February 19, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
ESPN says it fired an employee responsible for an offensive headline about Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin. The headline Friday on ESPN’s mobile website was used for a story about a New York loss in which Lin had nine turnovers. The headline was an idiom that contains a word that also can be used as a slur against Chinese. Continue Reading
February 17, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
The BracketBuster series comes to the Bison Sports Arena tonight for the first time in the form of Western Michigan. The annual event matches mid-major conferences against each another and for NDSU, it’s a bonus to get a Mid-American Conference school in Fargo. Continue Reading
December 19, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald
College football analyst Craig James, who starred as a tailback at Southern Methodist University and with the New England Patriots in the 1980s, left ESPN today and entered the Republican race for the open U.S. Senate seat in Texas. Continue Reading
November 29, 2011 in The Dickinson Press
HELENA, Mont. After originally saying it would not televise Montana and Montana State’s second-round playoff games this weekend, ESPN said Tuesday it will make the games available through its GamePlan subscription service. Continue Reading
November 23, 2011 in The Dickinson Press
HELENA, Mont. Montana and Montana State football fans are issuing a unanimous “C’mon Man!” to the powers-that-be at ESPN, after the network announced it does not plan to televise the teams’ second-round Football Championship Subdivision playoff games next weekend. Continue Reading
October 10, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald
Hank Williams Jr. has cut new song “I’ll Keep My …,” calling out “Fox & Friends” and ESPN after an interview last week on the Fox News talk show led to the end of his association with the sports network and “Monday Night Football,” long home to his “Are you ready for some football?” theme.
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July 5, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald
ESPN and the All England Club reached a 12-year agreement beginning next year that gives the cable network the U.S. television rights to all matches at Wimbledon. The announcement was made today. Continue Reading
June 8, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald
The three-way contest for U.S. Olympic television rights wasn’t even close NBC blew ESPN and Fox out of the water with a $4.38 billion bid to keep the Olympics on the peacock network through 2020 in a new four-games deal with the IOC. NBC has been criticized for not showing Olympic events live and packaging its coverage on tape delay for prime-time audiences. New sports chairman Mark Lazarus said the network would offer new options to follow everything live on its various platforms. Continue Reading
April 6, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald
ESPN will include footage from Thursday’s UND hockey Frozen Four viewing party at Ralph Engelstad Arena in its TV game coverage of the national semifinal between the Sioux and Michigan in St. Paul. Continue Reading
December 6, 2010 in West Central Tribune
MINNEAPOLIS Family and friends tell Lindsey Vonn the resemblance is uncanny. The Olympic skier, raised in Minnesota, strikes a pose on the cover of a recent edition of ESPN’s magazine a pose that looks remarkably like Sharon Stone in the movie “Basic Instinct.” Continue Reading
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