OT: ESPN's Scoreboard

Submitted by MgoWood on

How in the hell can ESPN be the leader in sports when they can't even post basketball games scores from all the big conferences.  Here I was getting on to see the Penn st Neb score and looking that the top of their page and nothing...Gawd I hate that. /ends rant /shows self out

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ST3

February 25th, 2018 at 7:41 PM ^

When you try to be all things for all people, you end up being nothing for nobody. There's no better example of this than ESPN.

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DoubleB

February 25th, 2018 at 7:45 PM ^

all the people who bitch about ESPN could have been around for the TV sporting landscape of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Spend a fall Saturday back then and you'd be ecstatic to get two games with awful camera angles. A week of that would end these idiotic threads in a heartbeat.

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RobM_24

February 26th, 2018 at 1:12 AM ^

Grew up poor in the 90's in Indiana with no cable or satellite. I remember listening to the '97 Michigan-Iowa game on my alarm clock's AM radio bc the game wasn't on ABC or the syndicated ESPN+ that played Big Ten games on a local station sometimes. I also listened to the NIT Championship game on AM radio. I can't imagine having to listen to an important game on the radio now.

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Engin77

February 26th, 2018 at 11:58 AM ^

As I recall, the most recent UM football game for which radio was my only choice was against WMU in Ann Arbor on Sept 22, 2001.  Following the terrorist hijackings of Sept 11 and subsequent naitionwide cancellation of flights, all college football games on the weekend of Sept 15/16 had been cancelled.  By Sept 22, any coverage of the Maize & Blue was a welcome link to normalcy, and I was grateful for it.

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borninAnnArbor

February 26th, 2018 at 7:25 AM ^

I miss when sports center would show highlights of the games from the previous night instead of showing the same couple of games several times and having commentators give their hot take on what happened. If you root for a team that is only okay or not new York or Boston you might go a month between seeing a team you root for.

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