Thats not necessarily true. If the information was provided by UT, they could have asked for an embargo, meaning the article wouldnt publish until UT wanted it to. I dont think this is the case in this scenario, but thats how an official announcement could work and how ESPN could technically break the news. UT could provide an exclusive on the information to ESPN and request the story break at a certain time. Im in PR and do this with big announcements all the time.