They are framing this as like a story or something breaking, when this is literally just a British guy who is not a fan of the USMNT complaining and trying downplay our success. This is an outrageous thing for ESPN, an American company, to send out to Americans. Genuinely just crazy.
When the talking heads discuss WWE as a sport, "what was going through your mind as you body slammed your hated rival" and treating it as other non-scripted sports.
It's entertainment yes, it's hard as hell yes, these are athletes yes, but it's scripted!
I genuinely don’t understand how the NFL can generate billions of dollars every year, yet so many of the corporate and behind-the-scenes positions pay salaries that are barely competitive.
Everyone sees the players making millions, but there are thousands of employees in ticket sales, marketing, partnerships, events, operations, guest services, HR, IT, creative, and other departments who keep these organizations running. Many of these roles require degrees, years of experience, and working nights, weekends, and holidays—yet the compensation often doesn’t reflect that.
The biggest problem is that the NFL has a constant pipeline of people willing to work for less simply because it’s “the NFL.” Teams know there will always be applicants who dream of having the logo on their résumé, so there’s little incentive to raise pay.
At some point, employees need to stop accepting low salaries just for the prestige. If qualified candidates started turning down underpaid offers—or current employees collectively pushed for better compensation—the market would eventually have to adjust.
People deserve to earn a fair wage for the value they bring, regardless of how exciting the employer’s brand is. Working in professional sports shouldn’t mean accepting below-market pay.
Curious what others think. If you’ve worked for an NFL team or another professional sports organization, what has your experience been with compensation compared to the workload?
I believe as a whole, there needs to be a boycott once the season starts to make sure there’s reasonable pay.
I turned on ESPN at 3pm to watch the Nathan's Hot Dog Challenge, the yearly 4th of July event.
Within 1 minute of the broadcast starting, the update on the bottom of the screen says:
TOP NEWS: Joey Chestnut eats 66 hot dogs to win the Nathan's Hot Dog Challenge.
Who is the genius who put this on the news feed while the contest is being broadcast?
It happens on other networks too (MLB and NFL game replays), but the self-proclaimed LEADER OF SPORTS NETWORKS should know better.
Just my holiday rant ... Be safe!
As a kid and a sports fan, I remember when I couldn’t wait to see Stuart Scott on SportsCenter, or Chris Berman on NFL Primetime. Boxing on Tuesday and Friday nights with Teddy Atlas. They were the best. The commentating for the NBA Finals is lacking. They moved ESPN Classic,ESPN Classic was a great go-to for old Boxing Matches, and Boxing Documentaries. They don’t really cover any Track and Field, Tennis, Golf, Volleyball, MMA, or Boxing that much. Baseball gets a some attention, but not as much as it used to. When I was a kid all those Sports were being covered, and talked about on ESPN. You really got a broad knowledge of Sports, not just NBA, or NFL. I cringe when I hear Stephen A. on First Take cover Track and Field, MMA, Boxing,or Baseball he never knows
what he’s talking about. Does anyone agree with me that ESPN lost its charm?
Is there no other basketball “analyst” they could pay to work today? Every time I see him appear, I’m gone.
Bomptemps got a new fo job and this hoop collective needs a nerd. Bobby Marks full time or someone new NOT Vince Goodwill gives me tinnitus.
TV executives and the NCAA have “shortened” the length of college football games by running the clock yet added two more pointless breaks in the form of the two minute warning. I’ve been to games where my only memory is standing there waiting for the TV timeout to go away for the fourth time in the last six minutes of play. At what point do we start to care?
The SEC and ESPN decided they need to cram six (link available if you don't believe me) lengthy and annoying commercial breaks during the fourth quarter of the SEC championship game. These commercial breaks generally run 3 1/2 to 4 minutes long and this is just one quarter. Somehow, we're willing to sit around for hours, often in blizzard conditions, and watch the TV timeout clock without complaining as a 2 hour event is stretched to 4 hours. But as we are discovering in the World Cup, soccer fans are extremely angry and continuously boo one 2 minute and 15 second “hydration break” per half. To me, we’re all victims of the frog in slowly heating water factor.
Just curious if there's a limit or not? Would we allow for 11 TV timeouts a quarter and five hour game lengths with 79% commercials? I'm curious what our limit is because soccer's limit seems to be zero.
I despise that ESPN has so much/any coverage, let alone massive showcase, of wwe... (i know they are phenomenal athletes...)
More real sports. No fake.
I understand why and I’m not naive, just kinda bummed by it. I can understand that “To Serve Sports Fans Everywhere” is a corporate platitude, but this event has completely taken over the country and it’s getting almost attention daily on the network.
In the middle of June, nobody cares about the NFL. Give us MLB coverage, WNBA coverage, NASCAR coverage, World Cup coverage. Anything except NFL, how about the sports that are actually playing. NFL in the middle of the offseason is pointless. We need a break.
Can’t stand that guy. insufferable human being. Recently met him at a phillies game with his kids. He accidentally spilled a beer on the floor and essentially threw a tantrum until an employee cleaned it up. He’s nothing like what you see on tv. I don’t post on reddit ever but this guy is such a child.
In my opinion, it is much better to catch highlights of a game from them as opposed to watching, for example, straight up clips from the most recent Ravens-Steelers game or [insert any NBA playoff game here] with no narration on YouTube.
I get it. The likes of Dan Patrick, Bob Ley, Charley Steiner, Stuart Scott, etc. won't walk through the doors of that campus to sit at the SC desk again. More people would rather watch debate shows, as much as it pains a lot of avid sports fans here, including me. None of the other major sports divisions can compete: CBS Sports HQ is probably as close as it gets, but NBC & Fox have tried in the past on their sports networks, only for both to never make any noise long term. Hell, whatever TNT did never stacked up because it was buried on truTV, which no one cares to look for until March Madness rolls around.
Still, even though the current personalities of *SportsCenter* do not compare in star power, I'll still tune in whenever I can. The alternative looks and feels much worse to be honest.
This dude has really impressed me with his NBA coverage.
Really professional and gives a player perspective that’s not only very the top.
I recently saw that Linda Cohn is leaving the network. I’m sad to see her go as shes been a staple for years.
That is all. Reminds me of when the war started in Ukraine, and suddenly the capital Kiev was called "Keev" instead of "Key-ev" like it was always known. Why do people try to change the pronunciation of places?
Disney is a multi-billionaire company at that, there is no excuse. Why is this still a thing?