Back in 2018, I had dinner with Bob Ley. Ley was the host of ESPN’s Outside the Lines. He was a figure of fatherly rectitude inside the network. And he had just survived the craziest year in ESPN’s history.
What was 2017 like? I asked him over pasta.
“What’d the Queen say—‘annus horribilis’? said Ley, reaching for a very Bob-like reference. “I think Elizabeth nailed it.”
In other words, ESPN had just been through a Year From Hell.
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