Article on the Demise of ESPN

This article from Slate discusses something I have been talking about for a while now: how ESPN has declined over the years from the premier sports network to a network full of more specialty shows and talking heads. Nowhere is the change more apparent than on SportsCenter. The show used to be thirty minutes of jam-packed highlights and scores, with an hour-long show on Sunday. Now, the show is routinely 90 minutes, with nary a highlight to be found, except for the awful "Ultimate Highlight." There seem to be more and more commentators, fact/fiction, 5 burning questions, the Budweiser Hot Seat, and on and on. The Slate article describes this as the "MTV-ing" of the network and I could not agree more.

Thanks to Brian at the Sports Economist for the tip.

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