Get Up Eight Times

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 [...]

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 [...]