Is that you, Joe Namath?
ESPN firings
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haha...I forgot all about that. "I just want to kiss you"
There's a old saying in the sales profession,"it's easier to get business than to keep business". When you get lazy or run off your important employees, by under payments, the results can be horrible, some never fully recover. One things for sure, competition is never ending.
Been this way for a couple decades now, sadly.
I tend to agree with this take. If you watch a WNBA, college conference or NCAA tournament game it is primarily females doing the commentary. However now they are having women as a part of the men's programming like the tournament and draft.
I keep waiting for that live sports media rights bubble to burst. The costs keep skyrocketing yet the live sports business is catering to a smaller and smaller population every year between cord cutting and younger generations becoming increasingly less interested in sports while the older generations more interested are about to see mass deaths over the next 20 years. I know there's more value in having those contracts than just having people tune in to the game coverage but it's by far the most significant reasoning behind signing the contracts.
How are they going to let all these people go and keep Kendrick Perkins? Lol 
Nothing screams insecurity more than when someone calls another out by saying they are “Woke” .
Watching ESPN for actual sporting events is about like watching MTV for music videos.
No…Mark Jackson made some comment to JVG about how he would be scared in his neighborhood. JVG replied something like, “I’m supposed to be scared of the blonde haired, blue eyed kids in your neighborhood?”
I think JVG missed the next game. Was explained that his daughter was graduating. Definitely could have been true, but I wondered at the time if it was a silent suspension.
No they are going down because they got political.
They are letting diversity go to their head.
Exactly plus the story will be crap because their writers can’t write, and they legit want the woman to be Indiana Jones which is dumb because he’s a person not a mantle. Hollywood has no clue how to write good female characters anymore. It’s always to degrade the man and make women have no struggle in a story, just they can do everything magically. Like Rey in Star Wars. One of the funniest things was Jennifer Lawrence thinking she was the first female action star ever.
Please fire Lunardi. Guy might be the biggest waste of a salary there.
Shocked anyone watches ESPN in 2023 for anything other than games.
Right...has nothing to do with woke/politics for me. I don't find the shows entertaining or informative. Twitter has already given me the info/highlights I was looking for and have no desire to listen to analysis as I've gotten older.
I won't miss Van Gundy, found him irritating. However, Mark Jackson should be fired simply for not having Jokic in his top 5 MVP vote. Barkley rightfully called him out as an idiot on that.
If they were smart they’d partner with the Saudis, get the rights to every PGA tournament out there and show coverage from the time the first dude tees it up until the last dude holes out. Every tournament. I’d watch ESPN a lot more.
Steve Young is out. Matt Hasselbeck too. So is Laphonso Ellis. Vince Carter's deal expires in September and he is not expected to get a new one.
Suzy Kolber also fired.
At least the young woke Marxists get to keep their jobs with ESPN.
At least the young woke Marxists get to keep their jobs with ESPN.
Not if it's factual.
"Woke" is merely a colloquialism for those who prescribe to progressive cultural Marxism (often unwittingly). Do you understand the historical realities there?
If the shoe fits...
I agree. I don't listen to UK pre or post games or Titans pre and post games anymore either for same reason. Older we get less time we have for that stuff.
This reminds me of when MTV stopped showing music. ESPN is less about sports and now about Social activism.
ESPN - Equality Social Propaganda Network.
ESPN - Equality Social Propaganda Network.
I think his salary is probably minimal compared to most other people they are letting go.
Without looking, $1,000 says Malika Andrews still has a job.
If they paid the man in Monopoly money it would be too much.
Lunardi should drop a “Way too early June Bracketology” tomorrow to really rub their noses in it.
Its just a matter of time til the whole network sinks.
I watch sports to remove myself from the hustle and bustle of everyday life and I don't want to hear anything political with my sports. I don't want to hear it even if I agree 100% with what they are saying.
ESPN can't just report about sports, they have to report about social justice, transgenderism and whatever the liberal cause of the day might be. ESPN was awesome when you got real sports reporting and they filled in the gaps with stuff like Australasian Rules Football, swamp buggy racing and roller derby.
I watch sports to remove myself from the hustle and bustle of everyday life and I don't want to hear anything political with my sports. I don't want to hear it even if I agree 100% with what they are saying.
ESPN can't just report about sports, they have to report about social justice, transgenderism and whatever the liberal cause of the day might be. ESPN was awesome when you got real sports reporting and they filled in the gaps with stuff like Australasian Rules Football, swamp buggy racing and roller derby.
sometimes even the games are hard to watch.
Good God, that **** is hard to read. Apparently they weren't gay enough either for the LGBQT backing.
I never watch a game live. I DVR them and speed thru all the crap. I have done this for the past 2 years
I don't know why anyone watches ESPN at all other than actual live sports. I haven't watched any other type of programming for who knows how long. Maybe up to 10 years now.
Unless a game is on that I am interested in, stopped watching ESPN and don't listen to any of their radio programs any more either.