In 1995, Stephen Greenberg co-founded Classic Sports Network with Brian Bedol, which was purchased by ESPN and became ESPN Classic.

It was also named " The Best Sports Stadium in North America " by ESPN The Magazine in a ranking that included over 120 different stadiums, ballparks and arenas from around North America.

* 1979 – The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, better known as ESPN, makes its debut.

This would be the final Super Bowl hosted by Musburger, as all subsequent Super Bowls on ABC were hosted by ESPN's Chris Berman following the Disney purchase of ABC ( which included ESPN ), and the subsequent integration of ESPN and ABC Sports ( now ESPN on ABC ).

Sports talk radio can be found locally and nationally in the US ( with the networks ESPN Radio, Fox Sports Radio, and Sporting News Radio, as well as nationally syndicated hosts Jim Rome and Dan Patrick ).

Voted " Indiana's Best College Sports Rivalry " by viewers of ESPN in 2005, DePauw University and Wabash College play each November — in the last regular season football game of the year for both teams — for the right to keep or reclaim the Monon Bell.

* September 7 – In the USA, the Entertainment Sports Programming Network, known as ESPN, broadcasts for the first time.

* ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex

For example, the ESPN Sports Almanac considers the renovated stadium to be " Yankee Stadium II ," and the pre-renovated facility to be " Yankee Stadium I ".

Through the early 2000s, the ABC Sports division and ESPN merged operations.

They quickly reached an over-the-air television deal with ABC Sports and a cable TV deal with then-fledgling ESPN.

Sports Injuries ESPN.

With attendance routinely well below the league average, Sports Illustrated ran a story titled " Natural Disaster ," and ESPN anchors mocked the " Green Acres " of empty seats ; in a 2006 interview, Karmanos admitted that " as it turns out, was probably a mistake.

In February 2006, Disney CEO Bob Iger initiated a trade with NBC Universal in which a number of minor assets, including the rights to Oswald, were acquired by The Walt Disney Company in exchange for sending sportscaster Al Michaels from Disney's ABC and ESPN to NBC Sports.

Also, ESPN. com Page 2 columnist Bill Simmons often jokes that he is looking forward to running a future network ; SportsCenter anchors appeared as themselves in music videos by Brad Paisley ( I'm Gonna Miss Her ( The Fishin ' Song )) and Hootie and the Blowfish ( Only Wanna Be With You ); and the 1998 TV series Sports Night was based on an ESPN-style network and its titular, SportsCenter-analogue flagship sports results program.

Electronic Arts in the early 1990s used to have a faux sports network logo on their sports games called EASN ( Electronic Arts Sports Network ), but soon changed to EA Sports after ESPN requested that they stop using it.

* W227BG 93. 3 ESPN Sports translator of 106. 3 Gretna-Translator at Timberlake-Low power

* WVGM 1320, ESPN Sports based in Lynchburg

ESPN The Magazine produced its first “ Women in Sports ” issue in June 2012.

He was ranked by ESPN as one of the greatest athletes of the 20th Century.

Butkus was also selected the 70th Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century by ESPN, the ninth-best player in NFL history by The Sporting News, and the fifth-best by the Associated Press.

* ESPN named Sanders # 74 in its list of the 100 Great Athletes of the Century released in 1999.

: Terry is awarded the prestigious Office Athlete Of The Century award from OSPN ( a parody of ESPN ).

In its " The End of the Century " series, ESPN rated Mayo Smith's decision to move Stanley to shortstop for the 1968 World Series as one of the 10 greatest coaching decisions of the century.

In its " The End of the Century " series, ESPN rated Smith's decision to move Stanley to shortstop for the 1968 World Series as one of the 10 greatest coaching decisions of the 20th century.

Disney's Pop Century Resort is located near Epcot theme park, Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park, Disney's BoardWalk Area and ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex.

In 1999, ESPN counted down the Top 50 Athletes of the 20th Century, selected from North American athletes and voted on by a panel of sports journalists and observers, premiering a new biography highlighting each top athlete every week throughout the year.

* Michael Jordan, former star basketball player for the North Carolina Tar Heels, Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards and was named " Athlete of the Century " by ESPN.

* ESPN – Club news – Fixtures & results – Club statistics – Squad statistics

* ESPN on ABC 2006 – 2010

* ESPN Classic – ESPN Classic story on 1973 Belmont – 19-Nov-2003

For the 2007 – 08 season, all but six regular-season games were carried on one these networks ; the other six were broadcast nationally on TNT or ESPN.

* Taryne Mowatt – Arizona Wildcats All-American softball pitcher & two-time ESPN ESPY Award winner

The 2009 events ran August 2-September 6, with the televised finals being taped by ESPN on September 5 – 6.

* John Kernan ( 1958 – Present ), announcer for ESPN and ABC NASCAR broadcasts 1990-2000, host of RPM2Night on ESPN2 1996-2003.

* Brandon Sneed – Author ( The Edge of Legend ) and Journalist ( ESPN: The Magazine )

* Wendi Nix – ESPN analyst

Mosley – Mayorga was originally scheduled for Oct. 11 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer and Mosley's wife and advisor, Jin Mosley, told ESPN. com.

* ScoreCenter on ESPN MobileTV ( 2007 – present )

* September 21 – NFL Monday Night Football premieres on ABC ( 1970 – Present ); it moved to ESPN in 2006.

The deal with ESPN fell through, but a delayed competition took place April 21 – 25, 2009 with fewer than 20 college teams participating.

Viewership across the three networks that carried coverage of the event – ABC Sports, ESPN and ESPN2 – exceeded last year's household average by 30 % according to Nielsen Media Research.