Mar 24 2026SPORTS
ESPN’s Big Leap: How a Small Idea Became a Sports Giant
The story of ESPN begins in the late 1970s, when a former hockey broadcaster named Bill Rasmussen imagined a TV channel that would show sports all the time. He was fired from his job with the New England Whalers, but that setback did not stop him. In a small town in Connecticut, he and a handful of
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