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ESPN’s global headquarters span 18 buildings and 123 acres in Bristol, Conn. The campus occupies a fenced-in hillside, though deer frequently end up trapped inside the fence, and appears to be in a state of constant flux. The newest and largest building, a 193,000-square-foot digital broadcasting center, intended to supplement the 90,000-sq.-ft. digital broadcasting center that was built in 2004, is located not far from the football field—yes, there is a football field—and is two years from completion. ESPN, a unit of Walt Disney (DIS), has thrived on transformation, from its inauspicious start in a couple of trailers on this very location to...
Earlier this week, SI.com published its Twitter 100, a list of Twitter feeds that Sports Illustrated staffers considered "essential to their daily routine for finding news, information and entertainment from the sports... more »
About the time end-zone dancing led Pro Bowlers to “Dancing with the Stars,” the athlete endorsement game mushroomed, fueled in no small part by soaring demand for male grooming products. What’s striking is less the... more »
The cruelty of sports is that a single brain fart can define an entire career. But feel no pity for the idiots on this list: They deserve that permanent dunce cap welded to their pin heads *Note: Since we are all geniuses with... more »
One afternoon in early August, a 41-year-old working mother in Los Angeles didn’t get much work done. Instead, she watched the London Olympics on television. She went to NBC’s Web sites to stream the competitions, which that... more »
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