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The Last Dance will chronicle the simultaneous rise of Jordan and the Chicago Bulls and the popularity of the NBA during the 1990s. The docuseries, made with the full participation of Jordan and other key figures from the Bulls' championship teams, features more than 500 hours of never-before-seen footage from the's team's championship run in the 1997-98 season, along with commentary from dozens of others sports luminaries.

Documentary series featuring 30 of today's finest storytellers who will chronicle 30 remarkable stories from the ESPN era. Each storyteller will bring their passion and point of view to their film detailing the issues and events that transformed the sports landscape since 1979.

UFC Fight Night is a thrilling mixed martial arts competition featuring the best fighters from the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Watch as these highly skilled athletes go head-to-head in intense battles of strength, agility, and strategy. Don't miss a moment of the action!

The rise and fall of American football star, O.J. Simpson, from his days growing up in Los Angeles to his murder trial that polarized the country.

Coming in 2021, Man in the Arena: Tom Brady is a 9-episode series that will focus on Brady's first-hand account of the most iconic moments of his NFL career, including each of his 9 Super Bowl appearances with the New England Patriots, along with the smaller, seemingly insignificant instances that became pivotal events and paved the path for Brady's journey.

Get ready for intense fights as UFC on ESPN brings you main card events. Watch as fighters battle it out in the octagon for glory. Experience the thrill of MMA like never before with ESPN's coverage of UFC fights. Don't miss out on the action and tune in to see who comes out on top.

A compelling narrative revealing the man behind the icon - Derek Jeter. Amidst a time of great change in New York City, Derek Jeter's arrival to the New York Yankees returned a struggling franchise to its traditional perch amongst baseball's elite. As Derek forged a Hall of Fame worthy career, his second home molded him as a man.

World Series of Poker, broadcasted by ESPN is the Superbowl of poker. It consists of 45 events, including the $50,000 Buy in H.O.R.S.E. event and the $10,000 Buy in main event. The main event will pay around $12 million to the winner.

Monday Night Football is a live television broadcast of weekly National Football League (NFL) games on ESPN in the United States. From 1970 to 2005, it aired on sister broadcast network ABC. Monday Night Football was, along with Hallmark Hall of Fame and the Walt Disney anthology television series, one of the longest-running prime time programs ever on commercial network television, and one of the highest-rated, particularly among male viewers.

A documentary series that will explore the Kansas City Chiefs' indelible and distinctive place in the NFL's landscape for over more than six decades of history while offering an exclusive, revealing chronicle of the team's extraordinary 2024 season.

Peyton Manning hosts a 30-episode series where he travels the country and looks at the history of the NFL, from kicking barefoot with Rich Karlis to trying to re-create "The Immaculate Reception" with Terry Bradshaw and Franco Harris.

This show pairs together Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters in a tournament to compete for the title of world champion. $100,000 will be awarded to the winner in each weight division.

Each short film represents the specific point of view of a filmmaker. Showcasing their unique take and visual style. By moving away from the traditional four-act treatment, the short film format provides filmmakers new flexibility in the types of stories they can tell. A new 30 for 30 Short will premiere monthly on Grantland.com and each one will be complemented by a written feature and additional material to provide context.

UFC Primetime is an intense show that follows two UFC fighters as they prepare for their upcoming main event bout. Viewers get an inside look at the grueling training regimens, mental preparation, and personal lives of these elite athletes. Don't miss a moment of the action!

Full Court Press chronicles the ongoing journeys of senior Iowa guard Caitlin Clark, senior South Carolina center Kamilla Cardoso and sophomore UCLA guard Kiki Rice. From Iowa's historic preseason game that broke attendance records all the way through the WNBA draft in April, the series uses unparalleled access, exclusive interviews, and unique game footage, to transport audiences into the lives of these exceptional athletes. Full Court Press follows them as they steer their celebrated programs towards a national championship, all while navigating the pressures that come with representing the game during a pivotal era in women's basketball.

Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon face off on the day's hot topics.

The series is a gritty ensemble drama about the off-field lives of a group of players on a pro football team and how they deal with the pressure of being on the professional level.

In the buildup to, and presentation of, the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, ESPN will employ not only legendary players as analysts, but world-renowned filmmakers, too. 30 for 30: Soccer Stories comes from across the international soccer landscape as seen through the eyes of celebrated directors.

This longtime ESPN staple doesn't air in prime time anymore, and the original tag team of Chris Berman and Tom Jackson are no longer involved. But it lives on, albeit in a slightly different form, with host Trey Wingo presenting a shorter-form highlights package of Sunday's NFL action coupled with more in-depth analysis from former players Merril Hoge and Tim Hasselbeck.

"Basketball: A Love Story" is a series of more than 60 interconnected "short stories" that creates a vibrant mosaic of the game, featuring 165 exclusive interviews. The cast encompasses basketball's most prominent figures and explores the complex nature of love as it relates to the game. "Basketball: A Love Story" opens the window to insights and perspectives about race, politics, media, art, business, style and entertainment.

E:60 is ESPN's first multi-subject prime-time newsmagazine program offering a combination of investigative features, profiles of intriguing sports personalities, and cutting edge stories on innovation in the sports world, including emerging sports and new technology. The series will tell life stories that relate or have a basis in sports, melding its stories with a glimpse of the reporters' experiences discussing the story ideas. The show will be produced and aired in high definition, a first for the newsmagazine genre.

Running with the Wolves follows daytime television icons Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa as they dive headfirst into the high-stakes world of Italian football-not as spectators, but as team owners.Set in the heart of southern Italy, Running with the Wolves chronicles the couple's bold journey as owners of Campobasso FC, a gritty Serie C soccer club known as the "Lupi" (Italian for "Wolves"). Since taking the reins in 2022, Consuelos and Ripa have helped breathe new life into the once-struggling team and reignited passion among the club's loyal fanbase.Now, as the Wolves enter the 2025 campaign, the stakes have never been higher. Injuries affect the team as a relentless head coach pushes players to the brink, while Mark and Kelly feel the pressure of the fans' demands. The Wolves' margin for error is slim as they teeter from a playoff team to facing relegation. Through it all, viewers get an unprecedented look at how Mark and Kelly balance the pressures of ownership, family life, their careers-and the dream of leading Campobasso FC to glory. Running with the Wolves is a dramatic, inspiring, and often humorous behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to transform a soccer club.

The NBA All-Star Celebrity Game is an annual exhibition basketball game held by the National Basketball Association that takes place during the NBA All-Star Weekend and features retired NBA players, WNBA players, actors, musicians and athletes from sports other than basketball.The game was first held during the 2002-03 season as part of the NBA All-Star Weekend in Atlanta, Georgia. The NBA All-Star Celebrity Game is played on Friday in the same host city as the NBA All-Star Game. However, the game is not held in the same arena as all the other All-Star Saturday events. Instead, it is held on the NBA Jam Session's practice court.

An ESPY Award (short for Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award) is an accolade presented by the American cable television network ESPN to recognize individual and team athletic achievement and other sports-related performance during the calendar year preceding a given annual ceremony. The first ESPYs were awarded in 1993. Because of the ceremony's rescheduling prior to the 2002 iteration thereof, awards presented in 2002 were for achievement and performances during the seventeen-plus previous months. As the similarly styled Grammy (for music), Emmy (for television), Academy Award (for film), and Tony (for theatre), the ESPYs are hosted by a contemporary celebrity; the style, though, is more relaxed, light, and self-referential than that of many other awards shows, with comedic sketches usually included.

Three aspiring gamblers team up to attempt to bring down the "King of Vegas," Don Everest. "The Matador" has achieved that nickname through countless victories, mostly against those interested in bringing him down.