Dan Le Batard reveals ESPN focus group axed 'SportsCenter' commentaries with Mitch Albom, Mike Lupica

Dan Le Batard reveals ESPN focus group axed 'SportsCenter' commentaries with Mitch Albom, Mike Lupica

Credit: The Dan Le Batard ShowDan Le Batard has recounted this story before, but he told it again this week on The Dan Le Batard Show, connecting the dots on ESPN’s initial pivot toward debate programming to a piece of focus-group research that killed the format he was working on at the time. Le Batard was writing and reading short commentaries on SportsCenter alongside Mitch Albom and Mike Lupica, each delivering an individual take on a given s…