Feature Category: ESPN History

April 27, 2012

Some 32 years ago, the world’s first pro sports draft telecast netted one review, this one: NFL Draft Telecast. A…

December 27, 2011

Editor’s note: As 2012 approaches, Front Row will revisit a few of our most popular posts from our first nine…

November 17, 2011

Athletes in Action vs. UConn exhibition game Nov. 17, 1978 ESPN’s founder Bill Rasmussen and his staff of six worked…

October 18, 2011

Editor’s note: Saturday on Front Row, we’ll have a gallery of Lee Corso’s headgear picks over the years. Lee Corso…

October 7, 2011

Those guys in the canary yellow coats seem familiar? Sunday at 9 p.m. ET/PT, TV Guide Network salutes Monday Night…

September 21, 2011

A mere 41 years ago today, Monday Night Football debuted on ABC. The series began as a primetime football television…

September 12, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qbPsoV0y-4 This video is the fourth in a series of the conversation we captured last spring with ESPN’s founder Bill…

September 9, 2011

This third in a series of the conversation we captured last spring with ESPN’s founder Bill Rasmussen and two other ESPN pioneers, Chuck…

September 8, 2011

This is the second in a series of the conversation we captured last spring when ESPN’s founder Bill Rasmussen, Chuck Pagano and Bill…

September 7, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrG8A70iKq4 Last year when ESPN turned 31 our founder Bill Rasmussen and members of his family came to Bristol for…