{"id":43578,"date":"2013-10-03T10:27:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T17:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=43578"},"modified":"2013-10-03T11:00:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T18:00:21","slug":"espn-cuts-global-x-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=43578","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Cuts Global X Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/X_Game_Logo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/X_Game_Logo.jpg','popup','width=250,height=300,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/X_Game_Logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"120\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"X Game Logo\" \/><\/a>This didn&#8217;t take long. Seems like only yesterday we were saying how there was no reason for ESPN to expand their <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xgames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">X Games<\/a><\/strong> into the global market because there is no global market for what they do. And now, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportbusiness.com\/sportbusiness-international\/espn-scraps-x-games-europe-and-brazil\" target=\"_blank\">SportsBusiness International<\/a><\/strong> it appears they have finally agreed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An ESPN statement read: \u201cWe are proud to have run world-class competitions for both the athletes and spectators; however, the overall economics of these events do not provide a sustainable future path. . . The company remains fully committed to the X Games brand and its full-scale competitions in Aspen, Colorado and Austin, Texas \u2013 its newest host city \u2013 and we will continue to distribute these premier events around the world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You don&#8217;t say. It was a nice try though, huh?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportbusiness.com\/sportbusiness-international\/espn-scraps-x-games-europe-and-brazil\" target=\"_blank\">SportsBusiness International<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This didn&#8217;t take long. Seems like only yesterday we were saying how there was no reason for ESPN to expand their X Games into the global market because there is no global market for what they do. And now, according to a story on SportsBusiness International it appears they have finally agreed. An ESPN statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43581,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43578\/revisions\/43581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}