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Lou Holtz is finally gone http://www.si.com/more-sports/2015/04/12/charles-barkley-sxsw-masters-espn-lou-holtz?page=2&devicetype=default
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My personal favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaEvgK6dxQQ
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Awesome piece by Bryan Curtis of Grantland on Dallas sports anchor Dale Hansen.
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I actually find that article to be terribly written. A bit aimless and all over the place, but the content is gold.
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Benne posted:Lou Holtz is finally gone I really expected this to be a link to an obituary
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:Awesome piece by Bryan Curtis of Grantland on Dallas sports anchor Dale Hansen. New to Dallas, but everyone loves Dale here, at least that I've met.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dll8eMJnTEE You heard it here first folks. Cowherd is too good to cover video games on tv. ... Except you know, he's not. Has he SEEN some of the stuff that the likes of Jim McKay, Al Michaels, Howard Cossell, Dick Stockton, and co used to have to cover back in the day for ABC, CBS, and NBC? Those are some people with some actual talent in the world of Sports Broadcasting. They got stuck some with some really WEIRD events back in the day. Cowherd is just some really boring 3rd rate Jim Rome clone that ESPN found off the street and gave a job to.
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FuzzySkinner posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dll8eMJnTEE Are you coming at this from the angle of defending ESPN's video game coverage or are you finding any reason to bash Cowherd? Genuinely curious.
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Colin Cowherd freaking sucks that is my opinion
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Muddy Burphy posted:Are you coming at this from the angle of defending ESPN's video game coverage or are you finding any reason to bash Cowherd? Genuinely curious. I have zero interest in watching other people play video games, but damned if I wouldn't absolutely love to watch ESPN's A team have to cover League of Legends or some poo poo. Gruden and Tirico doing play by play of a Starcraft match would be priceless.
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Colin Cowherd and Jim Rome's similarities end at them being sports radio hosts. Their schticks are completely different. Jim Rome finds things to poke fun at in the sports or pop culture world and does so ad naseum. Colin Cowherd is just a troll that says poo poo he knows will get people riled up. You either love Rome or you hate him. I don't know a single sole that likes Cowherd.
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Apr 27, 2015 22:48
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Muddy Burphy posted:Are you coming at this from the angle of defending ESPN's video game coverage or are you finding any reason to bash Cowherd? Genuinely curious. I think both. I was wrong in trashing the coverage/promotion of cricket earlier. I think ESPN is very much doing it's job by finding new things to cover, and then to see what sticks really. poo poo it wasn't like there was really anything else on at the time, and it was going against playoff hockey and playoff basketball, so why the hell not? It generated buzz on twitter, and the response was more so humorous rather than "GRRRR THIS SUCKS! OFF MY TV!". Cowherd is a dipshit though. Acting like he's too good to call something like that when there's been people in his field with infinitely more talent than him have called far weirder events wreaks of being a douche bag. Thaddius the Large posted:I have zero interest in watching other people play video games, but damned if I wouldn't absolutely love to watch ESPN's A team have to cover League of Legends or some poo poo. Gruden and Tirico doing play by play of a Starcraft match would be priceless. I watch the Hot Dog eating contest every year because Paul Page calls it. It's so absurd to hear his voice doing it, but fun none the less. Mahoning posted:Colin Cowherd and Jim Rome's similarities end at them being sports radio hosts. Their schticks are completely different. Jim Rome finds things to poke fun at in the sports or pop culture world and does so ad naseum. Colin Cowherd is just a troll that says poo poo he knows will get people riled up. Rome is very good at interviewing, and I do believe he has talent. I mention Cowherd being a clone of his because he's indeed trying to pretty much emulate Rome, but he just fails so much at it. Also, Rome doesn't so vaguely Racist poo poo all the time, and doesn't seem to tolerate people calling in making dumb discriminatory jokes. Cowherd? The John Wall rant was completely uncalled for.
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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. MourningView fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Apr 27, 2015 |
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Apr 27, 2015 23:06
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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.
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I would pay any amount of money to listen to Jon Gruden do color commentary for Magic: the Gathering. "Now this guy Kai Budde, his name sounds like 'buddy', but he's not trying to be anyone's friend with the way he's throwing those Grim Monoliths around!"
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Apr 27, 2015 23:09
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They have aired poker, darts, pool, driving in cars, golf, bowling, people riding in a bus playing madden, dogs jumping, people riding horses, people throwing logs, magic the gathering, soccer, scrabble, people eating lots of hot dogs, and a loving spelling bee. They air lots of things that are not strictly speaking sports, and the world hasn't ended yet. They have a lot of hours to fill, and at least it's not Skip Bayless Yelling. Chill the heck out, internet.
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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. The goofy video game things also draw like hundreds of thousands of viewers on Twitch and whatnot.
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MourningView posted:They have a lot of hours to fill, and at least it's not Skip Bayless Yelling. Chill the heck out, internet. Seriously, give me all the weird sports, games, and activities you have over ESPN debate and analysis. I watched a bunch of darts a few months ago and it owned
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Mornacale posted:I would pay any amount of money to listen to Jon Gruden do color commentary for Magic: the Gathering. WWE got Gruden to analyze and handicap their Wrestlemania Battle Royale on the preshow this year.
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ayn rand hand job posted:WWE got Gruden to analyze and handicap their Wrestlemania Battle Royale on the preshow this year. Gruden is this generation's Dick Vermeil. He's actually very good at what he does. I actually dig the enthusiasm. He's at his best calling College Football IMO.
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I think it's cool that ESPN airs a bunch of weird stuff, but sometimes taking the piss out of it is the fun part.
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MourningView posted:They have aired poker, darts, pool, driving in cars, golf, bowling, people riding in a bus playing madden, dogs jumping, people riding horses, people throwing logs, magic the gathering, soccer, scrabble, people eating lots of hot dogs, and a loving spelling bee. They air lots of things that are not strictly speaking sports, and the world hasn't ended yet. They have a lot of hours to fill, and at least it's not Skip Bayless Yelling. Chill the heck out, internet. 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 Badfinger fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Apr 28, 2015 |
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I bet modern Sportsnight would just be VIRAL VIDEOS and tweets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSS1ljVxxsE
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Gary Thorne went into Masters Mode to acknowledge the awkward crowd-less silence at the Orioles game today. Come back to hockey Gary, I miss you 
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The E:60 piece on Ernie Johnson this week was incredible. If you haven't seen it, ESPN 2 is re-airing it at some ungodly hour this week and maybe you can DVR it. Trailer for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OboOBJy2xHY
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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. WHAT I'M GONNA DO HERE IS MASSE SIX BALLS INTO THE CORNER POCKET USING A BRIDGE AND A CARD TABLE LEG AND I'LL BE BLINDFOLDED AND I'M GONNA SHOOT BEHIND MY BACK *makes it on the first try* Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Apr 30, 2015 |
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Speaking of the video game coverage. https://twitter.com/BillWalton/status/592560243692863490
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I will never understand watching people play video games because for my generation that was rear end in a top hat poo poo your buddy pulled when he didn't want to share his Nintendo. Good for them for branching out, though.
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I've been wondering this for like 20 years. When somebody puts crazy spin on a billiards ball.. Is it: "Mass-ee" or "Mah-say" ?
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Hockles posted:I've been wondering this for like 20 years. When somebody puts crazy spin on a billiards ball.. Same pronunciation as the last syllable in "melee". It's a long "A"
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I legitimately don't know why people draw a line between watching something like NASCAR or video games in terms of whether ESPN should cover it. Both involve no athleticism by the participants, just hand-eye coordination, reflexes, strategy etc. In one event a person controls a car, in the other a person controls an avatar. You have to be a special type of insufferable to complain about video games but simultaneously be okay with poker and NASCAR and bowling and even the spelling bee.
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So It Goes posted:I legitimately don't know why people draw a line between watching something like NASCAR or video games in terms of whether ESPN should cover it. Both involve no athleticism by the participants, just hand-eye coordination, reflexes, strategy etc. In one event a person controls a car, in the other a person controls an avatar. You have to be a special type of insufferable to complain about video games but simultaneously be okay with poker and NASCAR and bowling and even the spelling bee. What? NASCAR is an endurance sport. quote:The ESPN report showed that Hamlin’s car was 130 degrees throughout the race, that he sweated 3.5 pints of perspiration an hour, lost 13 pounds of water weight during that event and that his neck supports g-forces of 40 pounds in the turns—in a 400-lap race, that’s 800 40-pound reps with his neck. His heart rate was 130 for the event, which is comparable to an endurance runner except that the Coke 600 lasts twice as long as a marathon would. http://www.sportingnews.com/nascar/story/2013-11-19/are-nascar-drivers-athletes-donovan-mcnabb-jimmie-johnson-fox-workouts I don't even like any kind of racing, but to call it not athletic is outright inaccurate.
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Benne posted:Either way, the show was a ratings bust so that's probably the end of that experiment. I'd have probably tuned in if I had known it was happening. I saw on twitter that ESPN was doing a video games thing and I went to their streaming service because I assumed it would be there.
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If G4 hadn't withered and died out they'd be the perfect home for televised game events (I'm not calling it loving "esports"). But really, is there any real audience in that field that Youtube and Twitch aren't covering already?
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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.
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Benne posted:If G4 hadn't withered and died out they'd be the perfect home for televised game events (I'm not calling it loving "esports"). Just you wait. You're gonna go home for Thanksgiving and your dad is gonna be screaming at League of Legends and talking about the latest balance patch.
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@MichelleDBeadle I, along with @Rachel__Nichols, have been banned from the MGM Grand Arena for the fight tonight by the Mayweather camp. #TheFightGame
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