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Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos
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MourningView posted:

The answer to what they should air is always Team Handball. I have no idea when the season actually is but neither does anyone else. Just throw it on whenever you have nothing else. No one is going to know better.

Either that or more replays of World's Strongest Man.

Team Handball owns. I support Team Handball on ESPN.

edit: I think ESPN lost Aussie Football. They used to show matches on 3 but they don't anymore.

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 15:24

Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos
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Not sure if this is on topic but the IOC have secretly (??) uploaded a ton of matches from 2012 in different sports on youtube. Available in HD and English/Spanish/No Commentary. The way to know is the thumbnail will be a bright color with the symbol of the sport.

Men's Handball Gold Medal match:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtFuCFaYT7I

# ¿ Aug 22, 2013 01:43

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Ishin posted:

I was more than willing to give FS1 a shot, until they got to a Regis Philbin hosted talk show where they just brought up relegating the bottom three MLB teams and promoting the top three AAA.

Uh that owns and would stop bullshit like the Pirates a few years ago throwing games.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2013 11:33

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ElwoodCuse posted:

Pro/rel is completely unfeasible for North American sports and talking about it as a serious solution is a waste of time

That's what they said about black players in baseball. :colbert:

# ¿ Aug 23, 2013 16:00

Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos
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I can't hate Vitale. I will never ever hate a commentator who is having fun calling a game.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2013 14:00

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MourningView posted:

His heart is in the right place but in practice he's really bad.

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# ¿ Sep 1, 2013 21:06

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Sash! posted:

I am a major capitalist but I'm so tired of cross-promotion and branding because it feels so forced. If it was subtle, it would be magnificent and I would celebrate it. But no I'll be home visiting family and they'll be watching the NASCAR because they turned into hillbillies after I moved away and I loving swear I will stab a dog the next time I hear that gibbering redneck say "SUNOCO RACING FUEL" or whatever instead of...you know...gas. Like a sane person would be allowed to say.

Not literally stab a dog. Figuratively.

Everyone hates "Sunoco Racing Fuel and 4 Goodyear Tires", you don't have to be a so-fist-icated fancy pants cityboy.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2014 22:07

Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos
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FuzzySkinner posted:

They've already done it with Sports Time Ohio around here.

Frankly I'm shocked they've just not merged the two channels yet. (There's still a Fox Sports Ohio for some reason).

Sports Time Ohio is Cleveland Fox Sports Ohio is Cincy, iirc.

edit: yep STO is the Indians, Browns, Akron, Cleveland State while FSO is Cavaliers (because Cincy doesn't have an NBA team), Reds, Bluejackets, Crew, Xavier, and Cincinnati.

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# ¿ Jan 25, 2014 18:16

Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos
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Piss on NBC I'm just gonna wait until the olympics are over and watch them on their official youtube channel like I did the last time.

Example, men's handball final from 2012 which was available not long after the olympics ended, available in english and no commentary versions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtFuCFaYT7I

# ¿ Feb 22, 2014 00:42

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MourningView posted:

Much more than they give a poo poo about loving NASCAR, yes.

I swear to god at least a third of the posts in this thread are you complaining about them not covering cars driving in circles enough.

Cars driving in circles is nowhere near as boring as "tall men stand around for 40 minutes".

# ¿ Mar 5, 2014 02:19

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Sash! posted:

To make it a bit stranger, it had two locations. But only one said "Karate Supplies" on the side. The second one has since been turned into a fireworks and jelly beans store (http://goo.gl/maps/nSvVm), which might be the single most unusual business anywhere.

BEST WINGS USA
QUAKER STATE
& LUBE

# ¿ Apr 22, 2014 18:45

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Tedd_Not_Ed posted:

That's Quaker Steak, you uncultured heathen.

Hahah oh wow. I really thought that was a Quaker State place.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2014 19:51

Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos
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That's amazing.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2014 19:58

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Vertical Lime posted:

In what's an inevitable end of an era, the national WGN feed is dropping all sports after this season:

http://awfulannouncing.com/2014/get..._medium=twitter

Dang. I still miss seeing the Braves on TBS. Now I can't watch the White Sox either.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2014 18:22

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Quest For Glory II posted:

It just looks weird and the anchors like ants in it.

As a graphics nerd though, it means a likely revamp of all the sports graphic packages on the network which will be interesting. The current graphics used by CFB/MLB don't match the new iPad app-looking ticker, so I assume they're gonna change next season. I was always a fan of the red scorebar from the mid 2000s and was disappointed when they switched to the bland grey bars in 2010. Hopefully they have something slicker planned.

Yeah I love the new graphics package but everytime I see the set I just think "people lost their jobs for this"

# ¿ Jun 26, 2014 03:26

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Crion posted:

I just wanted to know if it was just a bad joke, or a bad joke and also a supposed ref to something previous about Pam Oliver

No, no one is implicating that Pam Oliver is a slut. Except you, maybe.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2014 13:17

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Hollenhammer posted:

While most of you are asleep, here in Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19lLBjAfIjI

I'd take that over Joe Buck. I mean I would take that edit of the announcer yelling just constantly over football/baseball instead Buck calling another game.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2014 19:47

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ayn rand hand job posted:

More of a sport than other espn broadcasted sport "magic the gathering"

Scrabble.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2014 18:43

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Kibner posted:

DOTA 2

DOTA players probably make more than MLS players, to be fair.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2014 20:32

Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos
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Can you even do an EAS test on pay-per-view?

# ¿ Oct 23, 2014 07:42

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FuzzySkinner posted:

Did anyone see ESPN trying to promote/push "Cricket" the other day?

I don't see how they figure there's going to be an audience for this. This is not to say that there isn't, and that the game itself isn't perhaps interesting if you're a fan. But I kind of fail to see how it would be unappealing to not only Americans...but to even countries like Canada or other countries as well.

I understand why Soccer has a global appeal, and why it gets coverage. The game is very much translatable, and in fact a global phenomena. Stuff like the Premier League, World Cup, and UEFA? Definitely worthy of being promoted, and of being followed by anyone.

Cricket? I just don't see it being a "thing" over here.

Cricket and Soccer were popular sports in America long before Indy Speedway was even built.

edit: Also Cricket owns and isn't hard to follow you donkus. If butchers from Brooklyn could figure it out 150 years ago I'm sure you can too.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2015 06:14

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Robnoxious posted:

Bring back lumberjack games! Watching those dudes run up a tree trunk was loving incredible and takes way more athletic ability than "baseball".

# ¿ Feb 14, 2015 19:14

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Benne posted:

Either way, the show was a ratings bust so that's probably the end of that experiment.

Well of course it was a bust, it didn't have Stephen A Smith talking over it, he's ratings gold.

# ¿ May 1, 2015 05:35

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FuzzySkinner posted:

I loving miss Madden and Summerall .

Who doesn't? I'd watch every single NFL game if Madden called them.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2015 00:49

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Rand alPaul posted:

Can't wait for kids in 20 years to make fun of Bocephus.

Or this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irz9dk4Jhj8

Also I'm sad ESPN got rid of their old college football music, speaking of espn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXGWQmG5C9M

Peanut President fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Sep 29, 2015

# ¿ Sep 29, 2015 21:17

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R.D. Mangles posted:

If you think ESPN is going to drop an 11AM Northwestern-Purdue game, you are insane.

Goddamn I want to know who at ESPN has such a hard on for Purdue. Even on Goal Line they never shut up about them. "Wow the boilermakers having a tough game against noted good team Bowling Green"

# ¿ Oct 1, 2015 03:25

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Benne posted:

You could always join the dark side and watch cool and good European soccer at 12 p.m. ET instead of lovely-rear end Big Ten football

Exact same poo poo just replace Indiana Taxpayer Funded Foootball and a MAC school with Manchester and a soon-to-be-relegated team.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2015 08:31

Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos
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SlingTV is nice because with the sports deal you get Goal Line/Buzzer Beater/Bases Loaded if you're into college and Sling counts as a provider for ESPN3.

edit: I got goal line and game plan confused.

Peanut President fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Oct 23, 2015

# ¿ Oct 23, 2015 22:15

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DJExile posted:

Awful Announcing and SportsBusinessDaily have worked out that ESPN is cutting costs like crazy because they've lost $3 billion in revenue and fees

jesus christ

So is this time of sports leagues getting paid dump trucks coming to an end soon or will there always be some other dumbass corporation to pick up the slack?

# ¿ Oct 27, 2015 21:29

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Niwrad posted:

For some reason I get the SEC Network in Chicago on the basic cable tier. They used to have the Pac-12 Network (which is depressing as gently caress) on it too but now that's only for the paid sports package.

SEC Network is owned by ESPN so they probably can push it.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2015 15:08

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Sash! posted:

One step closer to the automated weather station voice calling games.

During tonight's game there is a [70%] chance of bad officiating.

edit: Hell get Dan Stevens and Peter O'Keefe. They're pretty cheap if Sega Sports could afford them.

Peanut President fucked around with this message at 11:23 on Oct 30, 2015

# ¿ Oct 30, 2015 11:21