Submit a Story!
Get the BallHype iPhone App
topics:

ESPN Corporate Info - Press Releases
Latest Press Releases Home Press Releases Fact Sheet Disney Investor Relations Corporate Outreach Careers Contact Us 2007 ESPN, Inc.
Comments
Blog Reactions

ESPN Rise Will Probably Be the Network's Downfall
Stet Sports Blog — ... So ESPN is going to introduce a new interactive website, TV time, and publications to cater to high school sports?    ...

Hey Kids! It's ESPN Rise! (Kill Me Now) [You Know ... For Kids!]
Deadspin — ... for ESPN to bring us the Little League World Series and cover news like De La Salle of Concord (Calif.)'s national-record football winning streak. Everything needs to be compartmentalized over there, as the WWL acts like that person you know who won't allow different kinds of food to touch each other on their plate. Hmm, I wonder if I can get this exciting new content on my ESPN Mobile phone?. ESPN Now Targeting Nations Youth With ESPN Rise [Awful Announcing] New ESPN High School Sports Initiative To Launch: ESPN RISE [ESPN Corporate Information] ...

Coaches All - SEC Team; Saban Home Depot COY
Third Saturday in Blogtober — ... A day after Alabama Head Coach Nick Saban was announced as the Associated Press SEC coach of the year, Saban also picked up the Home Depot National Coach of the year (click here). The award show can be seen on ESPN Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 6:30 pm central. ...

REPORT: Alexi Lalas Offers to Chug Hot Starbucks Coffee Should Seattle Make MLS Cup 2009
Major League Soccer (MLS) Rumors - For the time between the games — ... Remember the last time he did this? Apparently he hasn't learned his lesson and Sounders fans no doubt are hoping for repeat performance. Cllck here and scroll down to find the following... Lalas: “If Seattle makes it to MLS Cup, I will chug a Starbucks Vente Café Latte on the live telecast. Yes, the potential to scorch my vocal chords exists, and I’m sure there are those who would love to see me eat my words and lose my voice.” Of course as he says, there are quite a few who wouldn't mind him having vocal cord damage. ...

ESPN World Cup Coverage
Hillcrest Road — ... , ESPN responded (well, probably more like announced on their own without regard for being called out) by laying out some details for next summer's coverage of the World Cup. The names Chris Fowler, Bob Ley and Mike Tirico excite me. Hopefully they excite you too. ...

Barclays Premier League On ESPN Networks
Never Famous — ... The agreement calls  for ESPN to have the rights to air the Saturday 7:45am EST  and the Monday 2:45pm EST  matches for the 2009/10 season. Per ESPN ...

TENNIS: US OPEN Announcers on ESPN
J Schil's Blog — ... People have been coming to this blog and seeing my post about the US Open golf announcers, so here’s ESPN’s press release about their announcers for the tennis: ...

NFL: Monday Night Football on ESPN Announcers
J Schil's Blog — ... The announcers for Monday Night Football on ESPN are: Mike Tirico, Ron Jaworski and Jon Gruden. ...

Official ESPN PR for SweetSpot
It's About The Money - A New York Yankees Blog — Here's the official ESPN press release covering the SweetSpot Network launch: ESPN.com Launches the SweetSpot Blog Network: Team Blogs Debut for the 2009 MLB Playoffs (click below to read more) ESPN.com today launched the charter group of baseball blog sites for the newly formed SweetSpot Blog Network, a collection of local-market blogs that will grow to represent a specific, local voice for each of the 30 professional ...

Related Content
Simmons: "Certain Promises Were Not Kept" [Bill Simmons]
deadspin.com 5/14/2008 — We're not the only ones who noticed that Bill Simmons hasn't written a column in two weeks — until today , anyway — and hasn't been featured much on the home page of ESPN.com. We figured it was nothing; the man has taken extended breaks ...
Of Tony, Bill and Tomase: a strange day for sports journalism
smallwhiteball.blogspot.com 5/15/2008 — First, Tony Kornheiser announces his contract has been bought out...then Deadspin prints some anti-ESPN language from Bill Simmons...then embattled Boston Herald writer John Tomase finally speaks on the Spygate source controversy. What a day.
Playing the What-If Game with Bill Simmons
thebiglead.com 5/15/2008 — Some strong opinions in the comments section of yesterday’s post about Bill Simmons’ surprising public swipe at his employer . A commenter found an ironic quote from Simmons about his former colleague at Page 2, Jason Whitlock, which came ...
ESPN Rise Will Probably Be the Network's Downfall
stetsports.com 5/15/2008 — ESPN touts it as a move to bolster its 12-17 audience and were it a marketing decision to cross-promote Wall-E, I could understand. But trying to engage more teenagers comes off as a bit desperate for the World Wide Leader, and I guess you can't control the world without those all-important teenagers.
ESPN Now Targeting The Nations Youth With ESPN Rise
awfulannouncing.blogspot.com 5/16/2008 — Trying to complete their goal of covering every possible sport at every level ad naseum, ESPN is startomg a new "high school sports content initiative" called "ESPN Rise". Here are the details.... ESPN announced it has formally launched a high ...
Hannah Storm joins ESPN's 'SportsCenter'Other - BostonHerald.com 5/13/2008
NEW YORK - ESPN will add Hannah Storm to its "SportsCenter" lineup in August when it will supplant nine hours of taped programming in favor of live sports news. Storm,...