When ESPN purchased the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society from a group of Birmingham investors in 2001, it instantly gave a new level of credibility to the second- or third-tier sport of pro fishing.

NEW ORLEANS – Can ESPN move the sport of bass fishing from the lakes and rivers to prime time? That’s the $40 million question. The media giant bought the country’s oldest and largest bass fishing ...

It’s January, so that means it’s time for ESPN to generate controversy by suggesting that a recent Super Bowl champion that just so happens to be competing for another berth in the Super Bowl has ...

Flip the channel on your television to ESPN, and you will get a good look at the changing face of fishing. Bass boats plastered with the designs of sponsors speed across lakes during Bassmaster events ...

I’m not going to lie to you all….I enjoy me some ESPN Outdoors from time to time. While I’m sure a lot of you are in the same boat (see what I did there?) I don’t know if I can handle 11 hours of the ...

Some things just go together. Like red beans and rice. Or Frank Sinatra and New York. They fit perfectly. In fact, if you add a dash of something new, or take away something old, you can lose the ...

OSAKA, Japan But do they catch fish? Elite Series angler Morizo Shimizu is mobbed by fans at the Osaka Fishing Show in Japan. That's the question you have to keep asking yourself. Cutting edge fishing ...

With outdoors being the only live beat in the sports world right now, ESPN has gone fishing. Beginning today with the Bassmaster Elite Series tournament on the St. Lawrence River at Clayton, N.Y., ...

MISSOULA — After being turned down by Montana, ESPN will hold its Great Outdoor Games fly-fishing tour nament in Idaho, the television net work announced Monday. ESPN proposed holding a fly-fishing ...

ESPN’s purchase of the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society may be the best thing to happen to bass tournament fishing since Ray Scott conceived the sport nearly 34 years ago. At least that’s the opinion of ...

Time was, the average Joe could flip over to ESPN in the early morning hours and get some titillation, courtesy of the bouncy babes of the network’s fitness shows. But whether it was the Disney effect ...