Mike Greenberg will be the host of ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown” show when it begins its 40th season on Sept. 8.

Spencer Green, File)Pedro Gomez, a longtime baseball correspondent for ESPN who covered more than 25 World Series, has died. He was a Dad, loving husband, loyal friend, coach and mentor,” the Gomez family added. He was a correspondent on ESPN's “SportsCenter,” “Baseball Tonight” and additional shows, including the network's “Wednesday Night Baseball” package. “We are shocked and saddened to learn that our friend and colleague Pedro Gomez has passed away,” ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro said in a statement on Twitter and the network's public relations page. “More than an elite journalist, Pedro Gomez was a good and decent man, so proud of his family, and his heritage,” said former “SportsCenter” anchor Bob Ley.

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(CNN) - Bob Ley, the longest-tenured anchor at ESPN and a journalistic legend, says he is retiring at the end of this month. "To be clear, this is entirely my decision," Ley said, fending off inevitable speculation about his dealings with ESPN. Ley joined ESPN when the sports network launched in 1979. There are always great cuts, and hidden gems on the B-side," he wrote in a statement. Adande, the director of sports journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School, tweeted that Ley is "one of the foundational pieces of ESPN and one if its best journalistic voices."