Let me prepare the analogy. Variety covers the actual production of Hollywood entertainment. TMZ covers the people who work in that industry.
So who is actually covering sports now? See the snapshot below from 10 p.m. ET on Monday evening.
As you can see, there are three articles about legal matters (Burress, Stallworth, Phoenix Coyotes), five articles about player movement (Favre, Turkoglu, Shaq, Ellis, Meeks) and two articles, the 9th and 10th, about actual sporting events.
Why do I know more about Phil Mickelson's wife's breasts than I do about golf itself?
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ESPN has become a joke. The biggest problem they have is the live Sportscenter they run during the day.
Their main demographic is at work during this time. It's a huge waste of money because all they do is show highlights from the previous day and present the same lousy analysis. Unless there are a lot of stay at home adults watching live Sportscenter during the day in their favorite team colors, it just makes no sense.
Plus, they've decided to do the whole social web experience (Twitter, Facebook, etc) to try to trend things up and be "cool." Cut that crap, fire half the douches working Sportscenter, amd contract out the analysts to save a lot of money.
My one hope is that all this negative coverage on athletes will push the respective sport leagues and teams to clamp down on players and clean up the behavior.
Also, maybe someone will put Favre down. He, like other older athletes like Tom Glavine, just don't seem to know when to retire gracefully.
Player movement is at least legitimate discussion but on the respective sport pages. For the people that care about the 14 month seasons of NBA, where Shaq ends up might matter but when I want the score of the Brewers/Indians game, I don't want to have to look at fantasy baseball instead of checking their site to get it faster.
What did Glavine ever do that was so terrible? Playing past your prime is not necessarily disgraceful. What Favre has done over the last several years is quite different.
"What did Glavine ever do that was so terrible?"
Glavine was/is considering arbitration against the Braves after he was released this year. Enough scouts said he didn't have it but for some reason he felt that he was going to be given a roster spot based on his history with Atlanta. Perhaps it's not so much disgraceful but when a team moves on for clear reasons, it seems like you should take the hint.
While I think the way it was handled was disgusting, it's hard to have a ton of loyalty to a guy who just up and left to the Mets because of disagreements in contract - something history shows was the correct choice.
Favre is orders of magnitude worse though.
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