In a merger of the two online sports news giants, top executives at ESPN.com announced Thursday that they have fully acquired and subsumed rival website ESPN.go.com. The audience of ESPN.com and the audience of ESPN.go.com overlapped so much that this move made the most sense, said ESPN.com vice president Kevin Jackson, explaining that fans will no longer have to check both websites for complete sports news coverage. Obviously, getting the traffic that was going to ESPN.go.com is huge for us. But theres also just a lot of mutual respect and admiration between our staff and the ESPN.go.com staff. Were very excited to start working together. With the blockbuster acquisition complete, ESPN.com will reportedly now set its sights on picking up one or both of www.espn.com and http://espn.com. 