NFL Draft 2020 Lays Out Virtual Plan: Get the Complete TV Schedule
The NFL has detailed its plan to later this month hold a socially distant, virtual draft that also will double as a fundraiser for COVID 19-related relief organizations. READ MORE
ESPN to Air NBA H-O-R-S-E Competition, With Players Shooting From Their Own Homes
With major league sports all sidelined by the coronavirus pandemic, ESPN will fill at least a bit of airtime with the first-ever NBA HORSE Challenge Presented by State Farm. READ MORE
Vanessa Bryant Emotionally Eulogizes Kobe Bryant and Daughter Gianna: 'God Had to Bring Them to Heaven Together'
At “The Celebration of Life for Kobe and Gianna Bryant” — a televised public memorial for NBA great Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, both of whom perished in a Jan. 27 helicopter crash — Vanessa Bryant tearfully paid tribute to her husband and their second-eldest child. READ MORE
XFL: ABC/ESPN, Fox Reveal Schedules for Football League Revival
ABC/ESPN and Fox Sports on Tuesday unveiled their respective broadcast schedules for the XFL football league’s 2020 revival season, which will kick off (#SportsPun) less than a week after the NFL’s Super Bowl LIV. READ MORE
Jemele Hill and ESPN to Part Ways, One Year After Her Anti-Trump Tweet
Jemele Hill and ESPN are parting ways as of Sept. 1, nearly a year after the commentator got swept up in a two-pronged social-media imbroglio that resulted in her brief suspension. READ MORE
Monday Night Football: ESPN Will Not Air National Anthem During NFL Games
This fall’s broadcasts of Monday Night Football will be a little less star-spangled: ESPN will not air the national anthem during NFL games. READ MORE
TVLine Items: Cardi B Co-Hosts Tonight Show, Lenk on Good Fight and More
Cardi B is a rapper, chart-topper and now, she will be a talk-show host. READ MORE
Ratings: Rose Bowl Flirts With 27 Mil in Double OT, No. 5 Cable Audience Ever
Monday night’s ESPN/ESPN2 simulcast of what turned out to be a double-overtime, 54-48 victory for the Georgia Bulldogs over the Oklahoma Sooners drew 26.83 million total viewers, up 39 percent READ MORE
ESPN Suspends Jemele Hill for Two Weeks After Controversial Tweets
ESPN is sending Jemele Hill to the bench: The SportsCenter anchor has been suspended for two weeks for violating the network’s social-media guidelines. READ MORE
ESPN Pulls Robert Lee From Virginia Game, Due to Asian Announcer's Name
Asian sports announcer Robert Lee — not to be confused with Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who died in 1870 — will no longer call the University of Virginia’s first college football game of the season, ESPN has announced. READ MORE
