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ESPN (A bunch of Death-Spiraling maroons)

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lvbuckeye;2255354; said:
people actually WATCH Skip Clueless and Screamin A Smith?
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One of their better ratings draw.

What is really damning for the Mothership is that EVERY employee that moves on looks back at them as unethical/bush league. Ultimately, the Tebow thing just exacerbated an already existing problem, which was a lack of news/journalistic integrity.

On that front, I've started watching way more NBC Sports Net. Pro Football Talk is a quality show, Sports Talk is good, Dan Patrick is excellent.

They really are making a run, and I hope they can snag the NFL Thursday package/some quality NCAA football/basketball.
 
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BlufftonBuckeye;2255395; said:
One of their better ratings draw.

What is really damning for the Mothership is that EVERY employee that moves on looks back at them as unethical/bush league. Ultimately, the Tebow thing just exacerbated an already existing problem, which was a lack of news/journalistic integrity.

On that front, I've started watching way more NBC Sports Net. Pro Football Talk is a quality show, Sports Talk is good, Dan Patrick is excellent.

They really are making a run, and I hope they can snag the NFL Thursday package/some quality NCAA football/basketball.
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Yeah, I've caught some of Pro Football Talk and I think they do a nice job of balancing coverage for all 32 teams. I also visit PFT.com a lot and far and away use that more than ESPN.com now.

As for college football, BTN is on all the time at my house. Yeah, they've got some blowhards too, but at least the coverage is centralized on the conference and, for the most part, cover all of the teams.
 
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In unfortunate typo, ESPN touts Ben Roethlisberger?s ?drink and drunk? style

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BlufftonBuckeye;2255395; said:
On that front, I've started watching way more NBC Sports Net. Pro Football Talk is a quality show, Sports Talk is good, Dan Patrick is excellent.
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NBCSN is quietly building a nice portfolio. First the got the NHL, then they landed MLS. They also have A10 basketball and Formula One racing. Recently they won the rights (over ESPN/Fox) for the Barclay's Premier League (English soccer), which was big. I fully expect them to make a great bid for the B1G package in a few years as well, although I'd bet on Fox winning that considering they do the championship games and own 51% of BTN. They also just got bumped up from the sports tier to the standard package on Direct TV.

I'm rooting hard for them, because I think they can make a big dent in ESPN's hold on the sports market and because they are taking a much more professional angle on covering it. ESPN has a lot of sports locked up for a while with long TV contracts, but if NBCSN can continue to grow and spread it's coverage, I think they'll catch up with ESPN when a lot of the TV contracts come up again (in the 2020s, mostly).
 
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SportsCenter just compared Dantoni over Phil Jackson to:

Buckeye legend Johnny Utah/Shane Falco over (not that Buckeye legend) Will Smith for the role of Neo
Sean Connery over Cary Grant for the role of 007
and Ringo Starr over Pete Best for the role of Beatles drummer.

This is absurd of course because the three comparisons they provided imply that Dantoni will ultimately prove to be a better choice than Phil Jackson.

Phil. Fucking. Jackson.
 
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In keeping with the Tebow/ESPN topic:

http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/sto...ers-say-tim-tebow-skills-improved-report-says

Funny thing, despite the web address the article is located at, the article itself mostly talks about how his teammates think he's horrible and would rather stick with Sanchez, which says a lot.

When asked whether the Jets could turn their season around if the team changed the offense to a zone-read system, tailoring the attack to Tebow's strengths, the players didn't think it would work.

"We can't win running that s---," one player told the newspaper.:lol:
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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-s...berger-injury-story-earns-171226290--nfl.html


Well. This was awkward. On a night where the graphics department for ESPN had a few problems, ESPN cameras returned to "Monday Night Football"a little quicker than its on-camera talent expected. Viewers thus heard ESPN.com columnist Rick Reilly instructing host Stuart Scott to "say that I had this first on Twitter." By "this," Reilly meant news of Ben Roethlisberger's serious shoulder injury.
The glory-grab apparently didn't sit well with Steve Young, who stared daggers at Reilly, then tapped him with a "dude, what the heck?" look. Reilly only smirked as Scott did indeed credit Reilly for breaking the news of Roethlisberger's injured shoulder first on Twitter. (This is not the first time Young has broken out of the traditional ex-jock-turned-cheerleader mode; he ripped the NFL and replacement refs in the wake of the controversial Seattle-Green Bay Monday night game a few weeks back.)
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Hodgepodge;2255466; said:
NBCSN is quietly building a nice portfolio. First the got the NHL, then they landed MLS. They also have A10 basketball and Formula One racing. Recently they won the rights (over ESPN/Fox) for the Barclay's Premier League (English soccer), which was big. I fully expect them to make a great bid for the B1G package in a few years as well, although I'd bet on Fox winning that considering they do the championship games and own 51% of BTN. They also just got bumped up from the sports tier to the standard package on Direct TV.

I'm rooting hard for them, because I think they can make a big dent in ESPN's hold on the sports market and because they are taking a much more professional angle on covering it. ESPN has a lot of sports locked up for a while with long TV contracts, but if NBCSN can continue to grow and spread it's coverage, I think they'll catch up with ESPN when a lot of the TV contracts come up again (in the 2020s, mostly).
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Thing is, it isn't as much about live events as much as quality coverage. The reason ESPN was even able to get those contracts was their high-quality "Sportscenter" segments. Now that they've turned into some sort of E! news show, there is an opening for quality sports talk/coverage.

As far as getting the B1G contract, I could see someone else getting the contract from ESPN. Especially if the B1G adds ND (Put games on BTN/NBC Sports/NBC/FOX).


They need the NHL back, though. That's gotta hurt.
 
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gregorylee;2255636; said:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-s...berger-injury-story-earns-171226290--nfl.html


Well. This was awkward. On a night where the graphics department for ESPN had a few problems, ESPN cameras returned to "Monday Night Football"a little quicker than its on-camera talent expected. Viewers thus heard ESPN.com columnist Rick Reilly instructing host Stuart Scott to "say that I had this first on Twitter." By "this," Reilly meant news of Ben Roethlisberger's serious shoulder injury.
The glory-grab apparently didn't sit well with Steve Young, who stared daggers at Reilly, then tapped him with a "dude, what the heck?" look. Reilly only smirked as Scott did indeed credit Reilly for breaking the news of Roethlisberger's injured shoulder first on Twitter. (This is not the first time Young has broken out of the traditional ex-jock-turned-cheerleader mode; he ripped the NFL and replacement refs in the wake of the controversial Seattle-Green Bay Monday night game a few weeks back.)
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Steve's look is priceless

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PSwm73lCS4&feature=player_embedded"]ORIGINAL ESPN Rick Reilly "Can you say I had this first on twitter?" - YouTube[/ame]
 
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Yesterday, while announcing an early game, Dave Pasch said something very close to these words:

"If it hadn't been for the job that Bill O'Brien has done, Urban Meyer would be able to be considered for Coach of the Year in his conference, and perhaps even nationally."

Yep. A guy that's taken a team that finished 6-7 last year and has them undefeated at this point in the year isn't even able to be CONSIDERED for B1G Coach of the Year because of what Billybob O'ButtCheeks has done for PSU this year.

Somehow, I managed not to throw up.
 
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