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It’s About to Get Incredibly Expensive to Watch Sports Cable TV was the worst way to follow your favorite team, except for every other way.
By Will Leitch
vulture sports
Jan. 14, 2022
By Savannah Salazar
This Is an Impressive Number of Bad Opinions ESPN anchor Sage Steele managed to fit quite a few unfortunate takes into a single podcast episode.
By Danielle Cohen
vulture sports
Aug. 25, 2021
ESPN Pulls Rachel Nichols From NBA Programming, Ending The Jump Following her “diversity” remarks about former colleague Maria Taylor.
By Zoe Haylock
Maria Taylor Leaves ESPN Weeks After Rachel Nichols’s Comments Leak After the fallout from Nichols’s claim suggesting Taylor received assignments because she is Black, Taylor is reportedly close to a deal with NBC.
By Matt Stieb
streamliner
July 13, 2021
Disney’s Streaming Bundle Will Soon Be an Even Better Deal Starting in August, the price for ESPN+ is set to increase.
By Savannah Salazar
vulture sports
July 11, 2021
Naomi Osaka Takes Home the ESPY for Best Female Athlete In her first public appearance since withdrawing from the French Open and Wimbledon.
By Charu Sinha
vulture sports
July 7, 2021
By Zoe Haylock
vulture sports
Mar. 16, 2021
By Zoe Haylock
halftime anytime
Sept. 22, 2020
By Halle Kiefer
movie review
June 7, 2020
Be Water Is a Sports Doc with Righteous RageIn fact, it doesn’t feel like a sports doc at all. You walk away convinced that Bruce Lee was an artist more than anything else.
By Bilge Ebiri
the last dance
May 18, 2020
By Dan McQuade
The Last Dance Recap: The Final CutMichael Jordan has lived his life as a battle of wills against the whole world. Why would he surrender control now?
By David J. Roth
the last dance
May 11, 2020
Is This Guy Really Michael Jordan’s Best Friend? His name is George Koehler, he lives in Chicago, and his friendship with Jordan has a surprising backstory.
By Dan McQuade
The Last Dance Recap: The Vengeance SeasonThe story of Michael Jordan’s return to basketball inspires the most moving and most unsettling episode yet.
By David J. Roth
The Last Dance Recap: Michael Jordan Presents Michael JordanWhy did he retire from the NBA to play minor league baseball? Let’s find out.
By David J. Roth
vulture sports
May 1, 2020
By Halle Kiefer
Should ViacomCBS Blow Up Its Streaming Strategy? How the company can catch up in the streaming wars.
By Josef Adalian
the last dance
Apr. 27, 2020
A Mortified Carmen Electra Recalls Hiding From Michael Jordan On night two of The Last Dance , Electra recalled the time the greatest basketball player in the world walked in on her and Dennis Rodman.
By Zoe Haylock
The Last Dance Recap: Dennis Rodman AgonistesWhy rush through a life as interesting as Rodman’s to get to yet another Michael Jordan anecdote?
By David J. Roth
backstories
Apr. 22, 2020
How The Last Dance Unearthed the Holy Grail of Buried Michael Jordan Footage They brokered unfettered access to the Bulls’ inner sanctum, shot 500 hours of 16mm footage, then waited as it sat in the archives for 20 years.
By Jake Malooley
The Last Dance Is ESPN’s New Ratings ChampThe premiere of the Michael Jordan docuseries gave the network its best-ever documentary ratings, easily surpassing O.J.: Made in America.
By Josef Adalian
vulture sports
Apr. 20, 2020
Huh, That Former Chicago Resident Sure Does Look Familiar The new Michael Jordan doc got creative in identifying subjects.
By Hunter Harris
The Last Dance Recap: The Second FiddleThe Scottie Pippen Episode, like everything else about the actual Pippen, is pulled inexorably back toward Jordan.
By David J. Roth
The Last Dance Is a Perfect Remedy for Sports WithdrawalA ten-part ESPN docuseries about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls would have been great under any circumstances. Right now, it feels like a gift.
By Jen Chaney
vulture sports
Apr. 15, 2020
By Rebecca Alter
ESPN’s Michael Jordan Documentary and the Enduring Power of 30 for 30 The highly anticipated series could be the next step in the network’s filmmaking evolution.
By Will Leitch
coronavirus
Mar. 18, 2020
What Will ESPN Do Without Sports? The coronavirus shutdown has left the self-proclaimed “worldwide leader in sports” scrambling to fill airtime.
By Patrick Hruby
How the World Got Too Crowded for the World Series The crowning event of America’s Pastime is now just another thing on TV. But there may be another way forward.
By Will Leitch
Stephen A. Smith and the Lure of Losing The Knicks’ strategy worked better than statistics predicted. So why does it feel like it failed?
By Will Leitch
There Is No Sports Without Politics Sinclair, a conservative local news broadcaster, will not have to change much about itself when it expands into sports.
By Will Leitch
Why the MLB Off-season Explains Our Response to the Mueller Investigation We see the trees, but not the forest; we see so many atoms that we barely react when the bomb hits.
By Will Leitch
College Football Players Are Going to Start Quitting Bowl Games Maybe even on college football altogether. The only question is how soon.
By Will Leitch
Basketball: A Love Story Is Good, But It’s No Slam DunkIf you have the slightest interest in basketball, you’ll still want to watch this massive ESPN docuseries.
By Jen Chaney
The NBA Draft Is Great. It’s Also Totally Un-American. Sports have some really unfortunate ideas about competition, free markets, and labor, it turns out.
By Will Leitch
the larry nassar fallout
May 16, 2018
Larry Nassar Sexual-Abuse Survivors to Receive 2018 ESPYS Courage Award “By honoring this group who spoke out, we aim to honor all of those who are survivors of abuse.”
By Madeleine Aggeler
Blackmail From Cocaine Dealer Led to Former ESPN Chief’s Surprising Resignation John Skipper resigned in December to deal with a longtime “substance addiction.”
By Nate Jones
Jemele Hill Is Leaving SportsCenter for the Undefeated She’ll write for the ESPN culture site and host town halls.
By Hunter Harris
ESPN: The Patriots Dynasty Is On the Verge of Deflating Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and Bob Kraft are denying the bombshell report and insisting they “stand united.”
By Adam K. Raymond
Touring ESPN With Jemele Hill, SportsCenter Anchor Turned Liberal Hero “There are times when certain things are happening in this world and I truly couldn’t care less about Jerry Jones’s fight with Roger Goodell.”
By Reeves Wiedeman
Jemele Hill and the Perils of a for-Profit Fourth Estate ESPN’s suspension of Hill is a reminder that for-profit news outlets can’t be trusted to put the public interest above their bottom line.
By Eric Levitz
ESPN Suspends Jemele Hill for Tweeting About NFL Boycotts Hill tweeted about boycotting advertisers after Cowboys owner Jerry Jones promised to bench any player who protested during the national anthem.
By Nate Jones
Jemele Hill Suspended by ESPN Over Jerry Jones Tweets Hill had said on Twitter, “If you strongly reject what Jerry Jones said, the key is his advertisers.”
By Sarah Spellings
the right thing
Sept. 27, 2017
By Lisa Ryan
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