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...triumphant efforts in games against Boston College (25 points), Boston University (19 points), and a triple-overtime victory against William and Mary (19 points) sparked high hopes for the Crimson as it entered its conference season and brought additional media attention from the likes of Time Magazine, ESPN, and Sports Illustrated, all concentrated on the humble Palo Alto, Calif. native...
...hate men’s sports, but I do hate the game of gender appeal differences in sports. We’ve tried dozens of initiatives to change this point of view. Title IX. Establishing the WNBA. Putting the Women’s College World Series on ESPN. Still, the stigma lives on. Most people I have talked to have told me they had no idea what a fast-paced and exciting sport softball was until they saw a college game...
...Shot—all heartbreakers. Rightly or wrongly, he’s come to be acknowledged as “The Chosen One,” or the one that can deliver Cleveland from its status as “Most Tortured Sports City,” as ESPN named it in 2004. But when James hits free agency, he’ll be the choosing one, and he’ll have to decide between the chance to make history in his hometown and the chance to be just another basketball player, wearing a jersey of a city that...
...player behind three franchises that remain among the most popular in sports television--SportsCenter, the early-round coverage of the NCAA men's basketball tournament and the National Football League draft telecast. Along the way, he gave many young women and men a shot. He hired me at ESPN and my brother Bryant at NBC. These jobs were our first network career breaks...
...while Chet left ESPN in 1982 to become the founding commissioner of the short-lived United States Football League, he will forever be associated with the network he steered in its early years. My brother and I, and many other men and women, both on camera and behind the scenes, owe him our gratitude. And most important, so do sports fans...