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

ESPN on ABC ( formerly known as ABC Sports ) is the brand used for sports programming on the ABC television network.

Prior to September 2, 2006, the broadcast network's coverage carried the ABC Sports brand, although integration of ABC's sports division with ESPN had begun a decade earlier.

The brand integration does not directly affect whether ESPN ( the cable channel ) or ABC carries a particular event, as in most cases this is governed by contracts with the applicable league or organization.

In addition, ABC itself maintains the copyright over many of the ESPN-branded broadcasts, if they are not contractually assigned to the applicable league or organizer, suggesting that ESPN has merely " loaned " usage of its brand name, staff, and infrastructure to ABC, rather than having acquired ABC Sports outright.

When Stanley Putterman installs a brand new, state-of-the-art satellite dish in his backyard, his family ends up getting a lot more than just ESPN.

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

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

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.

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.

On Mother's Day Bill Hall hit a walk off home run with his mother in the stands, a play that was shown on ESPN throughout the summer.

The game was voted as the best game in NFL history by a panel of ESPN journalists.

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.

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.

However, skaters from the Four Continents have become more competitive since the 2000s in what was termed a " dance revolution " by ESPN ; with Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto taking silver in the 2006 Winter Olympics.

The former New York radio station WEVD ( now ESPN radio ) was named in his honor.

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

Further adding to the debate was the 2004 ESPN made-for-TV movie Hustle, starring Tom Sizemore as Rose, which documents Rose's gambling problem and his subsequent ban from baseball.

ESPN president Chet Simmons was named the league's first commissioner in June 1982.

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.

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.

On February 5, 2008, ESPN reported that the Heat were interested in trading center Shaquille O ' Neal, contrary to reports by Pat Riley one month earlier that the Heat was not interested in trading the 13-time all-star.

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.

17-year NBA veteran and former ABC and ESPN commentator Mark Jackson was named as new head coach on June 6, 2011.

A somber note was struck in February 2004, when ESPN named the Blackhawks the worst franchise in professional sports.

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!

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.

Also, split screens are used during commercial breaks ( ESPN calls this Side-By-Side ), where one side of the screen shows race footage and the other shows advertising.

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.

A new BottomLine was also released that day on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic and ESPNU, but it was quickly removed and reverted back to the old BottomLine ( which had been used since April 2003 ) due to an equipment failure ( however, this ticker was successful for the 2009 NFL Draft and the 2009 NBA Draft ).

On September 29 ( Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgh Steelers ), ESPN used " Another Way to Die ", a duet between Alicia Keys and Jack White of the White Stripes.

ABC began using extended abbreviations for team names ( TENN, VIKES, PACK, and FINS instead of TEN, MIN, GB, and MIA ), as four-letter and five-letter abbreviations were used on ESPN coverage.

ESPN changed its entire graphics package to a red and black design, but its NBA and NFL coverage used its own design.

The match brought unprecedented TV coverage from ESPN, who used 19 cameras to cover it, including one trained only on Beckham, even when he was on the bench.

* ESPN the Magazines Senior Editor Steve Wulf used to live in Norwich and wrote about coming back in a 1993 Issue of Sports Illustrated

* The song has been used in advertisements for the Discovery Channel's Future Car program, American Express, American football on ESPN, Carling beer, Folksam, Little Debbie, Nissan Altima and the Oldsmobile Alero, as well as the " Go Greener " campaign in Scotland.

The show used to air on the subsequent Sunday five days later, with the results announced on ESPN. com and thereafter across media outlets immediately after taping was complete.

The AWA ended up owning the group's ESPN timeslot, and used it to broadcast its own weekly shows.

Apart from HBO, CompuBox is also used by NBC and ESPN, among others.

Many other guest hosts were used in the past, including David Aldridge, Skip Bayless, Jay Bilas, Norman Chad, Mike Golic, Sally Jenkins, Max Kellerman, Tim Kurkjian, Patrick McEnroe, Bill Plaschke, Rick Reilly, T. J. Simers, Dan Shaughnessy, Michael Smith, Stephen A. Smith, Michele Tafoya, Mike Tirico, Bob Valvano, and Ralph Wiley of ESPN and sportswriters Jason Whitlock of The Kansas City Star and David Dupree and Jon Saraceno of USA Today.

" ESPN later reported that Vick used some of his NFL and endorsement earnings to buy his mother a brand-new house in an upscale section of Suffolk, Virginia.

ESPN has not used the NFL name or logo in the official segment name or in advertising, leading to unconfirmed rumors of not being given permission to do so by the league.

( The name Van Pelt coined, the " Boston Three-Party ", has actually been used in ESPN broadcasts.

He asks ESPN employees Stuart Scott, Karl Ravech and Josh Elliot if they used his razor to which all answer in the negative.

ESPN also used a photo of the stadium in its advertising to promote its GameDay show throughout the 2005 college football season.

ESPN held their inaugural Moto X World Championships at Qualcomm in April 2008, and has previously used the stadium parking lot and surrounding streets as a venue in the X Games Street Luge competition.

The song " Dear Kate " was used in the PlayStation 2 game: ESPN Winter X-Games Snowboarding.

Also a popular location for filming movies, the building was used in the made-for-television Inside the Osmonds and the ESPN film A Season on the Brink.

It was also used, at one time, by ESPN as the opening theme for its baseball coverage.