ghostrunner wrote:i have to say, I couldn't care less if they don't cover it again. I'd like to see more college hoops coverage, if anything. Well, and more non-Yankee/Red Sox baseball news as always.
College basketball coverage? When do they NOT cover college hoops? You can turn it on almost any night of the week and see a game. Plus, when the Super Bowl ends, ESPN becomes the NCAA Basketball Network.
TheoSqua wrote:you guys do know that the NHL and ESPN signed a deal to broadcast games on ESPN again. The games that air on NBC now are going to air on ESPN instead.
This is news to me. Hopefully they make mention of who wins the Stanley Cup championship this year.
TheoSqua wrote:you guys do know that the NHL and ESPN signed a deal to broadcast games on ESPN again. The games that air on NBC now are going to air on ESPN instead.
I've not seen anything about this. Searching the NHL's site for ESPN brings up a story dated from 2005. Nothing new.
A Google search of "nhl espn nbc" brings up nothing new. A couple of articles about preliminary talks this summer, but no deals.
ghostrunner wrote:i have to say, I couldn't care less if they don't cover it again. I'd like to see more college hoops coverage, if anything. Well, and more non-Yankee/Red Sox baseball news as always.
As I stated in a different thread yesterday, I would prefer if they didn't cover it at all than what they do. NHL Network gives much better highlights and analysis of the games anyway, but I still switch over to SportsCenter as well to catch up on NFL, etc. news.
GatewaySnayke wrote:Look, I'm not a hockey guy. I didn't grow up with it and as much as I try to get into it, I simply cannot. But as I watched "SportsCenter" last night and saw Barry Melrose get a 20-second window to cover the games, I got angry. ESPN's priorities are way out of wack. They have taken a sport that was once the fourth biggest in the country and made it as irrelevant as water polo.
What angers me the most is that they have loads and loads of time to discuss Bill Belichick's bowel movements, but hardly any time to give hockey fans out there the same respect.
In most regions of the U.S., Belichick's bowel movements are more relvant than hockey.
It wouldn't bother me if they didn't even acknowledge the existence of the NHL.
Umm, no. "SportsCenter" does not serve as the hype machine for the NFL. There are hockey fans out there who would like to see their sport covered fairly and I agree with that. Just because you don't think they should acknowledge it doesn't mean a network dedicated to sports shouldn't.
I'm not saying that they should or shouldn't....... that's up to them. I'm just saying that I'm glad that they don't.
