IT'S OGRE
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IT'S OGRE
NOOOOOOOO
>>67124312
lel
>>67124312
he will only get more outrageously retarded
>yfw someone like Jamele Hill gets paired up with SAS and First Take just becomes Racebaiting: the show
As long as they have John Clayton. They'll be fine.
Oh wow
>>67124365
It's already racebaiting: the show
>>67124346
Lots of info in the espn thread from yesterday, but yeah expect a lot more big names to leave. Fox Sports is going all in and espn is essentially the titanic.
WAT I dont believe
>>67124612
Didn't mean to quote
>>67124312
Do they need a soft spoken black man now?
>>67124365
>it's not already Race-baiting: The Show
Obviously Skip sucked dick but this just shows you how fucking far ESPN is falling
>>67124365
They have like 10 low tier people they rotate when the two aren't there and hill isn't one of them iirc, chances are they just cancel first take and replace it with a similar show or just remove sas entirely and get a new duo
DUDE TEBOW LMAO
>be white American male
>get fired
>Being soo wrong about Manziel that he literally is quitting
ESPN is finished
How many more people are leaving?
The kicker is espn has the sjw mob on their side, including the only well known sports media critic, Richard Dietsch who is a massive sjw.
So the narrative on moves like these will be that espn is winning by getting rid of dead weight while fs1 are idiots.
But the fact remains, regardless of your opinion on first take ppl tuned in to watch. Mostly unemployed black ppl, but still.
>Simmons
>Bayless
>Tirico
ESPN is a sinking ship. Illegal streams are killing them like Napster did to the music industry.
ESPNtanic is kill.
>>67124893
espn has bigger problems at the moment. like how are we going to convince people to buy our shitty channel when it isn't force fed to them through their cable provider.
>>67124893
Awful announcing too. They're all in bed with sbnation and cuckspin churning out sjw group think takes.
Bets on who is next?
>>67125053
Idk about whose contracts are up soon, but sas would be my guess. Jalen and Beadle too.
>>67125053
Desmond Howard?
tirico and now bayless?
espn is up in flames
>>67125104
beadle just resigned a contract, sportsnation moving to ESPN and having its running time cut in half was apart of that.
>>67124893
>unemployed black people
t. dept. of redundancy dept.
And ESPN turning into a toxic combination of MSNBC and BET continues.
>>67125104
Jalen and Jacoby team back up with Bill Simmons please
>>67124893
>sports media critic
They're literally out of money fampai
>>67124365
she already has a show with michael smith that is Racebaiting: the show
What becomes of beloved TK?
Cucked by Fox lel
WOW ESPN IS DEAD
SKIP IS KILL
RIP ;_;
Skip Bayless, Fox Sports, and First Take is trending
welp
>>67125211
That would be awesome.
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN ESPN WAS KILL
#RIPskip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srt5tDo26S8
>>67125390
Was chill
Maryhuanas on my.belly
When got call
No? 'Yes' no...
>Let's just add a fifth hour of NFL Live and simulcast some shitty radio show
>mfw PTI becomes an hour long to fill the gap
Now Molly can have all that bbc to herself. Skip looked like a cuck around her.
>FIRSTTAKE was ESPN2's #1 Show
So what's going to happen now lads
Espn is rolling with their sjw mob and will have several race bait shows.
Fox is rolling with big personalities and telling them to do whatever they wanna do. Katie Nolan, Clay Travis, Skip, Cowherd, Whitlock Jay and Dan, etc... Big personalities.
Espn has Bomani, Jamele, and other generic garbage minus a few good ones left over.
>>67125582
Cheap Seats comes back
>>67125508
>His final appearance will be the day after the NBA Finals conclude
"We just want our viewers' ears to bleed one last time."
I hope Bill Simmons hire him. That would be the best podcast ever
Gonna be SAS and Mad Dog Russo doing First Take now just watch. It will literally be awful.
This is the same network that unironically put Steph Curry as the fourth best PG of all time.
ESPN is a joke
>>67125515
SAS is gone too, they convinced him to wait until next month to announce it though
>>67125587
>yfw it wont be long until Ditka is fired for "problematic behavior"
>tebow comes to FIrst Take permanently
>>67125638
He won't hire him cause he's with Fox now, but he can at least do a podcast with him and hopefully does. Simmons isn't allowed to do any podcasts with ESPN employees cause ESPN is petty as fuck.
>>67124312
Gotta make room for more blacks / womyn
>>67125677
Didn't he sign a new contract around a year ago?
>>67125734
I'd bet they hate eachother thats why id want to hear it
>>67124612
And thank god, fs is infinitely better
ESPN is going to become >retired NFL players:the network
Maybe broadcast more sports? Maybe get the viewers into more sports? Maybe get rid of some of those fucking channels? Less commentary and analyst? Stop broadcasting boring women sports? The recommendations are endless.
>>67125772
He has opt out after every year. People make fun of him but SAS is smart, saw this coming
>inb4 hi SAS
They should just make only 30 for 30
>>67125730
Did he get cursed? Never heard about it
>>67125823
They need to show more obscure sports, that shit is fun to watch
I'd take some weird European sport over another shitty half hour talk block
>>67125794
Damn I cant wait for themleaked blowbang vids with all those snowbunnies
>>67125053
John Clayton, Kirk Herbstriet
The big lead saying skip could be replacing strahan on the morning show with Kelly ripa
Skip is the biggest retard on that network. I don't understand how anyone is acting like him leaving is bad news. The ESPN formula is to let not ugly white people with communications degrees marinate on Sports Center before moving them up and mixing in retired athletes, some of who can barely speak coherently, plus token minorities. They can save lots of money and get someone else to do what Skip did. If they luck out the person who replaces him won't be a shit for brains retard like he was.
>>67125865
Yeah baby I love BBC whooo dog
>>67125710
wasn't he already removed from mnf
>>67125053
Hopefully based Hoge
>>67125504
Hopefully kornheiser and Wilbon get it together and leave too
>>67125910
It's bad news because his show is their biggest money espn 2 show, and biggest midday non sportscenter. It makes espn a ton of money and they're losing the main guy
>>67125730
nah hes going to run for congress
>>67125794
keeps costs down for sure. just cycle in new retired players before they get too popular
>>67125863
Albeit it would most likely not get tons of viewers, but it is better than what they have now.
My sports recommendations: Japanese baseball, that russian hockey league, more motorsports, cricket, rugby, more dive grass and my personal wet dream Sumo
>>67125910
>he doesn't ironically enjoy first take
>>67125904
Kek
>>67126057
I would cum in my pants if ESPN started covering cricket and nip baseball
ESPN in full JUST mode
>>67125917
removed from the countdown crew, yeah. he just does little snippets for sportscenter now (i think)
>>67125974
ESPN will plug someone else in and get money the same way. People leave ESPN on because they want to hear sports talk. They arent going to be changing to HBO or Fox Sports in the morning just because Skip isn't on.
>>67126058
There are better things to listen to than Stephen A Smith wonder why _____ black people ______ and Skip babble on about whatever fucking controversial opinion he can sling + spewing Cowboy/Spudoras antidotes as he goes.
>>67126136
I would actually pay $40 a month just for ESPN if they did that. I don't care if they ran it late at night or ran reruns of it. I want more sports.
>>67124312
whats gore?
>>67126222
Actually that's wrong, my dad watches NBCSN every morning now and he used to watch ESPN. Not because of skip though but because it's trash
>>67126057
I would literally watch ESPN.
Like all day. I'd just have it on in the background. That's powerful adspace.
>>67125917
That might have more to do with his age and deteriorating health
Ironically, Skip is probably more liberal than SAS but SAS goes nuts on race sometimes so it's easy to think Skip is more conservative.
Oh well, ESPN is celebrating- another white guy gone.
>now e!spn will replace him with another libertard SJW
also espn is kind of in trouble with everyone leaving
>>67126057
xbox used to carry khl games. falling asleep to russian hockey was super fucking comfy.
Cowherd
Simmons
Whitlock
Bayless
Trico
Olbermann
Jesus Christ, it's the titanic.
>>67126298
Nice antidote. Now ask your mother's husband what he watches. I bet it's always been ESPN.
>>67126550
Skip is a liberal.
>>67126553
cowherd-shit
simmons-ok but fucking homer as fuck
whitlock-no body
bayless-nobody whinner
trico-only one that was big to lost
olbermann-shit libertard
>>67126572
just told you it's NBCSN pham
>mfw they bring Olbermann back again
>>67126668
The Olbermann experiment tried and failed. Why would they bring him back?
>>67126057
unfortunately that would completely alienate the only portion of their viewership that they still have: the people who are too dumb to figure out streaming and literally need cable for sports. those people are going to be pissed that gook baseball and divegrass are cutting into the steph curry ballwashing hour.
hopefully they put that shit on the streaming service that they desperately need along with a reason for people with an iq over 70 to subscribe
>>67126489
>SAS goes nuts on race sometimes
>Sometimes
The man brings up race for everything. If Manziel was black he'd be ranting how the establishment is trying to ruin yet another black athlete
E!SPN will be gone in 3 years
>>67126668
That show was so shit. It always came on after ESPN fc (which is alright) and olbermann would always start the show with some edgy as shit remark you could tell was fed to him directly by Disney execs
ESPN needs to get rid of MNF, they can't even afford the shit and that's why they are losing so much money.
his trolling days are done
Does FS1 still have those unfunny tryhard Canadians?
>>67126772
>ESPN needs to get rid of the only good sport broadcast they have left
Don't get me wrong, I wish they would give it up
Why did ESPN think they could expand to so many channels? Did anybody think about what they were doing? Or were they too blinded at the opportunity to make some money?
>>67125794
I honestly might prefer this to sports """"""journalists"""""" spouting the same statistics all day. It'd at least give these players a decent job after retirement.
>>67126842
Monday Night football cost them 2 billion dollars annually and the contract as a whole in 15.2 billion dollars.
>>67124312
Welp, no more reason to watch E$PN
also I too hope to see espn die but come on we were saying the same shit after the start of fs1 and nbc sports. nbc and fox poured a lot of money before this and got minimal returns. People are still going to stick to espn. espn is smart most of their "faces" are very replaceable
>>67126648
I like cowherd
>>67126860
They didn't look ahead to the death of cable tv, and they became jaded from being on top all of those years. Meanwhile fox, nbc, and cbs acquired all of the broadcasting rights for good sports and ESPN filled it's time slots with 15 variations of sportscenter
>mfw all the rbutthurt acists ITT BTFO
He's completely ignorant of sports. Glad he's gone.
>>67126891
Losing the big ten to fs1 is a killer tho. Once you lose the live sport you lose that audience that doesn't change the channel afterwards and watches that postgame.
http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2016/04/espn-statement-about-skip-bayless/
wew
>>67126963
>Losing the big ten
to be technical they lost half the rights to the big 10.
they still have the other half they can bid for.
>>67124312
anyone see the men read mean tweets to female journalist article/video on ESPN? it popped up on facebook. kek
>>67126842
I am sorry the only good broadcast espn has left are the ones for college football and college basketball.
>>67126963
I still think espn is bigger than this. look how well hockey is doing after they left and the big ten is just a tiny conference not a whole sports league
>>67127024
source?
>>67126813
They're funnier than the cornball Disney shit ESPN tries to push
>>67127047
I wondered if he has ever accused a baseball that it was racist because it was white.
>>67127047
This
>>67127034
>Fowler, Herbie, and Rece leave Disney to start a spinoff college sports entertainment network with the NCAA
I expect this to happen within the next 3 years.
>>67127108
>look mom, i'm being racist on 4chan
>>67127108
He looks at any successful white person as a product of a racist system
>>67127093
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tU-D-m2JY8
I wonder if he'll play the same character or if he'll go back to cold pizza skip.
>>67127047
I wonder whats going through his head right now
>>67127139
that would be based as fuck
>>67124312
gotta make more room for more race baiting niggers
>>67124312
>>67127181
Jesus christ. Why does any morbidly obese person report on sports
>>67127226
>skip signs a bigger contract @ fox
>racist 14 year olds use it as an excuse to say he was fired
>>67127181
Top kek
>>67125633
The final show will be Skip getting off talking about the Spurs winning the NBA Finals
Test
didn't Disney tell ESPN to cut $500 million from its budget by the end of 2017?
they aren't resigning their talent and they lowballed the Big10. This seems to be the reason why.
I know FOX is paying 250 for half the games, does anyone know what ESPN bid?
>>67124312
they are literally skipping bayless
it will be sas and that spain bitch and it will be the black and women power hour
ESPN, pls stay afloat for two more years so I can enjoy your College Football and Basketball coverage before I graduate. Feel free to collapse after that. Thanks.
>>67125028
>appealing to SJWs, the least likely crowd to enjoy sports outside of cities like Seattle and Portland
Good job ESPN
>>67125587
SVP pls leave :c
Looked at my tv guide
ESPN has 3 talk shows, sportscenter, a sportscenter special, something about nfl rookies and then followed up by sportscenter until midnight
wew
>>67125823
The problem is that they overbid for a ton of sports nobody watches. They need to take the beIN route and just buy up cheap broadcasting rights wherever they can, lord knows they have the capability of streaming and providing people with highlights.
>>67124312
Is anyone else old enough to remember when ESPN had legit sports journalists, before they were nothing but talking heads?
>>67126136
Cricket is surprisingly fun to watch if you know what's going on and it is on the rise, perfect sport for ESPN to pick up.
Saw Skip at his brothers restaurant in Chicago yesterday, he was wolfing down a plate of nachos and chugging down two different glasses of horchata (when I asked the waiter if I could get some he said that they don't serve it to anyone but skip). He was talking really loudly about how gay Troy Aikman was and kept arguing with some black guy who he would sigh and call Stephen before every counterpoint despite the guy angrily telling him his name was Scott every couple of minutes. Hope the best for him good guy
>>67127181
LMAO
>see skip trending on twitter
>immidlly run to spee
ESPN just keeps getting btfo
>>67127181
>apologizing for what other people are doing
>>67126842
MNF is almost always one of the worst games of the week and ESPN coverage is terrible.
>>67128121
What's the purpose of all those talk shows anyway? Do they have more ad time, is it designed to build hype and thus ratings for big games and events? I feel like showing games from other professional leagues would be much better. Instead they show us the same show in 5 different formats and college softball. At least show college baseball for fucks sake.
>>67128390
i have no idea.
espn used to show the shit sports during the day and early evening before they """"""""""""""embraced the debate""""""""""""""""
i would guess these talk shows bring in higher ratings than the sports do
>mfw ESPN hires Rick Bayless to take his brothers place and first take becomes a Mexican cooking show
>>67128462
Jesus, he looks like a normal human bean.
Swear to god it seems like americans care more about off-pitch related stuff than on pitch
>>67128462
>implying espn could ever afford bradley cooper
they can't even afford live sports anymore
>>67128522
>off-pitch
>>67124365
>becomes
>Skip
Seriously?
>Literally being named after a giant bin
>spent a fortune on TV rights
>still don't get the best games
>grantland ded because they can't afford it
>everyone is leaving
>every show is becoming raceb8 or women hosts
>http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2016/01/rachel-nichols-to-host-new-daily-show-nba-the-jump-beginning-feb-18/
E!SPN is fucking done.
>>67124612
>espn is essentially the titanic.
Fucking finally.
>>67128610
>is fucking done
anon, ESPN has been shit for 8 years now.
i don't understand why all of a sudden you faggots are having such a hissy fit and saying espn is finished because some fucking racist cuck signed a contract with another network.
man ESPN must seriously be bleeding money if they're losing based skip too
>>67125053
Kornheiser and Wilbon
>mfw after reading this thread i now know what stormfront is like
>>67127034
Hockey is a demographic winner though. A tiny audience to sell cars and loans to versus a bunch of losers to sell dick pills and hamburgers to.
I'm actually loving Fox Sports right now. I don't particularly like Skip or Cowherd, but I love that there are no orders from above at Fox. That they aren't spewing an agenda. Fox allows their people to be whatever they wanna be.
Hell just look at Clay Travis' twitter feed right now. He would literally get fired from ESPN in like 10 seconds. Fox doesn't give a shit.
>>67128610
E!SPN stopped being about sports when the whole Manti Te'o thing happened.
It was literally wall to wall coverage for hours on SPORTSCENTER about his fake gf who catfished him.
They didn't run a single highlight for 4 or 5 straight hours if I remember correctly.
>>67128708
Skipper has said many times that he wished he's bid more for hockey.
Its the only thing keep NBCSports Network alive
>Organization is hemorrhaging money, stock collapsing and constantly laying off people and cutting back on programs for the show
>lose your biggest TV personality on the biggest bread-winner show for your organization
ESPN is literally, unironically going to die.
>>67128667
It has been shit, but ratings have been able to keep it afloat. Now it is about to tank harder than the 76ers and their own policies are to blame.
>>67128667
ESPN is losing money at an accelerated pace, and they're now losing big name people like Tirico and Bayless because they can't afford to pay them.
Remember when Gronk gave that blonde at FS1 a lapdance on live TV and all the ESPN, deadspin and other ppl were writing about how disgusting Fox was for making her do that on tv? That she was all taken advantage of and a shining example of the problems women face in the industry.
Then that blonde basically came out and told everyone to fuck off that she wanted the lapdance lel.
>Thread about ESPN failing yesterday
>This happens today
POTTERY
>>67128691
No anon. It's worse...much worse
>>67124893
>sports media critic
lol that sounds like the jewiest of jewy made-up jobs
>>67128812
>ESPN is losing money at an accelerated pace,
right, but not because of ratings
its because they built their business model on cable subscribers and so many people don't subscribe to cable anymore that its hurting them bad.
their ratings still rape the shit out of fs1 and nbcsports. thought i have no idea why
>ESPN is going to be nothing but white women and niggers soon
Literally catering to their audience.
What else would you expect from (((Disney))) anyway?
>>67128891
While cable subscribers are dropping off ESPN demands higher prices per subscriber than other cable channels. It has more to do with rights for live sports bleeding them.
>>67128891
>built their business model on cable subscribers
Yes, but so have a ton of other networks who aren't in deep shit like ESPN.
ESPN's channel fee on every cable/sat subscribers bill is over 7 dollars per month. Every single person in America who has a cable package is paying ESPN over 7 dollars every single month.
The 2nd most expensive channel on cable/sat bills is TBS, at just a hair over 1 dollar per month.
And ESPN forced their way into every single package on every single provider. Nobody can get a cable package anywhere without paying 7 dollars to ESPN every month. So when subscribers were high, times were good for ESPN. They had all this revenue which allowed them to bid high on every sport and carry everything...thus blowing away all their competition.
But the downside to that is cord cutting will destroy their business model while it'll just hurt the others. Murdoch and Fox for example don't desperately need those sub monthly fees cuz they have many other ways of generating revenue.
tldr; ESPN's business model was perfect for the short term and terrible for the long term. What we're seeing now is still the beginning of a monumental downsizing at ESPN that will leave the network as a shell of its former self. And Murdoch smells blood in the water and they're all in at FS1.
>>67129002
they overpaid yes, but they've lost over a billion dollars in subscriber fees in the last year or so.
that's what's fucking them
>>67129004
and look what ESPN pays for just Monday Night Football
Recently I've been watching gayer and gayer BBC porn
>>67129095
>college sports rights are worth $771 million
Fucking hell. I can criticise americans all I want for their bemusing sports culture but by God do they know how to make money out of literally everything
>>67125163
technically prison inmates don't count as unemployed, so it's an important distinction
>>67129123
nigga that's just college hoops
>>67129095
>pay twice as much to get worse games than TNT
Fucked up on the NBA
>>67129095
That can't be right...holy shit. Monday night games have been hot garbage for awhile now as well.
>>67129095
and the best thing about them paying 2 billion for MNF is the fact that the NFL fucks them without lube by giving them the shitiest matchup ever week.
>>67129136
>black youth making money for Jewish tv execs
>>67129145
They never get the big NFL games either.
CBS gets their pick to protect any AFC game every week.
FOX gets their pick to protect any NFC game every week.
NBC gets the biggest game of the week (as guessed before the season started), but are allowed to flex games later in the season, but they can't flex a game that FOX or CBS has protected.
And ESPN gets whatever on Monday Night. And they're paying out the ass for it.
>>67129123
College sports are almost as big as pro sports here, bugger in some states. In fact until the 70s or so, they were bigger.
>>67126057
PLEASE
WATCH
OUR
SPORT
>>67129202
But how did that happen? How did an amateur sport get so popular?
>>67129214
I tried watching rugby but it seems kinda gay. I like watching cricket but I haven't done it enough to figure out wtf is going on.
>tfw paying for illegal streaming sports service with channels from multiple countries and try to make the most of it
You know what ESPN needs.
E-sports.
>>67129280
FOH
>>67129248
Gambling and shit talking. It's pretty awful and the NCAA is beyond corrupt.
>>67128390
It's scripted talking points they have each talking head repeat.
>ESPN replacing their men with women
I can't believe they're THAT desperate to prove the wage gap is real
>>67129248
It used to be only amateur sports, and people tend to have an association with either the school they went to or a school in their state.
When I lived in Tennessee, a majority of people were University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK) fans, even though a significant number of them never attended.
The same thing happens for schools like Notre Dame, USC, Oregon, etc.
>>67129385
The Michigan/Michigan State rivalry is a big part of it here. Otherwise people would mostly agree when it comes to sports teams.
>>67129248
Pro Sports was really fractured for ages with mountains of subleagues and divisions. Pro Baseball was big because it unified first and started to absorb the smaller fragmented leagues into itself with a lot of the teams becoming part of the entire feeder system up to the Major Leagues.
The NBA took a lot longer to merge with the ABA-NBA Merger and Pro Handegg only really came into prominance with the start of the Super Bowl Era and the AFL/NFL merger. Combine this with the rise of national TV networks and you get a lot of the modern US Pro Sports landscape.
College Sports were always accessible on the local level as it was tied heavily towards relatively local rivalries and under a centralized body of the NCAA
>>67129421
Ohio St/Michigan is another big one.
Penn State vs Pitt.
Penn State vs Everyone.
Nebraska in general.
Iowa in general.
College Sports are massive.
>>67129467
Yeah the Ohio State hate runs much deeper but the blue vs green shit would dominate conversations between fans in the state more often.
>>67129467
>Nebraska
>Iowa
Also have to mention that these are places without pro sports teams. College sports dominate in places like that.
>>67125053
Tirico. He just said he's leaving for NBC. I love watching the bad guys lose.
>>67125823
>but muh fantasy sports statistics
>>67125823
They need to fucking fix Sportscenter to actually cover every sporting event of the day like it used to, not just talk about the one thing with random scores mixed in.
>>67129706
This is why I usually end up watching the Canadian version from TSN instead.
>>67129736
I don't even watch anything anymore. It's so much easier to just get the info I want online or podcasts/radio.
That being said, does anyone else remember when Sportscenter was THE show to watch? They would do a segment on every game played that day even when football, hockey, and basketball were all on at the same time.
Now it's just "LeBron isn't following the Cavs on Twitter" 24/7. Fucking awful.
FS1 actually has pretty good sports programming. I'm not a NASCAR fan but their NASCAR coverage throughout the week is pretty good. Their baseball stuff is much better than ESPN's.
Their prob is that ppl are just used to ESPN and don't try new things.
>>67129780
The Canadian one still does for the most part even though it's heavy on hockey, which really doesn't bother me because that's my main interest.
>>67129813
Fox has always had superior NASCAR coverage to other networks. I'd go to sleep if I had to watch it on NBC.
>>67129248
With the exception of baseball most major sports started with large college fanbases and weak professional leagues. It hasn't been until the past 50 or so years that professional sports have ruled sports culture in the US. University sports teams operate a lot like athletic clubs in European countries do, in that they often represent smaller groups of people and in many areas are the only high-profile teams available to root for. It has a lot to do with local pride, involvement, and investment, where as professional franchises are still seen as separate entities from the people. College sports, depending on who you ask, are losing more and more ground to the professional leagues, but because they allow the pros a convenient feeder league with none of the investment they'll stick around as long as there's no radical change.
>>67129780
I remember when sportscenter wasn't a show about anything other than sports. when it was a show that had more to do with sports than access hollywood.
Remember the ep where they were riffing a la MST3k and Mike & the bots came in?
>>67129995
>It hasn't been until the past 50 or so years that professional sports have ruled sports culture in the US.
So, the better part of a century. Young'uns.
literally nothing of value was lost
skip was a clueless troll, he was paid to say outrageous stupid things so people tune in and see how stupid he is
good riddance
>>67129123
You'll notice that on the whole college sports cost more than any other league when you combine the NCAA, CFP, and individual conference costs.
>>67129467
North and South Carolina is a pretty big market that almost exclusively pays attention to college sports too.
>>67130047
It was one of the most compelling shows on television when Tebowmania hit.
But I agree it has worn thin now that no absurd stories carry it.
>>67124612
How the fuck will I be able to watch FS content if I'm a cord cutter
>>67129467
USC UCLA...
>>67130435
Get a friend that has cable to activate the fsgo app on roku or amazon fire tv for you.
>>67127581
>>67125053
The whitest male they have
>>67130789
Korea wins.
>>67129214
If I could watch complete matches at any time in burgerland I would, our timezones don't mesh m8.
>>67125863
Aussie Football League (AFL) needs to start getting play in America, that shit is fun to watch.
>>67128733
Tiger Woods scandal was first
>>67131093
Literally never going to happen because MUH PROTECT DA SHIELD
Where is Fox Sports getting all its money?
>>67132127
Good question. C. Montgomery Burns?
ESPN is the Lehman Brothers of the sports rights bubble. They bought a lot of shit for a long time and won't have the money to pay for it if cable subscriptions keep falling (which they will).
>>67129248
Pro sports leagues don't bother setting up teams outside of major cities. Pretty much every university, on the other hand, has a team that the alumni root for. Our college athletics system is way more similar to how European soccer teams work where there are numerous local squads and only a handful of them are relevant but small teams can work their way up over time.
>>67132127
From Murdoch's burning hatred of Disney and Comcast.
These rights are being bought to take money away from ESPN more than to bring Big 10 football to FS1
>>67125587
Great, so I'll have my choice between listening to a bunch of race-baiting assholes bitch about social issues in sports or loudmouth fuckheads with shit opinions give their hot takes in the most annoying ways possible.
Fuck this gay earth.
>>67134021
You could always just stream/pirate all your sports, and then come to /sp/ when you want to read takes and commentary. It's what I do.
>>67125587
Bomani is so fucking obnixous.
Literally refuses to watch baseball and hockey because of "too many" white players and then has the gall to call nearly everything racist.
>>67124312
WHY THE FUCK DOES SAS STILL HAVE A JOB
wow its almost like completely changing the entire design of your network to appeal to housewives and cucks who don't watch sports and banking on the fact that the people who actually like sports have to deal with it since they don't have an alternative doesn't work when people get an alternative
>not leaving a sinking ship for a better employer
why is this thread so long bros
>>67132127
They get the NFC games which has like all of the top 10 NFL markets
>>67135262
Because nobody likes ESPN
>>67132127
I bet their RSN business is quite profitable.
>>67129248
College sports are where American football and basketball were made. It's the pros that are the offshoot with less established fanbases than the college bluebloods.
One of the oldest NFL clubs, the Chicago Bears, are orange and blue because the founder used the colors of the Univeristy of Illinois Illini.
>>67124312
TSUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
>>67134391
Bomani hates sports
I lived in NC when he had a local show here and people would constantly call in and clown him for not knowing shit about sports
all he cares about is race drama he is literally a shitposter IRL in media
>>67126057
>motorsports
ESPN got outbid on NASCAR and lost the NHRA to FOX. The only thing they have left is the Indianapolis 500 and a few other IndyCar races.
I'd cum my pants if they brought Thursday Night Thunder back, though. IRP is quite possibly my favorite track anywhere.
