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Sports 24/7 is Too Much
Published: 4/13/2011 10:51 AM
Last Modified: 4/13/2011 10:51 AM

When you have some time on your hands to watch television, like I do these days (as I recover from knee replacement surgery), you realize just how much the sports media has changed over the last 35 years.
I’m not saying it was better in the good old days. But, it sure is different these days.
If you start your day on ESPN, spend the rest of the day clicking around five different sports channels, then go to bed listening to ESPN Headlines, there is absolutely nothing you haven’t heard about in the world of sports that day.
Every littlee issue, and we do mean little issues, are examined and over-analyzed by a half-dozen experts throughout the day.
And, it is not a discussion. It is a verbal fight. No one calmly discusses anything.
Everything is a shouting match.
In the morning, you can watch several radio sports talk shows on television. That seems a little strange to me. People actually want to watch people talk on the radio?
It is an idea my friend J.V. Haney pioneered 16 years ago. He had been on Tulsa radio stations with our friend Bill Land (now voice of the San Antonio Spurs). Haney thought it was a good idea to televise it on local cable.
He figured we’d just sit around and talk sports like we were in my backyard, minus the colorful language and liquid rerfreshments.
Who knew? People actually want to watch people talk? Well, they do.
Apparently they love the 24/7 nature of sports television, too.
On Tuesday I saw everything from sports talk radio shows, highlight shows, NBA roundtable discussions, college football show, major league baseball show, NFL draft countdown show, a soccer match from England, college baseball, NBA games and a few things I don’t remember.
I am more informed about the world of sports than I ever thought possible. Or, wanted to be.
In retrospect, I’ve decided it is more than I want to know. Back to the routine of Americanan Idol, Survivor, Great Race and any other reality show I can find starting immediately.



Reader Comments 2 Total
senor notas (last year)
You will know you are bored when you start watching Soap Operas and Oprah.
codystovall (last year)
What a tool. The wide world of sports (nascar aside) is the best thing about the evolution of television!
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Tulsa World senior sports columnist John Klein is in his fourth decade of covering sports. He started his newspaper career at The Daily Ardmoreite in 1977 and moved to the Tulsa World in 1978. He served 10 years as sports editor for the Tulsa World before being named to his current position in 2005. He also spent five years as the Southwest Conference beat writer for the Houston Post. He has won many writing awards and is a former Oklahoma Sports Writer of the Year.

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