“SportsCenter” anchor Jay Crawford ESPNU anchor Brendan Fitzgerald “SportsCenter” anchor Chris Hassel “SportsCenter” anchor Darren Haynes Columnist Johnette Howard Columnist Melissa Isaacson Radio host Danny Kanell Reporter Andy Katz Radio host Robin Lundberg “Sports Center” anchor Jade McCarthy Reporter Britt McHenry Columnist Jane McManus “SportsCenter” anchor Jaymee Sire Correspondent Reese Waters
>MLB
MLB analyst Jim Bowden MLB analyst Dallas Braden MLB analyst Raul Ibanez Dodgers peporter Doug Padilla MLB writer Jayson Stark Baseball reporter Mark Saxon MLB analyst Doug Glanville
>NBA
New Orleans Pelicans reporter Justin Verrier Houston Rockets’ reporter Calvin Watkins NBA reporter Ethan Sherwood Strauss
>NFL
NFL analyst Trent Dilfer NFL analyst Ashley Fox NFL reporter Ed Werder
>NHL
NHL columnist Scott Burnside NHL columnist Pierre LeBrun Hockey writer Joe McDonald
>College sports
Big Ten reporter Brian Bennett College basketball writer Eamonn Brennan College basketball reporter C.L. Brown SEC football reporter David Ching College football recruiting reporter Jeremy Crabtree College basketball analyst Len Elmore College sports reporter Chantel Jennings College football reporter Brett McMurphy Pac 12 reporter Ted Miller Big 12 reporter Max Olson College basketball reporter Dana O’Neil SEC Reporter Greg Ostendorf Predictive analytics expert Rufus Peabody Big Ten football reporter Jesse Temple SEC recruiting analyst Derek Tyson Big Ten football reporter Austin Ward
>Miscellaneous
Boxing host Marysol Castro Legal analyst Roger Cossack Enterprise reporter Tom Farrey Soccer writer Mike Goodman Golf commentator Dottie Pepper Auto racing commentator Dr. Jerry Lee Punch Auto Racing host Allan Bestwick Sports gambling writer Dave Tuley ESPN Dallas columnist Jean-Jacques Taylor
Angel Foster
>needed to go britt mchenry jay crawford danny kanell
>why? dallas braden raul ibanez ed werder trent dilfer
Oliver Harris
Literally who.
Good thing I stopped watching this shit 10 years ago. Thank you Tebow for ridding me of this nightmare network.
Brayden Ortiz
You don't watch sports?
Oliver Hughes
They're in trouble because they massively overpaid for the rights to broadcast live sports at a time when their subscriber base is rapidly dwindling. Those contracts are long-term and worth billions.
The money they pay to on-air talent is a drop in the bucket compared to that. They're being sacrificed to show Disney shareholders they are "doing something".
Of course, the executives that screwed up won't lose their jobs...and if they do, they'll probably get 8-figure golden parachutes.
Rigged system, lads.
Gabriel Ward
>Dan Le Batard stays Would be a good thing per se, but
>Jemele and Bomani stays too Fuck my life.
Joseph Green
>britt mchenry what a bitch. everyone's car gets towed here from time to time and she had to go full sorority bitch on the girl working the tow lot desk. it really shows her true character.
Joshua Peterson
sportscenter used to be so comfy to watch at 1 am
Jace Collins
>not a single black person hmmmm
Easton Cox
They (executives) should at lease care more about own ass and get out since they did all of this shit
List goes on untill 9 of may and can be updated
Jaxon Cox
It's clear they no longer care about journalism and feel like doubling down on the nonsense is best for profits.
Sadly they might actually be right.
Jose Gonzalez
Same for me, sadly that good guy died beacuse cancer
I miss wake early only to see him
5 blacks got fired but most are white ones, no latinos
Lucas Morales
Of that entire list the only real surprise was Trent Dilfer. While it was obvious his colleagues hated him, he was a feature on every NFL highlight show and had his own catch phrase. In the end, it was probably his comments on Kaepernick that got him the axe.
Wyatt White
What he said about Kaepernick?
Nathan Anderson
>Dr Jerry Punch >Alan Bestwick >Kanell
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Landon Mitchell
Jayson Stark is fucking great.
William Fisher
>“SportsCenter” anchor Jay Crawford
Damn didn't know they let him go. That's too bad.
Asher Turner
>they kept Jemele Hill fucking idiots, she is pancreatic cancer
Justin Davis
they could fire everyone and it wouldn't matter. They pretty much top ticked the TV sports market bubble signing a retarded NBA and college football contract. Viewership has changed, they just didn't see it happening.
Camden Watson
>ESPN not firing that WWE hack Coachman
Adrian Turner
who cares
Aaron Price
MLB and NFL networks will relegate ESPN to just college sports and such.
Christopher Reed
That's LITERALLY racist AND sexist baka
Kayden Martinez
>Reese Waters
THANK GOD
Wyatt Foster
>fucking idiots, she is black
Fixed it for you user
Jeremiah Campbell
You're missing Marc Stein ya dope
David Bailey
no, she fucking sucks, is incredibly annoying, and completely unnecessary. fuck her, and fuck you
Grayson Scott
>They pretty much top ticked the TV sports market bubble signing a retarded NBA and college football contract.
but what were they supposed to do? they have to have live sports to be around as a network, and sports right fees are astronomical.
Andrew Hernandez
It's a classic circling your wagons move. They're gutting the company but when you consider how large a company like ESPN is, it's a drop in the bucket as far as labor and it makes a world of difference in terms of short term costs.
The internet and streaming services have really affected the sort of content that is financially viable. I really don't feel like writing more and I'm really drunk and not totally up to date on what's happening but if I had to guess, they are scaling back to make a shift to streaming online, possibly joining with an existing streaming service while not retaining a majority of their contracts with major league sports.
It's just a dead service.
Xavier Robinson
The funniest thing about ESPN is that they spent tens of billions of these massive tv contracts that will not make them money, spent hundreds of millions on people like Stephen A Smith who will chase audiences away in droves, fired people like Simmons and Cowherd who had a decent following, and.....what do they expect?
The one thing, the ONLY thing, that ESPN truly had going for them was the nostalgia factor. Yes, it's true that in 2012* anybody with half a brain under the age of 30 could get all of their sports highlights online , but we kept watching. Why? Because it was Sportscenter in the mornings, with the Top 10, Not Top 10, and interesting sports coverage. It was Chris Berman offering 0 insight but saying "he-could-go-all-the-way!". It's really strange that ESPN's parent company Disney has figured out the importance of nostalgia exploitation, but ESPN itself has not. Nobody is going to turn on the tv to watch Smith say "THAT IS BLASPHEMOUS", the only people who care are so young that they exclusively watch on youtube. Nobody cares what random mixed-race Anchor #223b has to say about Black Lives Matter or Trump, anyone who wants that will watch an actual politics/news show, not fucking ESPN. ESPN alienated its core demographic, only to discover that the demographic they were chasing was never interested in them.
*This was the age I noticed ESPN going in this new direction, I was 16, I'm sure some older anons noticed it happening earlier
I know this might be rambling bulllshit, so here, have a photo of a pretty girl to make up for it
Jason Powell
NBC, owned by Comcast, and Fox, owned by Fox, were deliberately bidding up the cost of sports rights to cause something like this to happen because they hate Disney
Julian Peterson
I don't know what made ESPN think that this political slant would work for them but it was a big mistake
Tyler Collins
>columnist >reporter seems like they are about a decade behind yahoo in turning it all over to retarded as fuck bloggers. and yahoo is a zombie site itself. a lot of dead weight no one cares about.
Jayden Foster
It seems that ESPN will rid indycar so autosports people are not needy
Austin Campbell
She can be fired, the list will be finished by next week
Dylan Allen
we can only hope
Xavier Fisher
They had too many mouths to feed. Not like talent is hard to find in that business that they need to be grooming and paying all those nobodies.
Carter Russell
>Need to go Everyone on first take Everyone on SC6 Doris Burke Kevin McHale
>Surprised Jaymee Sire Raul Ibanez
Michael Hall
>ashley fox noooo! imma miss that god-tier 5head
Nolan Wood
Oh and that Jabba the hut that covers the nba. Her lard ass need to hit shit.
Liam Powell
>no neil everett fucking jews
Camden Perez
>firing everyone BUT the dozens of fucking annoying talking heads who yell about the exact same fucking shit in 20 different "opinion centric" shows every fucking day
Jordan Turner
>Disney has figured out the importance of nostalgia exploitation, but ESPN itself has not. that only works for so long in a tv format. their main problems are not enough live sports and the Internet made highlights instantaneous.
Aiden Gomez
Liberalism is a mental disorder and a business killer...shocking!
Lucas Allen
>spent hundreds of millions on people like Stephen A Smith who will chase audiences away in droves, fired people like Simmons and Cowherd
Smith's show gets 4 times the viewers of Cowherd's.
>Disney has figured out the importance of nostalgia exploitation, but ESPN itself has not
30 for 30
Luke Taylor
>Disney has figured out the importance of nostalgia exploitation, but ESPN itself has not.
for the past 20 years, they've had an entire channel dedicated to nostalgia
Owen Fisher
Why does espn have to bid for sports contracts? Shouldn't organizations beg to have their games on ESPN because the brand is so strong?
Chase Martin
He meant nostalgic Sports Center
Mason Sanchez
Its funny cause during the NCAA, truTV markets itself "truTV is still a thing". League choose profit every time. If A&E bid 10 billion for the superbowl, they would show it.
Sebastian Rivera
>britt mchenry Actually googled her, she was in fact fired
Connor Moore
ITT idiots who think they know more than television executives about how to run a tv station
Grayson Hughes
she was the one who was suspended for the towed car incident
she looks like the dumbest bleach blonde ever
Adam Hall
You're wrong
Colton Parker
>Jaymee Sire >Jade McCarthy they were like the only attractive chicks they had
Evan Powell
did they fire Nig and Nigger from evening sportscenter?
I'd just like to have my comfy evening ritual back, instead of watching Netflix
Jose Turner
I wish they went bankrupt here as well, fucking sjw jew cunts
James Allen
ESPN is a massive anchor on Disney, and it's to the point where Disney doesn't care what they do to ESPN's brand, they just gotta cut the weight.
So what's happened is a massive downsize, but they still have the rights to air several different sports. But when the next round of bidding comes, they'll be out on many of them. Won't even bid. The business model they were built on is now obsolete.
ESPN will be to sports what MTV is to music.
Evan Cox
>Soccer writer Mike Goodman
Wyatt James
Please let Andrea Adelson be next.
Luis Rivera
This. They could empty the building and it aint going to make a difference because theyre stuck with those billion-dollar broadcast contracts.
Julian Mitchell
Everybody being the most abrasive liberal possible on TV is currently killing several networks and why the fuck would a sports channel piss off middle class whitebread customers with BLM shit?