Showing 481 - 495 of 734 articles tagged "ESPN"

• Posted Friday 5/31/19 at 2:43PM EDT

  How eight middle schoolers "toppled" the Scripps National Spelling Bee

  This year's historic eight-way Spelling Bee tie was bound to happen, says Ben Zimmer.

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  Posted Friday 5/31/19 at 4:14AM EDT

  National Spelling Bee ends in an unprecedented eight-way tie

  The Scripps National Spelling Bee has had six two-way ties since its debut in 1925, but it has never had...

• Posted Wednesday 5/15/19 at 4:33AM EDT

  ABC Entertainment was overshadowed at its upfront, thanks to sharing the stage with ABC News, ESPN, Freeform, FX Networks and Nat Geo

  ABC Entertainment's 2019-20 schedule was supposed to be the main attraction at Tuesday afternoon's ABC upfront presentation.

• Posted Monday 5/13/19 at 4:12PM EDT

  Game of Thrones fans lash out at an ESPN anchor for revealing who was killed while recapping the NBA on SportsCenter

  ESPN’s Michael Eaves revealed the death of a major character last night, before the West Coast airing of the HBO...

• Posted Monday 5/06/19 at 7:55AM EDT

  XFL will debut next year with more than half of its games on broadcast TV

  Vince McMahon's XFL revival has signed a deal with Fox and ESPN to carry its games.

• Posted Friday 5/03/19 at 1:31PM EDT

  ESPN's Bob Ley extends his leave of absence

  The venerable sports anchor, who joined ESPN three days after its launch in 1979, had originally scheduled his sabbatical from...

• Posted Wednesday 5/01/19 at 9:51AM EDT

  ESPN's Monday Night Football will stick with Joe Tessitore and Booger McFarland

  Following the departure of Jason Witten after one season, Tessitore will continue to call games, but with McFarland now in...

• Posted Tuesday 4/30/19 at 1:21PM EDT

  ESPN the Magazine to shut down in September

  ESPN has been losing money on the print publication that launched in March 1998, so the magazine will go online...

• Posted Monday 4/29/19 at 3:42PM EDT

  NFL Draft ratings were up 8% over last year

  The uptick in ratings are thanks to ABC presenting the entire draft for the first time ever, joining ESPN and...

• Posted Friday 4/26/19 at 6:21PM EDT

  Just over 11 million watched the NFL Draft's first round on ABC, ESPN and NFL Network

  That was down from last year 2% from last year, when the NFL Draft aired on Fox, ESPN, ESPN2 and...

• Posted Friday 4/26/19 at 1:33PM EDT

  Lee Corso got up and walked off ABC's NFL Draft set on live TV

  The 83-year-old Corso said goodbye while his fellow ESPN College Gameday panelists were discussing the 11th pick in the draft...

• Posted Friday 4/26/19 at 5:56AM EDT

  ABC made Taylor Swift part of its NFL Draft coverage

  Swift made several live appearances on ABC's first-ever primetime draft show -- which Robin Roberts hosted with ESPN's College Gameday...

• Posted Wednesday 4/17/19 at 1:22PM EDT

  Cobra Kai films an ESPN 30 for 30 spoof

  The Karate Kid's All Valley Karate Championship in 1984 gets the documentary treatment in ESPN' 30 for 30 spoof, titled:...

• Posted Wednesday 4/03/19 at 6:29PM EDT

  Stephen A. Smith is poised to become the highest-paid star in ESPN history

  The outspoken ESPN personality is reportedly in line to earn a raise to $8 million to $10 million a year.

• Posted Monday 4/01/19 at 9:12AM EDT

  Jason Witten is proudly bald now that he's no longer on Monday Night Football

  During his stint on MNF last season, Twitter users were constantly wondering if Witten was wearing a hairpiece.