Lamenting SportsCenter's Baroque Period

You think we're tough on ESPN? Ha!

http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/lamenting_sportscenters_baroque_period.php

 

His praise of Simmons makes his views suspect. But I would tend toward rococo myself.

 

This guy sounds like my friends and me. In 1997.

 

If Bob Ley is the linear, is Stuart Scott the painterly?

 

Elevated sports talk?
It was a highlight show.
Still is, really. If you're going to criticize SportsCenter, you can criticize it for too much Yankees (or too much baseball, generally) or for the Who's Now? junk. But I really don't see the confluence of SportsCenter and Rome Is Burning. It's like criticizing the sports columnist because the cops coverage isn't any good.

 

If it isn't baroque, don't fix it.

 

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

" There are still too many white voices, but the black voices are only so much verbiage. A guy like Stephen A. Smith, he has the intelligence of a Philadelphia mall rat, but he gets away with it because he's black and there's an understanding that that's somehow how a black guy talks. Stu Scott, on the other hand, at no point overly reminded you that he was black, but he never apologized for it, either. It does seem to me that a kind of race politics is partly responsible for the lack of that sort of eloquence."

Ah, Mr. Professor Guy?
Whatever you may think of his broadcast persona, Stephen A Smith is, by any measure, as smart as Bill Fucking Simmons.
Jesus.

 

ahem.

grant farred should only be given print time once he owes up to being a part of the mike nifong disaster. until then...

 

Those sentences could stand some editing. A lot of editing, in fact.

 

What is the policy on Q&A's?
I'm inclined to not edit them for content at all.

 

This guy conveniently ignores the likes of Stan Verrell and Fred Hickman because, frankly, he knows so little about SportsCenter it's painful. "Too many" white voices? What does that mean?