Is ESPN intentionally ignoring March Madness?

TheWolf · Mar 15, 2012

After Sunday night their coverage has been minimal to NONE!

All you hear about is Peyton Manning & NFL FREE AGENCY, NBA free agency and Dwight Howard!!!!!!!!!

Both radio and TV coverage has been horrible this year.

silver7 · Mar 15, 2012

That's because they don't have the contract. TBS, TNT, TRUE TV, CBS!! So all M&M talk about per instructions I'm sure is Manning & Howard, same w/Bayless or Clueless as I like to call him!

Holmes · Mar 15, 2012

I agree. The first round games were aired on truTV (formerly Court TV). WTF?

Not surprisingly, ratings were down 10 percent from last year.

CHOPTALK · Mar 15, 2012

Holmes said:
I agree. The first round games were aired on truTV (formerly Court TV). WTF?

Not surprisingly, ratings were down 10 percent from last year.

They did the same thing last year

CHOPTALK · Mar 15, 2012

silver7 said:
That's because they don't have the contract. TBS, TNT, TRUE TV, CBS!! So all M&M talk about per instructions I'm sure is Manning & Howard, same w/Bayless or Clueless as I like to call him!

they have never had the contract for at least the last 25 years. That has nothing to do with it.

They do air more College Basketball then any other network on the planet so its in there best interest to promote College BB for that fact alone.

GilRenard · Mar 15, 2012

ESPN blows, pure and simple. In particular, I'd rather get a root canal without Novocaine than watch those blathering idiots on SportsCenter and/or those moronic afternoon sportswriter gabfests.

Not sure which channel has went more downhill in the past 25 years.... ESPN or MTV.

JohnnyMac · Mar 15, 2012

Of course the "four letter" is ignoring a sport they don't have the TV contract for. Just review their historical coverage of the NHL and NASCAR.

ESPN sucks the devil's dick.

KennyB · Mar 15, 2012

They promote what they show. Too much soccer and auto racing.

silver7 · Mar 16, 2012

CHOPTALK said:
they have never had the contract for at least the last 25 years. That has nothing to do with it.

They do air more College Basketball then any other network on the planet so its in there best interest to promote College BB for that fact alone.

And for 25 yrs they've ignored the NCAA tourny!!

bukis1 · Mar 16, 2012

It seems they have also done a good job of ignoring all the problems
at Syracuse. They sure have not covered it like OSU PENN ST and Miami for example.
Not a coincidence that many at ESPN went to SYR.

TheWolf · Mar 16, 2012

JohnnyMac said:
Of course the "four letter" is ignoring a sport they don't have the TV contract for. Just review their historical coverage of the NHL and NASCAR.

ESPN sucks the devil's dick.

Spot on IMO......Once they lost the NHL rights, they acted like that league didnt even exist anymore.

They show college hoops all year and talk about it, then the tourney rolls around where they dont have the rights, the coverage gets pushed on the back burner. Very unprofessional and vindictive of them IMO.

Jstack34 · Mar 16, 2012

Havent showed much this morning. I just want to see highlights of the few games I missed but its been all draft talk

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