SPORTS
By Mike Preston | May 23, 2012
ESPN tries to take lacrosse fans behind the scenes during its coverage, but hopefully this weekend the network keeps the microphones out of team huddles during the final four in Foxboro, Mass. In may ways, ESPN is giving us more than we really want. Last weekend, you heard a lot of foul language from coaches and some players because those microphones were open. A lot of times, coaches forget they're being recorded on live TV, and it can result in some embarassing moments. Some of the strong words that came from the coaches I disapprove off, but I also know that emotions run deep among players, coaches and officials.
SPORTS
April 18, 1995
Due to a scheduling change, ESPN's feature on Boys' Latin's top-ranked lacrosse team, originally slated for yesterday at 3:30 p.m. on Scholastic Sports America, will be broadcast today at 1 p.m., an ESPN spokesman said.
NEWS
December 18, 1990
The Corporate Sports Battle National Finals, which took place Nov. 28 in Boca Raton, Fla., and included former Andover graduate Kurt Pilgrim, will air on the ESPN cable television network at 10:30 a.m. next Tuesday.Pilgrim, 29, was instrumental in Westinghouse's victory in the basketball competition, sinking a 45-footer at the buzzer.Overall, Westinghouse finished sixth out of 18 corporate teams from across the country.
SPORTS
By Milton Kent and Milton Kent,ESPNSun Staff Writer | September 6, 1994
Just a couple of months after ESPN first signed on the air Sept. 7, 1979, from a piecemeal studio in wooded Bristol, Conn., Chris Berman got nervous.Heavy rain had come to the area, turning the parking lot into a quagmire. The time to begin planning the overnight "SportsCenter" was rapidly approaching, but the producer, a heavy-set fellow named Fred, was nowhere to be found."It was raining cats and dogs, and no one knew what was going on," said Berman, the anchor. "Finally, about 9:30 or 10, we went outside and looked around, and we found that Fred had sunk waist-deep in the mud."
SPORTS
By RAY FRAGER | April 7, 2006
Time to share a few thoughts after losing count of how many times Billy Packer called Florida's players "long" during CBS' Final Four telecasts: ESPN's Bonds on Bonds, in its first episode, ended up being as sympathetic toward embattled slugger Barry Bonds as one would expect of a production controlled by him. ESPN shouldn't be giving Bonds a forum nor have a business relationship with him for this show, and many inside the network apparently feel the...
SPORTS
By RAY FRAGER | February 4, 1994
They made him wear funny shirts and leather jackets. They sat him next to a guy who smacks a hammer on the desk. They put him on a network whose programming staple is snowboarders sliding to heavy-metal music.All of this apparently drove Keith Olbermann to shave off his mustache.But soon his nightmare will be over. Olbermann will leave ESPN2 and return to ESPN on April 3, it was announced this week.Olbermann will rejoin Dan Patrick to re-form ESPN's best "SportsCenter" anchor team, and they will be hosts of an expanded "SportsCenter."