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posted by David Scott on June 5, 2013 2:52 PM
Today’s edition of the award-winning news magazine, Outside the Lines (3 p.m. ET, ESPN), will extend to an hour for an in-depth discussion of the latest PED scandal to hit Major League Baseball. Jeremy Schaap hosts.
Front Row will provide a LIVE Storify below to track the social conversation surrounding the show. Viewers are encouraged to use #PEDsInMLB to be part of the conversation. continue reading…
posted by Carrie Kreiswirth on April 23, 2013 4:05 PM
ESPN’s award-winning news magazine E:60 makes its Spring 2013 premiere tonight with an NFL Draft Special (ESPN, 7 p.m. ET), 48 hours before the event begins — also on ESPN — in New York City. This is the first of a four-episode E:60 Spring flight with shows also airing April 30, May 7 and 14.
The four features premiering tonight include an E:60 exclusive report on the Auburn football program; a profile of Alabama running back and prime draft prospect Eddie Lacy; an exclusive television presentation of the 30 for 30 short film The Irrelevant Giant; and a compilation of NFL stars’ draft day memories. continue reading…
posted by David Scott on April 3, 2013 2:00 PM
(L-R) Rutgers AD Tim Pernetti, ESPN reporter John Barr and ESPN analyst Seth Greenberg on yesterday’s OTL.
Editor’s note: Front Row will present a live Storify of today’s Outside The Lines, which airs from 3-4 p.m. ET on ESPN.
Today’s firing of Rutgers coach Mike Rice comes on the heels of Outside the Lines’ Tuesday report that included footage never before seen publicly of Rice verbally and physically abusing players.
The story and the reporting done by John Barr and Don Van Natta Jr. has been lauded nationally and continues today with Barr on-campus at Rutgers and Van Natta furthering his reporting.
Here, Front Row gets background on how the story came together from the combination of Senior Coordinating Producer of ESPN’s Enterprise Unit and OTL Dwayne Bray and Senior Editor, Investigations and Enterprise for ESPN.com Christopher Buckle. The pair, who were colleagues at the Dallas Morning News prior to ESPN, wrote their answers in tandem and those are presented below. continue reading…
posted by Carrie Kreiswirth on February 15, 2013 10:55 AM
Wright Thompson’s profile of Michael Jordan is available on ESPN.com and will appear in ESPN The Magazine.
In celebration of Michael Jordan’s 50th birthday this Sunday, ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com senior writer Wright Thompson chronicles Jordan’s journey as he reaches the milestone birthday.
The feature appears both on ESPN.com and in The Mag, occupying 10 pages in the publication’s upcoming “Analytics Issue” on newsstands Friday, Feb. 22.
Front Row asked Thompson to reflect on his experience with Jordan.
How did you arrange for the access and how much time did you spend with him?
I started writing letters and talking about the idea to his people; they were intrigued in the beginning, and over a period of months, some comfort developed and I think they decided to say yes. They weren’t shy at all, and didn’t act like they minded someone seeing what Michael was like up close. It was loose and natural from the beginning.
What surprised you most about MJ? Had you spent any time with him previously? continue reading…
posted by David Scott on January 20, 2013 2:16 PM
ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap and Manti Te’o during Friday night’s interview. (Photo by Ryan Jones / ESPN Images)
On Friday night, in Bradenton, Fla., ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap conducted a thorough interview with Heisman Trophy Award runner-up, Manti Te’o, regarding the details of the recent revelation of the “girlfriend hoax.”
With more than 300 questions asked over a two-and-a-half hour interview, Schaap followed up the off-camera sit-down by poring over the 15,000-plus word transcript in the wee hours of Saturday, eventually power-napping in a makeshift bed.
“I was in one of those swivel chairs with my feet up on another one for about 25 minutes after my 6:45 Good Morning America “hit” [satellite appearance],” said Schaap, shortly after arriving back in the metropolitan New York area Saturday night.
Schaap spoke with Te’o at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, where the Notre Dame star is preparing himself for the upcoming NFL Draft Combine.
In this Front Row Q&A, Schaap provides more details and answers some lingering questions that have circulated in the hours since Te’o's first post-Deadspin story interview.
Schaap also spoke with Ed Sherman of the Sherman Report for a Q&A to address similar topics. ESPN.com also has several Te’o-related stories.
Since you got to Brandenton, what have your days been like?
It’s been a little bit of a whirlwind. We had the Lance Armstrong news. I was in Bristol late Wednesday night. The following morning, we got into Bradenton, I thought there was a possibility we were going to conduct Thursday night an interview with Manti Te’o. By the time I landed, I was told that was not a possibility. The interview was off, although I was always skeptical that was going to happen just because of the general difficulties that you have. Then the possibility arose that just something might happen on Friday [that Te'o would interview]. But I didn’t have 100 percent confirmation that we’d have the interview until I think it was after 3 o’clock on Friday.
When you got that information that you would have the interview, you’d already been working on questions by that point?
Oh yeah, I’d been working on questions, a team had been working on questions in Bristol, the producers I was working with were working on question lists, the producer I came down with, Willie Weinbaum, was working on a question list. Oh, and there was also the Mike & Mike show chipped in. Mike Greenberg and producer Liam Chapman had some suggestions. There was a lot of input about questions.
You get the preparation done. What are you thinking on your way over?
I’m really trying to master the topic the best I can in my head, to make sure I understand everything that I need to understand. There are logistical issues as well. . . There were no [video] cameras in the room, but there was a still camera. . . . There was a lot of things going through your head, and it happened so suddenly, there wasn’t any time to get nervous. More than anything else, there was just this curiosity about what it was he was going to say. Often you go into this big “get” but there’s not a big mystery in the center of it. There was in this case. Like everyone else, I wanted to know what he was going to say, how he was going to respond to an aggressive line of questioning.
Is this the first time you’ve seen him [in person]?
Yes, this is the first time I’ve seen him [in person] in my life.
Why was the interview conducted at IMG Academy?
It’s a facility that issues invitations to top prospects to train and get all types of expert advice to prepare for the draft combine. It’s not exclusive to IMG clients. Manti Te’o is not an IMG client.
He’s represented by CAA. Many different agents send their potential draftees [to IMG]. Getting back to the interview, you knew you had no time limit. What was your strategy? continue reading…
posted by Hannah Worster on January 19, 2013 12:00 PM
ESPN covered all the angles concerning the controversies surrounding Notre Dame’s Manti Te’o and disgraced cycling champion Lance Armstrong.
Friday evening, Te’o told ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap that he was a victim and “never” part of an elaborate hoax.
Armstrong confessed — in an interview with Orpah Winfrey televised Thursday — that he used performance-enhancing drugs when he won seven straight Tour de France crowns. Friday, former teammate Tyler Hamilton reacted to Armstrong’s statements in an interview with Outside The Lines host Bob Ley. The video above is a portion of the interview.
ICYMI: Highlights from the past week on Front Row
• Go inside ESPN Digital Media’s third annual Hackathon, where more than 85 ESPN developers, designers and engineers were given 48 hours to submit working prototypes of what could be ESPN’s next top-ranked digital product.
• A This is SportsCenter spot featuring Boston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo and his larger-than-life hands launched this week. SportsCenter’s John Anderson shared a behind-the-scenes look at the shoot.
• Jim Boeheim’s Car Wash visit to ESPN’s Bristol, Conn., headquarters on Monday provided a chance for a timely reunion with ESPN Communications publicist Keri Potts, who worked for Boeheim while attending Syracuse University.
• Columnist and commentator Jemele Hill was a panelist for ESPN’s third annual Content of Character special. Front Row spoke to Hill about the roundtable discussion and the importance of social media.
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Our favorites from across ESPN over the past week continue reading…
posted by Hannah Worster on December 8, 2012 12:00 PM
“Born Into It” is the latest spot from ESPN’s “It’s Not Crazy, It’s Sports” brand campaign.
The spot focuses specifically on the Manchester City/Manchester U rivalry in advance of the much celebrated Manchester Derby. The apt title refers to the idea that sometimes, you don’t pick your team — it picks you. (i.e., Yankees/Red Sox in the US.)
Jeff Gonyo, senior director of marketing at ESPN, was on site in Manchester, England for the three-day shoot and shares some of the behind-the-scenes scoop.
What makes this ad so impactful?
We wanted to be authentic, in every sense of the word, so it was a prerequisite in casting that the actors be from Manchester and fans of the teams. We shot on the streets and in the pubs of Manchester. It was freezing cold and raining sideways for most of the three days we were there, but we had a great time. The actors embraced their roles — they didn’t interact much at the beginning of the shoot but seemed to warm up to each other just a bit toward the end.
Did you have anyone from Manchester on the production side?
The Americans on set included myself and the team from Wieden+Kennedy, but the entire crew was from Manchester, including one of our producers. The slang varies from region to region and he helped make sure we were speaking in the right tongue and helped us have fun with the colloquialisms without crossing any lines.It was important we had the Mancunian perspective on-site.
Why did you decide to focus on this rivalry instead of one US based?
There are a lot of storied rivalries in the U.S. — and we’ve explored a lot of them in previous campaigns. But soccer, as the world’s most popular sport, also has some of the most historic rivalries — Man City vs. Man U is certainly one of them. It is ingrained into the spirit of the town and it runs generations deep. As the popularity of soccer in the U.S. continues to grow, we wanted to shed a little light onto a rivalry Americans may not know as much about. There is no doubt that in Manchester, you are born a red or a blue — and to change that just wouldn’t fly. In fact, it’s rubbish.
– By Amy Phillips
ICYMI: Highlights from the past week on Front Row
• An ESPN senior researcher explains how his department stays on top of the seemingly constant shuffling of the NCAA conferences. It involves a very extensive spreadsheet.
• Many gathered at the University of Pittsburgh to remember long-time ESPN college football analyst Beano Cook who passed away in October. ESPN college football reporter Ivan Maisel was among the speakers; he shared a draft of his speech with Front Row. continue reading…
posted by Carrie Kreiswirth on October 16, 2012 1:30 PM
ESPN’s sports newsmagazine E:60 — which has received more national Sports Emmy nominations (20) in the past three years than any show in sports television — turns five today. Front Row caught up with some of the central figures who have contributed to the storytelling success of E:60 since its inception on October 16, 2007.
John Skipper
JOHN SKIPPER, PRESIDENT, ESPN
“Sports is more than scores and stats. At its heart are thought-provoking issues and personal stories of triumph and tragedy that transcend the fields of play. For five years, E:60 has carried the mantle of ESPN’s rich history of compelling storytelling. I congratulate everyone involved for all their outstanding work in helping distinguish ESPN and serving our fans with intelligence and creativity.”
ANDY TENNANT, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, E:60
“ESPN has demonstrated a remarkable commitment to long-form journalism with its investment in E:60 over the last five years and it’s a privilege to work with so many terrific journalists and storytellers, whose work has been recognized with just about every award our industry offers. Our most memorable stories include reports on so-called corrective rape in South Africa, a boy aging prematurely whose love for baseball sustains him, the young victims of the deadly Bhopal chemical disaster and a Serbian basketball player who fled the United States after he was arrested for beating a fellow student at Binghamton University into a coma.
“There was also a story that aired in our very first show, in 2007, that made a tremendous impact. It was called ‘Ray of Hope’, and it was about Jason Ray, the North Carolina undergraduate who played the role of the mascot in one of those big, fuzzy costumes at Tar Heel sports events. He was killed by a car when he was walking down the road in New Jersey when North Carolina was at the Meadowlands to play in the 2007 NCAA regionals. The decision he and his parents made to donate his organs helped save the lives of several people, and improved the lives of dozens more. According to the New Jersey Sharing Network, our story on Jason Ray and the people who received his organs encouraged about 80,000 people to sign up as organ donors, which may end up saving 200,000 lives.”
A few of our E:60 reporters shared some insight into their most memorable pieces to date, including Chris Connelly and Jeremy Schaap (in the video above) and Lisa Salters and Jeffri Chadiha (below): continue reading…
posted by David Scott on September 25, 2012 3:06 PM
What happened when E:60 sent normally subdued and cerebral reporter Jeremy Schaap into a land far, far away?
“I enjoyed my time in the wonderful world of the Gronks,” said Schaap, referring to the time he was able to spend with New England Patriot Rob Gronkowski and his family. “The day I first met them, they were shooting a spread for Muscle and Fitness magazine. I declined to participate; I didn’t want to make them look bad.”
While “Gronk” has been making defenses look bad for two-plus seasons as the Patriots’ devastating tight end, it’s the complete package of on- and off-field antics that piqued E:60 producer John Minton III’s interest in the 23-year-old for tonight’s episode of the award-winning show.
“We spent a large part of Mother’s Day weekend with Rob, his father, Gordy and his four brothers,” said Minton, who also produced last year’s memorable Scott Hall feature for E:60. “. . . Rob took us to the Ale House in Amherst, NY where his brothers, family and friends from the area met for lunch and provided a tutorial of the fine cuisine suburban Buffalo has to offer. The two dishes most talked about were the Crown Royal wings, and the “Stingers”, a combination of steak and chicken fingers on a hoagie roll.” continue reading…
posted by Dan Quinn on August 28, 2012 8:30 AM
Front Row caught up with E:60 Executive Producer Andy Tennant prior to tonight’s launch of the 2012 11-week “Fall Flight” of ESPN’s award-winning news magazine show (7 p.m., ET, ESPN).
You’ve been prepping for the “Fall Flight” for several months — what’s the feeling of your E:60 team?
We are extremely excited about where we are with the series: The stories have never been more captivating, the storytelling never more powerful. Our staff spends countless hours putting the show together — researching, traveling, shooting, interviewing, editing. Our producers and reporters are completely invested in each character, every story, every production.
Andy Tennant
It’s been a busy off-season: E:60 won a National Sports Emmy and received seven nominations, and won two Edward R. Murrow Awards for Excellence in Journalism, among others. How do you feel about the recognition?
At a time most networks are cutting back, it is extraordinary that ESPN has such a commitment to long-form journalism and enterprise reporting. And it is terrific to see this commitment recognized. Obviously we are honored, and personally it is rewarding to see our staff honored for all its intelligent work.
What can we look forward to on tonight’s show?
We are more excited for this season premiere than any since our launch in October 2007. We teamed with ESPN The Magazine on a definitive profile of Detroit Lions superstar Calvin Johnson — “Megatron.” Jeremy Schaap’s provocative interview with two-time Olympic gold medalist Hope Solo, the most popular female soccer player on the planet, is a must-watch. Lisa Salters, a Penn State alum, tells the incredibly powerful story of Jamil Pollard, the first recruit to commit to Penn State in the wake of the Sandusky sex abuse scandal. And the finale tells the story of two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning’s commitment to a long-time family friend.
We get 11 straight weeks of E:60, the longest consecutive show run since 2008. What kind work goes in to produce this much award-winning content? continue reading…
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