ESPN.com
| File:ESPN wordmark.svg | |
| Available in | English |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Bristol, Connecticut |
| Owner | ESPN Inc. |
| Parent | ESPN Internet Ventures |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Available, but not required |
| Launched | April 1, 1995 (as ESPNET.SportsZone.com) |
| Current status | Active |
ESPN.com is the official website of ESPN. It is owned by ESPN Internet Ventures, a division of ESPN Inc.
History
Since launching in April 1995 as ESPNET.SportsZone.com (ESPNET SportsZone),[1] the website has developed numerous sections including: Page 2, SportsNation, ESPN3, ESPN Motion, My ESPN, ESPN Sports Travel, ESPN Video Games, ESPN Insider, ESPN.com's Fanboard, ESPN Fantasy Sports, ESPNU.com, and ESPN Search. ESPN.com also has partnerships with MLB.com, NBA.com, NFL.com, WNBA.com, MLSsoccer.com, NHL.com, Baseball America, Golf Digest, Scouts Inc., Jayski.com, USGA.org, Sherdog.com, and Masters.org. It also has sections devoted to certain sports and leagues including: the National Hockey League, National Football League, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, NASCAR, Indy Racing League, NCAA, golf, soccer, women's sports (ESPNW), cricket, and eSports. Each section contains pages devoted to: scores, teams, schedules, standings, players, transactions, news wires, injures, and columnists pages.
Columnists
Some notable current and former ESPN.com and ESPNW.com columnists are Allison Glock, Jemele Hill, John Buccigross, Chris Mortensen, John Clayton, Adam Schefter, Andy Katz, Bill Simmons, Jayson Stark, Buster Olney, Paul Lukas, Gene Wojciechowski, Scoop Jackson, Pat Forde, Jim Caple, Michael Smith, and in the last stages of his journalism career, Hunter S. Thompson. The website was part of the MSN portal from 2001 to 2004.[2][3] ESPN launched a Spanish language website in 2000, ESPN Deportes.com.[4] The content of some ESPN.com articles is argued to have been plagiarized.[5]
ESPNW
Local sites
ESPN started local chapters of its website in response to the decline of local sports coverage available as newspapers continue to go out of business across the country.[6] Each page covers local professional and college teams, hiring locally known writers, and in some cases making use of the city's ESPN Radio affiliate. In markets where the ABC Owned Television Stations owns a station, their sports coverage is incorporated with the corresponding ESPN local site. Some local sites have expanded into high school sports coverage.
Current
- ESPNBoston.com – with affiliate WEEI
- ESPNChicago.com – with WMVP and WLS-TV
- ESPNCleveland.com – with affiliates WKNR and WWGK
- ESPNDallas.com
- ESPNLosAngeles.com – with KSPN and KABC-TV
- ESPNNewYork.com – with WEPN-FM and WABC-TV
References
- ↑ ESPN, Inc. Fact Sheet Archived 2014-08-05 at the Wayback Machine - ESPN Media Zone
- ↑ ESPN.com, MSN tie up for online sports coverage Archived 2018-11-06 at the Wayback Machine - CIOL, 7 September 2001
- ↑ Game on for MSN, Fox Sports site Archived 2021-11-21 at the Wayback Machine - CNET, 28 June 2004
- ↑ ESPN Deportes celebra 10 años Archived 2014-01-15 at the Wayback Machine - Business Wire
- ↑ Rauch, Isaac (July 11, 2012). "ESPN Entertainment Writer Has A Bad Wikipedia Habit". Archived from the original on February 12, 2017. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
- ↑ ESPN: The local leader in sports? Archived 2017-02-12 at the Wayback Machine - Sports Business Daily, 14 September 2009
