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Adam Schefter was ticked off Wednesday when he had to cover the rears of his ESPN colleagues who passed on news from a phony Twitter account. A phony Twitter account tweeted that the Jaguars had signed Olivier Vernon. This tweet was picked up by …
It took more than a year, but ESPN has finally decided to address the mistakes the network made in covering Deflategate. In a lengthy piece that was published Thursday, ESPN public editor Jim Brady went into great detail about the contentious …
The official Twitter account for ESPN’s SportsCenter created a buzz Monday night with a tweet that included emojis of little video cameras sandwiched between little footballs. Why? Because the New England Patriots were playing. Don’t …
There have been many reasons suggested for why ESPN decided to shut down Grantland. From a desire to distance itself from Bill Simmons to the site’s financial profitability, the actual reasons for the move are probably complicated and full of …
ESPN announced Friday that the publication of Grantland is being suspended effective immediately. “Effective immediately we are suspending the publication of Grantland,” the network said in a statement. “After careful consideration, …
ESPN, and Grantland in particular, are still feeling the aftershocks of Bill Simmons’s departure. Now, several of Grantland’s staffers are leaving to join up with their old boss. The well-connected James Andrew Miller has the information, …
ESPN explained that a transmission error was to blame for the network cutting out of its postgame interview with Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney on Saturday night, so conspiracy theorists can cool their jets. Some thought ESPN might have cut out …
Bill Simmons rolled out the first several episodes of his new podcast this week, and those who have wanted to hear his take on what went wrong with ESPN have not been disappointed. Simmons has already spent a significant amount of time bashing his …
Bill Simmons released the first installment of his new self-titled podcast “The Bill Simmons Podcast” on Thursday, and he wasted no time taking aim at his former employer. In the second part of a two-part episode launch, Simmons went …
One of the biggest media entities in sports is about to get a little smaller. ESPN will lay off 200-300 employees in the coming months, according to a report from The Big Lead. The report says ESPN has been instructed by parent company Disney to cut …
ESPN released a 10,000-word bombshell report earlier this week that drummed up a lot of old emotions about Spygate. There was some great work done by Don Van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham, but the story was not flawless. And ESPN is not about to …
ESPN apologized to the New England Patriots during an episode of SportsCenter early Thursday morning in the wake of multiple references to a false report. Over the past few weeks, more than one ESPN employee has brought up the 2008 report from the …
Shortly after Bruce Jenner unveiled her new identity and introduced herself to the world as Caitlyn Jenner, ESPN announced that it would be presenting the Olympic gold medalist with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs in July. Bob Costas …
Jay Glazer of FOX Sports was the first person to report that Johnny Manziel will start against the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 15. Not surprisingly, ESPN was hesitant to acknowledge that. Shortly after Glazer tweeted that the Cleveland Browns have …
ESPN says it did not get the idea for its “Awesome Video Segment” from Daniel Tosh’s popular “Web Redemption” feature, no matter how similar the two segments may seem. On Wednesday, an ESPN spokesperson told TMZ that the …
ESPN recently unveiled a new segment on SportsCenter that is called “Awesome Video Segment.” If you are a Tosh.0 fan and know what a “Web Redemption” is, you know already know the premise of “Awesome Video …
