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Keith Olbermann offered ESPN an ultimatum: silence Stephen A. Smith or fire him. Olbermann uploaded a video detailing his orders Monday, including a meandering 393-word caption. In short, he called upon ESPN to take immediate action after Smith appeared on Fox News last week. "WHY ESPN MUST EITHER SILENCE OR FIRE STEPHEN A. SMITH: Its longstanding policy - no, you can't be a sportscaster on one station and an advocate for a presidential candidate on another station - is right. I know: I helped to author it because the day when you (or I) could straddle both worlds is long...

PGA Tour star Scottie Scheffler, who won his second green jacket at the Masters last week, isn't the only world No. 1 golfer dominating a professional tour right now. Nelly Korda, No. 1 in the Rolex Women's World Golf Ranking, has won in four consecutive starts on the LPGA Tour, becoming the first golfer since Lorena Ochoa in 2008 to accomplish the feat. Korda is the first American golfer since Kathy Whitworth in 1969 to capture victories in four of her first five LPGA starts in a season.

Former ESPN host Sage Steele revealed that her 2021 interview with President Biden was “scripted” by network executives. In an interview with Fox News Digital, Steele recalled the “structured” nature of the pre-taped interview, so much so that her ESPN bosses handed her a “script” to go off of. “That was an interesting experience in its own right because it was so structured,” Steele said. “And I was told, ‘You will say every word that we write out, you will not deviate from the script and go.’” (snip) “I think it’s really heartbreaking that the people who love Joe Biden...

Sage Steele Admits Fox News Completely Scripted Her Interview With Dementia Joe 1:44 VIDEO, Cat in Bag, she let it out.............

Former ESPN anchor Sage Steele revealed that her interview with President Joe Biden shortly after he took office in March 2021 was “scripted” by executives at the Disney-owned network. Steele — who was “sidelined” by ESPN later that year after she criticized the company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and made controversial comments about former President Barack Obama — told Fox News that she was beholden to a “structured” interview. “It was very much ‘This is what you will ask. This is how you will say it. No follow-ups, no follow-ups. Next,'” Steele told Fox, adding that each question was “gone over...

First, ESPN brought simulcasts of Monday Night Football to ABC under the branding ‘ESPN on ABC’. Now, ABC is returning the favor, with simulcasts of some of their own series planned to air on ESPN. Dubbed ‘ABC on ESPN’, the deal will begin in fall 2024 with ESPN simulcasting every episode of the following series:-Abbott Elementary -America’s Funniest Home Videos -American Idol -High Potential -The Bachelor -The Bachelorette -The Golden Bachelor -The Golden Bachelorette -The Great Christmas Light Fight‘ABC on ESPN’ will displace several live sports broadcasts, which will now air instead on ESPN+. A subscription to the streaming service...

Longtime NFL reporter and ESPN journalist Chris Mortensen died on Sunday morning, the network announced. He was 72. Specifics of his death are not yet known, though Mortensen had been battling cancer for years. ESPN announced the news on-air on Sunday afternoon, too, and the NFL Network ended it's coverage of the NFL scouting combine by paying tribute to Mortensen.

ESPN First Take host Stephen A. Smith has had enough of the leftist economic policies exacerbating Americans’ struggles to stay afloat amidst high prices and an unsustainable cost of living crisis. Smith took particular aim at news that New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ (D) administration would be enacting a $53 million taxpayer-funded pilot program to give illegal immigrants prepaid credit cards despite the city’s worsening homelessness crisis. “I see homeless folk in the streets of New York all the time that are American citizens. I damn sure see them in California. We’ve got poor, impoverished, starving people who were...

Walt Disney’s ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery plan to launch a joint sports streaming service this fall, giving consumers a new way to access marquee live sports for the first time, the companies said Tuesday. The platform, which will be owned by a newly formed company with its own leadership team, does not yet have a name or a price. Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery will each own a one-third stake. Consumers would be able to subscribe directly via a new app. Subscribers would also have the ability to bundle the product with the companies’ streaming platforms Disney+,...

Pat McAfee, while appearing on his ESPN show he’s receiving $85 million to host, claimed he’s canceled. And he said this on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In the latest example of McAfee bringing criticism to his show – and this one somehow did not involve any conspiracy theories from Aaron Rodgers – the host of the self-titled “The Pat McAfee Show” went on a bizarre rant Monday that was met with head-scratching by some in the media. Here’s the full transcript of McAfee’s remarks: “Obviously, it is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. He had a dream. And I think...

Even Pat McAfee has had enough of the Aaron Rodgers drama. The ESPN host announced at the start of “The Pat McAfee Show” on Wednesday that the Jets quarterback has made his final appearance of the season. “There will be a lot of people who are happy with that, myself included to be honest with you,” McAfee said. “The way it ended, it got really loud. I am happy that he’s not going to be in my mentions going forward, which is great news.” Rodgers was originally scheduled to appear throughout the playoffs, The Post’s Andrew Marchand reported.

McAfee called out ESPN's head of production Norby Williamson on his program Friday.ESPN host Pat McAfee is still making headlines. Just days after he apologized when Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers made an unfounded claim about ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel, McAfee himself took aim at a top ESPN executive who he believes is “attempting to sabotage” his show. McAfee on Friday called out Norby Williamson, a four decade veteran of ESPN and its executive editor and head of event and studio production, alleging that the executive leaked negative ratings information. It is not clear what specifically McAfee was referring...

Pat McAfee is clearing some things up after comments made by Aaron Rodgers on The Pat McAfee Show that linked Jimmy Kimmel to the Jeffrey Epstein list of associates. McAfee addressed the controversy at the top of his show on ESPN, noting that the ABC late-night talk show host had threatened legal action. The sports commentator said that he and his staff had been “free wheeling” after coverage of the Rose Bowl, taking note that his show doesn’t have a format and “there is an opportunity to talk about damn near everything for three and a half hours.”

Pat McAfee couldn’t foresee his audience hating the move to ESPN … really? As McAfee’s eponymous show transitions to becoming part of the Worldwide Leader in Woke, the ex-NFL player wonders why so many people are mad at the move. After all, for a show that prides itself in saying whatever the (eff) they want on the radio, moving to one of the most censored platforms in sports perhaps doesn’t come off as the brightest idea. But money talks. On Thursday’s episode of “The Pat McAfee Show,” the host gave his thoughts on the backlash he’s received for deciding to...

After years of criticism over an ongoing welfare scandal, Brett Favre filed defamation lawsuits Thursday against Mississippi state auditor Shad White, Fox Sports commentator Shannon Sharpe and popular radio host Pat McAfee, according to documents acquired by Mississippi Today. Favre's legal team alleges the trio's claims that Favre stole money from poor people to be "malicious lies" and to have tainted the Green

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers discussed his views on the science of Covid-19 treatments and vaccines at length Tuesday with tank top-wearing former NFL player Pat McAfee. Rodgers joined Sirius XM’s The Pat McAfee Show as he continues to navigate the fallout from what has been a grueling six weeks, at least off the field. Rodgers indicated he had been “immunized” against the virus in the preseason, and he has been facing nothing but heat since he tested positive for the virus last month.“I’ve gotten accused of spreading misinformation when I talk about the treatment plan I used to...

Welcome to another attempt at Media Excellence January should be designated as "FBI Crimes Month" everything from January 6th to the FBI's extensive spying on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. comes to mind... Was it only yesterday that the High and Mighty ESPN fired Rush Limbaugh as a Sunday commentator on its NFL Pre-Game Show?... Giuffre and Dershowitz fought it out in court cut a deal but Giuffre saying she did not "exonerate" Mr. Dershowitz in her deal with him. But in the last set of documents that came out Tuesday the deposition of Sarah Ransome and her allegations regarding...

ESPN and the NFL are in advanced talks that could result in the league taking an equity stake in ESPN, The Post has learned. As part of a potential agreement, Disney-owned ESPN would take control of NFL Media, which includes NFL Network, and the league would receive equity in ESPN. For the long-term viability of ESPN aligning with the most powerful sports league would enhance its position as the network plans to move to direct to consumer by 2025. While the idea of an ESPN-NFL alliance has been mentioned before, discussions between Disney-owned ESPN and the NFL are far enough...

ESPN returned dozens of Emmy statues and “disciplined” employees after an investigation disclosed Thursday found that the sports network had submitted fake names to the awards organization in a bid to secure trophies for on-air personalities who had been ineligible to receive them. The apparent fraud stretched back to 1997, ESPN said in a statement, acknowledging that members of its team “were clearly wrong” for concocting the scheme. “Some members of our team were clearly wrong in submitting certain names that may go back to 1997 in Emmy categories where they were not eligible for recognition or statuettes,” an ESPN...

Former ESPN anchor Sage Steele said in an interview this week that her former employer demanded she stop speaking about Will “Lia” Thomas, the male swimmer who identifies as “transgender” and competed against women at the University of Pennsylvania. Thomas won races and robbed women of opportunities. ... Steele made the revelation in an interview with women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines, who competed against Thomas at the NCAA championships and tied against him. In the aftermath, Steele and another ESPN colleague, Sam Ponder, had spoken out against Thomas competing against women, which angered some at the company. “I was asked...