[ESPNArticle] Video ID not found, yet again.

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'-o', u'~/Downloads/%(title)s@%(id)s.%(ext)s', u'--fixup', u'never', u'-f', u'best', u'-i', u'http://www.espn.com/espnw/video/26066627/arkansas-gibson-completes-hr-cycle-four-innings']
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[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.02.18
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-18.2.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.1, ffprobe 4.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[ESPNArticle] arkansas-gibson-completes-hr-cycle-four-innings: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract video id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 794, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 508, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/espn.py", line 204, in _real_extract
    webpage, 'video id', group='id')
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 983, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract video id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

It seems ESPN has changed their site again... downloading video articles, which has worked before and is officially supported, is broken again, at least with the one I tried, complaining that the video ID cannot be found. In all likelihood, the regular expression (regex) responsible for video ID extraction on ESPN needs updating to handle the latest site format - implied by the given error message.

I could not get the video to play in Safari 12 on macOS Mojave, for whatever reason. It plays A-OK in Google Chrome.