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ESPN Fumbles Objectivity
Published: 1/1/2010 3:21 PM
Last Modified: 1/1/2010 3:21 PM

There's Bayless yelling about LeBron being overrated.

There's Holtz picking Notre Dame to play for a national title.

There's Vitale kissing up to Duke.

If "The Office" had a sports anchor, it would be Neil Everett.

The chief analysts are failed coaches or lippy former players.

What's funny is most of the on-air mouths working at ESPN actually think they're the coolest when, in fact, they're mostly geeks and hacks.

ESPN televises most of the bowl games, so you can kiss off any playoff chance.

After the way ESPN mishandled its vested interest in the Mike Leach debacle, this sports network has the credibility of somebody who has a wager on the event being broadcast.

ESPN has a lot of cameras, few solid sorts.





Reader Comments 5 Total
ORUTerry (3 years ago)
Read the article in the NY Times. If what is being reported there is correct, Leach's bank account is going to be a lot larger. Why did Tech fire him so quickly - before a full inquiry could be completed? Did the $800M bonus have anything to do with it? ESPN has botched this story and may also face some legal action. There are lots of questions surrounding this event and it may not be good (at all) for Texas Tech.
The Masked Assassin (3 years ago)
ESPN reported the story.  They can't help that the kid's dad works for them.  You know you love it and watch it just like the rest of us, Pick.  They turned the mundane reporting of scores into an entertaining art form.  "En fuego." ?  "Backbackbackbackback.....gone!" ? "Cool as the other side of the pillow." ?  "Former Driller." ?  Listen to a local guy stumble through a sportscast or a national guy report with no personality in monotone and tell me you're not glad there's an ESPN. 
soonerman37 (3 years ago)
ESPN...a joke of a network. They have no competition. I stopped watching them a long time ago. I wish another network would step up and take them on. It is like Obama and NBC. No objectivity!
dcood (3 years ago)
We all like ESPN for the sports they present. Not nuclear physics to notice this but the Picker and many of us have noticed how pathetically one-sided their reporting of the Leach deal has been. They continually run a quote by a soph DT putting down Leach and refuse to run any quote supporting Leach, of which there are thousands. Call Leach quirky, weird, whatever... dumb he is not. TT better lawyer up!
Glenn616 (3 years ago)
I cannot bear to listen to most of the analysts on ESPN. I listened to ESPN radio's coverage of the Rose Bowl on the drive back from El Paso. Mike Tirico and Jon Gruden were superb, much better than Brent and Kirk were on ABC. ESPN needs more folks like Tirico and Gruden and less folks like Skip Bayless and Duke Vitale.
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