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ESPN (A bunch of Death-Spiraling maroons)

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Honestly, the only reporter(s) at ESPiN that consistently gives credit to other reporters and do not pawn off information as their own are the bloggers for the Big Ten (Rittenberg).

But since I haven't read their work in a number of years, he might've changed and started to not give credit.
 
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VBSJ;2307283; said:
Honestly, the only reporter(s) at ESPiN that consistently gives credit to other reporters and do not pawn off information as their own are the bloggers for the Big Ten (Rittenberg).

But since I haven't read their work in a number of years, he might've changed and started to not give credit.
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Brad Bournival and Austin Ward both live in Ohio and attend OSU press conferences, so I've not found much reason to take issue with either of them, FWIW. Since ESPN started all their Nation sub-sites for the major college programs, the bulk of their OSU content is written by Ward and Bournival now.
 
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VBSJ;2307283; said:
Honestly, the only reporter(s) at ESPiN that consistently gives credit to other reporters and do not pawn off information as their own are the bloggers for the Big Ten (Rittenberg).

But since I haven't read their work in a number of years, he might've changed and started to not give credit.
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I still like what the people at ESPNU do, and the ESPN podcasts are excellent.

If you stay away from SportsCenter and the stupid Reality TV shit like "Around the Horn" and whatever fuckwit things Skip Bayless appears on, ESPN is really pretty good. I get a kick out of Pardon the Interruption, largely because neither Tony Kornheiser nor Michael Wilbon gives a shit what anyone else at the network might want them to say. Plus Wilbon is a Big Ten guy, and a smart one at that.
 
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I don't at all listen to his show (or anything ESPN Radio, even WBNS), but Cowherd actually said people don't show up to Indiana Pacer games because they're racist?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...iana-racism-attendance-colin-cowherd/1934739/

I really doubt he has any data that backs that up.

Since then, we've become a bunch of hood-wearing, cross-burning racists who simply won't show up to Pacers games because we don't like black people. Or so it has been suggested by Colin Cowherd, an ESPN talk-show host who is generally the smartest guy out there
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Scott Van Pelt plays it pretty straight, the three times I listened to his show in the past, but it seems like Mike & Mike are soft interviewers (morning zoo-ish) and Cowherd is a troll.
 
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MaxBuck;2307328; said:
I still like what the people at ESPNU do, and the ESPN podcasts are excellent.

If you stay away from SportsCenter and the stupid Reality TV shit like "Around the Horn" and whatever fuckwit things Skip Bayless appears on, ESPN is really pretty good. I get a kick out of Pardon the Interruption, largely because neither Tony Kornheiser nor Michael Wilbon gives a shit what anyone else at the network might want them to say. Plus Wilbon is a Big Ten guy, and a smart one at that.
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so what you're saying is, espn is fine if you only watch sporting events, and of course turn the sound off.

calling mike wilbon smart is like calling oscar pistorius a good husband.
 
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tsteele316;2307393; said:
so what you're saying is, espn is fine if you only watch sporting events, and of course turn the sound off.

calling mike wilbon smart is like calling oscar pistorius a good husband.
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Yes! That guy is an asshat. He may have went to a B1G school but I remember hating on the B1G all the time.
 
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VBSJ;2307357; said:
I don't at all listen to his show (or anything ESPN Radio, even WBNS), but Cowherd actually said people don't show up to Indiana Pacer games because they're racist?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...iana-racism-attendance-colin-cowherd/1934739/

I really doubt he has any data that backs that up.

Scott Van Pelt plays it pretty straight, the three times I listened to his show in the past, but it seems like Mike & Mike are soft interviewers (morning zoo-ish) and Cowherd is a troll.
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That will get web hits though. The race card always works. I assume people don't go to hockey games because they hate whitey, right?
 
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LovelandBuckeye;2307407; said:
Yes! That guy is an asshat. He may have went to a B1G school but I remember hating on the B1G all the time.
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I don't think it's actually he's an asshat.

After he quit the Washington Post and took an ESPiN gig full-time, it seems like he completely changed and went into ESPiN mode (even on PTI). After he took the NBA hosting duty, the change was amplified as well.

If you listen to him when he calls into the "Tony Kornheiser Radio Show", that's probably the real him. It's not like TV (at all).
 
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BayBuck;2307415; said:
WTF? Sure, he went to NW, but he got a journalism degree there. Feel free to call yourself a dumb, but you really are taking that one too far.
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Which is one of the top j-schools in the country.

I realize some people don't take journalism degrees all that seriously, but getting into Northwestern for anything - including a top-flight journalism degree - is still impressive.
 
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I actually like Mike Wilbon. You can tell he's a smart guy, he knows his sports history (even if he's a little out of the loop with the current complexion of the sports world).

PTI is about the only thing I can stomach on ESPN anymore.
 
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