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ESPN Plays Court Jester to King James

Last night at 1:30 a.m Eastern Time, ESPN published a story by reporter Arash Markazi about a night LeBron James spent out in the nightclub Tao in Las Vegas. It was a great read! By this morning, the story had been removed. 

A spokeswoman for ESPN said that the story was published by accident. “The Read More

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ESPN, The Magazine and the Network, To Share Offices Among Other Things in Connecticut

ESPN The Magazine will move operations from Manhattan to the network’s headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut by September 2011 as part of a larger effort to integrate the magazine more fully with the on-air brand, according to The New York Times.

Editorially speaking, this new strategy will mean more “topical packages” for the magazine. This Read More

Newspaper Wars

Press-Boxed: WSJ Adds Sports Beats to Take on The Times

We can all list some of the well-documented ways that The Wall Street Journal has changed under Rupert Murdoch: More color on the front page! Snappier headlines! A women’s magazine! More politically conservative (maybe)!

But this is one we didn’t expect: The Journal is getting sportier!

The Journal’s New York sports section will assign beat Read More

Draftniks: The Rise of the Mini-Kipers

In a one-bedroom basement apartment in Astoria, Queens, four guys sat around a glass table broadcasting an online radio show about the NFL Draft. Their “studio”—located just inches away from Rick Serritella’s twin-size bed—was a configuration of two laptops, two mics and a speaker phone. This is what the 28-year-old Serritella traded for when he Read More