http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/espys-producer-eyes-melissa-mccarthy-578062

ESPY Awards producer Maura Mandt says, "I would love to see a woman take on the show."
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/tv-tattle#IxouecTjuMHp5EXz.99

I'm all for a woman host - but how about someone who, I don't know, is ACTUALLY AN ATHLETE?? How about Nancy Kerrigan, Steffi Graff, Laila Ali, Michelle Kwan, etc., etc?? Call me crazy!!

http://deadspin.com/the-espys-are-a-colossal-waste-of-money-814222548?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

It's a nearly annual question in Bristol: Can we finally cancel the ESPYs?

We wrote this morning about the brewing anti-ESPN revolution the "Free Bruce" campaign exposed. No longer was ESPN everyone's mostly… Read…
The awards show—which drew 2.41 million viewers last year, an improvement over the 16-year-low rating it had in 2011 but down considerably from the highs it had in the mid-aughts—are a money drain. Tonight, even before host Jon Hamm takes to the Nokia Theater stage in Los Angeles for the 21st ESPYs, ESPN will have already spent millions. The ESPYs are a sore spot for a bunch of folks in Bristol for two reasons: 1) Symbolically, it's weird for ESPN to be so comfortably palling around with the athletes it covers (not to mention willfully ignoring some strange exploits that its reporters may or not see in the hotel); and 2) Why not spend that money elsewhere?