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Re: 2011 NHL Off-Season: The Puck Boat edition
I don't care what you say, these jeans do make my butt look big.
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I don't care what you say, these jeans do make my butt look big.
Oh wait..
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Re: 2011 NHL Off-Season: The Puck Boat edition
Probably way more since ESPN has been deleting a ton of comments pointing out how awful they've been.
My issue is this: ESPN put up an online article about the crash on their website, so they knew about it, presumably for a while since it takes time to write a story/edit it, etc. and it still took hours after that story was published for it to make it up on the crawl, while they ran a bunch of inane, unimportant bull****.
Probably way more since ESPN has been deleting a ton of comments pointing out how awful they've been.
My issue is this: ESPN put up an online article about the crash on their website, so they knew about it, presumably for a while since it takes time to write a story/edit it, etc. and it still took hours after that story was published for it to make it up on the crawl, while they ran a bunch of inane, unimportant bull****.
bronconick
Yep, still here
Re: 2011 NHL Off-Season: The Puck Boat edition
Seriously, if you're going to poutrage, how about the Russian government for letting a plane continue to fly that has been banned from EU airspace since 2009 because of safety concerns?
Seriously, if you're going to poutrage, how about the Russian government for letting a plane continue to fly that has been banned from EU airspace since 2009 because of safety concerns?
Re: 2011 NHL Off-Season: The Puck Boat edition
Has there been any live coverage on the NHL Network? Every time I've flipped to the channel it's showing repeats of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Has there been any live coverage on the NHL Network? Every time I've flipped to the channel it's showing repeats of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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I have to side with those who feel that the coverage of this incident is lacking on ESPN. Perhaps it is lacking in other places too, but I haven't been paying attention to those networks so hard to say.
I understand that it happened overseas. I understand that none of the victims were American, and only 1 was Canadian. I understand that there are other issues to be upset about, such as the safety of the aircraft being used. I understand that hockey is a minor sport and that it does not receive more than very limited coverage in any form on ESPN.
With all that said, this is one of the greatest tragedies in the history of team sports and one of only a couple times ever that an entire team has basically been wiped off the face of the Earth (not sure with the conflicting reports if the last player has actually passed away or not, but with the injuries he has suffered, even if he survives his quality of life is likely to be very poor for a very, very long time).
You can also argue that it is the greatest team tragedy to ever affect a single professional sports team in terms of the number of lives of professional athletes lost and the accomplishments of several of the individual players in terms of winning Stanley Cups, World Championships, etc.
Regardless of the nationality of the players or where this accident occurred, or what the average sports fan wants to read/hear about on an average day... the reality is that there are incidents that transcend the average day in their sadness and the perspective that they should invoke. This was an awful event and for a network that espouses itself as the "Total Sports Network"...a network that has given airtime to dog shows and spelling bees...they missed the boat by at least not giving this incident front page billing on their website. Fortunately though, we all know about Justin Upton's MVP chances, and whether or not the Packers will be a dynasty. At least we got the important stuff out of the way.
I have to side with those who feel that the coverage of this incident is lacking on ESPN. Perhaps it is lacking in other places too, but I haven't been paying attention to those networks so hard to say.
I understand that it happened overseas. I understand that none of the victims were American, and only 1 was Canadian. I understand that there are other issues to be upset about, such as the safety of the aircraft being used. I understand that hockey is a minor sport and that it does not receive more than very limited coverage in any form on ESPN.
With all that said, this is one of the greatest tragedies in the history of team sports and one of only a couple times ever that an entire team has basically been wiped off the face of the Earth (not sure with the conflicting reports if the last player has actually passed away or not, but with the injuries he has suffered, even if he survives his quality of life is likely to be very poor for a very, very long time).
You can also argue that it is the greatest team tragedy to ever affect a single professional sports team in terms of the number of lives of professional athletes lost and the accomplishments of several of the individual players in terms of winning Stanley Cups, World Championships, etc.
Regardless of the nationality of the players or where this accident occurred, or what the average sports fan wants to read/hear about on an average day... the reality is that there are incidents that transcend the average day in their sadness and the perspective that they should invoke. This was an awful event and for a network that espouses itself as the "Total Sports Network"...a network that has given airtime to dog shows and spelling bees...they missed the boat by at least not giving this incident front page billing on their website. Fortunately though, we all know about Justin Upton's MVP chances, and whether or not the Packers will be a dynasty. At least we got the important stuff out of the way.
aparch
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Re: 2011 NHL Off-Season: The Puck Boat edition
RT.com has photos of the crash site.
There hasn't been any live coverage from RT either, but they've been talking about it during every hour's newsbreak. And running the news as the ONLY thing on their crawl on the bottom of the TV.Has there been any live coverage on the NHL Network? Every time I've flipped to the channel it's showing repeats of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
RT.com has photos of the crash site.
MinnesotaNorthStar
Minding the gap
Re: 2011 NHL Off-Season: The Puck Boat edition
SportsCenter is reporting it ...everyone happy now?
SportsCenter is reporting it ...everyone happy now?
state of hockey
He fixes the cable?
They were reporting it at 11:00am. So the short answer is no.
Rimbaud
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Re: 2011 NHL Off-Season: The Puck Boat edition
Silly MNS. They won't be happy until ESPN shoots down a plane filled with the Lakers and then not cover the story at all.
Silly MNS. They won't be happy until ESPN shoots down a plane filled with the Lakers and then not cover the story at all.
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Priceless
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MountieBoyOz
Eater of Worlds
Re: 2011 NHL Off-Season: The Puck Boat edition
I don't think the network had anyone ready to do studio stuff until camp got started, but I'd be getting someone up there or cut to a camera feed of the NHL's XM channel.
Has there been any live coverage on the NHL Network? Every time I've flipped to the channel it's showing repeats of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
I don't think the network had anyone ready to do studio stuff until camp got started, but I'd be getting someone up there or cut to a camera feed of the NHL's XM channel.
mookie1995
there's a good buck in that racket.
Re: 2011 NHL Off-Season: The Puck Boat edition
i'm not sure what y'all are whining about... i sat at a bar from 1230p-130p today eating lunch and espnews had melrose and bucci talking about this for at least half my meal. there was not much more they could do after that. the only video was of a couple pieces of burning airplane. how many times can you have two guys sit there and say, "pavol was a great guy.. this is a sad day."? espn was on the other tv and this story, along with the manning not playing, was on the bottom scroll every other time.
i'm not sure what y'all are whining about... i sat at a bar from 1230p-130p today eating lunch and espnews had melrose and bucci talking about this for at least half my meal. there was not much more they could do after that. the only video was of a couple pieces of burning airplane. how many times can you have two guys sit there and say, "pavol was a great guy.. this is a sad day."? espn was on the other tv and this story, along with the manning not playing, was on the bottom scroll every other time.
ExileOnDaytonStreet
Drunkard
Re: 2011 NHL Off-Season: The Puck Boat edition
I haven't been watching the coverage at all today (in fact, I only just found out while checking another site), so I can't really comment on the prominence of ESPN's coverage (or lack thereof).
However, if during the NBA lockout, a bus carrying a Turkish basketball team with several former NBA players crashes and kills everyone on board, it would not take long for it to become a HUGE deal on the main ESPN channel and would have been a focus of no less than 40% of the programming for pretty much the rest of the day. If that's a rhetorical argument people are making (that ESPN is covering this CONSIDERABLY less than they would if it were a team in another sport), I can get behind that based on past precedence with the way ESPN covers sports.
I haven't been watching the coverage at all today (in fact, I only just found out while checking another site), so I can't really comment on the prominence of ESPN's coverage (or lack thereof).
However, if during the NBA lockout, a bus carrying a Turkish basketball team with several former NBA players crashes and kills everyone on board, it would not take long for it to become a HUGE deal on the main ESPN channel and would have been a focus of no less than 40% of the programming for pretty much the rest of the day. If that's a rhetorical argument people are making (that ESPN is covering this CONSIDERABLY less than they would if it were a team in another sport), I can get behind that based on past precedence with the way ESPN covers sports.
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And I would guess most of the same people are outraged at news stations who rush to "be first to report" and get some facts wrong. I heard about it (in general) this morning right after it happened, but the morning shows wouldn't say "this is what happened" or "this is who died" because they weren't sure. Even midway through the day, they would say "this is reportedly what happened."
Of course, they mentioned that Twitter was about 15 minutes ahead of CNN in mentioning of actual facts, which even I thought was kinda funny, but understood: CNN kinda has to verify things.
And I would guess most of the same people are outraged at news stations who rush to "be first to report" and get some facts wrong. I heard about it (in general) this morning right after it happened, but the morning shows wouldn't say "this is what happened" or "this is who died" because they weren't sure. Even midway through the day, they would say "this is reportedly what happened."
Of course, they mentioned that Twitter was about 15 minutes ahead of CNN in mentioning of actual facts, which even I thought was kinda funny, but understood: CNN kinda has to verify things.
OvahInDovah
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Re: 2011 NHL Off-Season: The Puck Boat edition
Cory Stillman hangs up the skates. Nice career.
Manny Legace and Steve Begin with tryouts in Vancouver.
Cory Stillman hangs up the skates. Nice career.
Manny Legace and Steve Begin with tryouts in Vancouver.
bigblue_dl
Armed
Re: 2011 NHL Off-Season: The Puck Boat edition
The Twitter stuff was being re-tweeted from people actually in Russia, cutting out a bunch of middle-men in the whole process, and like you said, who knows what was fact checked when it comes across twitter.
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Re: 2011 NHL Off-Season: The Puck Boat edition
I said on Twitter that if this had been a Russian hoops team with former NBA players ESPN would already have reporters en route. They absolutely cover sports differently depending on who has the TV rights. God forbid Monday Night Football ever left the ABC/ESPN family and the Mothership didn't snag an NFL replacement...
I said on Twitter that if this had been a Russian hoops team with former NBA players ESPN would already have reporters en route. They absolutely cover sports differently depending on who has the TV rights. God forbid Monday Night Football ever left the ABC/ESPN family and the Mothership didn't snag an NFL replacement...
unh_hockey
pain is temporary pride is forever
Re: 2011 NHL Off-Season: The Puck Boat edition
you people are drama queens. who cares about this crap?
Its a sad day for hockey. Ironically, the community is tight knit despite spanning over several countries. You talk to one person, and you'd be surprised at who they know. RIP fellas. The season needs to get going so more positive stuff like dangles, snipes, and hits can dominate the bandwith instead of drama and players passing away..
you people are drama queens. who cares about this crap?
Its a sad day for hockey. Ironically, the community is tight knit despite spanning over several countries. You talk to one person, and you'd be surprised at who they know. RIP fellas. The season needs to get going so more positive stuff like dangles, snipes, and hits can dominate the bandwith instead of drama and players passing away..
MountieBoyOz
Eater of Worlds
Re: 2011 NHL Off-Season: The Puck Boat edition
Agreed. I even want Sid to come back. Sure he may be a diva, but he'll get people to give the sport a look from the people that may be feeling empty without the NBA.
Agreed. I even want Sid to come back. Sure he may be a diva, but he'll get people to give the sport a look from the people that may be feeling empty without the NBA.
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