ESPN’s SportsCenter is the latest victim of Microsoft’s service outage on Friday – the same glitch that affected Sky Sports in the UK, Sphere in Las Vegas and ticket sales for top Premier League clubs such as Manchester United.
Instead of The World Wide Leader’s typical morning programming, both ESPN and ESPN 2 aired ESPN Radio’s Unsportsmanlike with Freddie Coleman and Courtney Cronin.
In X, Cronin wrote 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’s 7 a.m. EST post on X.
ESPN spokespeople did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
ESPN’s SportsCenter was among the many victims of Microsoft’s service outage on Friday
Both ESPN and ESPN 2 aired Unsportsmanlike with Freddie Coleman and Courtney Cronin
The Sphere in Las Vegas, home of the 2024 NHL Draft, was also affected by the Microsoft service outage
Sky Sports News went down on Friday morning in the UK after a major technological glitch, causing chaos around the world.
In the UK, hospitals, rail services, banks, stock exchanges and television channels were shut down.
Manchester United had planned to start selling tickets ahead of the new Premier League season but their ticketing website was unavailable, with sales initially postponed until midday before being rescheduled for 10am on Monday.
A statement from the official Manchester United Matchday account read: ‘Unfortunately, due to a global outage of Microsoft servers which is affecting many systems including our own, this morning’s ticket release will be postponed until midday.
This incident is not considered a hacking 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 post on social media.
Crowdstrike has produced a solution to the problem, Kurtz said.
Similarly, Microsoft claims to have fixed the underlying issue that affected the company’s software on multiple platforms.