So Jim Rome is going from ESPN to CBS Sports Network even though the Worldwide Leader had offered him a multi-year extension for Rome Is Burning. According to a source, Rome wanted out at least in part because of comments made by an ESPN executive in Those Guys Have All The Fun, the oral history published last year. According to the book, a pair of ESPN executives had a dispute over whether to give Rome his own show on ESPN2 as the new channel prepared to launch on Oct. 1, 1993. At the time, Rome had his own sports-talk show in San Diego that was about to be syndicated nationally on the radio. John Lack, ESPN's executive vice president of marketing and programming, wanted to bring him on,...
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