Phil Rosenthal: Bob Ley was ESPN's conscience. So what's next after 40 years?
Bob Ley joined ESPN just three days after its 1979 launch and, for much of that time, he has been its conscience.
That is coming to an end, and the void Ley will leave behind - not just in what he did, but what he represented - is considerable.
The sports multimedia behemoth's longest-tenured on-camera employee as well as its most widely respected, Ley announced his retirement from ESPN via Twitter on Wednesday.
A six-month sabbatical begun in October and extended this spring turned out to be a head start for his exit.
"Across 40 years I have enjoyed a professional
