Sportscenter Demise Captured in One Ridiculous Screengrab
Sportscenter long ago ditched quaint relics like “news” and “sports highlights” to become a smorgasbord of self-promotion and contrived debates. An ESPN source informed me there is a “company initiative” to implement more viral videos into Sportscenter. The whole unwatchable mess came to a head with this “BioBLAST.”
[Photo via rembertmanx]
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March 1st, 2013 at 2:19 PM
or as Richard Deitsch tweeted/retweeted:
“The power of images. Via @MC790, SportsCenter at its Baylessian worst: pic.twitter.com/TRn5NefyJ7″
March 1st, 2013 at 2:19 PM
ESPN just took the title away from Jimmy Carter as history’s greatest monster.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:20 PM
you spelled Bieber incorrectly
March 1st, 2013 at 2:21 PM
you both spelled rory mcilroy incorrectly.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:21 PM
Pissed they’re working your side of the street, huh?
March 1st, 2013 at 2:21 PM
Sportscenter long ago ditched quaint relics like “news” and “sports highlights” to become a smorgasbord of self-promotion and contrived debates.
couldn’t have summed it up any better.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:22 PM
Sportscenter, brought to you by The Onion
March 1st, 2013 at 2:22 PM
I’m assuming they needed a nice change of pace from the previous three hours breaking down last night’s Laker game…what were they supposed to turn to, the Blackhawks?
March 1st, 2013 at 2:23 PM
I’m counting on Fox to button this shit up.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:24 PM
ESPN gave up its journalistic integrity some time ago.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:29 PM
Don’t forget the warm up dunks.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:30 PM
to be fair, journalism gave up its journalistic integrity some time ago.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:30 PM
Indeed.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:34 PM
I blame PowerPoint for that screen grab up there. Been the bane of my existence since I was falling asleep to lazy professors lectures that they read off, slide by slide.
Lazy, useless information.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:35 PM
I can’t believe that when I was a young buck I used to wake up in the morning and put on SC and leave it on through noon. I haven’t tuned into ESPN other than for live events in prob 5+ yrs.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:35 PM
I remember back in the good old days when ESPN was being anchored by Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley when they were all about journalism.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:36 PM
f’real…dude, i used to watch baseball tonite every single night id get off work as a busboy in HS. ravech, HR, gammons…it was must-watch. now? BLECH.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:37 PM
i lolled.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:38 PM
BRING BACK NHL TONIGHT.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:38 PM
this is the fucking worst. The WORST, Jerry!!
March 1st, 2013 at 2:39 PM
to be fair, journalism gave up its journalistic integrity some time ago.
Yeah, that ship sailed long ago. Not sure what sparked this.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:40 PM
In the beforetime when you weren’t able to know the score of your team’s game at the drop of a hat and every time they played the little jingle you wondered if the next update was the final out of your game…technology ruined a lot of what highlight shows were good for
March 1st, 2013 at 2:41 PM
Speaking of baseball shows, Clubhouse Confidential on the MLB network is outstanding.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:42 PM
agreed…but even then, when you watched baseball tonite with those three, you could tell that they’d sound the same whether on tv or all chatting at a bar. they LOVED baseball and couldnt wait to talk about it all night.
only espn show i think has that same level of passion are both groups of CFB analysts…tho, even tho mark may loves CFB, he can still eat a dick (and probably does).
March 1st, 2013 at 2:44 PM
I remember in the Mid 90′s during the Tribes awesome sauce time staying up to watch BT for the trade deadline. Peter Gammons would always get me pumped up then nothing would happen. Dammit, I WANTED RANDY JOHNSON!
March 1st, 2013 at 2:45 PM
even tho mark may loves CFB, he can still eat a dick (and probably does).
He enjoys eating dick for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He eats horsedick for 4th meal.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:53 PM
Go to your computer, open up your computer, fire up your browser and type, “I am as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!”
March 1st, 2013 at 2:53 PM
im going to the range tomorrow, fuck it. i don’t care if it’s only going to be 42 degrees.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:54 PM
Gammons was also great at making it sound like every top prospect in the minor leagues was going to be a hall of famer.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:54 PM
He eats horsedick for 4th meal.
mark may shops at IKEA
March 1st, 2013 at 2:56 PM
i can’t find one of the early BT commercials where gammons is being stalked by a blond and even calls him at home. gammons wife answers and the blond says in valley speak “she’s not very friendlah”
March 1st, 2013 at 2:58 PM
I really believe that ESPN’s #1 goal is branding pre-teens/teens into becoming life-long ESPN’ers? Therefore some of their programming is geared to what kids that age enjoy the most…. aka viral videos/debating sports. But hey – if you don’t like it – watch FoxSports/NBCSports/CBSSports or whatever regional sports channel you probably already have on your cable packages.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:58 PM
yall got any with heated booths? fuckin godsend, i tell ya.
March 1st, 2013 at 2:59 PM
He eats horsedick for 4th meal.
mark may shops at IKEA
It was revealed today that Taco Bell also has horsemeat tacos.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:03 PM
It was revealed today that Taco Bell also has horsemeat tacos.
I wonder if that was Chef Lorena Garcia’s call to use horsemeat?
March 1st, 2013 at 3:04 PM
This is the ultimate description of latter day ESPN and should be retained as a nut graph to insert into every ESPN post and also the ESPN Wikipedia entry.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:05 PM
Serious question- I think it’s unanimously agreed that ESPN/SportsCenter sucks (aside from live sporting events). Could ESPN’s new stance towards this line of broadcasting open the door for a competitor (NBC Sports) to step in and bring its customers back to the “golden days” of sports news/highlights.
/Team fuck ESPN
March 1st, 2013 at 3:06 PM
You all spelled Brian Kelly incorrectly.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:16 PM
yall got any with heated booths? fuckin godsend, i tell ya.
probably somewhere, but not at DC’s East Potomac Muni. they do serve 22oz beers though…
March 1st, 2013 at 3:18 PM
No.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:29 PM
Golden days = days of your youth. There are no golden days. ESPN back in the day was more catchphrase and cliche driven than it is today. The ESPN of back then didn’t have to compete against instant technology like Butters noted. And for the the people who supposedly don’t favor the debate format, ESPN back then didn’t have to compete against blogs, messageboards, and twitter, which seem to be remarkably thriving in a populace that supposedly is so put off by the debate format, including the author of this very post who seems to be remarkably obtuse when you consider the nature of his story and who he works for. ESPN is adapting, surviving, and thriving.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:45 PM
And awful to watch (non-live sports edition). Kudos.
March 1st, 2013 at 3:55 PM
At the gym I saw the anchors doing some kind of effing dance/slide thing. Did anyone else see this? I think Herm Edwards was out there because of course he was.
March 1st, 2013 at 5:19 PM
I agree that Sportscenter is going the way of MTV, but didn’t TBL post the Miami Heat Harlem Shake video this morning with a description that it’s “actually pretty good”?
March 1st, 2013 at 5:21 PM
Apologies, the TBL headline claimed the Heat’s Harlem Shake video was “not terrible”.
March 1st, 2013 at 5:23 PM
You mean, THIS?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osgAhbGGjy0
March 1st, 2013 at 11:15 PM
ESPN is trying its best to turn into Bleacher Report. God Bless us all.