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How about Robin Roberts.
I would take into account there haven't been quite as big of names leaving recently like Olbermann, Simmons and Cowherd. Maybe Erin Andrews, but she seems to be doing just fine for herself covering MLB, NFL and College Football for FOX as well as Dancing with the Stars on ABC.
Same point I wanted to make. The people who have left ESPN haven't been nearly as "big name" as this recent exodus. Which, reading between the lines, is ESPN doubling down on its development and programming in the face of potential financial crisis. They're just shifting to a lower cost model and betting they can still have the same draw, even as revenues go down a little bit per unit (so to speak).
Was that on ESPN?
Yeah...back in the 90's before his radio show was syndicated he had a show on ESPN (maybe ESPN2 that came on either before or after the Roy Firestone show. I don't want to say the Chrissy Everett stunt made him, but it certainly put him on another plane of notoriety.
A quick Google search comes back with numbers between 15 and 30 million a year. Not bad for being a overstuffed frat boy with generic sports opinions.
Wow, you can really do well without having to be a creative thinking observer of your field.
I really like Simmons and Sal. They watch a lot of ball and they're not stupid. Plus they have fun.
I have no idea why I'd ever listen to him other than that there's a supply of opinion being shoved down my throat by a major network while I'm too tired and burnt out to touch the remote.
It's beginning to look like ESPN is giving up on everything but the bro market, too. The guys who will watch Skip and Stephen A. and who think Grantland is a lot of fluff.Capella said:
I'd rather watch log rolling or dirt track racing than somebody talk about a game that happened yesterday
Australian Rules Football, Motorcycle Ice Racing, This Week In The USFL...
The firemen competitions were always good: climbing up a tree/hoisting buckets of water/carrying a hose up five flights of stairs.
They also brought back The White Shadow for a while, and run Classic Battle Of The Network Stars, so it's not a total loss.
I actually would enjoy seeing classic PBA bowling.
On one of these older shows a guy was carrying a refrigerator (a nice olive green one) and his knee just crumbled.
Sportscenter is no longer about the highlights of that days games or the box scores. It is all about the talking heads now. You used to be able to get a feel for the game and get some relevant stats from that game. Not so much anymore.
They'd rather spend 5 minutes breaking down tweets than spend 1 minute on game highlights
ESPNI'm mad we don't have ESPN8 The Ocho yet.
