Before previewing chapter 5 of, “Sybil: My Life as a Georgia Bulldog,” we have a significant update from the former sports empire known as ESPN.
Amid a federal investigation into whether billion-dollar geek websites “FanDuel” and “DraftKings” were guilty of insider trading, ESPN pulled advertising by “DraftKings” this week because it wanted to avoid any appearance (cough, cough) of a conflict of interest (cough, cough, cough — oh look, there’s my spine).
“It is a standard procedure for us pull these kind of sponsorships and integrations when we are covering breaking news,” ESPN’s Paul Melvin told USA Today.