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Fox promoted their Nebraska-Northwestern Ireland game with a graphic including Kansas State’s mascot

Missed it by that much, Fox.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnAug 25, 2022 1
ESPN

ESPN used Oklahoma instead of Oklahoma State in a Fiesta Bowl preview graphic

ESPN has mixed up in-state rivals on at least one other occasion, placing Michigan State in the Ohio State-Michigan game in 2016.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnDec 31, 2021 0
ESPN

NPR used a photo of Kimberley A. Martin for a story about Maria Taylor

This was a notable miss by NPR.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJul 21, 2021 0
ESPN

ESPN tagged Future in a post with a photo of 2 Chainz and got roasted, but Getty’s database seems at least partly at...

While Getty's captions correctly identified 2 Chainz here, their photos featured a tag of "People: Future," which may have contributed to ESPN's error.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnMar 1, 2021 0
MLB

The White Sox email on Tony La Russa’s hire included A.J. Hinch’s signature, which they blamed on preparing multiple versions

The White Sox's e-mail announcement of La Russa's hire included Hinch's signature in the graphic, for some reason.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnOct 29, 2020 1
Soccer

FC Cincinnati tweets photo of Tinus van Teunenbroek instead of new coach Jaap Stam, gets sent photos of other bald white men

No, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Charles Dance, and Stone Cold Steve Austin won't be coaching FC Cincinnati either.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnMay 21, 2020 0
ESPN

ESPN ran a photo of the Japanese Davis Cup team with a story about the Chinese team

A photo of the Japanese Davis Cup team accompanied an AP story about the Chinese Davis Cup team on the ESPN app.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnFeb 18, 2020 2
ESPN

SEC Network showed a photo of Auburn coach Bruce Pearl on a graphic about South Carolina coach Frank Martin

Wrong SEC coach, guys.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnFeb 5, 2020 1
International

Canadian newspaper The National Post ran a dubious story on Donald Brashear with a mislabeled photo of Georges Laraque

Brashear played for the Montreal Canadiens from 1993-97; the Post initially used a Getty photo from 2009 that mislabeled Georges Laraque as Brashear.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnOct 16, 2019 0
NFL

A mislabeled AP photo of Mark Helfrich has been used in Matt Nagy stories for months, including an ESPN one Monday

The Sept. 23 photo of "Nagy" that's actually of Helfrich has spread across newspapers and digital sites, with no one seemingly noticing until now.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnNov 5, 2018 0
Local Networks

C.J. Nitkowski says erroneous Fox Sports Southwest graphic didn’t air [updated]

No, Ichiro Suzuki, Rod Carew, Adrian Beltre and Roberto Clemente are not Sammy Sosa, Albert Pujols, Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnAug 2, 2017 2
International

CBC uses photo of Barbara and George H.W. Bush with Venus Williams tweet

Photo errors can happen, especially with feed tweets that sometimes can put a headline with a wrong photo...

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJan 24, 2017 67
2016

Essence posts story on Simone Biles with photo of Simone Manuel

It’s apparently not just ESPN’s SportsCenter Twitter account that has issues with identifying American athletes. Less than a...

By Andrew Bucholtz OnAug 16, 2016 1

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