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Malika Andrews seems too perfect. At just 25 years old, she is a lead reporter for ESPN in the NBA’s Orlando bubble. She has been on national TV nearly every day for almost three straight months. If she isn’t a star already, then she is an assignment away from becoming one. It all looks so …

Given that I’m assigned to cover sports as delivered by TV, two recent developments have become dominant, repetitive themes: 1) If you don’t have a bet or bets on the games, you’re out of touch with sports, especially how they plan to sustain viewership and TV billions by suckering the young and vulnerable. How would …

You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers & columnists to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: sports media. What’s David Cone’s contract with YES? @aI_bundy First off, nice work, Al, on “Married with …

Without a significant role to fill and with ESPN watching costs, Trey Wingo is being let go by the network, The Post has learned. Wingo, 56, has been with ESPN for more than two decades. His highest profile TV job was hosting the NFL Draft. He was recently taken off ESPN Radio’s morning program, “Golic …

LeBron James doesn’t like being compared to Scottie Pippen — to put it mildly. The self-described King lashed out on Twitter when ESPN’s Jay Williams suggested he was Dwyane Wade’s sidekick with the Heat when they won two titles in four years. Williams quote-tweeted former NBA player Richard Jefferson’s tweet that said Bucks superstar Giannis …

Will Cain didn’t want to stick to sports. The state of the country was too important to do so. But he also didn’t want to talk politics while his job was to cover sports. “The direction of the country over the last six months … it really impacted my decision on what I want to …

Perhaps we expect better from ESPN because it’s a 24/7 sports network, the last place we’d think would wreck every sport it touches. Yet, here we are. Again, and still. To tune to ESPN to watch a live sports event is to be conditioned — air-conditioned — to anticipate a production that will challenge the …

You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers & columnists to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: sports media. How uninspired is ESPN’s new Monday night football booth? Who SHOULD get the job? Is …

Dan Le Batard issued an apology for his ill-advised poll Monday afternoon. The ESPN radio host’s show, “The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz,” ran a poll on Twitter poking fun at Magic forward Jonathan Isaac, who tore his ACL Sunday night. Isaac was the first player in the NBA bubble not to kneel during …

In its competition with WFAN, ESPN New York has a new lineup, sliced up all day that adds big names, but crushes the continuity it had built in recent years that has helped its afternoon show become No. 1 in the market. ESPN New York will add Mike Greenberg and Max Kellerman to its daily …