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ESPN (A bunch of Death-Spiraling maroons)

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ScriptOhio said:
While at ESPN Gottlieb repeatedly used his platform to compare and contrast Ohio State players selling their possessions for petty cash and tattoo discounts with Jerry Sandusky using Penn State as cover for serial child rape. Because, you know, they're practically identical scandals. Since leaving for CBS he's had to apologize more than once for making tacky racial jokes. Howard Cosell was shamed for less.

He's gone on the record insisting that exceptional basketball teams are bad for the sport. His grudge against his parents' alma mater and former dream school Syracuse may actually exceed Mark May's open disdain for Ohio State. He brings less value to college basketball broadcasts than even Dick Vitale in the twilight of his career doing his best Dick Vitale impersonation.

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Stephen Curry declared for NBA Draft. Doug Gottlieb "He doesnt have the upside of Rubio. Jennings, Flynn, Mills, Teague all more athletic."

12:00 PM - 23 Apr 2009

Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/colle...nal/2016/07/72076/the-situational-dance-naked

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Hall of Flameout: The 25 worst collapses in sports history

We asked a panel of ESPN.com experts to determine which flameouts were the most excruciating, taking into account the magnitude of the event, the size of the blown lead and the historical significance of the meltdown...

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/16685483/hall-flameout-25-worst-collapses-sports-history


I don't know... Curious to me that Golden State's losing three games in a row (two being at home) did not make this list.

Magnitude of the event: NBA Finals. Game 7 set viewing record.
The Cleveland Cavaliers’ showstopping victory against the Golden State Warriors helped ABC score a ratings record, with early Nielsen estimates putting the game at 18.9 in overnight metered market ratings, which makes the match-up the highest-rated sports telecast on ABC or ESPN in a decade, and the top score ABC has ever seen from an NBA broadcast.
http://variety.com/2016/tv/ratings/tv-ratings-nba-finals-game-7-record-1201799138/

The size of the blown lead: First time 3-1 deficit overcome in Finals, eleventh time in 235 NBA playoff series (of those 11, most had advantage of more home games).
http://www.csnbayarea.com/warriors/warriors-now-have-cheat-powerful-reaper-3-1-deficit

Historical significance of the meltdown: Warriors had to close the deal to validate their NBA-best-ever regular season accomplishment. Lebron's legacy was in question.




 
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DiamondBuck said:
Hall of Flameout: The 25 worst collapses in sports history

We asked a panel of ESPN.com experts to determine which flameouts were the most excruciating, taking into account the magnitude of the event, the size of the blown lead and the historical significance of the meltdown...

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/16685483/hall-flameout-25-worst-collapses-sports-history


I don't know... Curious to me that Golden State's losing three games in a row (two being at home) did not make this list.

Magnitude of the event: NBA Finals. Game 7 set viewing record.
The Cleveland Cavaliers’ showstopping victory against the Golden State Warriors helped ABC score a ratings record, with early Nielsen estimates putting the game at 18.9 in overnight metered market ratings, which makes the match-up the highest-rated sports telecast on ABC or ESPN in a decade, and the top score ABC has ever seen from an NBA broadcast.
http://variety.com/2016/tv/ratings/tv-ratings-nba-finals-game-7-record-1201799138/

The size of the blown lead: First time 3-1 deficit overcome in Finals, eleventh time in 235 NBA playoff series (of those 11, most had advantage of more home games).
http://www.csnbayarea.com/warriors/warriors-now-have-cheat-powerful-reaper-3-1-deficit

Historical significance of the meltdown: Warriors had to close the deal to validate their NBA-best-ever regular season accomplishment. Lebron's legacy was in question.



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Not only should it have been on the list, it had to be in the top five at least. But instead, the list included a regular season game wear LSU blew a 31-point second-half lead to lose...I wonder what the magnitude of the event or the historical significance of that meltdown was.
 
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ESPN has too much of a vested interest in blowing Golden State from November to May/June to include them on this list. Definitely a top 3 collapse of all time, but they'll never be the first to admit it.
 
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DiamondBuck said:
Hall of Flameout: The 25 worst collapses in sports history

We asked a panel of ESPN.com experts to determine which flameouts were the most excruciating, taking into account the magnitude of the event, the size of the blown lead and the historical significance of the meltdown...

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/16685483/hall-flameout-25-worst-collapses-sports-history


I don't know... Curious to me that Golden State's losing three games in a row (two being at home) did not make this list.

Magnitude of the event: NBA Finals. Game 7 set viewing record.
The Cleveland Cavaliers’ showstopping victory against the Golden State Warriors helped ABC score a ratings record, with early Nielsen estimates putting the game at 18.9 in overnight metered market ratings, which makes the match-up the highest-rated sports telecast on ABC or ESPN in a decade, and the top score ABC has ever seen from an NBA broadcast.
http://variety.com/2016/tv/ratings/tv-ratings-nba-finals-game-7-record-1201799138/

The size of the blown lead: First time 3-1 deficit overcome in Finals, eleventh time in 235 NBA playoff series (of those 11, most had advantage of more home games).
http://www.csnbayarea.com/warriors/warriors-now-have-cheat-powerful-reaper-3-1-deficit

Historical significance of the meltdown: Warriors had to close the deal to validate their NBA-best-ever regular season accomplishment. Lebron's legacy was in question.



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How do the Red Sux get three, but the Indians/World Series is not even on this list?

This, however, kind of makes up for it. (heh heh heh)
21. Baylor Bears, 2015 Cotton Bowl
 
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The amazing thing is they have the Toronto Maple Leaves 'reverse sweep' of detroit in the stanley cup finals in 1942 at 24. Same thing, but in a sport few people watch and over 60 years ago, around the last time Cleveland won a title. They also have 2-11 are all golf and baseball. Golf, a great sport to watch while napping and upsets happen regularly, and baseball, which I think was just passed up or close to passed up by soccer last month as the 3rd most popular sport in the US (as determined by television ratings, not polls).
 
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TampaBuckeyes said:
The amazing thing is they have the Toronto Maple Leaves 'reverse sweep' of detroit in the stanley cup finals in 1942 at 24. Same thing, but in a sport few people watch and over 60 years ago, around the last time Cleveland won a title. They also have 2-11 are all golf and baseball. Golf, a great sport to watch while napping and upsets happen regularly, and baseball, which I think was just passed up or close to passed up by soccer last month as the 3rd most popular sport in the US (as determined by television ratings, not polls).
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I'm surprised they took anything in pro sports from that era - Canada had been at war for three years and was conscripting most males younger than 25. The teams were both probably struggling to find players, leading to crazy results. The St Louis Browns played one armed Pete Gray in right field. The Steelers and Eagles combined rosters, became the Steagles, and split the home games between respective cities. And two years later the Reds would start a young left-hander out of Hamilton High School, 16 year-old Joe Nuxhall.
 
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ESPN Dipshit To English-Speaking Ichiro: Speak English!!!

ESPN SportsCenter anchor and former WWE commentator Todd Grisham, who fancies himself a tough man, has a tough message for True Hit King Ichiro: This is America, learn some English!

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Grisham wasn’t tough enough not to delete his tweets, but the thing that amazes me is that he anchors the most popular sports program on the planet but doesn’t know anything about a baseball Hall of Famer, and that he knows how to use Twitter but apparently not Google.

If Grisham had used Google, he might’ve come across this article from five years ago about how Ichiro speaks English with his teammates, in commercials, and in his daily life. Or read R.A. Dickey’s book where he writes that Ichiro speaks English “quite well.” And how about all of those well-trod stories—including ones written by his ESPN coworkers—about Ichiro’s infamously profane All-Star Game speeches? Shit, Ichiro even sometimes speaks Spanish on the baseball field.

Of course, even if Ichiro didn’t speak English, that would be okay too. People living in foreign countries all around the world assimilate to varying degrees for varying reasons, and far be it for any of us to criticize how somebody else is leading their life.

And so Ichiro still uses a translator when answering questions from the press because he has one he is extremely comfortable with, and because as a high-profile person who talks to the media daily, he believes it’s important that he express his ideas clearly and accurately.

Todd Grisham’s take, which he has since apologized for, is hotter than two rats in a fucking wool sock.
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ESPN is just awful. Can't tell you the last time I even had it on. Has to be a Buckeye or NFL game.

Turned it on last night for HOF game and 30 seconds in I realized the game was cancelled and turned it off.

I still like Mike and Mike I guess.
 
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