GIMME A BREAK...PLEASE!
I tuned in to SportsCenter yesterday afternoon and had to endure almost 20 minutes of Ron Artest coverage. As a sports fan, I am getting darn tired of having this crappy soap opera stuff clogging up sports shows and sports pages.
Add to that drama, the me-first Terrell Owens coverage and the I can't feed my family on $14 million Latrell Sprewell garbage and it's hard to find any true "balls and strikes" coverage of sports.
It's Kobe and Shaq all day all the time. You hear and read sports analysts with their insights on this stuff sounding like they are covering the Scott Peterson trial. Being a sports fan involves being bombarded by stories about contract holdouts, teams demanding taxpayer financed modern stadiums (stadii?), drug busts, family squabbles, illegitimate children, trash talking and a lot more of what should be ancillary to what happens between the lines. It seems you have to be either a lawyer, a psychiatrist or a financial professional to understand the sports page.
So hey ESPN stop leading your sports coverage with this nonsense. Sports fans want sports coverage not soap opera crap or legal proceedings. News and sports should not come together as one. There is a reason the sports section of the newspaper is seperate from the rest, at least there used to be. Stop the madness and remember the days when sports were considered the 'candy store' of current events. When I want real life I'll watch the news, but when I want a break, please give me one.
posted by pgreg @ 9:37 AM
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Thanks Doug. One reason rodeo and NASCAR are growing in popularity is because they are pretty much devoid of the crap I'm grumbling about. It's the same with golf. Yeah, they are a bunch of spoiled pretty boys, but they respect the game, their opponents, the fans and themselves.
It's all about dignity. To that end, I'd take Jeff Gordon or Dale Jarrett, Tiger or Lefty over Keyshawn, Deion, T.O or Spree any day!
PETE
I fear that NASCAR is very close to projecting a WWF-type image. The recent spate of, and resultant publicity of post-race fights, vulgarity, intentional crashes and gossip give it a cheap, tawdry sort of feel.
Rodeo. Except for the treatment of the animals, it's not bad in my book. I'm an especially big fan of Barrel Racing. That really gets the juices flowing. I'd like Bull Riding more is the cowboy rode underneath the bull.
While in Mexico a few years back, Loretta and I went to a bullfight in Puerto Vallarta. We left after first kill. The other travelers from our group told me that the subsequent kills were far cleaner and quicker. They said the other matadors were far superior to the one that tortured the first animal we watched. I was sorry I'd gone back to the hotel and drank foo-foo drinks alongside the pool. (Yeah. Right.)
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