As ESPN morphs into MS-ESPN the answer is YES –  Is ESPN unraveling? | Power Line

Nor could it reasonably be expected to work. Alienating half or more of your audience with left-wing clap-trap and non-stop obsessing over race is hardly a sound plan for maintaining market share. In the words of Michael Jordan, Republicans buy sneakers too.

Given the irrationality, from a business perspective, of moving leftward, I suspect that Skipper did it because that’s where he wanted ESPN to be, not because he thought it would help his company.

ESPN’s decline and potential unraveling could have major implications for the salaries professional athletes make. The enormous contracts pro athletes receive are underwritten by television revenue

The goose that laid the golden egg is done.