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A double overtime game between two of the NBA’s most storied teams boosted ESPN’s Wednesday night ratings to its highest level in 18 years, back at the dawn of the league’s baggy shorts era. Last night’s New York Knicks double overtime victory over the Boston Celtics averaged 1.96 million viewers, peaking with 2.87…

ESPN college basketball announcer Dick Vitale revealed Monday that he has been diagnosed with lymphoma after being diagnosed and treated for melanoma this summer. After several tests over the past few weeks, doctors confirmed the new form of cancer is unrelated to his previous experience with the disease. Vitale will…

UPDATE: Allison Williams is officially leaving ESPN for good for refusing to comply with the Disney vaccine mandate. The college football and basketball sideline reporter earlier said that she was opting out for the season. She said she and her husband were trying for a second child. But on Friday night, she said…

ESPN reporter Adam Schefter, under fire for giving an NFL team a pre-publication look at his story and investing with potential news sources, has responded with a statement, Schefter, one of the top reporters on the National Football League for the network, is being criticized for sending an email containing a full…

The NFL has set another multiplatform deal for this season’s wild card playoff games. ESPN owner the Walt Disney Company and the NFL announced a five year rights agreement for ESPN to present a new Monday night Wild Card game beginning with the 2021 season and continuing through the 2025 season. The agreement was…

Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden resigned Monday night, issuing the following statement which was posted on the team’s Twitter page: “I have resigned as Head Coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. I love the Raiders and do not want to be a distraction. Thank you to all the players, coaches, staff, and fans of Raider…

Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden has apologized for using a racist trope in an email about NFL players union chief DeMaurice Smith. The email was sent in 2011, when Gruden was working for ESPN. As players and owners were jockeying over a collective bargaining agreement, Gruden had an email exchange with Bruce…

Veteran ESPN personality Sage Steele, a fixture of the network’s daytime lineup, is not appearing on the company’s programming this week. ESPN declined to comment on why she has stepped back when contacted by Deadline. During a recent podcast interview with former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler, Steele criticized Disney’s…

EXCLUSIVE: "I've got the highest ratio of knockouts in boxing history," declares ex-WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. "When people come to see heavyweights they come to see knockouts," the Alabama-born former Olympian adds in an exclusive video before his rematch with Tyson Fury on October 9. "I can say, I…

Tom Brady will certainly be out to prove something on Sunday, when his Tampa Bay Buccaneers meet the New England Patriots, his former NFL team for 20 seasons before he left in a somewhat acrimonious departure. But whatever ill will may currently exist between Brady and his former New England coach, Bill Belichick, it…

Katie Nolan, a one-time rising star at ESPN after being lured from Fox Sports, announced today online that she’s leaving the sports network. "I've thought about sending this tweet for weeks and I still have no clue how to make it not make you all roll your eyes," Nolan wrote on Twitter. "Alas: the obvious thing has…

ESPN NFL reporter Adam Schefter is known for his insider information and scooping the competition. But a Bloomberg report today raised questions on whether his recent investment in a gambling app would compromise his journalism. Schefter, along with New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and others, recently…