* Thomas has also performed voice-overs for hundreds of television commercials, including Coca-Cola, IBM, Valvoline, NBC, United Technologies, Burger King, William Beaumont Hospital and ESPN Monday Night Football Commercials.

In 1983, the league signed a contract with both ABC and ESPN to televise games.

** ESPN signed a contract to keep the X Games in Los Angeles through 2009.

** ESPN signed a contract with the Aspen Skiing Company to keep the Winter X Games in Colorado in 2012

When the Rush returned in 2010, the AFL signed its TV deal with NFL Network, but the Rush were not featured as often as they had been with ESPN and NBC, averaging between 2 and 3 telecasts a year on NFL Network in 2010 and 2011, but were shutout from the national spotlight in 2012.

Under the terms of a television deal signed with ESPN in 2006, the bowl will be held after Christmas Day from 2006 – 2009, and be shown on ESPN in prime time.

In 2005, EA Sports and ESPN signed a massive 15-year deal for ESPN to be integrated into EA Sports video games.

He signed a six year deal with ESPN in 2006.

In 2005, Cohn signed a contract extension with ESPN, which added play-by-play for WNBA telecasts to her duties.

On January 5, 1989, Major League Baseball signed a $ 400 million deal with ESPN, who would show over 175 games beginning in 1990.

Reportedly, after the huge TV contracts with CBS and ESPN were signed, ballclubs spent their excess millions on free agents.

On September 14, 2005 however, ESPN, then the current rights holder, signed an eight year contract with Major League Baseball, highlighted by the continuation of ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball series with additional, exclusive team appearances.

In 2009, the WNBA signed a contract with ESPN which agrees to pay rights fees to teams.

In 2005, in response to EA Sports ' exclusive license with the National Football League and ESPN, Take-Two Interactive signed an exclusive third-party licensing contract with Major League Baseball ( MLB ), MLBPA and MLBAM to produce MLB games in its 2K Sports series, making MVP Baseball 2005 the last MLB game in the series.

Vitale is signed with ESPN through the 2014 – 15 college basketball season.

In 2004, Sega signed a deal with Take-Two Interactive in which Global Star Software ( Take-Two's low-price unit ) distributed and co-published all titles in Sega's ESPN franchise.

EA also signed an agreement with ESPN to become the only license of ESPN's brand in sports games on all platforms.

When negotiations with fellow Viacom property CBS failed ( see above ) two weeks before the broadcast, and he signed a deal with ESPN, UPN promptly canceled the broadcast, and the show aired on the i Network in December 2004 ( both UPN and CBS are now owned by CBS Corporation ).

On July 28, 2008, ESPN. com reported that the Pistons signed Brown to a two-year deal worth $ 8 million, with the second year a player option.

The ESPN brand was used for 3 games, with the second game even being renamed ESPN NBA Basketball, until ESPN signed a 15-year deal with EA Sports.

Jaworski signed a five-year contract extension with ESPN and will remain as an NFL analyst on other programs.

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The World Challenge was transferred to Versus, while the ALMS was transferred to an ESPN / ABC partnership.

Beginning in the 2007 season, the AFL began a TV partnership with ESPN and FSN Chicago went under and Comcast SportsNet Chicago took its place.

Although Joe Morgan's partnership with Jon Miller began in, it was not the first time that Morgan associated himself with ESPN, as from 1985 to 1988, Morgan called college baseball games for ESPN.

The Group has a partnership with Brazilian TV-channel HBO Brasil, Cinemax, Sony Entertainment Television, Warner Channel ), ESPN Brasil, Bravo Brasil, Eurochannel, Country Music Television and MTV Brasil ( a joint venture with the American conglomerate Viacom ), but currently holds only the MTV Brazil, the Fiz and the Ideal.

KABC is owned by Cumulus Media, but despite different owners, 790 KABC, KABC-TV and 710 ESPN maintains a strong partnership ( as KABC-TV is the local ABC owned-and-operated station ).

Yuma's partnership with the CPBL was at one point reportedly being made into a feature story for ESPN.

The Omaha Beef have worked in partnership with Omaha's ESPN Radio, 1620 AM, along with their sister station KKAR 1290.

Additionally, the network launched a separate website for its sports coverage, byutvsports. com in partnership with ESPN and IMG College, featuring news, video, and free video on demand streaming of recent games.

* 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.

* ESPN sports commentator Jim Rome professes his love for Bombay Sapphire

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.

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.

Kelly is now a correspondent for ESPN UK ; Paul followed in his father's footsteps as a footballer, and is the current manager of the Austin Aztex.

It is the secondary theme song for College Gameday on ESPN.

His son Kenny Albert also began to work as a part-time play-by-play announcer for the Knicks since 2009, whenever the older Albert's successor Mike Breen ( whom he later followed on the NBA on NBC broadcasts and now works on ESPN and ABC aside from his role at MSG ) is unavailable.

In a recent interview with ESPN Deportes, Sosa said he would " calmly wait " for his induction into baseball's Hall of Fame, for which he will become eligible in 2013.

Berman was joined by fellow ESPN analyst Steve Young, while ESPN's Mike Tirico was on hand for the post-game presentation of the Vince Lombardi Trophy.

While regular season and post-season games in the NFL are all broadcast by national television contracts on CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN and NFL Network, the television broadcasts are for the most part handled by the individual teams.

Former CBS play-by-play and ESPN golf broadcaster Jim Kelly was the play-by-play announcer for many of those games in the 1980s, and Joe Namath was a commentator.

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.

Providers of pay TV generally on cable television pay the networks a certain amount per subscriber ( the highest charge being for ESPN ).

* They wrote and performed the theme song for the 2005 series " ESPN Bowling Night ".

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.

At the time, ABC had lost its contract for NFL broadcast rights, and despite recently signing a long-term contract with ESPN, Michaels was interested in rejoining broadcast partner John Madden at NBC for the Sunday night package.

* Janusz Michallik, former American national team soccer player, currently a commentator for ESPN

Many movies with a general sports theme will include ESPN announcers and programming into their storylines ( such as in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, which gently lampoons the channel's multiple outlets by referencing the as-yet-nonexistent ESPN8, " The Ocho ", a reference to a nickname formerly used for ESPN2, " the Deuce "; the slogan for the network was " If it's almost a sport, you'll find it here!

A common joke in comedic television and film involves people getting ESP ( an abbreviation for Extrasensory Perception, and an irony considering ESPN was initially supposed to be named " ESP ") confused with ESPN, often including someone saying something along the lines of " I know these kind of things, I've got ESPN ".