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ESPN (A bunch of Death-Spiraling maroons)

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Since Tom Rinaldi's in State College right now (during the Paterno firing) and seems to be the only one from ESPiN there, what's the over/under on number of times he says "Ohio State" instead of "Penn State" during the next two days?

I'm thinking he screws up at least three times.
 
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Review of ESPN's coverage by Poynter Review. But this Ombudsman still isn't even a check. ESPN doesn't allow its talent to speak to it on numerous occasions and could more/less give a damn about feedback.

http://espn.go.com/blog/poynterreview/post/_/id/168/espn-stumbles-with-penn-state-coverage

ESPN was slow this week to grasp the full implications of the recent criminal indictments at Penn State University...

...With the biggest staff of sports journalists in the world, ESPN should have been leading the charge to ask tough questions and shed light on this scandal. Instead, it was the tiny Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa. out in front of the journalism pack. Their reporters managed to track down two mothers of boys Sandusky allegedly abused. And the paper had the leadership to write a front-page editorial calling for Penn State trustees to clean house.

Meanwhile, the tone of the early ESPN coverage was spotty -- sometimes getting it right, but more often seeming inappropriate. It wasn't until mid-afternoon Tuesday that ESPN finally seemed consistently to ask the right questions and find the appropriate moral outrage. That's 72 hours after the story first broke.
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Tom Farrey pulled the same thing last night as Rinaldi. It was very late, I think maybe at 2:00 AM as part of the lead for the west coast edition of SportsCenter, but Neil Everett lobbed a softball designed to lead Farrey into a monologue, which Farrey concluded with something along the lines of "But it is official ... At around 10PM eastern tonight, Penn State fired Jim Tr- ... Joe Paterno."
 
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I'm shocked ESPN Radio had Dave Revsine on from BTN.

Previously (and currently), ESPN is not supposed to even acknowledge BTN. The network a lot of times doesn't even put on their schedules that games are televised on BTN (in contrast to those on CBS or FOX Sports).
 
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CHU;2032536; said:
I'm shocked ESPN Radio had Dave Revsine on from BTN.

Previously (and currently), ESPN is not supposed to even acknowledge BTN. The network a lot of times doesn't even put on their schedules that games are televised on BTN (in contrast to those on CBS or FOX Sports).
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I've heard him on their radio shows multiple times so I don't think that is the case anymore.
 
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Listing of Miami's "Cradle of Coaches" during their game tonight:

Red Blaik
Weeb Ewbank
Paul Brown
Ara Parseghian
Paul Dietzel
Bo Schembechler
John Pont
Carm Cozza

They also showed Bill Mallory, Tom Reed, and Randy Walker a bit earlier, as guys who both played and coached there.

Red Blaik was a great coach at Army, but he was only an assistant at Miami.

Paul Brown coached at Ohio State, so it's nice to see him mentioned.

But seriously, no mention of Woody Hayes? Ne mention of Sid Gillman, who attended tOSU, was a head coach at Miami, and is in the NFL Hall of Fame as a coach?

I don't know if they're that incompetent, or whether they want to limit giving credit to anybody associated with tOSU. I'm inclined to believe both.
 
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Bucknut24;2038588; said:
GerdOzone Tony Gerdeman
Craig James and Mark May are arguing about what's smart. Shoot yourself ESPN.

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