ESPN writer slams ESPN

[scooter1369]

After 'Who's Now,' question for ESPN is 'What's Next?'

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By Le Anne Schreiber
ESPN Ombudsman

This is a command performance column -- the command having been issued by the hundreds of viewers who asked me to say something about the Who's Now segments that ran on SportsCenter throughout July. No single topic has ever drawn the volume and intensity of unsolicited complaints to either my or my predecessor's mailbox that this sports popularity contest has. On the other hand, the Who's Now elimination tournament to determine the "Ultimate Sport Star" was one of the most trafficked user-participation features ever posted on ESPN.com.

"I feel dumber after watching the segment," wrote one viewer, who said Who's Now had finally cured his "addiction to ESPN." So many viewers wrote me claiming a similar cure that Who's Now began to seem like a sports addict's Lourdes. Yet in the final balloting that pitted golfer Tiger Woods against basketball's LeBron James, 370,270 votes were cast, anointing Tiger the "most 'Now.'"

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[NFBuck]

So even E!spn's own employees are saying how much they suck. Nice.

 

[Thump]

So even E!spn's own employees are saying how much they suck. Nice.

I didn't think she was really an employee but rather an outsider used to gauge the public's views of ESPN.

 

[Dryden]

The ombudsman speaks!



Yes, please cut the fucking fluff already, trim SportsCenter to 30-minutes, assign the same anchors for the same time slots every night, and present it like any other nightly news program.

That would rock, and it would go a long way to returning the show back to what it was in the early 90s when Patrick & Olberman carried the network on their back.

 

[BuckeyeTillIDie]

espn went hollywood entertainment a long time ago.

It's crap to watch, but at least Tiger won the Who's Now

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Fuck ESPN.

 

[gregorylee]

ESPN = MTV

What was once really cool is now a complete joke

 

[Jagdaddy]

Well, at leasts they're honest about what they are: The "E" comes before the "SP" for a reason.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

think shell end up like dan patrick? on the outside...

 

[buckeyefool]

think shell end up like dan patrick? on the outside...

She does not "work" for espn. Basicly her job can into existance partial because of the whole MoC fiasco along with several other events where it looked llike ESPN was living up to thje ESPiN that many have started to call them by.

In the past she has taken some other shots at the programming and style of reporting. If you get a chance go look at some of her other articles, and you can see that she is not afraid to bash the company at all.