Dan Patrick to leave ESPN after 18 years
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NEW YORK  &#151; Dan Patrick is leaving ESPN after 18 years, insisting there is no acrimony but saying he was beginning to take his job for granted.
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Longtime Chicago Cubs analyst Steve Stone announced yesterday he was leaving WGN-TV, less than one month after coming under fire for on-air comments he made criticizing the team.
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Avery Johnson announced his retirement Thursday, officially ending his 16-year playing career and becoming a full-time assistant coach for the Dallas Mavericks.
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Former NASCAR Nextel (Winston) Cup Champion Rusty Wallace has confirmed that he will retire from the sport after the 2005 season during a much-awaited press conference in Daytona Beach on Monday.
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Philadelphia 76ers President and General Manager Billy King announced today that center Todd MacCulloch will retire from the game of basketball.
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Speculation met reality Sunday when it was announced that Charlie Weis, a Notre Dame graduate and 15-year NFL assistant coach, has accepted the job to become the new coach of the Irish.
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Val Ackerman, the WNBA&#39;s president since its inception in 1996, will step down, the Sports Business Daily reported Wednesday. ESPN.
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Not many media people are as secure emotionally as Bob Neumeier, who now has walked away from two high-profile jobs: WEEI this week and WBZ radio and TV before that, giving up his job as Bruins radio announcer and TV reporter/anchor.
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The ``Tonight Show&#39;&#39; host announced yesterday that he will step down five years from now, in 2009. Broadcaster NBC said he will be succeeded by Conan O&#39;Brien, whose talk show airs immediately after Leno&#39;s.
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For 17 years, Pat O'Brien was known as the sports guy on CBS. He covered everything from Super Bowls to the NCAA Tournament to major league baseball to the NBA to the US Open tennis championship. Then in 1997, he left to start an entertainment program in Los Angeles called ``Access Hollywood."
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DEERFIELD, Ill. - Scottie Pippen stood in front of the six championship trophies he helped the Chicago Bulls win and announced his retirement Tuesday, ending his 17-year NBA career in the same city where it began...
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Motorsport.com. When Honda announced it is to become part owner of BAR, it was also made known that team principal David Richards will be leaving.
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Cleveland Browns head coach Butch Davis resigned Tuesday, leaving a last-place team with five games left in a season filled with costly injuries.
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NEW YORK  - When ESPN signed on 25  years ago Tuesday, "SportsCenter" was the first thing viewers  saw.
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In a rare misstep for the  self-proclaimed "worldwide leader in sports," ESPN said  Thursday it would shut down its Mobile ESPN wireless telephone  service by year's end because the much-hyped venture couldn't  bring in enough subscribers.
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ESPN announced yesterday the signing of Rick Reilly, whose contract with Sports Illustrated expires at the end of November, to write the back-page column in ESPN the Magazine and to deliver essays on âSportsCenterâ during its golf coverage.Reilly said he succumbed to ESPN after rejecting offers 5 and 10 years ago. âThe money was ridiculous,â he said in a news media conference call. âThis is an itch Iâve always wanted to scratch, to take my voice to a different place.â Despite being on TV regularly with one-minute commentaries, he said ESPN wanted him for his column. âBelieve me, with this nose, I know whatâs best for me,â he said.
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WINNIPEG - After more than 200 games, former Winnipegger Todd MacCulloch has decided to retire from the National Basketball Association.