A name on a book cover can feel like the most natural thing in the world. We assume it belongs to the person who wrote the ...

The award for most craven statue stealing goes to … ESPN. The network made up fake names for Emmy Awards in order to obtain statuettes for on-air talent who were ineligible to receive awards, only for ...

ESPN returned dozens of Emmy statues and “disciplined” employees after an investigation disclosed Thursday found that the sports network had submitted fake names to the awards organization in a bid to ...

In March 2023, Shelley Smith, who worked 26 years as an on-air reporter for ESPN, received a call from Stephanie Druley, then the network’s head of studio and event production. Druley said she wanted ...

A couple who will soon have a baby say they've had enough with their family members offering up baby name suggestions — so they've started leaking "fake names" as a way to get them to stop. In a post ...

ESPN has returned dozens of Emmys and disciplined employees involved in a decades-long scheme to secure trophies for ineligible on-air personalities by submitting fake names for consideration, ...