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Washington Post Alum Jim Brady Named New ESPN Ombudsman
Robert Lipsyte left role last year, which is now being called “public editor”
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Disney Tops Earning Expectations, Falls Just Short in Revenue
Company reports $1.20 in adjusted earnings per share for fourth quarter
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Grantland Founder Bill Simmons Calls Out ESPN for ‘Callously’ Shuttering Website: ‘Simply Appalling’
“I loved everyone I worked with at G and loved what we built,” ex-ESPN employee tweets
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ESPN Suspends Grantland ‘Effective Immediately’
“We have decided to direct our time and energy going forward to projects that we believe will have a broader and more significant impact,” network says
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ESPN President John Skipper Rips IAC Chair Barry Diller for ‘Flapping His Lips’
“That is wrong. And I believe at this point it is willfully inaccurate,” Skipper says of Diller’s charges that ESPN promotes a “false economy”
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ESPN President John Skipper Says Layoffs Give Network ‘Competitive Advantages’ for Long Haul
“We carefully considered and deliberated alternatives before making each decision,” network chief says
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ESPN Set to Eliminate Up to 350 Jobs
Approximately 4.3 percent of the Disney-owned company’s workforce could be cut, according to Bloomberg
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Frank Caliendo Discusses ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Trailer in Voices of ESPN Stars (Video)
The trailer for the seventh installment of sci-fi franchise aired during “Monday Night Football,” which prompted ticket presale websites to crash
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Washington Post Managing Editor Kevin Merida Leaves for ESPN
“I expect there is not a person in our newsroom, or in our entire organization, who is not heartbroken over this decision,” executive editor Marty Baron writes
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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Poster Revealed, Tickets Go On Sale Monday
Lucasfilm and Disney release new image and will debut trailer at halftime on ESPN’s “Monday Night Football”
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ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt Blasts Remembrances of Lamar Odom as ‘Reality Star’: ‘His Fame Was Earned’
“His name is Lamar Odom and we knew it long before he got married on a TV show we don’t watch,” sports anchor says
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Jason Whitlock Jumps Ship From ESPN Back to Fox Sports
“I feel free to be me and not persecuted for being me,” former editor-in-chief of The Undefeated says
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First Female MLB Playoff Analyst Jessica Mendoza Answers Sexist Backlash: ‘He Came After Me Because I Was a Woman’ (Video)
“Just before I was going to click on it, I thought, ‘You know, why?’ Why even give it the attention? I didn’t even want to open it,” Mendoza says about a radio host’s sexist tweets
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DraftKings, FanDuel Ban Employees From Daily Sports Betting After Insider Trading Allegations
New rule comes in wake of the New York Attorney General office’s investigation into the two companies
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Bill Simmons Blasts ‘Embarrassing’ ESPN Deflategate Coverage
“It’s hard to come away from that and not think that ESPN is in the bag for the NFL, because they were,” former ESPN personality says