ESPN Layoffs and cutting employment

ESPN announced Friday that it had laid off some broadcast journalists in hopes of saving money. ESPN said in a statement that it needed to cut costs “in the area of public-facing commentator salaries,” including “a small group of job cuts in the short term.” The layoffs included some of the network’s biggest names. Suzy Kolber also acknowledged in a Twitter post on Friday afternoon that she had…

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Also a reminder that in addition to the history of pro women’s hockey in North America, there are currently professional women’s hockey leagues outside of the continent that stars like Lara Stalder and Jenni Hiirikoski play in. This is a big day in womens hockey! It’s definitely the first league with the most funding and a CBA put behind it! It’s just not the first league ever. This should not even be a remotely controversial statement considering you have a former phf player on the broadcasting team and many players who were/are teammates to players in this league play in overseas leagues, and most PWHL players played in multiple of those leagues themselves

sasha tippy tappy ritual w the matty bump

boston bruins @ florida panthers game 2

warmups | 5.8.24

sure youre "boy best friends" but do they do a mini feature about how you and your boy best friend are among the ranks of the best of the best players to have ever played in the middle of a game . do you sit next to each other at every single chnace. is ti super publically known that youre literal best friends in every sense. did oyu buy a house next to him.

anyone who shits on pastas fight is dead to me by the way. a dude getting punched in the back of the head while hes down on the ice does not constitute getting beaten in a fight

On one hand: DP crossover with Supernatural where Danny meets Crowley and hates because he reminds Danny of Vlad and then also Crowley being kinda intimidating-ish because of that.

On the other hand,,,,,,,,;

Crowley: oh! You must be the crime against nature I've-

Danny: shut up gay lord; anyway can anyone tell me what the fuck is going on?

The way Jack speaks of Nico with the same admiration he holds for his brother 🥲 that’s love baby

!! it's just. So Sweet. i wish we could get a real candid interview, article, something about them specifically like the media makes so much of the 1-2 punch, pillars of the franchise thing but it's weirdly underreported? and maybe that's just because they hate to see hot bitches from new jersey win— but it would be really cool to see. especially when you piece together old and new interviews where they talk about each other it's such an intriguing dynamic it's absolutely wild that they've never been put in front of a camera together

Hello Zoe, your mirobotter fic was a paradigm shift and a work of genius!! I haven't stopped thinking about it all weekend!! In it you mentioned that there was an article about the 2017 draft class talking about each other -- is this a real thing we can behold with our own hands and eyes?

i would've sworn i was referencing Very Real Things but i tried hunting around for articles with at least a quote from each of them talking about each other and apparently! there are none!! i would have bet actual money that there was at least ONE article like this written by mike heika and posted to nhl dot com forward slash stars, and yet.

the closest i found, as far as official articles where they're kind of talking about each other, is this one from this past october where all three of them are more just talking about The Team and Doing What It Takes To Win. this one from when otter & robo were about to start their first pro season with the texas stars (and miro was already more established) focuses more on otter & robo and sees them talking a little bit about the draft class.

' “I like to call myself a top forward prospect, Miro is one of the best defensemen in the league already, so that obviously panned out. And then they got a top goalie prospect,” Robertson said. “I think it was a pretty succesful draft that year. In the next couple years, I want to be able to have it where people mention how that draft changed the franchise.” “I think we want to make our mark on the Stars and maybe be remembered as one of the better drafts the Stars have had in a while,” Oettinger added. “It would be cool to have me and (Robertson) both make the team at some point soon and be representing that draft class and having people look back and say, ‘Wow, that was a great draft for the Stars.'” '

which is cool!! but there's no miro there, he is simply haunting the narrative for jake & jason as the ghost of hockey future. and then every article about the 2017 draft class is more just .......... people from the front office and/or various coaches talking about them, rather than them talking about themselves. the thing is, i know they've all talked about their draft class — even miro!! but those quotes must just be confined to media availabilities, or other random solo interviews.

this is going to eat away at me now so i will. probably. chip away at hunting down quotes they've given on each other and compiling them somewhere, if only so i can have it as a reference point!

& in the meantime i'd like to issue a formal apology for gaslighting both myself & you into believing there was a '2017 draftees on 2017 draftees' article out there

Jack (an actual fan of US football), Bitty (Coach's son), and Holster (ready to beef over TV) all have clashing opinions over which NFL song is the best

which adam fantilli gwg face are you

i dont think ill ever get over espn cutting to an ad right in the middle of erod getting dragged by gustafsson what in the thats all folks

florida panthers @ new york rangers game 2 | 5.24.24

leon draisaitl third fastest to 100 playoff points behind gretzky and lemieux is insane like the other two notoriously played wheb scoring was higher + leon plays w mr next next one himself on his own team and still made it to the milsetone faster likeas much was everyone talks about cmd being the guy who very publicly wants something hes tried his hardest to get but still hasnt leon is just as much Like That if not more

I’m pretty sure I’m watching a Dallas stream?

man I wish jack was calling this game he'd be making the most incomprehensible noises rn

🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 KINGS WIN

one day the athletic or espn will send me a push notification about the wnba that is not about one person or baiting racist harassment of players………..one day……………….