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Posted Tuesday 12/19/17 at 9:22PM EST
The Bachelor meets the college football playoff mascots
The Bachelorette winner Jordan Rodgers, who now analyzes college football for ESPN, welcomed the four college football mascots to The...
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Posted Tuesday 12/19/17 at 2:48PM EST
Kendrick Lamar to perform halftime show at the college football national championship — outside the stadium
ESPN will put on a halftime show for the first time for the College Football Playoff title game, but Lamar’s...
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John Skipper’s ESPN departure comes at a crucial time for the sports network
The former ESPN president had a lot of issues on his plate recently, from cord-cutting to mass layoffs to sports...
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Posted Monday 12/18/17 at 11:28AM EST
ESPN president John Skipper resigns, citing substance addiction
"Today I have resigned from my duties as President of ESPN," said Skipper, who joined the sports network in 1997,...
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Posted Friday 12/15/17 at 10:35PM EST
Why it matters that a former ESPN-er filed a discrimination complaint alleging sexual harassment
As Sports Illustrated explains, former ESPN fellow Adrienne Lawrence’s filing of a discrimination complaint with the Connecticut Commission on Human...
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Posted Friday 12/15/17 at 1:14PM EST
Did ESPN go too far in releasing an ex-employee’s text messages?
Former ESPN fellow Adrienne Lawrence alleged in a Boston Globe story that ESPN anchor John Buccigross sexually harassed her “by...
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Posted Thursday 12/14/17 at 10:03PM EST
The Simpsons has mocked Disney for 28 years, so what happens next?
As Peter Allen Clark notes, The Simpsons under Disney ownership could mean a wide range of things, including the possibility...
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Posted Thursday 12/14/17 at 5:10PM EST
Report: ESPN’s “entrenched locker room culture” has led to hostile treatment of women
The Boston Globe describes a male-oriented culture at the Disney-owned sports network “where men have made unwanted sexual propositions to...
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Disney buys much of 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion, including The Simpsons, Modern Family and This Is Us
Fox’s TV division is one of the most prolific content producers, as The New York Times notes, and the deal...
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Posted Tuesday 12/12/17 at 2:13PM EST
ESPN suspends ex-NFL players Donovan McNabb and Eric Davis after accusations of sexual harassment from a former NFL Network staffer
"We are investigating, and McNabb and Davis will not appear on our networks as that investigation proceeds," said ESPN spokesperson...
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Posted Monday 12/11/17 at 9:04AM EST
Like the NFL, college football has seen its TV ratings decline this season
Only Fox and its sister cable network FS1 saw average viewership go up this season, while CBS, ABC, NBC and...
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Posted Thursday 12/07/17 at 4:46AM EST
NBC is sticking with Mike Tirico as Winter Olympics host despite past allegations of sexual harassment
Tirico was accused of sexual harassment early in his career at ESPN, and “these charges were aggressively addressed 25 years...
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Is Mike Tirico NBC's next sexual misconduct problem?
The new face of NBC's Olympics primetime coverage was suspended for three months early in his career at ESPN after...
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Posted Monday 12/04/17 at 7:43AM EST
ESPN forgot it laid off one of its reporters
College football reporter Brett McMurphy was laid off by ESPN in April.
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Posted Thursday 11/30/17 at 6:27AM EST
What is ESPN’s goal after it third round of major layoffs in two years?
“So if it isn’t a planet-conquering force, what is its goal?” asks Bryan Curtis.