I am trying to be objective and read a blog about ESPN. I did what one guy said to do - set back and watch what they have done. I let them start with a clean slate and BAM!!! He was right. They are very biased towards Boston and it's area teams, especially Boston in general.
It is the Stanley Cup Finals. Not the Quarter or Conference Finals, but the Stanley Cup Finals. Seems like that would be the main lead in story since the NBA finals have not arrived yet. So with Pittsburgh and Detroit in the Stanley Cup Finals, and Game One, of course they would kick off SportsCenter with the SC highlights. Ahhhh, no. It was K-G and the Boston Celtics finally winning a road game. They spent seven minutes on the highlights of the game. The next segway went into Stuart Scott, Jalen Rose and (everyones favorite big mouth) Stephen A (as in a-s-s) Smith for another two minutes and 27 seconds and then went to the STANLEY CUP FINALS game one highlights! Those highlights lasted two minutes and six seconds, or 11 seconds less then Scott, Rose and Smith.
Can you be anymore biased to Boston, ESPN? Of course, the next story for two minutes and nine seconds was the Boston Red Sox and Oakland game highlights and breaking up Oaklands no hitter. A short time later, they went to Boston's no-hitter. Of course they related Lester's no - hitter to his bout with cancer and that is an incredible story. However, let's look at some other storylines.
It is Memorial Day weekend. There is the Pat Tillman story, the foundation that Lori Piestewa's family set up for native Americans that were also killed in the war, the double amputees that are in the Michigan schools telling high school students about their experiences.
They also are mentioning Matt Ryans' (where did he go to school - Boston College, went into the Boston Pistons game again, showed two scores from the Wings game, the no hitter breakup again and finally, oh yea, a little race called, the Indianapolis 500.
ESPN is continually showing why more and more their ratings are slipping. Hey, they still have the spelling Bee and the WNBA!!!
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