Mac osx safari misidentified as a mobile browser

Some sites think I am using a mobile browser when I am on the Mac. How do I get the desktop version of a website when there is no obvious choice like ESPN offers?

Some web sites have variant URLs for mobile and desktop displays; others use Javascript to read the user agent identification sent by your browser and based on that send either the mobil or desktop version of the site (If you have the Safari Developer menu turned on there is a User Agent selection that will cause Safari to identify itself to web sites as various versions of Safari; iOS Safari on the iPad, iPod Touch, or iPhone; various versions if Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome); some sites may have a selection on the home page to choose which version; and probably most commonly there is only one version of the website and it is optimized for mobil or desktop browsers.
As to why…
spittongue wrote:
Some sites think I am using a mobile browser when I am on the Mac. How do I get the desktop version of a website when there is no obvious choice like ESPN offers?
there are several possible reasons including,
you are using a URL that is specific for a mobile version of the site,
the Safari user agent has been mis-set
the site code does not recognize Safari as a valid user agent
there are errors in the site code.
there is no desktop version of the site
Perhaps if you could provide the URL of some example sites that are coming up in Safari on your desktop in the mobil version. Someone here can take a look at it and determine what is going on.

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