March
13
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ESPN SportsCenter: Always Keeping the Fans Informed
This picture encapsulates everything that is wrong about ESPN’s SportsCenter right now:
Rather than discussing actual sports news, SportsCenter provided a freaking bar graph illustrating the number of tweets sent by one of its reporters. In other words, instead of reporting about the beginning of NFL free agency, ESPN chose to report about its reporter who was reporting about the beginning of NFL free agency. To borrow a phrase from ESPN’s own Monday Night Countdown, “Come on, man!” Perhaps this is a better reaction.
Have you read the ESPN book “These Guys Have All the Fun” yet? It explains a lot about why ESPN is the way it is. After reading the book I found myself watching a lot less ESPN, and reading a lot more Deadspin…