• “The company would have Christmas parties up at some horrible place in Bristol [Conn., where ESPN is based],” says former general counsel Andy Brilliant. “A couple of them were drunken orgies…. It became like a big frat party. There were a lot of drugs being done in the bathroom. There was quite a bit of screwing going on afterward, a lot of it extramarital. But everybody went back to business the next workday.”
• “There was screwing in the hallways,” says onetime reporter Sal Marchiano of ESPN’s early days. “Okay, maybe not in the hallways, but there were a couple of stairwell stories…. There were drugs in the building, that I knew. There was one guy who dealt pot.” continued…

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How big is hockey in the city of Vancouver?

Just listen to this reaction in downtown Vancouver after the Canucks 2-1 overtime win Tuesday night against the Chicago Blackhawks.

Something tells me that downtown Montreal is currently silent after their Game 7 overtime loss to the Boston Bruins.

[H/T SportsGrid]

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