Friday morning. No host has been named yet.
