A few years back, the thought of me criticizing this show would of been sacrilege. It was untouchable. It always delivered the goods.
Tonight, it finally hit me—and it's been a long time coming—that I can't stand this show anymore. After working a long day, doing some homework, then playing some ball, I come home to catch the 11PM Scenter to catch me up on what I missed in the U.S.-Ghana soccer clash. Instead of feeding me solid, full-up highlights I get this abridged 10 second blur.
They didn't even show all the goals (all three of them). They didn't get into the full package of highlights until about 25 minutes into the show.
Instead, I've got to sit through a pitch by pitch breakdown of Roger Clemens return, followed by listening to the self-absorbed hired gun stammer on for about 10 minutes in his live press conference. And then they follow that up with the fallout from the latest Ozzie Guillen ramble, and after that Larry Brown's departure from the Knicks. Talk about overhyped, jeez.
All told, I wasted about 30 minutes of my life waiting for the full-up highlights that should of been presented from the get-go (it was only an elimination match in the world's most popular sporting event).
It got bumped by "Roger Clemens Returns"....."Ozzie Guillen Shoots His Mouth Off"....and "Larry Brown Changing Addresses Again"—don't these things happen like once every three months?!
Gone forever are the days of the late 80s when I'd wake up and get to watch real sports journalists (not smarmy wiseasses) plow through comprehensive clips of all of the prior nights games in all of the major sports.
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6 months ago
I guess it is kind of like MTV. At one time you could watch music videos on MTV. Now it is a bunch of reality shows.
6 months ago
I honestly can't remember the last time I watched Sportscenter. The anchors are all for the most part cookie-cutter, trying too hard to come up with a catch phrase. The goal of the show is not to appeal to die hard sports fan, but to try to get the casual fan to watch. Last year Sportscenter did the running segment, Who is Now. Could have been interesting - but then to break down the issue, they talked to Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Jessica Biel.
6 months ago
great article. well done. it all started when they hired stuart scott. that was the beginning of the end. it has been all downhill since they let that guy have a microphone. i will watch espn news, but tend to watch nfl network, nba tv, etc.
2 months ago
its amzaing at how fast sportscenter has fallen off as such a credible source for delivering sports news and stats. They have bumbling idiots with big egos who know nothing or retired players who no one cares about what they say. They dont even show highlights but they would rather show us stupid segments created by espn such as stupid titletown or the greatest highlight...it should be interesting to see a new network emerge to get back to basics and show plenty of highlights and deliver stats that fans want to hear
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