“Equity”. It’s like the new female “announcers” thrust into football who can only do player commentary because they have absolutely zero clue how the sport works. That and they forced flamboyant gay guys all over the talk shows who
have zero clue about anything other than player drama and retards like Stephen A Smith, but I repeat myself.
And horsesh*t minorities and prominent Sportscenter hosts pushing the White man bad angle, literally ALLLLL of the time. Jemele hill. I'm looking squarely a you. They fired all of the conservative people, including those black and women. Why the fuck the brought her back is beyond me.
Quite literally, I'd watch The OCHO over anything on regular espn now.
I remember hearing they wanted to do an ESPN women’s network but I guess they decided against it. I have no issues with women’s sports except the WNBA because they guilt trip people for their low ratings
It’s only a website and “digital platform”. They floated the idea of making it a channel back in 2012, then backtracked, floated it again in 2021, then backtracked.
Yeah, it turns out they can’t even get half of females 16-29 to watch female sports (only about a third “express interest” in watching women’s sports) and an entire network would have been an unmitigated disaster.
The existence of social media makes SportsCenter kinda worthless because you don’t have to watch SportsCenter to get highlights anymore, so they went full into the sports talk show stuff
This was the dumbest move though, I’d kill for a sport center that went full numbers, breaking down how amazing plays happened, and the physicality it takes to achieve it. Instead we get player drama because maybe women will watch it…
True but it was fun watching with my dad. Baseball tonight after little league and NFL on Sundays. Now I mainly listen to local podcasts for the Rangers, Stars, and Cowboys. Still it didn’t help when they started getting heavy into race and politics.
Will never understand how they messed up the quintessential “guy channel”. Growing up my dad and I watched a lot of ESPN
“Equity”. It’s like the new female “announcers” thrust into football who can only do player commentary because they have absolutely zero clue how the sport works. That and they forced flamboyant gay guys all over the talk shows who have zero clue about anything other than player drama and retards like Stephen A Smith, but I repeat myself.
And horsesh*t minorities and prominent Sportscenter hosts pushing the White man bad angle, literally ALLLLL of the time. Jemele hill. I'm looking squarely a you. They fired all of the conservative people, including those black and women. Why the fuck the brought her back is beyond me.
Quite literally, I'd watch The OCHO over anything on regular espn now.
I remember when they blew up Michael Sam to an insane degree. I knew it was the beginning of the end.
There’s a few “commentators” that were mind numbingly dumb and I didn’t realize until later on they were quota fillers for “diversity”.
And they were upset at the backlash because shockingly ppl didn’t care about some 7th round gay dude.
I remember hearing they wanted to do an ESPN women’s network but I guess they decided against it. I have no issues with women’s sports except the WNBA because they guilt trip people for their low ratings
There is already an ESPN W.
It’s only a website and “digital platform”. They floated the idea of making it a channel back in 2012, then backtracked, floated it again in 2021, then backtracked.
Really? Didn’t know
Yeah, it turns out they can’t even get half of females 16-29 to watch female sports (only about a third “express interest” in watching women’s sports) and an entire network would have been an unmitigated disaster.
As a teen I’d watch women’s college volleyball but I can’t say my interest was purely for the sport
The existence of social media makes SportsCenter kinda worthless because you don’t have to watch SportsCenter to get highlights anymore, so they went full into the sports talk show stuff
This was the dumbest move though, I’d kill for a sport center that went full numbers, breaking down how amazing plays happened, and the physicality it takes to achieve it. Instead we get player drama because maybe women will watch it…
Instead, you got black guys telling you "wyte man eeevil!" Dude, people want to hear about SPORTS.
I used to watch a number of their shows til it turned into msnbc
People regularly qualm for more in-depth analysis but nobody actually watches it outside of smaller niche podcasts, videos, articles and books.
Because no one has ever made the show. Networks refuse to make shows that don’t fit the lowest common denominator litmus test.
True but it was fun watching with my dad. Baseball tonight after little league and NFL on Sundays. Now I mainly listen to local podcasts for the Rangers, Stars, and Cowboys. Still it didn’t help when they started getting heavy into race and politics.
Truth. But social media covers that too. Stick to what you’re good at.
I watched ESPN & Cartoon Network and nothing in between for a decade. They could’ve had me forever.
Cartoon Network was once a great channel. MeTV Tunes has that spot now