Wheres the Fox News of the Sports World?
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of ESPN. I mean I still watch it five hours a day and have my homepage set to ESPN.com, but I’ve realized that I can turn on any sports recap show and basically get the same results. ESPN is the “worldwide leader in sports”; they dominate the sports television market and no one else is touching them. I don’t know if it’s the fancy intros, the appealing graphics, the semi-humorous dialect, the ex-athletes commentating, or the old analysts acting senile that make me keep turning to it more than any other sports channel. Maybe it’s because no other channel has really given ESPN a run for their money. These days each major sport have their own networks. Surprisingly, these channels are some of the best counter products to ESPN. Most people watch ESPN for one show, Sportscenter. We want to see scores, highlights, and maybe a little analysis of the sporting events we missed for the day. The problem is that in this day and age Sportscenter almost seems li