How false reports that Deontay Wilder broke an ESPN mascot’s jaw with a punch spread around the world
This appears to have started with inaccurate captions on YouTube and Twitter videos, which then were cited by all sorts of media outlets.
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College GameDay is finally going to Washington State
ESPN will go to Pullman, WA for the first time ever for College GameDay.
Lightning in the area led to ESPN zooming way out on the Alabama-Arkansas game
Lightning in the area wasn't close enough to shut down the game entirely, but it did lead to ESPN having to use cameras in safer spots.
Javier Baez gave us the hug heard ’round the world, with Alex Rodriguez arguing “The rules are the rules”
This hug led to quite the debate, and quite the criticism from A-Rod.
Jason Witten says NFL roughing-the-passer calls going ‘a little bit to the left wing’
I knew they wanted to make it about the health and safety, and protecting these quarterbacks. But it just seems like we went a little bit to the left wing on that, you know?”
30 for 30 review: Seau
A new 30 for 30 rolls out on ESPN+ after months of no new installments
Rachel Nichols slayed her interview with Mark Cuban, while giving leagues, teams, and schools a blueprint of how to deal with scandals
Paul Finebaum’s pick to win the Oklahoma State-Boise State game: the Oklahoma Sooners
Kyler Murray and the Sooners are in good shape to win a fictional game today, according to Paul.
ESPN’s 30 for 30 release strategy becomes more clear with announcement of three new installments
"Seau" will premiere on ESPN+ Sept. 20, while "42 to 1" will premiere on ESPN Dec. 11 and a to-be-named Deion Sanders documentary will premiere on ESPN Jan. 31.
Hurricane Florence has led to numerous college football games being moved or canceled, impacting TV lineup as well
Three games involving Top 25 teams have already been canceled.
ESPN VP Nick Dawson called Mark Jones’ Washington tweet “childish,” “frustrating” in e-mail to Washington AD
Dawson called Jones' tweet "childish behavior that is unacceptable" and "frustrating and disappointing to us on many levels."
ESPN SkyCam shows horrible angle of Arizona State’s game-winning field goal vs Michigan State
ESPN viewers had to depend on the crowd and player reaction on this game-winning field goal.
ESPN SkyCam shows horrible angle of Arizona State’s game-winning field goal vs Michigan State
ESPN viewers had to depend on the crowd and player reaction on this game-winning field goal.
Nick Saban gets cranky with ESPN’s Maria Taylor, says ‘quit asking’ about Alabama’s QB situation
"Alright, so why do you continue to try and get me to say something that doesn't respect one of them? I'm not going to, so quit asking."
President Trump rips ESPN’s ‘terrible’ decision to not televise national anthem during Monday Night Football
"It was just announced by ESPN that rather than defending our anthem, our beautiful beautiful beautiful national anthem, and defending our flag, they've decided they they just won't broadcast when they play the national anthem. We don't like that."
A look at the past, present, and future of 30 for 30, as we’ve hit a troubling lull for the series
Did Alex Rodriguez and Joe Maddon “make peace” or have “a heated argument”? Probably both.
Two articles on the A-Rod/Maddon discussion were headlined quite differently, but both views of it can be true.
An early “ESPN The Ocho” highlight saw a double knockout on a single trampoline dodgeball throw
These two players couldn't dodge a wrench, or a ball.
Ohio State fans’ rally for Urban Meyer bashes ESPN and Brett McMurphy, includes Ezekiel Elliott’s dad, and has Papa John’s delivered
This rally had all sorts of signs bashing ESPN, and it got stranger from there.
‘College GameDay’ will open season in South Bend for Michigan-Notre Dame
ESPN's pregame show kicks the college football season off in South Bend.
Brett McMurphy appears on SportsCenter, doesn’t think Urban Meyer will coach again at Ohio State
McMurphy appearing on ESPN was a surprise after they ignored the Urban Meyer story for almost four hours.
Yu Darvish’s agent blasts “classless” comments from A-Rod, says they’re not from a “credible journalist”
"If this story had come from a credible journalist, we might have shown some concern. But it came from A-Rod, so we’re paying it little attention."
Jason Witten calls Twitter “locker room poison,” while Dez Bryant uses it to respond to critics, bash Cowboys’ “garbage-ass play calling”
Witten doesn't like the idea of players using Twitter to criticize teams, something Bryant did Friday.
After the Mike Trout promotion controversy, ESPN’s Buster Olney asked Trout for a Yankees-Mets weather report
Maybe Trout's interest in the weather was all he needed for media stardom after all.
The ESPYs featured a whole segment of Danica Patrick rapping about athletes, from Rob Gronkowski to Terrell Owens
This also involved Rob Huebel and Tim Meadows.
