Chris Berman
FILE - This Feb. 5, 2011, file photo shows Steve Sabol during an interview in Dallas. This year’s “Hard Knocks” series with the Dallas Cowboys will mark the first time one of its teams is in the Hall of Fame Game. It is fitting since the creator of the series was enshrined into the Hall earlier this year. “Hard Knocks” is one of Steve Sabol’s many legacies at NFL Films that continue to live on. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
NFL Films' creative force Steve Sabol enters Hall of Fame

By Joe Reedy Jul. 20, 2021 03:08 AM EDT

File-This July 18, 2018, file photo shows shows Chris Berman appearing at the ESPY Awards at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Berman will continue to host “NFL PrimeTime” after agreeing to a new contract with ESPN. The multi-year agreement was announced on Monday, May 10, 2021, which is Berman's 66th birthday. “We've been working on it for awhile and this was the perfect time to do it,” Berman said during a telephone interview. “ESPN has been almost two-thirds of my life. I'm honored that what I do still works.”(Photo by Phil McCarten/Invision/AP, File)
ESPN announces extension for Berman on his 66th birthday

By Joe Reedy May. 10, 2021 04:48 PM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2008, file photo, Chris Berman, left, gestures during a live segment of Sunday NFL Countdown with colleague Tom Jackson at ESPN in Bristol, Conn. “NFL PrimeTime” with Berman and Jackson is coming back after a 14-year absence. ESPN+ is bringing back the popular highlights show beginning Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
ESPN+ bringing back 'NFL PrimeTime' beginning Sunday

By Joe Reedy Sep. 13, 2019 05:19 PM EDT

FILE - In this February 1966 file photo, NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle, center, discusses a new television contract for championship games with Bill MacPhail, left, vice president of CBS-TV, and John Reynolds, president of CBS-TV network, in Palm Beach, Fla. Pete Rozelle would not be surprised to see the NFL’s impact of television as it celebrates its 100th season this year. It was Rozelle, the commissioner from 1960 to 1989, who was able to convince owners that it was in their best interest to sign a leaguewide rights deal instead of teams negotiating on their own. (AP Photo/File)
A look at the seminal broadcasting moves that define the NFL

By Joe Reedy Aug. 23, 2019 05:15 PM EDT

In this June 2, 2013, photo provided by ESPN Images, Bob Ley talks during an international friendly soccer match in Washington, D.C. Ley, an anchor at ESPN since the network's launch 40 years ago, has announced his retirement. Ley was ESPN's longest-tenured anchor, joining "SportsCenter" on the channel's third day of operation on Sept. 9, 1979. He hosted "Outside The Lines," an investigative news program, from its launch in 1990 until he took a sabbatical last September. The 64-year-old Ley tweeted Wednesday, June 26, 2019, that he's enjoying the "best of health" and that the decision to retire was "entirely" his own. (Allen Kee/ESPN Images via AP)
ESPN anchor Bob Ley retires after 40 years with network

By Joe Reedy Jun. 26, 2019 12:06 PM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 18, 2018 file photo, Philadelphia Eagles' Nick Foles, left, and Tori Moore arrive at the ESPY Awards at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The wife of Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Nick Foles announced on Instagram that she had a miscarriage and said getting over the "traumatic loss" will take time. Tori Foles says she was about 15 weeks pregnant with the couple's second child when she went into sudden labor Sunday morning, May, 26, 2019 and "knew something was wrong." (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)
2018 ESPY Awards

May. 29, 2019 09:11 PM EDT