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day, a lot of sportswriters, talking heads, and sports media
“professionals” say a lot of stuff. Mostly, it’s crap. As if the
seventy-second column on your team’s free agency prospects is really
going to tell you something new. What you need is a quick-fix look at
the day’s sports media, and you need it annotated, opinionated, and
funny as hell. Your TPS reports have suffered long enough.
That’s what the Daily Digest is here for. Matt Gaventa provides
your one-stop destination for the day-to-day ramblings of the sports
media universe. What are we obsessing with? What’s getting left behind?
What small country did ESPN buy today? This is the news you need about
the media you use, Monday through Friday and always on guard.
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Wednesday, 07 December 2005 |
This just in: ESPN Hollywood has no journalistic credibility. It’s the only lesson we can learn from the news across Bristol-land yesterday that Rickey Henderson was – and this time he means it, folks – retiring. The only problem: he didn’t mean it. In fact, he didn’t even say it. They were entirely wrong. Go figure.
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Tuesday, 06 December 2005 |
Sometimes a picture tells a thousand words because the writers are off doing something else. Which seems to be the case with last night’s Seattle-Philly game, this morning’s lead photo on all the major national sports sites, and not a hint of actual commentary among them. All those links? Yeah, they go right to the box score (at Fox, two links: same box score). Which is a shame, really, because there’s huge football news this morning, if you know where to look. |
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Monday, 05 December 2005 |
Bowl selections are in. The BCS committee has made its selections, and, like everybody predicted, Oregon got screwed. But since sports media seems to have exhausted the “Notre Dame is unworthy” argument, at least for this year, we can concentrate our attention on the loudest chorus in the land: finally, the BCS got one right.
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Friday, 02 December 2005 |
As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, ESPN has handed down a one-week suspension to Michael Irvin for not properly divulging his arrest. Irvin will not appear on Sunday NFL Countdown or Monday Night Countdown, but is slated to return the following week. And as obvious and simple as this sounds, it still leaves us with more questions than answers. |
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Thursday, 01 December 2005 |
Today must be ESPN’s corporate holiday party. The same headline – something about a Duke basketball team and a white boy that shoots well – has been sitting on their homepage for many many hours. We’ve got imaginary words in the chatrooms, Kornheiser doing a two-minute solo rendition of “Meet the Mets” on PTI (in full regalia), and SportsCenter doing a “theme night” on what happens when teammates throw each other under buses. Yeah. Slow news day. Which, in its own way, is just as fascinating. |
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