This theme lends itself to the title of The Bronx Is Burning, an eight-part ESPN TV mini-series ( 2007 ) about the New York Yankees ' drive to winning baseball's 1977 World Series.

* Bernard Lee ( poker player ) is a poker professional / media personality who has also written for ESPN. com and CardPlayer Magazine and hosts his own radio show.

In 2004, ESPN ranked boxing as the most difficult sport in the world.

MASN airs all games with the exception of selected Saturday afternoon games on Fox ( via its Baltimore affiliate, WBFF ) or Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN.

The growing presentation of cheerleading as a sport to a global audience has been led by the 1997 start of broadcasts of cheerleading competition by ESPN International and the worldwide release of the 2000 film Bring it On.

ESPN first broadcast the National High School Cheerleading Competition nationwide in 1983.

All of these events air on ESPN.

The first World Cheerleading Championships, or Cheerleading Worlds, were hosted by the USASF / IASF at the Walt Disney World Resort and taped for an ESPN global broadcast in 2004.

In 2004, ESPN released a made-for-TV movie entitled 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story which used a new ( but similarly colored ) No. 3 logo.

In December 2006, the ESPN lawsuit was settled, but details were not released to the public.

During the 2012 season the Green Bay Packer's took over the mantle of " America's Team " according to an ESPN article.

In recent decades the term extreme sport was further promoted by X Games, a multi-sport event created and developed by ESPN.

A local subscription service, KTV carries satellite channels such as ESPN, Discovery CNN International and Turner Classic Movies ( from the United States ) and BBC World from the United Kingdom.

ESPN the Magazine published a full-page opinion piece about the Marlins and was extremely scathing in its criticism of David Samson.

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

Its major interests include 15 daily and 38 weekly newspapers, and more than 300 magazines around the world, including Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle and O, The Oprah Magazine ; 29 television stations through Hearst Television Inc. which reach a combined 18 % of U. S. viewers ; ownership in leading cable networks, including A + E Networks, and ESPN Inc .; as well as business publishing, Internet businesses, television production, newspaper features distribution and real estate.

On November 8, 1990, Hearst Corporation acquired the remaining 20 % stake of ESPN Inc. from RJR Nabisco for a price estimated between $ 165 million and $ 175 million.

* ESPN Inc. ( owns 20 %; also shared with Disney, which owns the other 80 %)

) Journalists including ESPN. com's Kevin Seifert predicted the Jaguars were poised to make a Super Bowl run.

ESPN. com's Marc Stein was told the Lakers were to acquire Howard, Chris Duhon and Earl Clark, the Denver Nuggets were to acquire Andre Iguodala, the Philadelphia 76ers were to acquire Andrew Bynum and Jason Richardson, and the Magic were to acquire Arron Afflalo, Al Harrington, Nikola Vucevic, Maurice Harkless, Josh McRoberts, Christian Eyenga and five total protected future ( three first-round, two second-round ) picks from each of the other three teams.

According to ESPN. com's Ron Flatter: " He was the pioneer of boxing's bigger-than-life entourages, including a secretary, barber, masseur, voice coach, a coterie of trainers, beautiful women, a dwarf mascot and lifelong manager George Gainford.

On July 18, 2008, it was reported on ESPN. com's quick hits that the fight between Mayorga and Mosley was moved to the Home Depot Center in Carson, California and set for September 27 because of the Pavlik-Hopkins fight agreement for October 18 on HBO PPV.

In 2007, on ESPN. com's list of the 50 Greatest Boxers of All Time, Marciano was ranked # 14.

" Tuesday Morning Quarterback " (" TMQ ") was originally published in Slate in 2000, and on ESPN. com's Page 2 in 2002.

In 2004, Marinovich was included in ESPN. com's list of The 25 Biggest Sports Flops, coming in at fourth on the ESPN. com editors ' list, and seventh on the readers ' list.

Becoming one of the most popular columnists on the site, Simmons was given his own section of ESPN. com's Page 2, which helped both himself and Page 2 gain widespread popularity.

In July 2008, Simmons announced that he would be taking 10 weeks off from writing columns for ESPN. com's Page 2 to concentrate on finishing his second book, The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy, which was released on October 27, 2009.

The incident made ESPN. com's " Biggest Cheaters in Baseball " list at number 4 and Foxsports. com list of the biggest cheaters in baseball history at # 5.

Patrick has stated on his show many times he is less forgiving when his former employer fails to give credit to guests who appear on his show regularly who might be in direct competition with ESPN, such as ProFootballTalk. com's Mike Florio, who might be the first to report on a story and later appear on The Dan Patrick Show but may be lesser-known than Patrick.

* ESPN. com's Ten Best Seats in the Minor Leagues

It is also ranked # 2 on ESPN. com's " Top 10 Scariest Places To Play.

Robert " Scoop " Jackson ( born November 23, 1963 ) is an American sports journalist and cultural critic currently contributing to ESPN. com's Page2 and ESPN The Magazine.

" The entire episode was placed first on ESPN. com's list of the " Top 100 Simpsons sport moments ", released in 2004.

Whitlock announced the departure of his on-line column from ESPN. com's Page 2 in favor of AOL Sports, but initially expected to continue his television work for ESPN.

In 2007 it was recognized by ESPN. com's Jim Caple as one of the top 10 ball park destinations in the U. S. It is also featured in the 2008 book, " 101 Baseball Places To See Before You Strike Out " by Josh Pahigian ( 2008, The Lyons Press ).

* Lost Ballparks and Old Landmarks by ESPN. com's Jim Caple

Animax won a Sports Emmy Award in 2006 and was nominated again in 2007 for their work on ESPN. com's " Off-Mikes ", based on Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg and their ESPN Radio show Mike and Mike in the Morning.

Since launching in 1995 as ESPNet. SportsZone. com, the website has developed numerous sections including: Page 2, SportsNation, ESPN 3. com, ESPN Motion, My ESPN, ESPN Sports Travel, ESPN Video Games, ESPN Insider, ESPN. com's Fanboard, ESPN Fantasy Sports, ESPNU. com, and ESPN Search.

During the time he was at ESPN Maguire called playoff games for ABC every year except for 2002, when the network elected to use Brent Musburger and Gary Danielson, its lead college football broadcast team, on Wild Card Saturday.

Barnaby was forced to depart Time Warner Cable SportsNet after joining ESPN as its lead NHL analyst in October 2008, when Barry Melrose returned to the league to coach the Tampa Bay Lightning.

After his retirement as a player in 1994, Simms first joined ESPN then went on to join NBC's lead broadcast crew, teaming with Dick Enberg and Paul Maguire on that network's coverage of Super Bowl XXX and Super Bowl XXXII.

In 2008, after retiring from driving following the 2008 Food City 500, Jarrett joined ESPN permanently as the lead racing analyst replacing Rusty Wallace.

From 1997 to 2005 he served as the lead analyst for golf coverage on ABC television, and in recent years he has broadcast for ABC, NBC and ESPN.

NBC followed ESPN ’ s lead and created the Gravity Games in which the sport was sanctioned by Extreme Downhill International ( EDI ).

Emrick was the lead play-by-play announcer for The NHL on ESPN from 1986 – 1988.

Mees was a lead anchor on SportsCenter from 1979 to 1987 when he took on play-by-play duties for NHL games on ESPN.

Bestwick is the network's lead commentator for NASCAR races televised by ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN on ABC, a position he has held since 2011.

For 2007, Bestwick joined the NASCAR on ESPN package as lead pit reporter, as well as occasionally being race coverage host on Nationwide Series races, and rare NASCAR Now hosting duties.

Since 2004, he has been the lead announcer for the series, which has gone out on Spike TV, CBS, NBC, Speed Channel & in 2007 returning to the networks of ESPN & ABC for the first time since 2001.

In the two weeks prior to Kolber's arrival, Brent Musburger was mysteriously absent from his position as lead host of NASCAR Countdown on the ABC / ESPN network.

He also played a lead role in ESPN ’ s documentary Cinderella Man: The James J. Braddock Story, for which he received excellent reviews for his portrayal of boxer Max Baer.

The IOC's lead negotiator Richard Carrion told the Associated Press the bidding war would be waged among NBC, ESPN, Fox and perhaps a CBS / Turner coalition.

Jill switched to ESPN for a year as the lead college football sideline reporter for primetime games as well as feature reporter on ESPN College Gameday.

After Costas, ( who was reportedly offered a generous deal which also included Major League Baseball play-by-play for ESPN and ABC News features ) elected to remain with NBC, and Albert signed a six year deal with TNT, the network went with veteran broadcaster Brad Nessler to be the lead NBA play-by-play man.

For the 2006-07 NBA season, ABC's sports operations were fully integrated into ESPN and as a result, Mark Jackson replaced Hubie Brown as ABC's lead analyst ( Brown would still pair with Mike Breen on ESPN's number one team and Mike Tirico on ABC's number two team ).

When Burke is on-assignment or working as an analyst on NBA games for ESPN, Lisa Salters its secondary Sideline Reporter, is also its lead sideline reporter whenever Burke isn't there.

William Timothy Cowlishaw (; born March 31, 1955 in Dallas, Texas ) is an American sportswriter for The Dallas Morning News, a regular panelist on the ESPN sports talk show Around the Horn and formerly the lead reporter for the ESPN2 racing show NASCAR Now.

In May, 2007, he announced his departure from ESPN to join the Big Ten Network as their lead studio host.

Currently, the morning and nightly newscasts follow a " Smart News and Analysis " format, while following the lead of many ten o ' clock newscasts by reserving its sportscasts for the final segment ( in an attempt to lure many viewers to all-night cable sports channels such as ESPN, Comcast Sports Net, and Fox Sports Net for further sports coverage ).

In past seasons Flemming served as lead radio announcer for Sunday games when Miller was on assignment with ESPN Sunday Night Baseball although this has changed as of 2011, as Miller is no longer employed by ESPN and now works full time for KNBR.