re: Is it any wonder ESPN is crashing? Website publishes (then yanks)poem honoring cop killer

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You guys do know that being an ESPN on air talking head is a schtick right?

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Yes. It is a schtick I would like to see done away with. I no longer watch ESPN outside of live sports because I do not like watching their talking heads. I used to watch all the time, as background noise, for highlights, even into our modern era. Why? Because even though the internet puts every highlight at the tip of your fingers and on your smart phone at all times, you have to hunt for them. You have to wade through endless ads and slideshows and alerts. It was nice to just turn on sportscenter and get highlights, dumb jokes, scores, and a quick synopsis of how those scores could impact playoff races, recruiting, or what not.

Once Sportscenter became "Guess what so and so said on twitter!!!" I stopped watching. Social media tells me that. I hate that. I don't want to see that on TV. I understand that they're just trying to fill time, but they started doing that crap INSTEAD of covering highlights and scores and analysis. They started having constant debate shows to fill time that only talked about these issues. I stopped watching ESPN as background noise.

Then, college gameday became an extra hour long and started adding all of these human interest pieces about how so and so got cancer and his buddy died in Iraq and how he had to train cats to pull him in a chariot so he could go to physical therapy to return to being a rodeo clown. I DON'T F&%KING CARE!!!! I want to hear about how teams matchup to one another. What are their strengths and weaknesses. How do these matchups affect the national landscape. How do the personalities of the coaches and scheme come into play? This is when I stopped watching Gameday and NFL Live and all other shows outside of live sports.

Then, ESPN started getting very very political, pushing extreme left-wing politics. At first, I could dismiss it, because it was only in the context of sporting events. Then, it was shoehorned into EVERYTHING! They were replacing coverage of scores and highlights and matchups into pure political diatribes. Once this started, I severely cut back on the number of live sports I watch. I watch very little on ESPN now outside of college football, and less than 1/3 of the games I used to watch. That network has become trash in my eyes.

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ESPN is a complete mess.

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The sad thing is they seem to know it too and just don't care.

ESPN is my LSU only channel. Will not watch unless Tigers are playing

I can't believe she's even discussing that- she should be fired for it.

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ESPN is my LSU only channel. Will not watch unless Tigers are playing

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How can we catch LSU games on ESPN by cutting the cord and without subscribing to satellite or cable?

They screwed up when they decided to get in the political arena and support SJW causes.

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They screwed up when they decided to get in the political arena and support SJW causes.

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They would be have three same problems regardless. Now maybe that makes it worse, but their issues go well beyond politics.

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LSU and the rest of the SEC can't hear you as the count their SEC Network money and bowl game money. Who else will they affilate with that will put all their games on tv, put sports other than football on tv and pay them a lot of money to do it.

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True, Dizz; ESPN does indeed hold the financial reigns of power...for now. But as the technology changes and access for a more personalized viewership becomes available, pressure will mount on ESPN to either change to address the demands of their Viewers...or the Viewers will find a way to leave ESPN. At that point, ESPN will no longer have the $ to pay major Programs for the Games.

Patriotic people who realize the gravity of our Nation's (engineered) division per the Progressive 'divide and conquer' political strategy (Alinsky) will NOT let this go. Just a matter of time; and with Trump pushing the whole thing Right...it'll happen a lot faster. No way ESPN holds on to that hot potato...for long.

They're doubling down on it, too (the left-wing political activism - hell, I doubt even most progressive sports fans give a shite what the talking heads or jocks think about political issues). Once the NFL and NBA figure out how to bypass them and market themselves directly to the public via apps, subscriptions, etc. (which they're already well on their way to doing), ESPN is fricked.