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The Scripps National Spelling Bee will return this year in a mostly virtual format

There are a lot of names to choose from in the world of sports when it comes to celebrating the greatest of all time. But according to Olympian Simone Biles, ESPN’s SportsCenter overlooked a lot of obvious choices when it selected a pic to celebrate the ultimate GOATs.

Brittany Matthews did not appreciate ESPN’s posts about fiancé Patrick Mahomes during his Kansas City Chiefs’ loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV. The 25-year-old personal trainer, who is pregnant with the couple’s first child, took to Twitter on Sunday, Feb. 7 to express her ire after the sports network’s official Twitter account shared screenshots that...

Pedro Gomez, a longtime baseball correspondent for ESPN who covered more than 25 World Series, has died

ESPN has announced that Dan Le Batard will be leaving the network next month.

College football has soldiered on with its season even as COVID-19 continues to sideline players. ESPN College GameDay analyst Kirk Herbstreit joined LX News to weigh in on the safety of college sports and discussed his personal connection to the concern about the health of players – both his sons who play football for Clemson University have tested positive for...

ESPN has informed employees that it will be laying off around 300 people and will not fill around 200 open positions. Jimmy Pitaro, the chairman of Bristol, Connecticut-based ESPN, notified employees about the layoffs Thursday morning and said the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the business. “We are parting ways with many exceptional teammates, all of whom…

The NBA is in talks with The Walt Disney Company on a single-site scenario for a resumption of play in Central Florida in late July

The final episodes of “The Last Dance” have aired, yet ESPN has one more program to show about the Chicago Bulls’ sixth championship. ESPN will show “Game 6: The Movie” on Wednesday night at 9 p.m. EDT, following a rebroadcast of episodes nine and 10 of “The Last Dance.” The episode will feature game footage captured by five NBA Entertainment…

It’s been almost three decades since Michael Jordan’s father, James, died. The 57-year-old basketball star remembered his late dad during Sunday’s episode of the ESPN docuseries The Last Dance. “He was my rock,” Jordan said in a clip shared by CNN. “You know, we were very close.” The Chicago Bulls champion said his father used to “constantly” give him...

Carmen Electra says watching her former relationship with Dennis Rodman blossom back to life in The Last Dance documentary has helped her appreciate the wild time in her life with him

Seth Markman was just as nervous as NFL coaches and general managers about the unknown factors involved with a virtual draft. But the ESPN executive producer said he was overwhelmed with how everything came together over the three days.

ESPN and NFL Network will air a combined broadcast all three days. It will now originate from ESPN’s headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut, but most of the reporters and analysts will be at their homes.

ESPN NBA broadcaster Doris Burke, a Curt Gowdy Award recipient by the Basketball Hall of Fame for excellence in her field, has revealed that she tested positive for the coronavirus. Burke made the announcement Friday on an ESPN podcast hosted by NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski. Burke says she started feeling extreme fatigue on March 11, the day the NBA was…

Disney’s ESPN has long called itself the worldwide leader in sports. Now it will have to figure out what to do when there aren’t any. On what could be called Black Thursday for major sports leagues, Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League suspended play, following the National Basketball Association’s lead on Wednesday. The National Collegiate Athletic Association...

Fox Nation host and former ESPN reporter Britt McHenry said Thursday that she will undergo surgery for a brain tumor, NBC News reports.

The fiancée of ESPN college football reporter Edward Aschoff shared that his sudden death at 34 on Christmas Eve was actually caused by stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and not pneumonia, as doctors previously thought. Katy Berteau wrote in a Twitter thread on Aschoff’s account Wednesday night that doctors found non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in his lungs following his death.

NFL viewership ratings are on the rise for the second straight year, giving league officials an edge in pushing to raise broadcast fees and lock in multiyear media deals long before they are set to expire at the end of 2022. Viewership plummeted during the 2016 and 2017 seasons after former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick quietly divided football fans...

Myles Garrett’s goal was to be NFL’s top defensive player this season. He won’t finish it. Garrett’s indefinite suspension for smashing Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph over the head with a helmet was upheld Thursday by an appeals officer who decided the severe penalty on the Cleveland Browns star defensive end is fair. One of the league’s most dominant edge...

Disney’s brand-new streaming service Disney Plus may be a victim of its own success. The $7-a-month service offering an array of Disney classics and new shows suffered some technical difficulties hours after launching at 3 a.m. E.T. on Tuesday. Users began reporting issues with the service on Twitter early Tuesday morning.