This is a sport's network?

Roland2k

Here's my ESPN rant. Here's a couple of lines from
today's article.

The article is titled "Armstong quickly gets back into
race."

The first line of the article reads "Lance Armstrong fell
off his bike shortly after the start of the sixth stage
of the Tour de France on Friday, then quickly got back in
the race."

He fell off his bike? Sounds like a kid with the training
wheels just removed. How about "Armstrong was involved in a
crash early in today's stage. He appeared to be unhurt, and
quickly rejoined the peloton."

"They were among more than 180 challengers trying to deny
Armstrong another Tour title."

This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen written
regarding the Tour. And it comes from a network that bills
itself "the worldwide leader in sports." Maybe there should
be a subtitle that reads "if your definition of worldwide is
the United States."

Man, do I hate ESPN! OK, rant over.

Roland

Klaus

They haven't updated their Tour page for two days and the
live tour tracker is usually 30-45 min behind......... Was a
lot better last year.

"Roland2k" <roland_2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:5f142948.0407090548.3693912f@posting.google.com...
> Here's my ESPN rant. Here's a couple of lines from today's
> article.
>
> The article is titled "Armstong quickly gets back
> into race."
>
> The first line of the article reads "Lance Armstrong fell
> off his bike shortly after the start of the sixth stage
> of the Tour de France on Friday, then quickly got back in
> the race."
>
> He fell off his bike? Sounds like a kid with the training
> wheels just removed. How about "Armstrong was involved in
> a crash early in today's stage. He appeared to be unhurt,
> and quickly rejoined the peloton."
>
> "They were among more than 180 challengers trying to deny
> Armstrong another Tour title."
>
> This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen written
> regarding the Tour. And it comes from a network that bills
> itself "the worldwide leader in sports." Maybe there
> should be a subtitle that reads "if your definition of
> worldwide is the United States."
>
> Man, do I hate ESPN! OK, rant over.
>
> Roland

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K. J. Papai

roland_2000@yahoo.com (Roland2k) wrote in message news:<5f142948.0407090548.3693912f@posting.google.com>...
> Here's my ESPN rant. Here's a couple of lines from today's
> article.
>
> The article is titled "Armstong quickly gets back
> into race."
>
> The first line of the article reads "Lance Armstrong fell
> off his bike shortly after the start of the sixth stage
> of the Tour de France on Friday, then quickly got back in
> the race."
>
> He fell off his bike? Sounds like a kid with the training
> wheels just removed. How about "Armstrong was involved in
> a crash early in today's stage. He appeared to be unhurt,
> and quickly rejoined the peloton."
>
> "They were among more than 180 challengers trying to deny
> Armstrong another Tour title."
>
> This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen written
> regarding the Tour. And it comes from a network that bills
> itself "the worldwide leader in sports." Maybe there
> should be a subtitle that reads "if your definition of
> worldwide is the United States." Man, do I hate ESPN! OK,
> rant over.

ESPN can be pretty freaking CLUELESS. Even when they did 20
minute daily highight shows 5-6 years ago they were stupid.

ESPN is excellent concering BASEBALL, FOOTBAL, BASKETBALL,
POKER and HOCKEY. Outside of those American Sports (c) they
get shaky and often downright embarrassing and sad.

Nice letter. Nice Marathon P.R. too!!

-Ken

> Roland

Tony

Klaus wrote in message <40eed832$1_3@corp.newsgroups.com>...
>They haven't updated their Tour page for two days and the
>live tour tracker is usually 30-45 min behind......... Was
>a lot better last year.
>
Why follow on the ESPN tracker? http://ww2.olntv.com/tdf04/
listen live from OLN...

>
>
>"Roland2k" <roland_2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:5f142948.0407090548.3693912f@posting.google.com...
>> Here's my ESPN rant. Here's a couple of lines from
>> today's article.
>>
>> The article is titled "Armstong quickly gets back
>> into race."
>>
>> The first line of the article reads "Lance Armstrong fell
>> off his bike shortly after the start of the sixth stage
>> of the Tour de France on Friday, then quickly got back in
>> the race."
>>
>> He fell off his bike? Sounds like a kid with the training
>> wheels just removed. How about "Armstrong was involved in
>> a crash early in today's stage. He appeared to be unhurt,
>> and quickly rejoined the peloton."
>>
>> "They were among more than 180 challengers trying to deny
>> Armstrong another Tour title."
>>
>> This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen written
>> regarding the Tour. And it comes from a network that
>> bills itself "the worldwide leader in sports." Maybe
>> there should be a subtitle that reads "if your definition
>> of worldwide is the United States."
>>
>> Man, do I hate ESPN! OK, rant over.
>>
>> Roland
>
>
>
>
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Richard Adams

roland_2000@yahoo.com (Roland2k) wrote in message news:<5f142948.0407090548.3693912f@posting.google.com>...
> Here's my ESPN rant. Here's a couple of lines from today's
> article.
>
> The article is titled "Armstong quickly gets back
> into race."
>
> The first line of the article reads "Lance Armstrong fell
> off his bike shortly after the start of the sixth stage
> of the Tour de France on Friday, then quickly got back in
> the race."
>
> He fell off his bike? Sounds like a kid with the training
> wheels just removed. How about "Armstrong was involved in
> a crash early in today's stage. He appeared to be unhurt,
> and quickly rejoined the peloton."
>
> "They were among more than 180 challengers trying to deny
> Armstrong another Tour title."
>
> This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen written
> regarding the Tour. And it comes from a network that bills
> itself "the worldwide leader in sports." Maybe there
> should be a subtitle that reads "if your definition of
> worldwide is the United States."
>
> Man, do I hate ESPN! OK, rant over.
>
> Roland

Rolly, ol' bud, you should apply there, straighten them out,
give the community the informative commentary it needs.

Possible examples:

"Man, those cutters suck. Someone should plant hash in their
bags and tip off the gendarmarie."

"The way McEwen rides, he's got no creds ripping into Rene,
like that."

"I haven't seen so many crashes since I first used
Windows 95"

"Lance isn't trying to keep the Maillot Jaune, at the
moment, because it's a long race, which has just begun and
he doesn't want to wear out his team chasing every attack
when some invited team could do that and the sprinters teams
will look after the end of the stages anyway. It's like
saving your pay all week to go out Friday night, rather than
blowing it early in the week then sitting at home on Friday,
wanking off to John Madden on the radio."

"This has been a very dramatic race so far, particularly as
this much selection usually doesn't happen this soon in the
GC. The only people likely to say it's boring are probably
fat and stupid and sitting on their overly large asses
watching ESPN right no...What? What's with the slashing
across the throat gesture, I'm not finished yet, you want
real sports news, I'm giving it, not that overhyped crap
about a bunch of fat guys standing around a diamond
scratching their nuts and ......zzkt"