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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 like old news the first time you watch it for the day. If we hear about a spectacular play we don't have to wait for Sportscenter to come on, we can immediately watch it on the Internet. We can get scores and news updates instantly from the Internet or from our phones. That's my biggest gripe with ESPN and other sports channels. They're all the same and they're all old news to me. I want something new. I want the Fox News of the sports world. I want something that is fair and balanced.
Fox News. Those two words put a tingle down some peoples' spines. Some people on the other hand live by the network. I got some breaking news for everyone, Fox News is biased. I got some more breaking news; so is every other news station. If you really don't think that MSNBC isn't as biased as Fox News than you should be building UFO's with Richard Heene. News stations cater towards audiences; they're businesses that are in the market to sell news. The difference between political news and sports news is that politics are clearly a divisive topic to talk about. There are millions of people on the left, millions of people on the right, and then a handful of change in the middle. It's easy for networks to direct their attention towards specific audiences because we have a clear understanding that people have different views. The problem with sports news on television is that it's only target audience is "sports fans." There are no party lines that say only liberal sports fans can watch football and hockey and only conservatives can watch baseball and basketball. There's no separation of sports programming for some individuals and other individuals. My question is, why not? I think there should be sports television networks that target specific demographics. I want to see ESPN Black (or African-American if you want me to be politically correct) only talk about football and basketball, have ESPN cribs, and showcase athletes trying to be rappers. I want to see ESPN Redneck cover NASCAR, Bull Riding, SEC football, and have an occasional beer guzzling contest. We could have ESPN Hispanic with bull fighting, soccer, and live coverage of people running across the border. ESPN White Collar carrying golf, baseball, and tennis. ESPN Canadian would have hockey, lumberjack contests, and more hockey. Those are the easy answers to new sports programming, but I want something more. I want the Fox News of the sports world.
Fox News claims to cover what the mainstream media won't. Hate them or love them they're the highest rated news network and their stories get peoples' attention. I want the same out of my sports network. I want the channel that the normal sports journalists and broadcasters hate, but the fans love. I want the channel that dishes dirt on the typical good guys like Tim Tebow and Peyton Manning and defends the typical bad guys like Alex Rodriguez and Terrell Owens. I want the channel that goes after the sports journalists and analysts at ESPN and other networks for not only giving horrible commentary and analysis, but also for providing made up stories. How many times have we seen a breaking news Mort Report where he is completely wrong? There's no penalty for sports journalists getting anything wrong. Mitch Albom was plagiarizing other peoples' work and he got a slap on the wrist and back on the Sports Reporters in no time. I want the network that presses other networks employees for what they really are as sports journalists; frauds. Maybe I just want something different, something that I haven't heard before or already seen on the Internet. Or maybe I just want to see a network that pisses off the other sports networks as much as Fox News pisses off every other news network. If we get that someday then maybe the sports world will finally be "fair and balanced."
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