You'll be tempted to say this proves just what a hotbed of iniquity ESPN really is, and then to tie that to all its advocacy of liberal politics. I'd resist that temptation, especially given what's happened recently within some conservative media organizations.
John Skipper's departure from ESPN may have been resisted a little less by Disney if things were going well there, but if Bob Iger was open to his departure, this was the situation that sealed the deal: