We don’t need your stinking “numbers” and “proper spelling.”

Long ago they became way too big and way too full of themselves. No longer are they all about sports—they are all about ESPN reporting about sports.

If I had a few hundred million dollars, I’d start a rival network with good reporting and old-school broadcasts. The broadcasters themselves would not be old-school, however—just the way they call the games would be.

My network would ignore the off-the-field drama in favor of the on-the-field stuff.

Mee lee wah kay – or, the good earth.

The American education system is to blame here. I can’t tell you how many pertinent documents I read (that are supposedly proofread) and are distributed to ‘important’ people and organizations with numerous spelling and grammatical errors. It’s appalling.

Pingel is correct. ESPN has gotten too big for its britches. It still produces good programming (Bob Ley’s Outside the Lines is one). As much as I love PTI, I’ve grown tired of Mike Wilbon’s name dropping and multi-substitutions for Kornheiser. Mike and Mike make me want to heave especially with Mike Greenberg’s constant stammering and overdone melodrama. ESPN still does college football well but NFL Football has become all encompassing on the network.

Sigh…