A study in Journalism: ESPN 86, Sparty 0
I performed a brief audit on ESPN’s Home Page for NCAA Men’s Basketball and the results would seem to indicate that both Sparty and Indiana are invisible. That’s right, after looking at every team related link and highlight (ignoring bracket and state-of-the-sport content), there were 86 links on the page and none of them were in any way related to the turd Sparty tossed into yesterday’s basketball punch bowl:
Shall we look at what teams were more important? (Number of separate links on home page)
Wofford, Nevada, et.al. (Mid-Majors): 21
SEC teams: 16 (only 3 or 4 were about Tennessee/Kentucky)
Big 12: 13
Duke: 8
North Carolina: 4
Rest of ACC: 4 (mostly Virginia)
Gonzaga: 4
Villinova: 2
Sister Jean: 1
As for the rest of the Big Ten...
Purdue/OSU: 6
Rutgers/Iowa: 3
Wisconsin/PSU: 2
Even Sister Jean is more newsworthy than Sparty going down. Wonder if their still pissed about those FOIA requests?
MSU is a trashy regional program.
They're
First thought that came to mind. Wish they would fix it so I could upvote
Auditing websites for MSU links? Jeez, this is an RCMB-like thread.
Yup, this is fucking embarrassing. Who cares? Just really weird that this is a post.
OP, delete this nephew
What he is saying is that no one is having a pornographic orgasm whenever Izzo loses a game the same way they do when Michigan loses a game.
I once heard Boomer Essiason trolling the lacrosse team in one of those CBS sports minutes because they lost to Maryland in the first year of Michigan's program. That was so important that he had to mention it in a national radio segment.
It is simply because the State v Indiana game yesterday was on Fox, directly competing against a number of games ESPN was showing.
Yup, yesterday I couldn't find the Michigan game on my ESPN app feed unless I went to the score tab. 5 hours or so after the game and it in finally appeared in the feed if I'd scroll down a little bit.
ESPN really doesn't like those FOX/CBS games.
If Harbaugh lost a game, they wouldn't care what network it was on.
They moved up in the "power rankings" in spite of their loss. So they have that. And maybe they're lucky that loss to Indiana isn't being emphasized?
Pretty sure those power ranking are 1 dude's opinions. I don't know why anybody cares about it
That's actually bad. I want their failure highlighted for all of the world to see.
OTOH, it was a "lead story" on ESPN's scroll all last night so they weren't totally ignored.
Cool?
Let us know what other websites failed to mention Sparty.
This is just because the game was on Fox. They've done this to U-M games too -- I remember last year U-M vs MSU was on Fox and despite being a huge game of national importance ESPN barely noticed it was happening.
1) this post sucks. 2) they’re
Maybe this is just a big ten thing in general. When we were undefeated I'd have to go searching to find stuff about Michigan but when I'm on facebook and talk about dinner the Taco Bell ads find me.
Am I the only one annoyed by all the love North Carolina is getting these days? Talk is about them maybe getting a 1 seed, ranked #5,etc... we thrashed them and have a better record. Every body has forgotten about that now...
You forget about the Duke bump. Beating them is worth 20 wins. So they are an adjusted 42-5
That's why I kept saying to stop rooting for UNC.
Obviously we don't really affect the games, but I kept saying they would jump us eventually the more they win. They're a Blue Blood with a coach that has 3 titles - they will jump us
Did you check the March web site? I think that shows March 1, MSU 0.
Ok cool.
Hook em
We are better than this.
You mean blogism not journalism, right?
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