It would help to know where are you located? Who are you using for DNS? I'm currently in Japan, let's me see what happens.

It takes me to global.espn.com. see screenshot

I live in Minnesota - middle of the United States. It only happens using my phone and accessing ESPN. Deleted Firefox and all history. Downloaded Firefox and synced with my laptop bookmarks. Only using laptop bookmarks to access ESPN and deleting all history for ESPN when finished. Now only happens occasionally that I am rerouted to ESPN.NL.

Interesting... This is happening while on mobile data or home WiFi? Sounds like a DNS issue. Open a command prompt and do a nslookup for espn.com and then do espn.nl. Then try using the ip address of .com and see if it works.

Back home in New Jersey and I get espn.com. see screenshot