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There's a very good chance you've never watched ESPN on a Sunday afternoon, after all you're watching football.  ESPN has the rights to the PBA and shows bowling turnaments most Sundays.  Have you seen this viral commercial?

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Mike Ditka, the 73-year-old former coach of the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints is resting in a Chicago hospital after suffering a minor stroke on Friday.

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A Miami Dolphins fan with a large tattoo commemorating the team's 1972 undefeated season was immortalized on a recent edition of the C'Mon Man segment part of ESPN's Monday Night Countdown.

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Michael Jordan has been in some great TV commercials over the years. But the best MJ ad we’ve seen in a while doesn’t even feature Michael Jordan. Well, the ESPN spot doesn’t feature that Michael Jordan. Instead it’s all about a poor schlub whose parents happened to give him the same name as the Hall of Famer. Witness the pain of sharing a legendary name.

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ESPN sideline reporter Holly Rowe doesn’t fit the mold of the ‘typical’ ladies we feature in the ‘Crush of the Day,’ but Holly gets the nod today for a little stunt she pulled at the end of the Sugar Bowl the other night.

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What is the best way for ‘ESPN FirstTake’ to give Skip Bayless his due for showing such devotion to Tim Tebow’s game from the very beginning? You guessed it – give him the full on auto-tune treatment.

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The Obama-Hitler comparison made on ‘Fox & Friends’ by Hank Williams Jr. a while back forced ESPN to sack the singer’s opening theme song from Monday Night Football.

Now, according to sources who spoke with the Associated Press, the 62-year-old has fired back at both ESPN and ‘Fox & Friends’ in a new song titled ‘I’ll Keep My …,’ which he recorded in a Nashville studio on Friday.

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On Monday, after Hank Williams Jr. appeared on Fox News and compared President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner’s recent golf outing to “Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu,” ESPN pulled Williams’ classic opening theme from that night’s airing of ‘Monday Night Football.’

‘All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night,’ which includes the catchphrase, “Are you ready for some football?,” had opened the show for nearly 20 years. At the time, the network declined to say whether the benching would be permanent or not, but now it seems it is.

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“Monday Night Football” will stay on ESPN through 2021, according to a new deal the cable network has struck with the NFL.

The $1.9-billion-a-year deal is reportedly 73 percent more than ESPN previously paid for rights to the weekly broadcast. ESPN will also get rights to more than 500 hours of NFL-branded studio programing.

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ESPN The Magazine has dedicated its entire football preview issue to controversial QB Michael Vick, including a feature which poses the question, “What if Michael Vick were white?”

It’s complicated, concludes the thought piece’s author, Touré. What’s also complicated is the status of the article’s photo — a digital rendering of Vick as a white man — on ESPN’s website.

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ESPN analyst and former NBA player Jalen Rose was sentenced in Michigan Wednesday to 20 days behind bars after pleading guilty to driving under the influence in March.

Before the sentence, Jalen told the judge, “I’m humbled, I’m embarrassed, and I’m very apologetic. I can assure everyone that nothing like this will ever happen again.”

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It was the 9th inning of Sunday night's Phillies/Mets game when the news broke that President Obama was set to make the announcement that US Special Forces had succeeded in the mission to find and kill 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden

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