DJExile posted:

I go to a ton of Toledo Walleye games (low level minor league hockey) and they and most of the teams in the league have ads on the jerseys. To be honest, they're not hard to look past after a couple games. The ice has ads on it as well. Now granted, this sort of stuff has gone along with minor leagues for a while now so I suppose there's a different feel to it versus going to a full fledged top level pro game. Still, it's not the worst thing. I just wanna watch hockey.

E: it definitely does give the jersey a cluttered look, I'll grant. The jerseys you buy from the stores don't have ads on them though.

sportsgenius86 posted:

did you just watch ESPN for the first time in like 3 years or something?

Sash! posted:

UFC sure did obliterate boxing though. Although boxing might not have needed the help.

OrangeKing posted:

Chess, on occasion when I was in college (which was cool by me, being a chess guy), but I suppose there's at least some tradition of that getting sports coverage dating back to the Fischer days.

zakharov posted:

"Searching for Bobby Fischer" was not actually about Bobby Fischer. Also, Bobby Fischer was a crazy rear end in a top hat IRL which is sad.

AsInHowe posted:

I love how the World Series is listed last, after Wrestlemania.

Robnoxious posted:

This is interesting but alarming. The terrorists can win if they plan their dastardly deeds around championship events. Are tornado warnings also off limits?

Sorry yer house flipped through 6 counties, but didja see Peyton get rolled by Seattle? Oh wait you probably didn't... it was pretty cool, you should have been there.

CBJSprague24 posted:

I got the feeling Tosh was more calling ESPN out on their BS because he's tired of it like many others are than trying to be funny.

FuzzySkinner posted:

So topic to bring up.

I saw a few people on my timeline ripping ESPN for not reporting the Cam Newton accident immediately and continuing to discuss the ramifications of Johnny Football starting for the Cleveland Browns.

Do you guys feel ESPN is at fault for not reporting on something like this or do you feel it's their responsibility to interrupt programming immediately for a situation like this?

kidcoelacanth posted:

It's cool to see that he touched so many huge names.

Robnoxious posted:

ESPN is always business business business and lacks anything that resembles heart which the TNT crew counters in spades.

ElwoodCuse posted:

95 cents per minute!

Remember when it was a big deal that they would put scores on a ticker every half hour?

I used to tape the 10 pm baseball game when I was little because that was the quickest way to see who won.

Mornacale posted:

ESPN can never regain my favor until they put Australian Rules Football back on the main channel like they did in the 1980s

DJExile posted:

Tonight is the first Duke/UNC game on ESPN that will not be called by Dick Vitale. He'd been doing it for 36 years.

MourningView posted:

ESPN2 has always aired weird poo poo and regular ESPN devoted so much air time to fat nerds in sunglasses playing cards that SAS used to have a subforum for it. I don't know why people are treating some goofy video game thing like it's new.

Badfinger posted:

Exactly. My love for 1990s ESPN 2 isn't because they had Important Sports Personalities letting me know which sports I should care about. It's because they had Aussie Rules Football and Lumberjack Games and World's Strongest Man and loving trickshot pool that they made into an event somehow.

Please give me all the weird sports and games. The less desks and studio mics I see, and the more insane competitions they show, the happier I'll be.

e: seriously watch this dumb poo poo and not Cowherd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN6dhpUMVTc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8ycSMrDN5c

quote:

Wilbon’s lengthy and nonsensical response implored viewers to understand the context of boxing, yes, but that none of Mayweather’s charges are new and that Mayweather’s critics are just new to boxing, “wild-eyed” and “naďve.” ... “There’s a long history of boxers in trouble. Criminal trouble, much of it domestic violence,”

FuzzySkinner posted:

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/mark-jackson-defends-mayweather-pretends-to-be-boxing-1701894262/+bubbaprog

Mark Jackson I think...is perhaps the worst color commentator in pro sports.

I seriously am struggling to think of someone as bad as him.

Dr. Remulak posted:

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/tom-brady-and-the-culture-of-white-crime-a-serious-column/?utm_vicesportstwitter

Redgrendel2001 posted:

Yeah Bob might be taking a little paid vacation for that.

Retail Slave posted:

It would have been better had Strop actually been atrocious. Give up 6 runs over 1/3 of an inning? Sure, go to town. Give up 1 run and say that? Then you're just an rear end in a top hat.

Sash! posted:

What about that time Madden said something about "pounding the A hole" a few times until he remember to say "A gap" instead.

DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:

summerall was great because his voice was like a beautiful rusty trumpet

Deadspin posted:

The ESPY Awards–a celebration of ESPN’s ability to celebrate celebrities—are being handed out tonight as ESPN takes advantage of the lull in the U.S. sports schedule. We’ve already had one memorable moment, even though the official ceremony has yet to begin. On the red carpet, MMA star Ronda Rousey was given her “Best Fighter” ESPY, a category that included Rousey, Floyd Mayweather, Donald Cerrone, Terence Crawford and Gennady Golovkin. (Although apparently voting is still live? We’re not sure how Rousey already got her award.)

Upon receiving her trophy, Rousey absolutely ethered serial woman beater Floyd Mayweather, looking into the camera and saying, “I wonder how Floyd feels being beat by a woman for once.”

C. Everett Koop posted:

Colin Cowherd posted:

"I could've made the point without using one country, and there's all sorts of smart people from the Dominican Republic," Cowherd said Friday during The Herd. "I could've said a third of baseball's talent is being furnished from countries with economic hardships, therefore educational hurdles. For the record, I used the Dominican Republic because they've furnished baseball with so many great players."

...

"I understand that when you mention a specific country, they get offended," Cowherd said. "I get it. I do. And for that, I feel bad. I do. But I have four reports in front of me ... where there are discussions of major deficiencies in the education sector at all levels. ... It wasn't a shot at them. It was data. Five, seven years ago I talked about the same subject. Was I clunky? Perhaps. Did people not like my tone? I get it. Sometimes my tone stinks.

"I think when you host a radio show, just like Jon Stewart hosts a show, I think sometimes I bring up stuff ... that makes people cringe. I'm not saying there's not intelligent, educated people from the Dominican Republic. I cringe at the data too."

...

"It's baseball," Cowherd said Thursday. "You don't think a general manager can manage? Like it's impossible? The game is too complex? I've never bought into that, 'Baseball's just too complex.' Really? A third of the sport is from the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic has not been known in my lifetime as having world-class academic abilities. A lot of those kids come from rough backgrounds and have not had opportunities academically that other kids from other countries have.

"Baseball is like any sport. It's mostly instincts. A sportswriter who covers baseball could go up to Tony La Russa and have a real baseball argument, and Tony would listen and it would seem reasonable. There's not a single NFL writer in the country who could diagram a play for Bill Belichick. You know, we get caught up in this whole 'thinking-man's game.' Is it in the same family? Most people could do it. It's not being a concert pianist. It's in the same family."

THE MACHO MAN posted:

what the hell hahahah

Copernic posted:

Who is taking over his ESPN slot?

Rand alPaul posted:

Apparently the Red Sox asked Orsillo to tweet his firing was mutual and he said no.

Dutchy posted:

And I thought Kruk was kind of charmingly stupid next to Mendoza.

FuzzySkinner posted:

I legit thought Mark May got fired this year.

Who keeps giving this man work? Does Satan run ESPN or something?

OctoberBlues posted:

This is kind of a cool article on what people had to do to get scores before ESPN

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/that-was-a-thing-sports-phone-the-1980s-way-to-get-real-time-scores/

ElwoodCuse posted:

I used to work with a guy who had a baseball pager that told him score, runners on base, outs, inning, stuff like that.

Also:

95 cents per minute
Call 1-900-976-ESPN

joshtothemaxx posted:

That was a big selling point for early mini-dish services like Primestar and early DirectTV--a channel dedicated to live-updated scores and standings. I remember checking it during commercials of Braves games to see the scores of other games.

Vertical Lime posted:

When Fox started airing football, they did that with the time in real-time. I thought it was the most mind-blowing poo poo ever back then

CaptainYesterday posted:

We are a poorer nation for Roundball Rock being unused.