ESPN plants to have its Deportes' Network televise 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa in the U.S matches live in Portuguese as well as 24-7 Game-around-the-game news and information coverage in Spanish. The telecasts will complement the network's comprehensive Spanish-language news and information coverage of the popular sports event slated for June 11 - July 11, 2010.
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College football teams are making their final push toward bowl games. The NBA and college basketball seasons are under way and it's the perfect time for a national sports trivia competition. Anyone who has broadband service can test their sports knowledge with the Verizon ESPN Trivia Challenge and win prizes for knowing bits of sports trivia such as "Name the Quarterback for the 1987 Orangemen".
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ESPN has announced that Bob Griese suspended for his Juan Pablo Montoya taco comment for one week. Griese is an analyst for ESPN's college football games.
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Baseball analyst Steve Phillips was fired by ESPN on Sunday night, less than a week after he admitted having an affair with a production assistant Brooke Hundley at the cable network. When Steve Phillips came clean about his affair with 22-year-old Brooke Hundley it became a media frenzy. ESPN decided it was time to separate itself from Steve Phillips infidelity issues and fired him.
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ESPN baseball analyst and former Mets general manager Steve Phillips has admitted to having a brief affair with a 22 year old that has taken a twist that Phillips probably didn't anticipate. His alleged 3 week affair with 22-year-old production assistant Brooke Hundley this summer has landed him with a wife who is divorcing him and a one week suspension from ESPN.
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Two weeks ago, NFL Fieldpass was unavailable to users for hours on the premiere weekend in NFL football. Today, ESPN has login problems with its Fantasy Football site. Traffic was apparently overloading the site and users were being fairly vocal about their frustrations.
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A suspect has finally been arrested in the Erin Andrews peephole video case. Michael David Barrett has been arrested as the alleged Peeping Tom who secretly videotaped ESPN reporter Erin Andrews through the peephole of her hotel room at various hotels as she walked around naked inside of them.
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College football season is in full swing and fans are trying to keep up on the action from where ever they are. If a television is not close at hand (for those who work on game days), catch the college football action on line. Viewers do not need to pay to watch the college games on ESPN is offering live games for fans who want to watch on their computers. However, there is a catch.
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Thursday night football is in its third week. ESPN provided its schedule for Thursday night college football games in July and this . schedule has almost become as important as its Saturday prime time lineups on ABC and ESPN. This is the first year of ESPN's SEC TV contract, which is great exposure for college football and plenty of great match-ups.
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You might have thought the bruhaha over the Erin Andrews peephole video had died down, as its been a few days since she topped the Google Trends. As I said previously, though, any new news will create another Internet firestorm of activity.
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Another day, another 24-hour period with Erin Andrews at the top of the Google Trends list. Today, the search term is "erin andrews peephole tape video watch." In other words, people still want to watch the darn thing, more than a week later.
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