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The sports world is one of the last bastions of unabashed machismo, and few are surprised that ESPN would be ensnared within the #MeToo/sexual harassment web now permeating popular culture in the United States. A former part-time reporter accused longtime anchor John Buccigross of sexual harassment and ESPN of rampant sexism. ESPN denies the allegations…

Former ESPN reporter Britt McHenry summarily dismissed Colin Kaepernick winning GQ magazine’s “Citizen of the Year” as a “a joke.” The fired ESPN reporter bashed GQ and Kaepernick on Twitter Monday shortly after the magazine announced it would be honoring the cultural lightning rod of a quarterback. “Wear socks depicting police officers as pigs; wear…

Is this the end of the ESPN mega-brand as we know it? Or did we already witness the sports news giant’s power peak in the recent past? After surviving the bloodletting of the past two years filled with dozens of highly-publicized firings and layoffs, ESPN is ready to conduct yet another round after the Thanksgiving…

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It’s been two weeks since ESPN decided to suspend “Sportscenter“ broadcaster Jemele Hill for violating ESPN’s social media guidelines. Her tweets, which took aim at Donald Trump and Dallas Cowboy fans, were “impulsive” according to a letter issued by ESPN on Oct. 6,, 2017. Fellow colleague, Michael Smith, who hosts “SC6” with Hill, sat out…

This writer was initially surprised that any multimillionaire businessman, much less a famous one like Donald Trump, would take time out of his schedule to publicly lambaste comedian Rosie O’Donnell, as he is doing now with ESPN’s Jemele Hill, after O’Donnell had the gumption to criticize Trump’s mishandling of the Miss America pageant many years…

ESPN host Jemele Hill doesn’t mince words. First, she calls President Donald Trump a “white supremacist” on her Twitter account. That comment prompted White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to say during a briefing that her comments about Trump were “a fireable offense by ESPN.” Hill apologized in September saying, “My comments on Twitter expressed…

Michael Smith has decided to sit out tonight’s episode of “SportsCenter.” Following the suspension of Smith’s co-host, Jemele Hill, Smith mutally agreed with the network to sit out of the episode. On Oct. 9, ESPN announced that Hill has been suspended for two weeks. According to ESPN, Hill was “suspended for a second violation of…

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders could find herself behind bars for giving her opinion on a journalist who gave her opinion. Days after ESPN’s Jemele Hill was blasted by her company for stating on Twitter that Donald Trump was a “white supremacist,” Sanders shared her thoughts on the matter during a briefing at the…

ESPN’s Jemele Hill refuses to back down from comments she made on Twitter earlier this week about President Donald Trump, but she said she’s regretted putting ESPN in an “unfair light.” Days after calling Trump a White supremacist on Twitter, the ESPN host released a statement about what she called the “elephant in the room.”…

Something was bound to happen during a 28-hour marathon. ESPN hosted a continuous preview of Fantasy Football for the second straight year on Aug. 14-15. During one of the network’s attempts to entertain during the marathon, there was a real-life auction skit. Auction fantasy football is a popular method to draft for many players on the internet.…

When the NFL Network recruited Kristen Ingram from her cushy position at ESPN, they saw a spark in her that would prove to be a great move on their part. An affiliate marketer, she built a department from scratch and spearheaded marketing strategies that drove viewer engagement, grew traditional platforms and invented new ways to…

Mike Tirico, the longtime ESPN broadcaster, and now NBC Sports announcer, has trouble saying he is Black. He claims he’s just an Italian kid who grew up in the Queens borough of New York City, who people keep insisting is Black. In a recent sit-down with the New York Times titled, “Mike Tirico Would Like to…

An eerie, dead silence blanketed the vast campus of ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut, as over 100 on-air personalities, reporters, analysts and production staffers awaited news of who is being laid off on Wednesday, April 26. Despite being the worldwide sports leader, ESPN management argued the salaries for on-air talent skyrocketed way north of market value,…

ESPN president John Skipper spoke up two days after reports surfaced that Michelle Beadle replaced Sage Steele as the full-time host on “NBA Countdown” April 6. “Sage has done a wonderful job for us in a number of important roles,” Skipper said, according to USA Today. “As previously announced, her ‘SportsCenter’ presence has grown and this…

Technically, she wasn’t fired. At least not as of today, ESPN hasn’t fired Sage Steele; they’ve only replaced her with Michelle Beadle on “NBA Countdown,” which includes coverage that goes all the way to the NBA Finals. It has been reported that due to the shift of audiences in large numbers gathering their sports news…

When Kobe Bryant retired after a 20 year NBA career, many wondered how the 5-time champ would spend his time away from the game. That picture began to crystallize with the release of his “Musecage” series.

Climbing the corporate ladder of success can be tricky when few of the people at the top look like you. No one knows this better than Kimberly K. Wilson, vice president, affiliate marketing for Disney and ESPN Media Networks. Wilson grew up on the South Side of Chicago, but unlike many, her father was an…

ESPN commentator Doug Adler compared Venus Williams to a primate during the Australian Open. “You see Venus move in and put the gorilla effect on. Charging,” he stated matter-of-factly during Williams’ second-round match at the first Slam of the year in Melbourne against Stefanie Voegele. Fans are furious with the former professional player, calling for him to…

ESPN will present The Undefeated In-Depth: Serena with Common – an exclusive conversation between tennis champion and sports star Serena Williams and Oscar and Grammy Award-winning artist Common – on Sunday, Dec. 18 at 9 p.m. ET. The one-hour program taped October in Brooklyn, New York, and earlier this month in Compton, Calif., will feature…

ESPN’s Sage Steele is catching flack for voicing her opinion on Mike Evans’ protest of Donald Trump. The Tampa Bay Bucs wide receiver told reporters that he would kneel during the national anthem in protest of Trump’s election. Steele responded to Evans by posting on Twitter, “Hey Mike Evans, look up the definition of the…