ESPN’s SportsCenter is rocked by MASSIVE Microsoft outage as cable giant is forced to replace iconic morning program with a radio show
ESPN’s SportsCenter is the latest victim of Friday’s Microsoft outage – the same bug that crashed Sky Sports in the UK, the Sphere in Las Vegas and ticket sales for major Premier League clubs like Manchester United.
Instead of the typical morning program of The World Wide Leader, both ESPN and ESPN 2 aired ESPN Radio’s Unsportsmanlike with Freddie Coleman and Courtney Cronin.
Cronin wrote in an interview with X that she and her co-host would occupy ESPN’s airwaves “for at least the next hour.”
However, SportsCenter remained off the air for more than an hour after Cronin posted a message on X at 7 a.m. EST.
ESPN spokespeople did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
ESPN’s SportsCenter was one of the many victims of Friday’s Microsoft outage
Both ESPN and ESPN 2 aired Unsportsmanlike starring Freddie Coleman and Courtney Cronin
Sphere in Las Vegas, home of the 2024 NHL Draft, was also affected by the Microsoft outage
Sky Sports News was down in the UK on Friday morning due to a major technical glitch, causing chaos across the world.
In the UK, hospitals, train services, banks, stock exchanges and TV channels were all taken offline.
Manchester United had planned to go on sale before the start of the new Premier League season, but their ticket website was unavailable. Sales were initially postponed until midday, but were later rescheduled for Monday at 10am.
A statement from the official Manchester United Matchday account said: ‘Unfortunately, this morning’s ticket sales will be delayed until midday due to a global outage on Microsoft servers, which is impacting many systems, including ours.
This incident is not considered a hack attack.
“This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated, and a fix has been implemented,” said George Kurtz, CEO of cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, in a social media post.
According to Kurtz, Crowdstrike has come up with a solution to the problem.
Microsoft also claims to have fixed the underlying issue that was affecting the company’s software across several platforms.