- ESPN the Magazine will debut its “Body Issue” in mid-October, which could figure “prominent female and male athletes” in the nude. ESPN the Magazine editor-in-chief Gary Belsky told USA Today that the magazine is “toying with the idea of making it a no-clothes issue,” but must first figure out how to “use equipment and pads and bats and goalposts and soccer nets and pucks and helmets to obscure body parts.”
- One of the storied franchises in sports will soon begin streaming its games online. Sports Business Journal reports that the New York Yankees “will become the first MLB team to have its games streamed live online within its home market,” starting later this season. Cablevision television and broadband customers who receive YES Network will be able to watch the streamed telecasts on “Yankees.com, YESNetwork.com, and Cablevision?s OptimumOnline.com.”
- ESPN “currently [has] no plans” to buy Irish pay TV station Setanta Sports, which is “battling bankruptcy.” In a statement, an ESPN spokesman said, “There are a lot of stories out there that link ESPN with a possible purchase. We wanted to set the record straight.”
Ted Turner, whose cable business transformed TV sports, dies
Ted Turner, the media mogul and team owner whose TBS "SuperStation" helped pave the way the era of cable...
