https://www.essentiallysports.com/nfl-legends-news-things-turn-sour-between-troy-aikman-and-joe-buck-as-longtime-broadcasters-at-odds-amid-espn-contract-negotiations/

https://www.thebiglead.com/espn-dan-orlovsky-shares-devastating-news-after-sudden-death-family-brother-in-law/

ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky asked fans to support his grieving sister and her three sons Thursday morning after revealing that his brother-in-law died unexpectedly over the weekend and sharing a fundraiser for the family.

“This weekend, our family experienced an unimaginable tragedy,” Orlovsky wrote in a lengthy post on his X account. “My brother-in-law, Fed, passed away unexpectedly, leaving behind my sister and their three amazing boys.”

YES I AM AWARE I ACCIDENTALLY DID’NT PUT THE “S” AT THE END OF NEWS - Gimme a break geez

Is anybody here also tired of hearing news about the business of sports rather than actual play on-field? Every time I turn around I’m hearing about contracts, profitability of teams, etc. when did sports news become all about business?

Don’t get me wrong, I understand that modern sports is a business but I don’t want a 24/7 broadcast about how much players make, how much teams are making/losing/sponsorship contracts, etc. Is anyone interested in the actual games anymore?

Is he bending over for all the ESPN execs?? All of a sudden this guy is on every special, talk show, analyst pow wow, podcast, and sporting news update feature whatever. I mean, he is EVERYwhere.

Feels super weirdly forced.

https://espnpressroom.com/press-release/espn-adds-monday-night-football-field-pass-with-the-pat-mcafee-show-mnf-playbook-with-next-gen-stats-alternate-casts-to-super-bowl-lxi-select-m/

I am so frustrated every time I try to use the ESPN app on my Google TV. Every time I launch the app, I have to re-authenticate my TV provider to watch anything.

Today, watching the Eagles/Jaguars London game, video went super slow motion (no audio), so I went back to the Home Screen to reset and now there are no options (other than the Spanish audio feed) to get back into the game - anywhere in the app. So force quit the app and now have to re-authenticate my tv provider again.

Horrible app!

Edit to add. After re-authenticating my TV Provider, there is still no way to watch the game in the app.

ESPN soccer is my go to for checking EPL scores. It is by far the best EPL coverage along with The Guardian soccer. However, sometime around the World Cup the interface for live games changed for the worse. It is now full of gimicky sections which I don’t think many people find useful. ESPN, please get the basics right- show us which players are playing and who the subs are for that game. I can’t for the life of me find where the subs info is buried. It should be right there on the first page. (Subs only show up after they come on the field).

The following sections I find useless: - ‘match timeline and momentum’😂 - ‘shot map’ - ‘Formations and lineups’ need to show all players on the bench not just the subs that happened. Also the image of the players icons on the field should show the original players who started and not change. That way if open on the middle of the game you know who started.

How can it possibly be this bad? Is it intentional? You can never find what you're looking for, search function is a fucking joke, suggestions have absolutely nothing to do with anything I've watched in the past. Pausing any event and trying to restart it has a 80% fail rate. It's absolutely ridiculous.

https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/college-gameday-analysts-lack-knowledge-sacramento-fresno-boise-mcafee-herbstreit.html

This article absolutely nails it. College GameDay has gone from a show that celebrated the entire sport to an insufferable SEC/Big Ten circle jerk featuring overpaid personalities who apparently think their own ignorance is hilarious. And Herbstreit might be the most pathetic of the bunch. A guy who once had some credibility has over the past few years turned himself into a smug, insufferable caricature, desperately trying to keep up with McAfee’s frat-boy circus. If he had an ounce of self-awareness, he’d be mortified by what he’s become. Instead, he seems perfectly content collecting his millions while helping turn a once-great show into an embarrassing parody of itself.

The game winning field goal was not shown. The only signal it was completed was players jumping and the scoreboard changing. Disappointing FR

Please let me know

If I want to watch the Tampa Bay lightning tonight, can I just sign up for ESPN plus and watch it? or do I need a cable provider as well in order to watch the game?

I open the app and it just blinks over and over again. I tried deleting the app and reinstalling, logging back in and the same shit keeps happening. Wonder if their app has a bug they need to fix? Idk - anyone else experiencing this? iPhone 16 Pro Max.

Im sick of the blackout stuff man. Let me watch my damn penguins match.

This is all a genuine question as it confounds me. I hope people can talk about their background and values rather than piss down somebody’s back.

EDIT: lots of serious people on this subreddit, not really into explaining details of their viewpoint, but at least they’re serious.

I grew up playing all types of sports, mostly informal but played one sport on a team for a few years. Pretty much 90% of all that it was just playing a kids’ game, pretending I was Sergei Fedorov or stuff a bunch of clothes down my jacket so I could pretend I was Jerome Bettis. Even when I was on a team, so much of the activity was grounded in silliness and having fun and being around other people, forming bonds.

Im now an adult. I sit in meetings everyday with people in suits whose worth is overvalued, to kindly put it. They are boring. 67% this, 12% that. People who either don’t know how to have fun even in the smallest capacity or just too afraid to. It’s fine, it pushes the company forward, whatever.

Not in a million years would I want to spend an entire day at work and come home and turn on sports talk just to have the exact same people teleport from the office I work at to my TV screen now talking about something that is a kids game, supposed to be fun, and dare I say entertaining.

It seems like every post has some comments about people needing objective analysis for sports and anybody who dabbles in entertainment is a scourge to society and I truly wonder what their lives are like such that they need -that- out of sports media. Are their lives the opposite of mine? Are they around silly,fun people all day long and then when it gets to turning on ESPN, they need somebody in a suit rattling off numbers? Genuinely curious.

In light of Stephen A Smith being a complete dick to Lane Johnson’s retirement over his mental health, I have been asking myself “why hasn’t stephen a smith been out at espn???” This Lane Johnson reaction isn’t his first terrible and problematic take, for example, earlier this year for the NBA offseason, he was actually angered by the fact that the Lakers big three were all white because, according to smith, white people aren’t good at basketball, which is one racist and two completely wrong. there have been many other instances that i don’t care to mention because there have been so many.

also, smith is not even a good sports anchor, this dude just comes on and sounds off about something he doesn’t like in the world of sports in a new york accent and doesn’t contribute anything to espn. he’s just there to cause drama, as if there isn’t fucking enough of that in sports. it’s like nfl and nba refs trying to take the spotlight, just do your damn job and stay out of the way. he’s just clipfarming 24/7 and it’s getting OOOOOOLLLDDD.

finally, there have been reports of him being a total di to work with, and if i’m espn im using this to (FINALLY) let him go. and don’t say he’s like the face of espn sports broadcasting (because he’s not).

edit: if they fired him who’d you want to see replace him?

Fight me 😤

An on-site McAfee show would be for the ages

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0ELj-79jbqA&pp=ygUJSmFja2VkIHVw0gcJCTcMAYcqIYzv&ra=m

Showing on my YouTube TV, ESPN +. One showings blacked out, the other one is not blacked out. Am I gonna be able to watch this, or once the game starts, is it gonna black out? I’m in Chicago

ESPN used to be the go-to for everything sports highlights, breaking news, investigative journalism, and elite docs

​Now it's the Walmart of sports media: a giant corporate machine where no one seems to know or care how to actually engage the fan or do the job at a high level.

They should rebrand with an entirely different name because i don't know where ESPN is but this is definitely not it.

https://youtu.be/3umsPf9hfWw?si=pCGz_AlzrLjVj8Nu

Just wanting to see others thoughts. Taylor, similar (ish) frat boy type, but, maybe better takes? Better analysis? Bias due to my Titans fandom? Hahaha

There suppose to be in Tuscaloosa but it gonna Nasty there all day. Wondering if the games gonna be canceled.

That screaming idiot clown Stephen A. Smith doesn't get to go on that disgusting rant about the Eagles' Lane Johnson and ridicule his retiring for mental health reasons and then he just gives a bullshit apology and all is forgiven and forgotten by you people in charge. Fire that piece of shit, ESPN.