$30bn ESPN poised to take on streaming giants as insider shares rise from ‘crazy’ idea to Super Bowl

Legendary ESPN founder Bill Rasmussen passed away at the age of 93 on Tuesday. Tributes flooded in for the father of 24/7 sports, who turned a “crazy” idea into the Worldwide Leader in Sports thanks to a can-do attitude and a little luck along the way. Mary Walton films during ESPN’s historic first night on September 7, 1979 ESPN Rasmussen hired Mike Soltys as an intern in 1980 and he went on to…