ESPN.com won't load in Safari

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Safari/Preferences/Advanced - enable the Develop menu, then go there and Empty Caches. Quit/reopen Safari and test. Then try Safari/History/Show History and delete all history items.  Quit/reopen Safari and test. You can also try try Safari/Clear History…. The down side is it clears all cookies. Doing this may cause some sites to no longer recognize your computer as one that has visited the web site. Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J.  When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.  Select Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db and move it to the trash.

Go to Safari Preferences/Extensions and turn all extensions off. Quit/reopen Safari and test. If okay, turn the extensions on one by one until you figure out what extension is causing the problem.

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I too am having an issue with ESPN loading and when following your steps I have a problem at this spot:

Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db

I don't have a cache.db....my choices in the library are Remote notifications or Webkit cache

Please advise what to do

Thanks for another solution option sammyzblade........I am cautious about anything involving Adobe because an update of it led to "anysearch" malware taking over my search engines a few months ago and was very hard to remove.

I updated my adobe flash player and ESPN works fine now. I was having this issue with a few sites including ESPN until I updated adobe Flash.

Here is a screenshot; I assumed it was a user Library since down at the bottom it shows my username....correct?

I am having this problem too.

Same problem. Only loads on private browsing.

Did you try what I posted above?

Tried it Eric Root...Guess I'll just use Firefox...

Are you looking in the user Library or the hard drive level Library?

That is the user Library. Are you using macOS Mojave? I think the .db files may have been moved, but I don't know where since I'm running High Sierra.

If you download it from Adobe, there shouldn't be a problem.

Adobe Flash Player

Same problem, and opening a "New Private Window" worked for me as well.

I had the same problem with accessing ESPN on Safari, and updating Adobe flash solved it.