My second question of the day: Should high school sporting events be televised locally and nationally?
There are a lot of high school football and basketball games on ESPN these days and I do from time to time find it entertaining. What are your thoughts?
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Today during ESPN2 First Take’s hourly break to mop and pressure wash Skip Bayless‘ interrogation room, we were blessed with an appearance by the network’s most beloved personality, Emmitt Smith.
From that delightful exchange with Reischea Canidate, we learned that Emmitt has been entrusted by Jerry Jones & Co. the exact role you would expect for [...]
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Football announcer Ron Franklin won’t respond to his firing from ESPN, but told the New York Times’ Richard Sandomir that he’s gotten an outpouring of support since his dismissal.
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ESPN has fired long time announcer Ron Franklin after he made crude comments to female colleague Jeanine Edwards during a production meeting last week.
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Earlier today, ESPN released information on how their employees with Hall of fame ballots voted. This is a good move – increases transparency, gives readers a look behind the scenes, etc. It also let us know one of their voters made some fantastically bizarre choices.
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ESPN announcers Mike Tirico, Ron Jaworski, and Jon Gruden are apparently a very chatty and broey bunch. That much we learned during a commercial break on Monday night’s Orange Bowl, when the three announcers’ microphones were left on during a commercial break.
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