The longtime ESPN college basketball voice received special recognition from his hometown ahead of the new season.

At 7 p.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 7, 1979 — 45 years ago Saturday — the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, or ESPN, first began broadcasting on U.S. cable TV systems. At first, ESPN was ...

ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale says he is cancer free after battling four different types of the disease over ...

ESPN's first play-by-play announcer, Jim Simpson, died Wednesday morning in Scottsdale, Arizona, after a short illness, his family said. He was 88. Simpson died surrounded by his family. A cause of ...