Showing 46 - 60 of 734 articles tagged "ESPN"

• Posted Friday 3/11/22 at 2:16PM EST

  Call it the "announcer empowerment era": Some find NFL broadcasters' massive raises baffling

  “It’s a f*cking mystery to me,” one NFL producer says of Troy Aikman getting paid $18 million a year by...

• Posted Tuesday 3/08/22 at 11:02PM EST

  Dick Vitale announces he's cancer-free

  "OMG ALL THE PRAYERS many of u have sent have been answered as DR Brown who heads my cancer TEAM...

• Posted Tuesday 3/08/22 at 12:57PM EST

  ESPN to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Title IX with month-long Fifty/50 initiative

  To commemorate the 50th anniversary in June of the 1972 landmark federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in...

• Posted Tuesday 3/08/22 at 2:48AM EST

  Are sports TV networks wasting money on big paydays for "subpar broadcasters"?

  Troy Aikman isn't worth the $90 million over five years that ESPN is reportedly paying him for Monday Night Football,...

• Posted Monday 3/07/22 at 12:55PM EST

  Amazon "has settled on" Kirk Herbstreit for its Thursday Night Football booth

  NBC Sports' Peter King, following up on the New York Post's Andrew Marchand's report last week, reports: "I heard last...

• Posted Friday 3/04/22 at 6:20PM EST

  Brian Griese exits ESPN's Monday Night Football booth to join the San Francisco 49ers

  Griese, an MNF analyst whose contract was up, is leaving amid a report that Fox Sports' Troy Aikman is joining...

• Posted Monday 2/28/22 at 1:30PM EST

  Amazon eyeing ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit for Thursday Night Football

  Herbstreit -- who got to call an NFL game this past season -- is already under contract at ESPN for...

• Posted Thursday 2/24/22 at 1:42PM EST

  ESPN's First Take features a chyron quoting Stephen A. Smith saying "The Dunk Contest Was A Global Atrocity" amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine

  On Monday, Smith called the NBA Dunk Contest a "national atrocity.

• Posted Wednesday 2/23/22 at 9:47PM EST

  Troy Aikman is reportedly close to leaving NFL on Fox for ESPN's Monday Night Football

  Aikman's potential move "will shake-up NFL TV free agency," reports the New York Post's Andrew Marchand, noting that it will...

• Posted Monday 2/21/22 at 3:21PM EST

  Amazon is lobbying the NFL for a game on Black Friday

  "Amazon has made a little bit of noise about scheduling a game on Black Friday," reports Sports Business Journal's John...

• Posted Monday 2/14/22 at 9:37AM EST

  ESPN wants Super Bowl LVI-winning head coach Sean McVay if he retires at age 36

  McVay, who at age 30 was the youngest-ever person to be hired as an NFL head coach, became the youngest...

• Posted Thursday 2/10/22 at 6:04PM EST

  Bill Walton is getting the ESPN 30 for 30 treatment

  The NBA and broadcasting legend will be the subject a 30 for 30 documentary titled The Luckiest Guy In The World.

• Posted Thursday 2/10/22 at 2:44AM EST

  Mina Kimes has become an "unlikely" star in ESPN's NFL coverage

  The 36-year-old Kimes, who was working as an investigative business journalist for Fortune magazine a decade ago, "is doing on...

• Posted Wednesday 2/09/22 at 4:18PM EST

  ESPN extends, expands Manningcast

  The extension will add a fourth year of Monday Night Football With Peyton and Eli through the 2024 NFL season.

• Posted Thursday 2/03/22 at 12:50PM EST

  ESPN's Stephen A. Smith apologizes to Jehovah’s Witnesses after incorrectly saying they're against the COVID vaccine

  “I made a mistake last week and I want to make sure that I clarify myself,” Smith said this morning...