Showing 151 - 165 of 731 articles tagged "ESPN"

• Posted Monday 7/12/21 at 6:35PM EDT

  Stephen A. Smith accused of racism and xenophobia for saying Shohei Ohtani can't be the face of baseball when he needs a translator

  The Japanese-born Los Angeles Angels baseball player Ohtani has become a major star this season, leading Major League Baseball in...

• Posted Monday 7/12/21 at 6:35PM EDT

  ESPN+ subscription costs are going up

  Starting Aug.

• Posted Saturday 7/10/21 at 12:20AM EDT

  ESPN's Maria Taylor-Rachel Nichols fallout is just beginning

  The dispute Nichols' disparaging diversity comments about fellow NBA host Taylor has revived headlines about ESPN's complicated history of race.

• Posted Saturday 7/10/21 at 12:20AM EDT

  Stephen A. Smith, ESPN's highest-paid star, actually earns $12 million a year

  Smith's salary had been incorrectly listed as $8 million per year in a New York Post article about Maria Taylor...

• Posted Friday 7/09/21 at 1:50PM EDT

  ESPN secures Wimbledon rights through 2035

  The cable network extended its original deal, which ran from 2011 to 2023.

• Posted Friday 7/09/21 at 12:32AM EDT

  14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde becomes the Scripps National Spelling Bee's first African American champion

  The 14-year-old from New Orleans correctly spelled “murraya” to win this year's Spelling Bee.

• Posted Wednesday 7/07/21 at 10:04PM EDT

  ABC to show Sunday Night Baseball for the first time

  Sunday's Battle of Chicago matchup between the White Sox and Cubs will mark the first time the ESPN staple has...

• Posted Wednesday 7/07/21 at 2:54AM EDT

  ESPN accused of not doing enough to support Black journalists in the wake of the Maria Taylor-Rachel Nichols incident

  “ESPN collects Black faces, but it seems like that when those Black faces become Black voices, it’s a problem," says...

• Posted Tuesday 7/06/21 at 4:53PM EDT

  ESPN pulls Rachel Nichols' The Jump hours before the start of the NBA Finals

  Amid controversy over Nichols' "diversity" comments about Maria Taylor, ESPN yanked The Jump from today's schedule and replaced it with Jalen &...

• Posted Tuesday 7/06/21 at 11:16AM EDT

  Rachel Nichols' leaked phone call disparaging Maria Taylor roils ESPN

  Last week, the New York Post reported that Taylor and ESPN were headed for a possible divorce over a dispute...

• Posted Tuesday 7/06/21 at 11:16AM EDT

  ESPN's Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest suffers a technical mishap

  Just as champion Joey Chestnut set a new hot dog-eating record on Sunday, the feed cut out.

• Posted Thursday 7/01/21 at 3:24PM EDT

  Spike Lee to direct and star in ABC's 2021 NBA Finals openers

  The first of the two-minute openers will debut before tip-off of Game 1 next week.

• Posted Wednesday 6/30/21 at 7:37PM EDT

  Maria Taylor and ESPN are reportedly headed for a divorce over salary dispute

  At the beginning of the pandemic last year, the star NBA Finals host and College Gameday reporter turned down an offer...

• Posted Wednesday 6/23/21 at 10:31PM EDT

  Milwaukee Bucks sends a letter to ESPN's First Take after "terrible cities" comment

  The NBA team defended the city of Milwaukee after the ESPN morning show's Molly Querim Rose said the final four...

• Posted Wednesday 6/16/21 at 1:39PM EDT

  Anthony Mackie to host the ESPY Awards

  The Falcon and the Winter Soldier star will helm the ESPN awards show on Saturday, July 10 from The Rooftop...