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In-Depth Look at Fighting in the NHL
ESPN.com

ESPN.com’s two-day series takes an in-depth look at fighting in the NHL. The comprehensive package of stories covers a variety of perspectives and opinions on the topic from current and former hockey players to ESPN experts and analysts, as well as fans.

 

OTL: BCS? FSU? OSU? AU? UA?
Outside the Lines (Sunday 8 a.m. ET, ESPN2, live; 9 a.m. ESPNEWS)

Host Bob Ley and a lineup of college football insiders, analysts and reporters will break down the latest Bowl Championship Series and Heisman Trophy probabilities, possibilities and problems following Saturday’s results.

 

Protesting Youth of Brazil May Consume the World Cup
ESPN.com
Outside the Lines (Friday 4:30 p.m. ESPN2)
ESPN The Magazine (on newsstands Friday, Dec. 13)
ESPN FC (Full World Cup coverage)

Credit: Gustavo Froner/Reuters
Activists and students clash with riot police outside the Mane Garrincha National Stadium in Brasilia June 15, 2013.

ESPN senior writer Wright Thompson chronicles the birth of a Brazilian generation as love for the national team overlaps with political insurgency. Bob Ley hosts Friday’s OTL with guests Thompson and Steve McManaman, Liverpool soccer legend and former England National Team player.

“The opening match is six months away now, and there’s a weird energy in the streets of Brazil. It’s palpable, the fumes of a nation’s young people looking around for the first time and not liking what they see. Something is happening. A general sense of unhappiness hit the prism of June’s Confederations Cup and turned into a laser, focused on corruption, and on massive public spending for a sporting event despite crumbling infrastructure and public services. In the middle of the tournament, more than a million citizens took to the streets on a single day.” – Wright Thompson

 

Missouri Cats’ Back is Back / Duke’s Football Identity
College GameDay (Saturday 9 a.m., ESPN)

• Missouri running back Henry Josey suffered a horrific knee injury in 2011 that cost him the entire 2012 season. Tom Rinaldi reports on Josey’s road to recovery and how he has carried the Tigers’ offense in 2013.

• How David Cutcliffe has brought national attention to the football program at a school known for academics and basketball. Gene Wojciechowski reports.

 

PRE-OTL
OTL

The advantage of a daily sports-news show is its ability to report on the news of the day. A disadvantage is that viewers often don’t know what that selected news will be.

Monday, the Outside the Lines team enhanced its promotional efforts by producing a daily video clip previewing each afternoon’s show. This bonus content, overseen by producers Robbin Dunn and Paul Palmer, runs on SportsCenter and ESPN.com, with links also on OTL’s Twitter and Facebook accounts, prior to the 4:30 p.m. ET OTL on ESPN2.

“Just getting all the details ironed out before we could begin doing them was a small undertaking,” Dunn said. “We needed a place for Bob Ley to tape them, we needed a director, a production assistant to cut video, needed to get fonts built, needed to get it clipped off and distributed to the appropriate people. A lot of emails were flying around to get everything set up.”

Thom Griffin, who volunteered to be first PA and “help iron out the kinks,” according to Dunn, says, “Our goal with OTL’s daily digital content is to both increase our reach and presence on digital platforms, as well as enhance the experience for our viewers who  engage in those media. We hope this content will deliver our fans a heightened knowledge of our daily subject matter before they ever get a chance to tune in.”

The new content not only impacts those directly working on it, but the entire OTL team: the traditional 9:30 a.m. ET show meeting was moved to 9 a.m. so it can be taped before noon.

“We are excited about the chance to let viewers know what we are working on,” Dunn said. “While it may be a topic SportsCenter is covering, we always look for another angle and can spend more time on the subject than most other shows can.”