ESPN continues to be a joke

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Jul 17, 2013 12:51pm
thavoice;1473942 wrote:You had me until that part...
It's just off to the side. You wouldn't notice it unless you specifically looked while the highlight was going on. It even shows hockey! Actually during the season it shows every single hockey game goal I believe
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Jul 17, 2013 1:07pm
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Jul 17, 2013 3:41pm
ts1227;1473777 wrote:Today and tomorrow are the 2 days where I give them a reprieve for fabricating news. These are the worst 2 sports days of the year.
I just looked at a localish newspaper's TV listings for sports today and saw nothing but Tour de France coverage at 8 a.m. on NBCsports. Since my name is not Bruce Monnin, I don't care about this and the sports world is dead to me at least for one day.
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Jul 17, 2013 3:52pm
SportsAndLady;1473843 wrote:Sportscenter needs to watch the premier league review show on FSC to get an idea of how to actually run sportscenter

Just saw this. THIS. Fill it with extended highlights of every game. Pick one game to make the game of the day and give even longer highlights including some commentary and if there is time left over, then do the fluff pieces. EPL Review Show is the best in the biz. Absolutely perfect suggestion.
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Jul 17, 2013 4:49pm
ccrunner609;1473836 wrote:ESPN should have more track and field doping stories on it
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thavoice
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Jul 18, 2013 11:32am
If the new fox sports 1 doesn't do anything to change SC then I don't think anything will. They have the market so cornered that it is engrained in people to turn to ESPN when they want sports news. Hell, I turn to the deuce to watch the bottom line more than anything. I forget about NBC sports most of the time as well.
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Jul 18, 2013 12:58pm
Heretic;1474092 wrote:I just looked at a localish newspaper's TV listings for sports today and saw nothing but Tour de France coverage at 8 a.m. on NBCsports. Since my name is not Bruce Monnin, I don't care about this and the sports world is dead to me at least for one day.
Haha I remember every year he would always start a thread and talk about what happened each day. He was a pretty cool guy though.
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thavoice
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Jul 18, 2013 1:06pm
Iliketurtles;1474645 wrote:Haha I remember every year he would always start a thread and talk about what happened each day. He was a pretty cool guy though.
I don't think Cool and Bruce Monnin go together! He is a very intelligent numbers guy, sort of a geek if you will. Good guy, yeah. But not 'cool'. He does his best work in the fall with the computer rankings and writes for the local paper.
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Jul 18, 2013 3:34pm
thavoice;1474558 wrote:If the new fox sports 1 doesn't do anything to change SC then I don't think anything will. They have the market so cornered that it is engrained in people to turn to ESPN when they want sports news. Hell, I turn to the deuce to watch the bottom line more than anything. I forget about White People Sports Network most of the time as well.
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friendfromlowry
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Jul 19, 2013 12:08am
I'm a little late to the discussion. I still find Sportscenter usually tolerable, but ESPN2 is diarrhea on television. First Take or whatever the show is where Bayless and company argue about the same stuff is terrible. Not only is the content overdone, but most of those guys are like nails on a chalkboard. I wouldn't listen to Stephen A. Smith argue about something I actually cared about. I had the Dan Lebatard show on for a minute yesterday to see what it was about, and it was just him and his dad and someone else yapping about random crap. What the hell could possibly qualify "Papi" LeBatard to be on television? And aren't those guys huge Miami homers also? Strike one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven for me.

The problem is, this time of the year is difficult to fill with sports. I only care about the Reds and don't give a shit about the AL East or Brian Cashman or much else with baseball.