ESPN’s Hannah Storm was caught on live TV Sunday morning shoving her makeup artist out of the way when cameras accidentally turned to her, catching the two in the shot.
The SportsCenter anchor was covering pre-game coverage of Monday’s playoffs in Dallas when the Heisman Trophy imt occurred.
Apparently, Storm’s little makeup touch-up wasn’t quite finished when cameras turned to her, leading the sportscaster to push her face’s best friend out of the way.
Needless to say, it has been very stressful for everyone at ESPN over the course of the past week, with the loss of Stuart Scott just a week ago.
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Storm responded to the stiff-arming on Twitter, saying she was merely helping out her makeup artist.
The makeup artist (a good friend of mine ) would have gotten in major trouble had she been seen on air. Hence, the stiff arm to protect her.
Ken Griffey Jr.’s interview with Linda Cohn on ESPN’s SportsCenter was awkward to the point of being difficult to watch. Now Griffey wants Cohn and her viewers to know he’s sorry for how the interview went.
Griffey gave a series of interviews on Wednesday in connection with Upper Deck’s month-long 25th anniversary celebration.
Everyone wanted to know Griffey’s thoughts on his 1989 rookie card.
Griffey was sullen and for the most part unsmiling during his interview with Cohn. The veteran SportsCenter anchor had to work hard to keep the interview moving forward in the face of Griffey’s somber, often one-word responses to her questions.
Cohn kept up her smile and gracious demeanor during the interview, but showed her true feelings on Twitter after the interview.
Is life really that bad for Ken Griffey Jr right now? Smell the roses Ken ! @Bobby_Valencia_
Griffey posted an apology on Instagram: “I want to apologize to Linda for the way things went today. I was in the middle of a cough attack and felt a little ill and didn’t want to walk off the set. Linda has always been professional to me and my family . I’m sorry, Junior @espn @sportcenter @lindacohn.”
Just got off phone w Ken Griffey Jr. He apologized sincerely for how he came across in @SportsCenter int. I accepted his apology.
Griffey is a 13-time All-Star who spent most of his 22-year Major League Baseball career with the Seattle Mariners and the Cincinnati Reds. His record includes 630 home runs, the sixth most in MLB history. Griffey retired abruptly in 2010. In 2013 he was inducted into the Mariners’ Hall of Fame and currently serves as “Special Consultant to the Franchise.”
Perhaps you want to get the latest coverage on your favorite sports team; you flip the channel over to ESPN, and bam! There he is, your former president. Because in the future, it’s very possible that Americans may get another four, five, even six or more years with Barack Obama. That’s because he wants to be the host for ESPN’s SportsCenter. Can you imagine that?
On November 26th at Jeffrey Katzenberg’s DreamWorks Animation campus in Glendale, Barack Obama met with various entertainment moguls including Disney’s Alan Horn, Fox’s Jim Gianopulos, Sony’s Amy Pascal, and CBS’ Leslie Moonves. Before the president delivered his speech, he put in his request to Disney CEO Bob Iger about potentially hosting ESPN’s SportsCenter.
“At the end of the conversation — which touched on a myriad of topics, from piracy to Iran — Obama revealed what’s at the top of his bucket list post-White House: “At least I know what I want to do when I retire … host ESPN SportsCenter‘s Top 10 list,” Obama quipped as he turned to Disney’s Robert Iger, whose empire includes ESPN.
The highlights countdown can feature everything from major sports to bull fighting to high school basketball. Other than having a good laugh, Iger apparently didn’t respond.
“Everyone had a good giggle,” says one person who attended”
In his speech to the entire DreamWorks Animation Staff and others in attendance, Obama held high regards to the entertainment industry, stating that it was an “engine” for America’s economy and “diplomacy.”
Obama also said that DreamWorks Animation got their inspiration for Shrek due to the president’s ears.
SportsCenter is a daily sports news television channel that first broadcasted on September 7, 1979. The show has more than 50,000 episodes and includes highlights featuring everything from major sports like the NFL, NBA, or MLB, to college football, to international football, to high school basketball, etc.
Obama wrapped up his two-day trip in Southern California at DreamWorks Animation with two fundraising events, one which was held at the home of Magic Johnson and his wife Cookie.
Would the president’s appearance as host on the ESPN’s SportCenter provide a niche to where more viewers would watch, or would the program decline in ratings?
Is the worldwide leader in sports getting ready to start cutting some of their fat? If the report at Deadspin is to be believed, the answer is, it certainly looks that way. In fact, the report indicates “hundreds” will be meeting the ax, which, considering the popularity of, well, everything related to sports–especially in the social media world–the move comes as something of a surprise. Regardless of the moves Fox Sports makes (or are in the process of making), the fact is, ESPN is pretty much a monopoly. Sure, there are sports on other channels, but when it comes to brand proliferation, no other televised sports entity compares. So what would cause the self-proclaimed Worldwide Leader in Sports to consider layoffs, especially in a world where they set the tone, at least regarding sports conversation?
The Deadspin article features snippets from recently-departed employees who offer the following insight:
I was laid off from ESPN today after 9 and a half years. Completely out of the blue, no warning at all. I was told it was 10% across the board, which would be roughly 400. I was told the reason was they needed to make their profit margin and they chose to do that via layoff of staff… we were told that the layoffs ARE tied to the profit margin that ESPN needs to meet and the fact they haven’t met that number. Your comments about them buying all of these live rights and now needed to reduce overhead costs is dead on.
As an example, here are two of the “live rights” deals being discussed in these emails to Deadspin:
Are these two business acquisitions/partnerships the reason why these layoffs are happening in Bristol, Connecticut? It’s hard to come up with any other conclusion, although, Disney (ESPN’s parent company) has been laying off employees as well. Maybe ESPN is trying to keep with their owners.
Parents of kids who play sports, their coaches and the players alike, pay attention: ESPN and YouTube have put a call out for your user-generated content. If you have any original sports highlights you’d like to share on YouTube, be sure to submit them to ESPN as well.
While it’s not necessarily called a contest — YouTube’s blog entry simply calls it the “second version” — the YouTube/ESPN-sponsored “Your Highlight” will pick a number of favorite entries, and from them, a winner will be picked based on the number of votes it receives from the YouTube collective. Winners will be flown to Bristol, Connecticut, and they will be given the red carpet treatment by the Worldwide Leader.
A special segment will be filmed and during this portion of SportsCenter, the winning highlight will be shown. Naturally, there’s a video explaining the contest even further:
While the contest seems to be aimed at the soccer families in the US — that is, parents who very active and supportive of their offspring’s amateur sports career — the rules indicate the contest is open to anyone who was 13 or older on September 8, 2010. That means that youth players themselves can submit their own content without parental oversight if so choose.
Of course, mom and dad would probably want to know about any upcoming trips to Connecticut. ESPN’s rule page has more details about the submissions:
(a) Include an original sports video; It must be an original, unpublished work that does not contain, incorporate or otherwise use any content, material or element that is owned by a third party or entity.
(b) Must be in one of the following formats: .avi, .mov, .mpg, .mp4, mpeg or .wmv.
(c) Should be no more than two (2) minute(s) in length and 200 megabytes in size. Entries longer than two minutes may not be reviewed by the judges or considered for the prize, at ESPN’s sole discretion.
(d) It must not be derogatory, offensive, threatening, defamatory, disparaging, libelous or contain any content that is in appropriate, indecent, sexual, profane, indecent, tortuous, slanderous, discriminatory in any way, or that promotes hatred or harm against any group or person, or otherwise does not comply with the theme and spirit of the Contest.
(e) It must not contain content, material or any element that is unlawful, or otherwise in violation of or contrary to all applicable federal, state, or local laws and regulations the laws or regulations in any state where video is created. Specifically, it must not contain: any music other than Entrant’s original works OR any footage of any professional sporting event.
(f) It must not contain any content, material or element that displays any third party advertising, slogan, logo, trademark or otherwise indicates a sponsorship or endorsement by a third party or commercial entity or that is not within the spirit of the Contest, as determined by ESPN in its sole discretion.
(g) It cannot contain any content, element, or material that violates a third party’s publicity, privacy or intellectual property rights.
(h) Entrant has not engaged anyone appearing in or associated with the Video Submission under any union or guild agreement that would result in any ongoing obligations resulting from the exploitation of the Video Submission.
As you can see, the desire is for original content, not something that’s been run through the “flashy production” machine. Submissions are accepted at ESPN’s YouTube page and must be received by May 4, 2011.
