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The "Complain About ESPN" Thread

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dxmnkd316 said:
Again, that's barely even controversial. Evidence Cowherd has a big mouth without a filter? Yes. Fireable offense? Hardly. Maybe if he made a crack about an NFL player.
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ESPN was getting enough complaints that their inbox was full for days.
 
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Brenthoven said:
So now they are a legit news source? Just saying....
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Not when they have to say dumb things like "previously reported by Yahoosports.com" because they got beaten to a story. You shouldn't be getting scooped by an offshoot of a website when you claim to be the "worldwide leader." They looked like total doofuses biffing on the whole Nevin Shapiro/Miami story. I take ESPN about as seriously as I take news coming out of WWE. When I see it happen, I believe it.

In fact, all sports media is like that. For instance, when KFAN employees got all butthurt because listeners were skeptical of the whole "mystery text says Favre is retiring" story from a year and a half ago. Guess what? He didn't retire and they looked like morons. A message to all media members: do some actual WORK with some REAL sources and maybe you'll be taken seriously.
 
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Dude Love said:
Not when they have to say dumb things like "previously reported by Yahoosports.com" because they got beaten to a story. You shouldn't be getting scooped by an offshoot of a website when you claim to be the "worldwide leader." They looked like total doofuses biffing on the whole Nevin Shapiro/Miami story. I take ESPN about as seriously as I take news coming out of WWE. When I see it happen, I believe it.
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They've learned from those mistakes. Anyone who breaks a story is now "sources" who tell their reporter something - even if the "source" is a reporter for a rival news organization and they are reporting it - then said reporter "confirms" the report.
 
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This could be old news, I haven't been watching too much TV this week, but SportsCenter's "List" this morning included Belak, Rypien, Boogaard, and Lokomotiv. Glad it took their own anchor calling them out to change that.
 
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MUhawks628 said:
This could be old news, I haven't been watching too much TV this week, but SportsCenter's "List" this morning included Belak, Rypien, Boogaard, and Lokomotiv. Glad it took their own anchor calling them out to change that.
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Did Bucci call them out?

Is there vid of it?
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Many years ago I was discussing cable prices with my old man. I was for the a la carte transition myself until he explained how cable pricing works. It became readily apparent that a la carte would only cost more for less. That said, cable is becoming almost obscenely expensive.
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I'll take ala carte. There's no way I'd pay for any of the ESPN's. Give me USA, TNT, FX, Comedy Central, Food Network, AMC, CMT, GAC, NHL, NBC Sports Net, and Fox Sports and I'll be very happy. Oh, and whatever channel Hoarders and Storage Wars is on.
 
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Biddco said:
It was in a Tweet that was deleted later. Priceless posted it earlier in this thread
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Wonder if he got sent to the gulag for that? Also, ESPN really did a nice job of burying the Winter Classic. Nothing changes I guess.
 
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I didn't expect to see coverage of the Canada/Russia classic or Emeril Lagasse making seafood gumbo on Sportscenter this morning. Guess which one made it?
 
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MaizeRage said:
I didn't expect to see coverage of the Canada/Russia classic or Emeril Lagasse making seafood gumbo on Sportscenter this morning. Guess which one made it?
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"Renown chef" Emeril Lagasse, as the graphic said. What a bizarre segment.
 
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Last night on twitter John Bucigross posted a link to his latest "blogumn" and said something like "There. 3000 words on hockey. You can't say ESPN doesn't give you hockey info" or words to that affect. Wish I could find 140 characters or less to say "Great, 3000 in an online column. Big whoop. You know what would have been better? 30 seconds of air coverage on SportsCenter instead of Emeril Lagasse." Someone here should be able to do that, right?
 
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Scarlet said:
Last night on twitter John Bucigross posted a link to his latest "blogumn" and said something like "There. 3000 words on hockey. You can't say ESPN doesn't give you hockey info" or words to that affect. Wish I could find 140 characters or less to say "Great, 3000 in an online column. Big whoop. You know what would have been better? 30 seconds of air coverage on SportsCenter instead of Emeril Lagasse." Someone here should be able to do that, right?
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I responded: 3000 words? Wonders never cease! Just out of curiosity, how many words have been written/spewed on #ESPN re: NBA ?
 
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You know what I realized? A great example of how ESPN covers only what they show on their network. How little mention the Cotton Bowl is getting. Sure, its not what it once was, but the teams are higher ranked than two of the BCS bowl games.
 
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Haha, I love how ESPN had Erin Andrews embedded with the LSU buses and had a chopper following them as they left Baton Rough and headed toward NOLA.
 
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Luckily I have found no reason to turn on ESPN for several weeks, so I can't really contribute another reason why ESPN is horse****. College football can go **** itself. I'm done with it. ****ing rematch in the championship game, my ***.
 
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Biddco said:
Haha, I love how ESPN had Erin Andrews embedded with the LSU buses and had a chopper following them as they left Baton Rough and headed toward NOLA.
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And they're covering this live?? Cripes, we might as well watch TMZ!! :rolleyes:
 
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I'm surprised North Korean Sports TV.. check that ESPN.. would be all over the Flyers fans attacking the Rangers fans story. They usually want to defame hockey at every opportunity.
 
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