Adam Schefter takes phone call live on SportsCenter to break news of Le’Veon Bell signing with Jets
"Hold on one second, I got to take this."
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Scott Van Pelt used One Big Thing to talk about his father’s memory, and it was lovely
Scott Van Pelt is as close to universally respected as anyone in sports media, and for plenty of...
Scott Van Pelt kept his promise and saved the late Tyler Trent a seat on his show
Tyler passed away on New Year's Day after battling a rare form of bone cancer.
Scott Van Pelt honors bet with Tyler Trent, does entire SportsCenter with Purdue “P” painted on his head
Scott Van Pelt and Tyler Trent made a bet on Thursday’s Purdue-Maryland basketball game, and that result didn’t...
ESPN had to know the live Red Sox locker room feed would result in F-bombs, and showed it anyway
For the fourth time since 2004, the Boston Red Sox are World Series champions after beating the Los...
With the success of SC:SVP, ESPN hasn’t been able to recreate a winning formula
Why has SC:SVP endured where other shows have struggled?
Scott Van Pelt says “prevailing optimism” in Bristol owes to new ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro
"I think that there is a prevailing optimism, particularly as people meet Jimmy [Pitaro], and get a sense of what his vision is for this place."
Scott Van Pelt says gambling programming will expand because “everyone’s got way more hours than they’ve got good content”
"I’d be stunned if you didn’t see us, Fox Sports 1, NBC Sports, CBS Sports, anybody that’s got hours to fill, I’d be shocked if they didn’t take a stab at it."
ESPN’s first “This Is SportsCenter” ads post-Wieden+Kennedy are in-house spots featuring the Yankees’ Aaron Judge
Judge doing a home-run trot on an ESPN treadmill? Surprising. Oh, wait, wrong ad campaign.
Rich Eisen apologizes (sort of) for fooling Scott Van Pelt with fake Ed Hochuli retirement letter
Van Pelt joined Eisen's show to take some good-natured ribbing about falling for the joke letter.
AA Weekly Recap: new shows and new contracts at ESPN
It’s been another busy week in sports media. We’re here to recap the biggest news and events that took place and share some of our best work from the week that was. Without further adieu...
Scott Van Pelt: ESPN’s detractors live in “this make-believe world where everyone wants to talk shit”
No one's saying "ESPN sucks" to Van Pelt's face, according to him.
Scott Van Pelt signs multi-year extension with ESPN while his SportsCenter ratings continue to climb
Van Pelt's show is up year-over-year, and also up from the old midnight SportsCenter (excepting post-Monday Night Football shows).
Barstool Van Talk is ESPN’s most bizarre new show in years, but will it last?
ESPN is throwing a lot of star-power at the early morning and the late night
Think of all the programming ESPN has dismantled to own the morning and late-night in sports television.
