Showing 466 - 480 of 734 articles tagged "ESPN"

• Posted Wednesday 8/07/19 at 1:40PM EDT

  ESPN announces Backstory, a show doing a deep dive into headline-grabbing sports stories

  ESPN describes Backstory as a combination of 30 for 30 and '"a detective working his or her way through the...

• Posted Tuesday 8/06/19 at 1:11PM EDT

  Jemele Hill is writing her memoir

  The former ESPN personality, who exited the sports network last year following the controversy over calling President Trump a white...

• Posted Saturday 7/27/19 at 2:41AM EDT

  ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro sees sports as escapism, and that's why he's so intent on avoiding politics

  “I’ve had this discussion internally with hundreds of our employees that sports is about uniting and ESPN needs to unite...

• Posted Thursday 7/25/19 at 2:57PM EDT

  Dan Le Batard will reportedly continue on ESPN after meeting with ESPN's president

  The New York Post's Andrew Marchand reports that Le Batard and ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro met today over the ESPN...

• Posted Thursday 7/25/19 at 2:57PM EDT

  Ezra Edelman isn't sure he'd make ESPN's O.J.: Made in America today

  Edelman won an Oscar and and an Emmy for his 2016 five-part documentary examination of O.

• Posted Wednesday 7/24/19 at 11:33PM EDT

  Dan Le Batard to meet with ESPN's president on Thursday to discuss his future with the sports network

  Le Batard will reportedly have a formal sitdown with ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro on Thursday, one week after calling his...

• Posted Monday 7/22/19 at 1:32PM EDT

  Dan Le Batard voluntarily skipped his ESPN radio show Monday in wake of his anti-Trump comments

  Le Batard and ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro reportedly traded phone calls all weekend before the ESPN host decided to skip...

• Posted Friday 7/19/19 at 1:15PM EDT

  ESPN tells employees its no-politics policy is in place even after Dan Le Batard violated it and remained on air without possible discipline

  Le Batard, the son of Cuban immigrants, ripped President Trump on Thursday for his comments about Rep.

• Posted Friday 7/19/19 at 1:32AM EDT

  ESPN's Dan Le Batard slams the sports network's stick-to-sports rules in denouncing Trump's “instigation of racial division"

  ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro arrived last year with a mandate to have ESPN personalities avoid politics after the Jemele Hill...

• Posted Friday 7/05/19 at 7:51PM EDT

  ESPN analyst Tedy Bruschi is recovering after suffering a stroke

  The Super Bowl-winning former New England Patriots linebacker is "recovering well" from a stroke suffered on Thursday, his family said...

• Posted Tuesday 7/02/19 at 9:39PM EDT

  ESPN's 30 for 30 looks back at the rivalry between competitive eaters Takeru Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut

  The Good, The Bad, The Hungry, premiering Tuesday, details the stratospheric rise and controversial fall of Kobayashi, whose reign was...

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  Posted Tuesday 7/02/19 at 3:00AM EDT

  TV Today: ESPN's 30 For 30 Takes a Frank Look at Competitive Hot Dog Eating

  Of all the major American holidays, the 4th of July is easily the one with the fewest attendant TV specials.

• Posted Monday 7/01/19 at 2:31PM EDT

  ESPN officially pulls the plug on its WatchESPN app

  WatchESPN was launched in April 2011 to give cable customers access to live games.

• Posted Wednesday 6/26/19 at 1:13PM EDT

  Bob Ley retires from ESPN after 40 years

  Ley, who joined ESPN shortly after its launch in 1979, has been considered the conscience of the sports network, especially...

• Posted Thursday 6/06/19 at 12:36AM EDT

  Ranking ESPYs hosts by how great it would be if they hosted again

  Past ESPYs hosts include John Goodman, Drake, Jimmy Kimmel and LeBron James, Jimmy Smits, Peyton Manning, Seth Meyers, Tony Danza,...