by admin | Mar 4, 2022 | Representation, SEW
There will be 25 WNBA regular-season games broadcast on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 this season, along with the entire postseason, the league announced Thursday. With the newly expanded playoffs for 2022, the postseason could include as many as 27 games. Nine of the games...
by admin | Feb 11, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Maria Taylor has had a wild couple of years. “You can’t make up the story lines that end up leading to my very first Super Bowl,” she says now, in her first full interview since the controversy that led her to leave her longtime perch at ESPN for NBC Sports. The...
by admin | Jan 5, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Rachel Nichols’ time at ESPN is now officially over. Nichols and ESPN reached a settlement on Tuesday to officially end her deal after private comments she made about diversity and Maria Taylor at the network were made public last year. Nichols had one year left on...
by admin | Dec 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Ever since she started her broadcast career at ESPN, Chiney Ogwumike has been trying to go with the flow, taking advantage of whatever opportunities she could while still being a professional athlete. Whether that was anchoring SportsCenter Africa or being a...
by admin | Nov 29, 2021 | Guest Blogs, SEW
Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving weekend saw an almost constant stream of sports broadcasts flood the American airwaves. From the three nationally televised NFL football games on Thanksgiving Day to the women and men’s NCAA basketball tournaments that were taking place...
by admin | Sep 26, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to Melanie Newman and Jessica Mendoza who will be ESPN’s first all female MLB broadcast team. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to Georgia Tech, who’s women’s basketball team has been put on...
by admin | Jul 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
As the N.B.A. playoffs started in May, the stars of ESPN’s marquee basketball show, “NBA Countdown,” discussed whether they would refuse to appear on it. They were objecting to a production edict from executives that they believed was issued to benefit a sideline...
by admin | Jun 7, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
It is an eight-team softball tournament held every year in Oklahoma City, and the games frequently sell out. The television audience on ESPN is substantial, too. In the most recent previous tournament, 1.8 million people watched the final game, substantially more than...
by admin | May 21, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Someone on Capitol Hill, please explain why the dystopian, reform-resistant NCAA should get one more dime or tax favor from an American electorate that is more than half female. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) has remarked that we need to recognize the NCAA “for the civil...
by admin | May 18, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
ESPN continues to fill out its NHL broadcasting team for next season and beyond, with their latest hire there being Leah Hextall. Hextall has done some previous work for ESPN, including interviews at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey and play-by-play at the NCAA men’s...
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