The NFL Is About To Start Hauling In $6 Billion A Year From TV Rights (CBS,...
The already-massive amount of money the NFL earns from its broadcast partners is about to get even bigger. After finalizing a deal with its three major broadcast partners — CBS, Fox and NBC — the NFL...
View ArticleESPN Analyst Jay Bilas Dropped A Young Jeezy Lyric During Tuesday Night's...
Jay Bilas is widely considered one of college basketball’s top analysts. He’s also a Duke graduate with a law degree. Which is what makes his affinity for the rap game so amusing. He’s been posting...
View ArticleESPN Is The Biggest Reason Your Cable Bill Is So Expensive
ESPN recently agreed to an eight-year, $1.9 billion extension with the NFL to continue broadcasting the Monday Night Football package. But that money is not just coming from an increase in advertising...
View ArticleAn Ex-ESPN Analyst Pleaded Guilty To Driving Drunk For Nine Miles In A...
Matthew Barnaby pleaded guilty to DWI and made a tearful apology in Erie County court yesterday, the AP reports. Barnaby was fired by ESPN after being arrested for driving a Porsche Cayenne with a...
View ArticleWATCH: Betty White's Intro For Monday Night Football Was Disappointing
We can admit it. We were looking forward to tonight's intro to Monday Night Football on ESPN ever since they announced Betty White would be doing "A White Christmas" skit. Well, if you like jokes...
View ArticleESPN Jumps On The Cam Newton Bandwagon, Crowns Him The 'NEXT' Big Thing In...
ESPN The Magazine's "NEXT" Issue is probably the best thing the much-maligned publication produces. The face of this year's issue is an obvious but fitting choice: Cam Newton. Cam has had one of the...
View ArticleWATCH: An ESPN Camera Fell From The Sky And Nearly Took Out A Player During...
In a bizarre scene towards the end of the Insight Bowl between Oklahoma and Iowa, ESPN's overhead cam fell to the ground and nearly hit several players. The SkyCam camera, which is suspended above the...
View ArticleComcast Will No Longer Block Customers From Watching ESPN On Their iPads...
Comcast and Disney announced a new 10 year deal today that will let content from Disney and its subsidiaries -- including ABC and ESPN -- continue to flow to Comcast customers. As part of the deal,...
View ArticleYou'd Never Guess Which NFL Quarterback Had The Most Dominant Game Of 2011
Prior to the season ESPN announced that they were going to fix the archaic Quarterback Rating with their own metric, "Total Quarterback Rating" (QBR). While it may indeed be better than QB Rating...
View ArticleWe Spent 24 Hours Watching The Battle Between ESPN And NBC Sports—Here's What...
Following the NHL's Winter Classic on NBC this past weekend, the network formerly known as Versus became NBC Sports, and the fight was on for ESPN's self-proclaimed title of Worldwide Leader. We have...
View ArticleWATCH: ESPN's Tim Tebow Remix Will Be Stuck In Your Head For Hours
ESPN's "First Take" opened up this morning with a remix by DJ Steve Porter that depending on your feelings for Tim Tebow is either the most amazing thing you will watch today, or it will have you...
View ArticleTerrell Suggs To Skip Bayless: 'Don't Be A D-Bag'
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs was on ESPN2's First Take Monday morning to discuss his team's close loss to the Super Bowl-bound New England Patriots. Suggs got a bit riled up after the...
View ArticleNetflix Describes The Future Of TV And It Sounds Awesome (NFLX)
In Netflix's earnings letter to shareholders it lays out an interesting vision for the future of TV: Over the next few years, UIs will evolve in astounding ways, such as allowing viewers to watch...
View ArticlePat Sajak Admits He Was Drunk Behind The Wheel Of Fortune
The iconic host of "Wheel of Fortune" has officially become ten times funnier. On an episode of ESPN2's "Dan Le Batard Is Highly Questionable," Pat Sajak revealed that he and co-host Vanna White used...
View ArticleWHERE ARE THEY NOW: Whatever Happened To The Original ESPN Stars? (DIS)
ESPN has become as big a player in contemporary sports culture as many of the actual leagues are. Don't believe us? At this point, the network, based in Bristol, CT, is worth more than the NFL, and...
View ArticleWhy ESPN Is All About Mobile
Apparently, for ESPN, mobile is now “the company’s fourth-largest network” and “has 150,000 people plugged into its mobile offerings at any given time” with “users spending 45% more time with ESPN...
View ArticleESPN Threw A Crazy Super Bowl Party In An Abandoned Warehouse Last Night
Super Bowl weekend is all about the parties. And one of the biggest ones every year is ESPN The Magazine's celeb- and athlete-laden NEXT party. This year, the worldwide leader transformed a dingy...
View ArticleESPN 'Experts' Are Split On Who Will Win Super Bowl, But Agree It Will Be Close
ESPN on-air personalities have all weighed in and they are evenly split on who they believe will win the Super Bowl, with 17 picking the New England Patriots and 17 siding with the New York Giants. In...
View ArticleAn ESPN Analyst Has Apologized For Calling Rob Gronkowski 'White-Boy Wasted'...
Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski went out and danced his shirt off after losing the Super Bowl last Sunday. Since then, a bunch of commentators and analysts have weighed in on his behavior. ESPN's...
View ArticleWATCH: Erin Andrews Asks Brooklyn Decker To Play Her In The ESPN Movie
By now you are well aware of the grandiose event the Super Bowl has become. So much so, that all the crazy celebrity parties each have their own red carpet entrances. One party in particular this...
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