Idiots Write About Sports

So today ABC/ESPN and NASCAR made an 8-year TV deal.

So when you notice that over the next year SportsCenter seems to be covering NASCAR a bit more than they used to, just remember: SportsCenter is legitimate journalism. ESPN would never, ever choose its coverage based on its network’s promotional priorities.

By the way, is SportsCenter still on? I stopped watching once ESPN signed the NBA — er, I mean, once the NBA rapidly become so popular that ESPN had to make the news judgment to cover it endlessly.

Cough.

You're not telling me that Dickie V and his cronies talk all ACC basketball all the time only because the ACC has a contract with ESPN are you? I thought it was a genetic predisposition. Now, I find out it's journalistic integrity. Funny, since I thought you had to be an actual journalistic to possess that.

Make that "an actual journalist" (and having an editor helps, too).

Actually, I thought it was funnier as "actually journalistic"!

Posted by Jason at December 8, 2005 06:36 PM

To be fair, Dickie V will talk excitedly and at length about any and all college basketball contests. Given a chance he will wax rhapsodically about the ACC, Big Ten, A-10, Big East, Mt. West, St. Mary's School for Pregnant Nuns, etc. has anyone ever mistaken him for a journalist instead of a promoter of all things basketball?

Point taken, Josh. Actually, I think the same could be said of just about anyone associated with the Worldwide Leader. They make real sports journalists (there must be one or two in existence...somewhere...right?) look bad by confirming my suspicion that most sports writers are cheerleaders, not journalists.

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