With phone calls and meetings beginning informing some ESPN employees that they have been laid off, word will slowly trickle out all day long about who they are. There will be plenty of names you have heard of, as ESPN reorients their daily lineup of shows, and their online video and stories to match.
As ESPNers announce their layoffs, or they are reported, we will keep a running list here.
NBA Insider Chad Ford
College Football & Indy 500 Play-By-Play Announcer Allen Bestwick
NBA Reporter Marc Stein
NBA Digital Deputy Director Henry Abbott
Investigations Unit Writer Shaun Assael
College Football Analyst Mark May
Soccer Writer Doug McIntyre
Reporter Britt McHenry
ESPN 710 Host Jeff Biggs
Outside the Lines Reporter Steve Delsohn
College Football Reporter David Lombardi
College Basketball Reporter Andy Katz
Columnist Jim Caple
College Football Analyst Charles Arbuckle
MLB Analysts Dallas Braden And Raul Ibanez
MLB Analyst Doug Glanville
ESPNU Producer Josh Parcell
Soccer Writer David Hirshey
SportsCenter Anchor Darren Haynes
NFL Contributor Jarrett Bell
SportsCenter Anchor Jade McCarthy
Auto Racing and College Football Commentator Jerry Punch
Enterprise Reporter Tom Farrey
Sports Gambling Writer Dave Tuley
Premier Boxing Champions Host Marysol Castro
Correspondent Reese Waters
SEC Reporter Greg Ostendorf
Golf Commentator Dottie Pepper
Legal Analyst Roger Cossack
SportsCenter Anchor Jaymee Sire
SportsCenter Anchor Chris Hassel
Predictive Analytics Expert Rufus Peabody
College Sports Reporter Chantel Jennings
New Orleans Pelicans Reporter Justin Verrier
Radio Host Robin Lundberg
NFL Analyst Ashley Fox
College Basketball Analyst Len Elmore
Houston Rockets Reporter Calvin Watkins
ESPNW and ESPN Chicago Columnist Melissa Isaacson
SportsCenter Anchor Jay Crawford
NBA Reporter Ethan Sherwood Strauss
Pac 12 Reporter Ted Miller
NFL Analyst Trent Dilfer
Big Ten Reporter Brian Bennett
MLB Writer Jayson Stark
SEC Football Reporter David Ching
ESPNW Reporter Jane McManus
Big 12 Reporter Max Olson
Dodgers Reporter Doug Padilla
Columnist Johnette Howard
Radio Host Danny Kanell
College Basketball Reporter C.L. Brown
SEC Recruiting Analyst Derek Tyson
ESPN Dallas Columnist Jean-Jacques Taylor
College Basketball Writer Eamonn Brennan
College Football Recruiting Reporter Jeremy Crabtree
College Football Reporter Brett McMurphy
Baseball Reporter Mark Saxon
MLB Analyst Jim Bowden
Big Ten Football Reporter Austin Ward
Wisconsin and Big Ten Football Reporter Jesse Temple
Soccer Writer Mike Goodman
ESPNU Anchor Brendan Fitzgerald
College Basketball Reporter Dana O’Neil
NHL Columnist Pierre LeBrun
Hockey Writer Joe McDonald
NHL Columnist Scott Burnside
NFL Reporter Ed Werder
Titans Reporter Paul Kuharsky
Additionally, The Hollywood Reporter reports that Karl Ravech, Ryen Russillo, and Hannah Storm will see their roles “significantly reduced.” THR originally reported that ESPN would allow SportsCenter anchor John Buccigross’s contract to expire, but has since walked that back.
Twenty of the 100 or so layoffs are of Bristol-based employees.