Not long after being denied — and subsequently shamed — for an attempt to acquire the rights to broadcast South Korea’s KBO games for free, ESPN is reportedly nearing an agreement with the league. According to information Yoo Jee-ho and Shin Chang-yong of Yonhap News Agency received from an anonymous source, the Four-Letter could soon be airing multiple KBO games per week.
Though “the exact duration of the deal and proposed financial terms weren’t immediately clear,” the May 5 start of the KBO season means we should find out more soon. That opening day is a little over a month later than the initial scheduled start of March 28 and would make this the second professional baseball league to resume after Taiwan’s CPBL got going a couple weeks ago.