ESPN is pushing the hip-hop thing way toooo far. Between S.A. Smith, Jim Rome, and Stewart Scott, the show wants to promote an air of hipness that most people just looking for sports information could care little about.
I think it is really the fault of the producers behind the scene. They tell the anchors and personalities to act a certain way and play it to the max.
Personally I would like to take Rome, Smith and Scott and beat the living crap out of all three of them with a spiked baseball bat.
But I am not a same person at times.