Never tell Ryan Kalil or Blake Griffin to stay in their lanes. Since moving on from their playing days in the NFL and NBA to running the production company Mortal Media, they’re about to add a few more jobs to their resumes: co-owners of a Mexican-league football team and co-stars of a new unscripted series […]

Bill Rasmussen, a sports visionary who founded ESPN in 1979 with his son Scott as the world’s first 24-hour sports television network, died Tuesday at 93 of Parkinson’s disease at his home in Florida. Shrugging off skeptics, the pioneering Rasmussen – after being fired as communications director of the New England Whalers — acquired space […]

Bill Rasmussen, a former local-news sports director who parlayed an interest in the nascent business of satellite television into the launch of the sports-media giant known as ESPN, has died after a battle with Parkinson’s disease. The entrepreneur and founder was 93 years old. Rasmussen in 1978 was idling in traffic on Connecticut’s Interstate 84 […]

CBS Sports CEO David Berson said there is “no timetable” for a decision on Tony Romo, the network’s No. 1 analyst who was sidelined by a drunk driving arrest last month. Addressing reporters Tuesday at the annual CBS NFL season preview event in New York, Berson said situation is “a personal matter, and a legal […]

Amid a torrent of fan-friendly news about Disney projects across the media spectrum, Disney leadership took time on the first day of the three-day D23 fan fest weekend in Anaheim for panels that offered a behind the scenes look at the Mouse House’s business strategies and vision for driving growth in the streaming era. One […]

The satellite radio giant is testing 'SiriusXM Sports Pass,' a $5 per month service that bundles its sports channels, and local sports radio stations.