Page 2 is a feature section of ESPN.com

ESPN.com

ESPN.com is the official website of ESPN and a division of ESPN Inc. Since launching in 1995 as ESPNet.SportsZone.com, the website has developed numerous sections including: Page 2, SportsNation, ESPN 3.com, ESPN Motion, My ESPN, ESPN Sports Travel, ESPN Video Games, ESPN Insider, ESPN.com's...

. The section contains humorous, opinionated articles on American sport, and regular contributors including "The Sports Guy" Bill Simmons

Bill Simmons

William J. "Bill" Simmons III is a sports columnist, author, and podcaster. He currently writes columns and hosts podcasts for Grantland.com, which is affiliated with ESPN.com. He is a former writer for ESPN The Magazine and Jimmy Kimmel Live!...

, DJ Gallo, Jim Caple

Jim Caple

Jim Caple is a columnist and senior writer for ESPN.com. He has worked previously with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and St. Paul Pioneer Press.Caple attended R.A...

, Gregg Easterbrook

Gregg Easterbrook

Gregg Edmund Easterbrook is an American writer, lecturer, and a senior editor of The New Republic. His articles have appeared in Slate, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Reuters, Wired, and Beliefnet. In addition, he was a fellow at the...

, Jemele Hill

Jemele Hill

Jemele Juanita Hill is a columnist for ESPN.com's Page 2 and ESPN's First Take.-Career:Hill began her career in 1997 as general assignment sports writer for the Raleigh News & Observer. From 1999 to 2005, she served as a sports writer with the Detroit Free Press, mainly covering Michigan State...

, Paul Lukas and LZ Granderson

LZ Granderson

LZ Granderson is an American columnist for ESPN.com's Page 2 and a CNN contributor. He writes a weekly column for CNN.com. A senior writer and columnist for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com, he has contributed to ESPN's Sports Center, Outside the Lines and ESPN First Take...

. Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman

Charles John "Chuck" Klosterman is an American author and essayist who has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and The Washington Post, and has written books focusing on American popular culture....

 also supplies occasional articles. Before their deaths, Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author who wrote The Rum Diary , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 .He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to...

 and Ralph Wiley

Ralph Wiley

Ralph Wiley was a sports journalist who wrote for various publications such as Sports Illustrated and espn.com's Page 2 section....

 had Page 2 columns.

Content

Page 2 regularly features such items as "Here's Looking at You" - a photographic comparison of two figures, Top 10 lists ranging from "weirdest game endings" to "best rookies ever", and "What the Heck Were They Thinking?" which allows readers to vote for most likely "thoughts" of sports figures in recent situations.

Page 2 often holds tournaments, such as the Best Uniform Tournament, Hottest Female/Male Athlete poll, and the Page 2 Invitation Tournament, where readers vote for various athletes and celebrities. In 2003, ESPN.com launched Page 3 to focus more on entertainment than sporting news, although the section finished producing new articles in 2005. The Internet eagerly awaits the debut of Page 4.

Often, the Page 2 columnists will criticize other ESPN workers. For example, Jason Whitlock

Jason Whitlock

Jason Lee Whitlock is a sportswriter for Foxsports.com, as well as a former columnist at the Kansas City Star, AOL Sports writer, contributor to ESPN, and radio personality for WHB and KCSP sports stations in the Kansas City area.-College and sports:Whitlock was an all-state offensive lineman at...

 criticized an article by Scoop Jackson

Scoop Jackson (writer)

Not to be confused with former United States Senator Henry M. "Scoop" JacksonRobert "Scoop" Jackson is an American sports journalist and cultural critic currently contributing to ESPN.com's Page2 and ESPN The Magazine....

 in which Jackson claimed his job was harder to get than starting in the NBA for a black male. Whitlock insulted Jackson and said it was Scoop's attempt to brag about his own mediocre work. Simmons is known not to like TV host Stephen A. Smith

Stephen A. Smith

-Early years:Smith was raised in the Hollis neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens. He lived with his parents and four older sisters.He attended Winston-Salem State University, a historically black university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina...

, who has attacked Simmons's work in the past; Simmons also attacks Bill Laimbeer

Bill Laimbeer

William "Bill" Laimbeer, Jr. is a retired National Basketball Association player for the Detroit Pistons. Playing at center, the 6'11" Laimbeer was a four-time All-Star and integral part of the Pistons teams that won two championships...

 and the ESPN NFL crew as well. Finally, almost every article writer has taken a shot at former columnist Skip Bayless

Skip Bayless

Skip Bayless is an American journalist and television personality. Bayless regularly appears on ESPN2's ESPN First Take and its afternoon show 1st and 10. Bayless previously wrote regular columns for ESPN.com and its "Page 2" section.-Schooling and family:Bayless was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...

for being an over-the-top contrarian and a poor writer.