The Bison (pronounced Bizon) have won three-straight FCS national championships and have won five-straight games against FBS teams, including a 34-14 win over Iowa State last week. On Saturday, the Bison take on Weber State with a chance at additional fame. If the Bison win, which they are expected to do, ESPN “College GameDay” wil return to Fargo, ND for the second straight season, according to ESPN’s Kirk Herbsteit....
The show went on hiatus at the start of the World Cup earlier this month, and ESPN spokesman Andy Hall confirmed the show would not return. “We decided to make a change to our programming schedule as part of our ongoing evaluation process," Hall said. “Our NASCAR coverage has not been limited to one program, and we will continue to aggressively cover NASCAR across our news platforms, including SportsCenter, ESPN....
That is unlikely to take away from the draw of the event. After the cancellation of the NCAA Tournament, it’s a golden chance for women’s basketball to be celebrated. The first-round talent — including consensus projected No. 1 pick Sabrina Ionescu — is phenomenal, and there aren’t other sporting events for the draft to compete with. It is expected to be a landmark occasion for the league. Following an initial announcement Thursday morning that the draft would be relegated to ESPN2, an ESPN official told Sporting News on Thursday afternoon that the network had changed course and would air the event on its main channel with coverage starting at 7 p....
Because the semifinal games on New Year’s Eve saw such a huge viewership drop from a year ago, media buyers are claiming ESPN owes them around $20 million in advertiser make-goods — free advertising to compensate for the semifinal shortfall. MORE: Clemson vs. Alabama | Who would be college’s highest-paid player? And with the semifinal games slated to fall on New Year’s Eve again next year, the buyers are reportedly expressing concern....
The “Wednesday Night Baseball” broadcast on ESPN exists in an interesting corner of the television universe because, unlike “Sunday Night Baseball,” there is no exclusivity for ESPN. BROADCAST REVIEW: Schilling, Kruk sink ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ The game remains on local channels, so if you are a fan of one of the teams playing, you might not even realize “Wednesday Night Baseball” is on. Even if you have the MLB.tv streaming package, you will not know that it is an option....
Hill, who is set to return to ESPN on Monday after a two-week suspension, said she isn’t upset with ESPN for the punishment. MORE: ESPN suspends Jemele Hill for social media ‘violation’ I want people to understand this: There was never any restrictions placed on me, about Twitter. Never. So, I’ll be back on Twitter, and I’ll be my usual self. [Questioned if she was treated fairly by ESPN]...
“The perseverance that Devon and Leah have shown throughout this unfortunate process is incredibly moving,” said Connor Schell, senior vice president, ESPN Films and Original Content, who oversees The ESPYS. “Each day that she fights, her father is by her side and their love and strength has captivated all of us in the sports world and beyond.” MORE: Chiefs’ Eric Berry completes cancer treatments | Jim Kelly, cancer free, on adversity...
Pasch has to wrangle analysts Bill Walton and Dick Vitale as the three work the Pacers-Cavaliers game in Cleveland. Pasch, of course, is used to keeping Walton at least semi-grounded when they work Pac-12 games together for the network. Add Dickie V, though, and the broadcast is bound to float to the rafters. MORE: Donald Trump will not be filling out an NCAA bracket Here’s a great example of how the professional Pasch plays straight man to Walton, who works flawlessly off his partner:...
For the first time ever, eSports teams will be represented in FIFA, with jerseys from some of the world’s biggest eSports clubs included in this year’s edition of the game. Kits from Team Vitality, Hashtag United, Team Liquid and AS Roma eSports have all been unveiled ahead of the worldwide release of FIFA 18 on September 29, with special edition jerseys available in FIFA Ultimate Team. While Roma eSports is affiliated to Serie A side Roma, Team Vitality is a French independent eSports organisation which has gained a large following online through its streaming channels and social media platforms....
Espresso in particular is associated with higher total cholesterol levels, and the association was stronger in men than in women, the study showed. Coffee consumption may raise cholesterol levels in part because the beverage contains the chemicals cafestol and kahweol, which have been linked to higher LDL “bad” cholesterol. French press or plunger coffee has higher contents of these cholesterol-raising compounds than filtered coffee does. Espresso has an intermediate amount of these compounds, but data on espresso intake and cholesterol levels is limited....
The sports awards show, which celebrates the best moments over the past calendar year, brings together many notable names in sports and entertainment for an emotional and entertaining night. Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan will host this year’s festivities. In addition to the traditional awards — which fans are able to vote on — there will be a handful of honorary awards given this year. Football coach Rob Mendez, who was born without arms or legs, will be awarded the Jimmy V Award for perseverance....
About 216,000 people moved from the New York metro area, but the loss was balanced by births and gains in international migration. The overall population declined by roughly 108,000 residents, or .5%, with these factors included. “I think some core urban counties like Manhattan, San Francisco and others may have taken a bigger brunt of pandemic-related out-movement, as well as lower immigration,” William Frey, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, told the Associated Press....
Berihu still doesn’t know what happened to his family after he defected from the Eritrean Army. There are no phone or mail links between the neighbors, and he has had no way of keeping in touch. So today he waits and hopes, one of more than 15,000 Eritreans stuck behind barbed wire and chain-link fencing at the Shimelba refugee camp in a remote corner of northern Ethiopia. It’s a part of the world that is growing increasingly tense as the two countries seem to be gearing up to fight their second war in less than a decade....
Spain, Belgium and The Netherlands have had the largest recent growths in new cases, with each reporting a spike between 130 and 600 percent over the past month, according to the latest report by the World Health Organization (WHO). The data is based on the percentage change in total new infections per 100,000 people over the 14 days up to July 28, from that reported 14 days prior. Here we take a closer look at the five EU countries where cases are rising the fastest....
Good timing. Concerns about migration, terrorism and access to energy supplies are refocusing EU attention on improving relations with the nations of North Africa, which are emerging from political and economic obscurity. Libya is fast shedding its status as a global pariah, Morocco has recast itself as a Westernized quasi democracy and tourist magnet, and Algeria—now splurging $150 billion on an infrastructure-renewal program—is awash in petrodollars. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, speaking immediately after his election in May, declared: “The time has come to build a ‘Mediterranean Union’ that will be a bridge between Europe and Africa....
In many ways, that suits the main shapers of EU institutions–the French political class. Highly educated and full of a confidence created by its success in transforming postwar France, the French political class has worked for what it calls the “harmonizing” of European policies in one area after another. Its latest agenda is to create common policies in taxation, foreign affairs and defense. These are needed, the French insist, in order to give Europe a political weight that corresponds to its economic weight....
Albright is certainly guilty as charged. She is a European scholar, both in the sense of her expertise and also of her background (Czech). Her scholarly writings reveal an interest in and familiarity with European history and politics. But surely the job of secretary of state requires no particular specialization. Indeed, it probably helps to have the ability to look beyond whatever particular background one brings to that office. George Marshall was a military man and Dean Acheson a lawyer, but they were impressive secretaries of state because they transcended their professional biases and looked broadly at the world....
Europe generated 35 pounds of electronic waste per capita last year, the U.N. said. Over half of the electronic waste generated by countries in the European Union is large home appliances, and any electronics that don’t end up being recycled are usually dumped in landfills or transported to developing countries. One nonprofit organization, Repair Café Denmark, organizes up to 15 events every week in the country’s libraries and community centers where people can bring their troubled electronics for free repairs from volunteers....
In 2009, long before he was crowned MVP and NBA champion, a fresh-faced Curry showed up and showed out in Las Vegas as the Warriors’ No. 7 pick. He averaged 17.4 points, 4.6 rebounds and 4.2 assists, which, compared to other current NBA stars, was a pretty impressive showing. MORE: How did NBA stars do in Summer League? | Don’t say ‘DeAndre Jordan’ around Mark Cuban Forget adjusting to pace of play....
In a report released Friday night, the U.S.-based think tank said a “Russian information operation” was claiming troops had made significant progress in the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. The ISW added that it may have reason to be skeptical of the report, given Russia’s false claims of advancement in the past. “Russian forces are likely falsifying claims of advances in the Bakhmut area to portray themselves as making gains in at least one sector amid continuing losses in northeast and southern Ukraine,” read the report....
