ESPN Should Just Drop the S
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by user Tmizzle
It's a commonly held perception that ESPN has gone downhill in the recent years, but I've still watched it. I enjoy Outside the Lines, Baseball Tonight (when Steve Phillips and Eric Young are not involved), and PTI most of all, but Sportscenter continued to be watchable, even though the anchors have tried to make the show about themselves a little more than about the highlights.
All that being said though, ESPN may have even outdone themselves. I was a little bored this afternoon, and I decided I would watch a little TV. On consecutive shows, I saw the Sopranos finale discussed on NFL Live, Jim Rome Is Burning, Around the Horn, PTI, and now it'll be on Sportscenter too(actual quote: "Was the Sopranos finale a flop?...find out next on Sportscenter!").
Seriously?
I'll admit it...I've never watched the Sopranos. I'm sure it's a great TV show. It's won a ton of Emmys, and everyone seems to love it. I don't even have HBO. It's not the actual show that bothers me.
ESPN used to stand for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. I say used to both because it actually stands for ESPN now, and also because they are slowly losing the Sports part of the acronym. Between A-Rod's tabloid stories about his mistress (by the way, what serious baseball fan cares about that?), and this Sopranos fiasco, and countless other transgressions, ESPN should just change their name to the Entertainment Programming Network and get it over with.
