I don’t usually talk about how bad announcing coverage is for any sporting event just because it seems like sour grapes, but it’s worth discussing how bad ESPN’s coverage for The Open Championship has been. And this is generally surprising. Normally I don’t notice golf announcers; they provide a little bit of background, they talk [...]
So the NBA revised it because of the KG trade, and in a huge surprise, small markets get hammered and bigger markets grab the lion’s share of the takes. The usual contenders get their due (San Antonio, Dallas and Phoenix will be seen plenty this year), and the pushovers get close to squadoosh (The Sixers, [...]
NBA TV Coverage, Part I here.
When the NBA on NBC said farewell in 2002, I was a little sad—it was like saying goodbye to an old friend, saying goodbye to an era that would never be replicated. Nevertheless, I was hopeful that ESPN and ABC (or ESPN on ABC, which I just cringe trying [...]
As we lurch past the wreckage of another broadcasting craptacular on ABC and the gloomy prospect of eight more years of viewing their maudlin vaudeville, I decided to look back at a time when basketball meant more to TV executives than drawing attentions to their Sunday night lineup (what, not tired of gratuitous Eva shots [...]
Watching the horrifying comedy of errors that was today’s British Open just makes you appreciate the likes of someone like Tiger Woods that much more. Seeing those doofuses take the lead and then bungle it down the stretch, giving ESPN reason to treat us to the exhausting flashbacks of Van de Velde (I lost track [...]
