I'm kind of sad this didn't happen. Better MNF games would be welcome, and love them or hate them, ESPN's football crew is infintely more tolerable than the NFL Network's crew. I'd much rather deal with Berman's bombasticism than to ever hear Michael Irvin utter another sentence, and that is a really, really sad thing. Read more
Very interesting.... The Good Wife for sure had an episode about long-term effects of concussions in sports but it dealt with the NHL instead of the NFL.... Read more
So, Deadspin reports that Magic quit because (1) he was upset Wilbon got booted, and (2) because of the level of control Simmons had. Simmons responds that (1) he doesn't have control over personnel decisions, (2) that ESPN agreed to keep the show in LA for the conference finals to placate him and his wife and (3)… Read more
From watching Frontline last night, one of the main criticisms that the doctors who are aligned with the NFL had of the football-related CTE research was that there was correlation but not causation, that alcohol, drug, and steroid use/abuse could be prominent and confounding contributors to CTE. Are they just blowing… Read more
I'm doing my Master's capstone project on the incidence of TBI (stemming from concussions) in athletics (mainly football), so I am really glad you guys did this. I haven't yet gotten a chance to watch the documentary/read the book but I will be doing both in the near future. Read more
Love the reporting thanks for the good work, my son will now never play football, he's just going to have to develop a curve ball. Read more
I was just wondering if there were any instances of CTE being found in non-football players and are there plans to do any broad population CTE studies to help determine the extent football is playing in it? There was a Frontline a few years ago that talked about a college player who was found to have it after only a… Read more
These smaller cuts, in conjunction with the larger layoffs in May, June, and July, are really indicative of something larger going on at ESPN. That's what so interesting about all of this. Under John Skipper, the network way over extended itself, financially, on rights and on 'stunts' like hiring KO back to 'fight'… Read more
Can anybody tell me why they had 2 international x-games (Germany and Brazil) in the same year? I thought that was odd, especially now knowing it was a financial bomblet Read more
This was always a total head-scratcher. I'd assumed they'd only done it because a global brand was under-writing but apparently not. Read more
I've seen this "we interviewed 60 players on the record" idea repeated ad nausem, but in the actual articles, you only actually directly quote maybe a half dozen or so, almost all of whom were kicked off the team at some point (a fact you left out). I have two questions: (1) Did you not think it was relevant to the… Read more
Interesting article. The self-flagellatory/self-congratulatory "come on!" is HUGE in golf, too, it's worth noting.
Good ol' ESPN, standing up for what's right - NOT! - as per usual. the lack of moral fiber is of very little surprise. The place is being managed by fools, womanizers, and all around complete jerks. A VP in Technology was stuping someone ewho reported to him, while married (he also had managed to never tell his wife… Read more
Feinsand is by far the worst. He is absolutely convinced that he knows how to manage a baseball team better than anyone else on earth; constantly, and I mean literally constantly second-guessing Joe Girardi every chance he gets. It's exhausting. Plus he has big fat jelly tits and doesn't care to understand… Read more
Sweeny, McCullough and Chad Jennings are excellent. Hoch is good too. Feinsand and Wallace are pretty bad. He's not listed here, but I think that Joel Sherman is awful. He often bashes the team and focuses on what they're doing wrong without a method for improving. Plus he's taken front and center on the A-Rod… Read more