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ESPN Ombudsman Smacks Network on NHL Coverage
Published 5/25/2007 by Eric McErlain at FanHouse
... : With rights deals to air Monday Night Football and now the Arena Football League, ESPN's football coverage has "monstrously ballooned," she says. The "excessive," year-round coverage hurts leagues such as the NHL, which has no rights deal with ESPN. "I think the coverage of hockey is inadequate, particularly at the time of the Stanley Cup playoffs." During the NHL's regular season, the only time hockey came up was when there was "some egregious brawl" or it was being "dissed" by some on-air talent. "It was dissed for its invisibility - because it's no longer on ESPN," she says. Right on sister! It's time to speak some truth to power, and call the suits in Bristol and New York on the carpet for the trash that they're producing on a regular basis these days. Back in the early days of ESPN, before the word synergy meant that the network would devote more time to Mark Schlereth's guest spot on a worthless soap oper

Hey, NFL Live, Take The Off-Season Off.
Published 5/25/2007 by Signal to Noise at Signal to Noise
... When it’s the offseason, and analysts on ESPN are looking to justify their salaries, we get very, very hackneyed segments on shows like NFL Live, that shouldn’t even be on until training camp begins. Regardless, with that show taking up a half hour of real estate on ESPN in the afternoons, we get subjected to pleasant bits like segments on Mark Schlereth’s cameo on a soap opera, and like today, Trey Wingo and Sean Salisbury venturing out of their comfort zone by comparing the teams left in the NBA Playoffs to existing NFL teams.