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Gary Striewski is staying in business with ESPN. The cable sports channel has re-signed the SportsCenter anchor and studio-host to a new, multi-year deal. Under the pact, Striewski will continue his hosting duties on SportsCenter, a position he's been in since 2022, as well as appearing in other ESPN…

At the outset of an eventful second half of 2024, ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro has issued his “reflections at halftime” on the sports operation’s accomplishments thus far in 2024. The exec’s public memo was accompanied by a short video and timeline. Highlights include the launch of Venu Sports, a joint…

UPDATED with latest: Veteran ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale offered an update on his years-long battle with cancer today, and it was a tough one. “My report on the Biopsy of the Lymph Node in my neck has arrived & it is cancerous,” wrote Vitale. He went on to note he will have surgery on…

Disney's efforts to have an antitrust class action from streaming subscribers dismissed has been denied one more time, but the company will now not be on the hook for any cash. “The Court once again finds Plaintiffs' allegations sufficient to plead Disney's market power in a well-defined SLPTV market…

Venu Sports, a streaming joint venture of Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney, has announced a number of executive hires across departments. The new hires join a team of more than 150 engineers and executives focused on Venu but working at Fox, some of whom are expected to join the venture down…

College athletics is already changing in a big way, as a recent lawsuit put school players in line to receive direct payments from their alma mater. To get ahead of that and find new revenue streams, the Big 12 is exploring selling its naming rights to a title sponsor, ESPN reports. The deal would…

UPDATED with CAA response: CAA is pushing back hard Tuesday after Sage Steele filed a lawsuit against the agency as a part of her suspension and alleged sidelining at ESPN after 2021 comments about Covid vaccine mandates and Barack Obama. “Ms. Steele's allegations are a meritless attempt to avoid…

ESPN said Tuesday that it has signed a multiyear contract with Shannon Sharpe, the Hall of Famer and three-time Super Bowl champion who joined the network less than a year ago after leaving his FS1 series Undisputed. Under this new deal, Sharpe will expand his role on First Take, ESPN’s morning…

The Oklahoma Sooners Women’s Softball team made history in more ways than one on Thursday, securing a record breaking fourth consecutive national title in what is now the most-watched NCAA Women’s College World Series finals on record. According to ESPN, the two-game series between the Sooners and…

EXCLUSIVE: ESPN Films has acquired the documentary Motorcycle Mary ahead of its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival on June 7. The 22-minute film by Haley Watson – her directorial debut – tells the story of Mary McGee, known as Motorcycle Mary, a legend in the world of motorsports who became the…

Ed Werder, an ESPN correspondent who specialized in covering the Dallas Cowboys and the NFL, is ending his 26-year run at the network. In announcing his exit, Werder emphasized that he hopes to continue his career at another company. He is one of a number of familiar faces to leave ESPN’s air over…

ESPN and TNT Sports have reached a 5-year sublicensing deal that will see the Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiary carry select College Football Playoff games from ESPN. Starting later this year and continuing in 2025, TNT will present two first-round playoff games and then add two quarterfinal games…