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ESPN stories: 49 news summaries

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 Steve Phillips' 
 Galpal Talks 
 Affair 

Brooke Hundley says she sympathizes with ESPN analyst's wife

Nov 12, 09 10:47 AM CST
(Newser) - Brooke Hundley is shocked—shocked!—that she’s “been called a homewrecker” and Jay Leno used her “to get a cheap laugh” after her affair with Steve Phillips got them both fired from ESPN. The 22-year-old talks about the scandal for the first time, telling Good Morning ... More »

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ANDREA PEYSER

 Sex Rehab for 
 Steve Phillips? Oh, Please! 

Axed ESPN analyst is just the latest to use 'sex addict' as an excuse

Oct 29, 09 10:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Steve Phillips and his fellow celebrity sex addicts prove "all that's required to claim that a man's transgression is really a disease over which he is powerless is a large bank account, a small degree of fame, a clueless wife. And a straight face," writes Andrea Peyser in... More »

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TODAY AT THE WORLDWIDE LEADER

 ESPN Axes Phillips' Galpal, Too 

Meanwhile, former baseball analyst enters sex-addiction rehab

Oct 26, 09 7:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - A day after ESPN fired baseball analyst Steve Phillips in the wake of his affair with a production assistant, the channel has cut Brooke Hundley loose, too. And that’s not all, Phillips agent tells the New York Post: Phillips, 46, is seeking treatment for sex addiction, and it’s... More »

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 ESPN to 
 Steve Phillips: 
 You're Out! 

Network fires philandering baseball analyst

Oct 25, 09 9:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Less than a week after the revelation of his affair with a production assistant, ESPN has fired baseball analyst Steve Phillips. "His ability to be an effective representative for ESPN has been significantly and irreparably damaged, and it became evident it was time to part ways," the network... More »

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television • ESPN • New York Mets • affair • infidelity • adultery • baseball • television personality • general manager • marital infidelity • Steve Phillips • Brooke Hundley

espn meltdown

 Steve Phillips 
 Pressured 
 Me Into Sex: 
 Hundley 

Alleged mistress filed for restraining order against Steve Phillips

Oct 23, 09 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - One day after dropping off a letter to Steve Phillips' wife, Brooke Hundley filed for a restraining order against the ESPN analyst—stating, among other things, that he rammed her car the day she left the letter, and accusing him of “cornering” her and pressuring her into sex. TMZ... More »

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BLOG-ON-BLOG VIOLENCE

Bigger Jerk Than Phillips?
Deadspin's AJ Daulerio

Throws whatever ties site had to journalism out window in vendetta vs. ESPN

Oct 22, 09 6:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - In the shadows of the Steve Phillips controversy is the reaction at Deadspin, where editor AJ Daulerio, having missed out on the scoop, appears to emptied his in-box in airing years’ worth of anonymous tips about ESPN’s seamy side. That, in turn, got its own reaction from the sports... More »

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foul balls

 ESPN Must Fire Steve Phillips 

Network knew what it was getting in  scandal-plagued analyst

Oct 22, 09 2:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - ESPN knew exactly what it was getting in Steve Phillips, and it has to know that it's time to cut him loose. When the network hired him, "ESPN, already having gained a well-earned reputation as the Sodom and Gomorrah of sports television, must have informed Phillips of the World... More »

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Letter Surfaces in Steve Phillips Sex Scandal

Jilted lover wrote diatribe to ESPN analyst's wife

Oct 22, 09 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - The New York Post is all over the story of Steve Phillips' affair with 22-year-old production assistant Brooke Hundley, whom they have poetically dubbed "the tubby temptress." In addition to "translating" her letter to Phillips' wife Marni ("I may be 22, but I'm not stupid"... More »

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ESPN Analyst Has to
Go Public After Affair Sours

He seeks police protection after he breaks it off with assistant

Oct 21, 09 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Another nasty public affair comes to light: ESPN analyst Steve Phillips, 46, had to go to the cops for protection after he broke it off with a 22-year-old production assistant at the network. The jilted woman responded with harassing letters and phone calls to the family and may have friended... More »

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 Serena's 
 Nude Shot 
 'Classy, 
 Not Trampy' 

Tennis hottie: Williams is naked on the cover of ESPN

Oct 9, 09 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Serena Williams’ naked cover shot for ESPN The Magazine hits stands today, and Williams says she loves the picture, AFP reports. “They told me I had a great body and they wanted me to be on the cover so I was super flattered,” she says. “But... More »

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 Erin Andrews' 
 Alleged Stalker 
 Makes Bail  

Michael David Barret must submit to home confinement

Oct 5, 09 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The traveling salesman who allegedly taped Erin Andrews in her hotel room and attempted to sell nude images of the ESPN reporter will be released on bail but confined to his home and forbidden to use the Internet. Michael David Barrett appeared in federal court in Chicago today and will... More »

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(Newser) - It looks like Erin Andrews' peeping tom has been caught. FBI agents arrested a Chicago man at O'Hare airport last night and accused him of making nude videos of the ESPN reporter after altering peepholes in two hotel rooms. He tried to sell them to TMZ, then posted clips online,... More »

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 TV to Go 3D in 2010 

Manufacturers have the tech, but broadcasters lag

Sep 18, 09 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - HDTV is about to become old hat. Sony, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, and JVC all intend to debut new 3D television sets next year. The manufacturers are likening the move to the standard-to-high-def switch—or even the shift from black-and-white to color. “TV finally becomes real,” a Panasonic VP tells... More »

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(Newser) - Reporter Erin Andrews put the summer’s naked-video scandal behind her tonight, returning to the sidelines for ESPN’s first college football telecast of the season. David Whitley was observing her every move during the South Carolina-North Carolina State tilt for AOL’s Fanhouse blog, and notes, “She appears... More »

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(AP) - ESPN reporter Erin Andrews tells Oprah Winfrey that having secretly videotaped nude footage of her distributed on the Internet was a "nightmare." In an interview taped last week and scheduled to air Sept. 11 on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Andrews also tells Winfrey she "opened up... More »

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ESPN • Oprah Winfrey • video • invasion of privacy • Erin Andrews • nude video • peeping tom

(Newser) - As if being videotaped in hotel rooms weren't bad enough, ESPN's Erin Andrews now has to deal with reporters outside her Georgia home, the New York Post reports. "I'm being treated like fucking Britney Spears and it sucks," she complains to a 911 dispatcher. After describing herself as... More »

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(Newser) - The Erin Andrews video scandal is just another sick symptom of “male sports culture,” Bonnie Erbe writes in US News & World Report, but the fairer sex does have recourse. “If women didn’t attend NFL games or NBA games, or even watch them on TV to... More »

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 Post to ESPN: 
 Vid Scandal 
 Is Your Fault 

Paper, angry at being banned by network, plays the blame game

Jul 23, 09 10:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - ESPN may have banned New York Post staffers from its airwaves after the paper printed images from the Erin Andrews nude video, but the Post shot back today, blaming ESPN itself for the video coming to light. It had gone basically unnoticed since February, but that changed when ESPN demanded... More »

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Internet • ESPN • crime • nudity • New York Post • video • nude photo • invasion of privacy • nude • naked • Erin Andrews

OPINION

 'Smut-Merchant' 
 O'Reilly Plays 
 Naked ESPN Vid 

All the while complaining about the 'ultra-disturbing' nature of the whole thing

Jul 23, 09 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bill O’Reilly is building himself a reputation, at least in the Gawker offices, for self-righteously discussing “softcore porn on YouTube or underage strippers or whatever” while simultaneously running the “salacious clips” as he bemoans “the gross injustice.” It’s not surprising, then, that “the... More »

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(Newser) - ESPN has declared every New York Post reporter persona non grata on its programming in retaliation for the paper's printing photos taken from a nude video of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, Newsday reports. The move will affect several Post reporters who regularly appear on ESPN TV and its radio outlet.... More »

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