Serving Sports Fans Through Journalism

By: Robert Lipsyte | ESPN

And as I’ve roamed its city-states, duchies and colonies for the past 18 months, literally and figuratively, I’ve been constantly impressed by its size, reach and impact on games, athletes and the audience. ESPN’s coverage, for example, of the NFL’s head trauma crisis and of the Ray Rice domestic abuse case helped widen and deepen national conversations that went far beyond the world of sports.