"ESPN declined to confirm the numbers, but an executive briefed on the data said that for one 24-hour period, ESPN’s wireless NFL section, with 4.9 million visits, topped the PC NFL section’s 4.5 million visits." (via Lost Remote)

"ESPN and Yahoo Sports are on a furious hiring binge, offering reporters and columnists more than they ever imagined they could make in journalism."

"US sports cable network ESPN is ‘absolutely interested’ in buying the UK rights to broadcast Premier League football"

"SPNU Campus Connection, is specifically to help get more user-generated content on ESPNU’s website, and will be accepting video clips with play-by-play analysis, sideline reporting, and production of televised events on ESPNU."

"During a tour of ESPN’s Bristol, Conn., campus, eWEEK got an up-close look at how the self-proclaimed worldwide leader in sports uses various technologies to offer broadcasts for almost any device."

PC Magazine has a slideshow of websites that are disaggregating the bundle of news that US metropolitan dailies used to provide. The situation’s a bit different in the UK, but it’s worth looking at.

"Major League Baseball has limited ESPN’s access to Tuesday night’s All-Star Game after the network broke an embargo and broadcast news of the players’ selections a few minutes after an exclusive, rain-delayed telecast on TBS."

"ESPN, the US sports channel owned by Disney, has acquired the cricket website Cricinfo from The Wisden Group."