ESPN will reportedly announce next week that it has hired Nate Silver to contribute to Keith Olbermann’s new late-night talk show. The numbers-crunching baseball geek gained national fame when he correctly projected the outcomes of the 2008 and 2012 presidential
In this year’s NBA offseason, Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was reminiscent of the girl everyone flirts with but, for whatever reason, no one actually takes to the dance. Consistently cited as the owner NBA players would most like to play
Media consumers can just imagine the stories they’d read if ESPN hired radio talker Rush Limbaugh to host his own one-hour show. The term “conservative” would appear in the first paragraph, the word “divisive” would come next, and then we’d
Tiki Barber was never a huge fan of Eli Manning, his quarterback when he retired with the New York Giants. Nevertheless, Barber now has high praise for the signal caller, declaring him better than his older, more highly regarded brother,
Since winning the biggest award in college football, it seems like almost nothing has gone right for reigning Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel. The controversial signal caller had an opportunity to clear the air Tuesday at the SEC Media Days,
A cable television industry analyst estimates that ESPN would cost viewers $30 per month if purchased a la carte. According to Laura Martin, a senior industry analyst for Needham & Co. who released a “Future of TV” report on Monday,
On Wednesday, ESPN President John Skipper said Keith Olbermann will be able to discuss politics on his new late-night talk show on ESPN2 and noted that any opinions Olbermann had to offer about Trayvon Martin would be acceptable so long
ESPN announced on Wednesday that Keith Olbermann will officially join the network to host a late-night talk show on ESPN2, which will debut on August 26. His show will begin 10 days after Fox Sports 1’s launch on August 17.
The New York Times is reporting that ESPN has officially hired Keith Olbermann to host a nightly sports show on ESPN2. According to the Times, Olbermann’s contract specifically forbids him from discussing politics on the new show. On his new
Keith Olbermann, who may be the person most responsible for turning MSNBC into the shrill and blatantly partisan network that it is today, will reportedly be contractually barred from talking about politics when he returns to ESPN this summer. ESPN
ESPN may be on the verge of signing Keith Olbermann to host a late-night talk show as early as this week. Variety reports that “while an ESPN spokesman declined to comment, sources indicated that an announcement on the Olbermann talker
ESPN caved on its “long-standing” social media policy last March when in a special exemption, it permitted its employees to make personal political statements relating specifically to the Trayvon Martin case. Initially, on Friday March 23—the same day that
Fox Sports 1, which will debut on August 17 to challenge ESPN, released a promotional launch video on Monday hyping the 24-hour, all-sports channel. Here is how the network described the video, which can be seen below: Fourth-and-One, Comebacks, Buzzer
Count 49ers safety Donte Whitner as among those unimpressed by his teammates Colin Kaepernick and Vernon Davis and their appearances in the ESPN Body issue. “I would never do that,” Whitner said. “To each his own. I don’t know aboutall
President Barack Obama has reportedly expressed interest in becoming a celebrity picker for ESPN’s College GameDay this season. ESPN Senior Coordinating Producer Lee Fitting told Sports Illustrated that White House representatives have actually reached out to ESPN about Obama potentially appearing on the program
Next week is the British Open, and Phil Mickelson will enter it on top of his game. He finally ended his 20-year drought on European soil on Sunday with a win at the Scottish Open. He ended the Open tied
Noted Tea Party basher and liberal mouthpiece Keith Olbermann has struggled in recent years to identify a network willing to broadcast his radical, hate-filled opinions. However, it appears that ESPN, ever eager to open its doors to those on the
President Barack Obama golfed on Saturday with “Pardon the Interruption” hosts Tony Korneisher and Mike Wilbon, who is a Chicago native and sports fan. According to a pool report, Wilbon and Kornheiser joined Obama at Fort Belvoir in Virginia shortly
ESPN Senior Writer Howard Bryant used a recent column to question and express concern over what he perceives as the now permanent and inextricable relationship between American sports and patriotism. In Bryant’s view, the “sports-military-patriotism alliance” post 9/11 has co-opted sports from
Mikhail Prkhorov, the Russian owner of the Brooklyn Nets, knows where his blessings come from. According to him, it is the “basketball gods” that are behind a string of acquisitions that have put Brooklyn squarely in the title hunt. “Today,
Steve Stricker will miss this year’s Open Championshio at Muirfield next week to spend time with his wife for their 20th wedding anniversary. As Yahoo Sports! notes, Stricker vowed at the beginning of this season that he would only play
After a successful run on MSNBC that was followed by a debacle at Current TV, Keith Olbermann might be shifting from politics and back to his original roots as a sports commentator. According to The Daily News, this move might
ESPN apologized 73 days ago for airing a commentator’s Christian views, but no apology is expected from the sports network for anyone offended by the millions of viewers who were surprised when they (or their children) were suddenly confronted with
When the SEC comes to Birmingham, Alabama next week for its annual “Media Days” that combines hype and pageantry, the unofficial start to the college football season begins, with all eyes, as they deservedly should be, on the conference that
Most incoming ninth-grade football players are worried about how they will adjust to the rigors of high school ball. Dylan Moses, however, is no ordinary ninth grader. An incoming high school freshman, Moses is 6’2″, 223 lbs., and claims a
