God I hate ESPN: Cowherd - Kobe PEDs too much!

puffyusaf#2 wrote:While talking about the importance of the Olympics (team vs individual or not at all) Mr. JA Adande said that the biggest story is Lebron being able to win the League MVP, Finals MVP, Championship and Gold medal. That would be the greatest year ever (or something like that). I agree that is a great individual year but the olympics are about more than that..... Geesh

Finwë wrote:What I hate about First Take is that Skip's arguments are incredibly dumb but SAS isn't smart enough to effectively prove him wrong. It just frustrates me to no end, hearing Bayless saying stuff like what he said about Kobe, and hearing SAS's responses and inability to prove the moron wrong.. And it would be so incredibly eaaasy, but the guy just doesn't come up with strong arguments.. UGH.

revgen wrote:

Finwë wrote:What I hate about First Take is that Skip's arguments are incredibly dumb but SAS isn't smart enough to effectively prove him wrong. It just frustrates me to no end, hearing Bayless saying stuff like what he said about Kobe, and hearing SAS's responses and inability to prove the moron wrong.. And it would be so incredibly eaaasy, but the guy just doesn't come up with strong arguments.. UGH.

SAS and Bayless are putting on a show. They know how ridiculous the arguments are. They are playacting.

ESPN Plagiarizes Report Word-For-Word On SportsCenter

Here’s another gem from the “world wide leader in sports.”

On Wednesday night, ESPN’s SportsCenter delivered what they deemed as “breaking news” regarding the Magic’s last-ditch effort to retain Dwight Howard.

Here’s a transcript of ESPN’s report.

Orlando Magic General Manager Rob Hennigan met with the franchise’s disenchanted superstar Dwight Howard today in Los Angeles and according to sources, Hennigan traveled to LA to have this face-to-face discussion with Howard with the hopes of persuading him back off his trade request and allow the organization more time to build a championship contender. Hennigan was unsuccessful in his pitch however, as Howard reiterated his desire to leave Orlando as soon as possible.

After hearing this report, RealGM.com columnist Jarrod Rudolph noticed it sounded awfully familiar to what he had written on his website an hour earlier.

Orlando Magic General Manager Rob Hennigan met with the franchise’s disenchanted superstar Dwight Howard on Wednesday in Los Angeles, sources have confirmed to RealGM. Hennigan traveled to Los Angeles to have a face-to-face discussion with Howard with the hopes of persuading him to back off his trade request and allow the organization more time to build a championship contender. Hennigan, however, was unsuccessful in his pitch as Howard reiterated his desireto leave Orlando as soon as possible, according to sources.

Here is ESPN’s response to the matter:

The story was unfolding during the live SportsCenter and the RealGM report was cut and inadvertently pasted by someone else into the anchor’s script. We have apologized to the writer and are taking steps so it won’t happen again.

ISM ELIAS wrote:Where is the picture of Carmelo????

Balance&Options24 wrote:Does bspn give us our own Lakers index now???

therealdeal wrote:My favorite part of watching the Dwight presser was the chick afterwards : "it might be a short lived union."

what's the matter? No excitement ?

KareemTheGreat33 wrote:What State is the yellow one? Mass?

kray28 wrote:There's own polling shows what's really going on though...