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John Skipper said the NFL should consider turning the Super Bowl into a pay-per-view event. Boomer Esiason doubts that will happen.

ESPN's Mina Kimes might be a free agent soon and Dan Le Batard pushed his chips all-in on outbidding The Ringer and others to land her.

Ex-ESPN President John Skipper will be allowed to testify in the ongoing soccer bribery trial of two former 21st Century Fox executives, a Brooklyn federal judge announced ahead of her Friday return from COVID-19 quarantine. 

A former 21st Century Fox executive is seeking to block onetime ESPN President John Skipper from testifying in an ongoing soccer bribery trial, saying the sports network's loss of World Cup broadcasting rights to Fox is irrelevant to the charged conspiracy.

Ex-Kobe Bryant teammate is considering getting on the other side of the whistle.

Joe Rogan never heard of John Skipper, but if it were up to him, the former ESPN president would still be running Disney’s sports network.

Question: Why did CBS go to commercial instead of the memorial for Franco Harris during the Dec. 24 Steelers game? Pathetic. — Lynn, via Facebook Rob: Although that game aired locally on KDKA-TV, a CBS affiliate, neither KDKA nor CBS had any control of the telecast. It was an NFL

It’s hard to imagine Shaq offering commentary anywhere other than Inside the NBA on TNT, but he nearly landed at ESPN.

According to the UFC president, a scandal involving an ESPN executive’s drug habit was the big opportunity the UFC needed to get a broadcast deal with the sports network.