I discovered, not that long ago, this creepy bald guy with the glasses who seems to be ESPN's #1 on-air personality at the moment...he had his studio sort of decorated as an homage to himself complete with his own bobble-head and what not....
In 20 seconds I could see where he/ESPN were going with the whole thing, marketing this idiot as a source of entertainment himself instead of a reporter of sports information.
I quickly turned the channel and really haven't been back since, unless I'm watching a live sporting event of some kind which happens to be on ESPN.
The whole concept of ESPN, the TV sports news channel, has little relevance in today's world.
No one more than sports fans gets their information via sources other than live TV.
The idea of being pinned down to a specific time slot to "watch" sports news content is absurd in today's world...
And none of this is some huge, gripping, peace in the Middle East type news story...
It's mostly light and fluffy. You just want to know who won, what the score was, who's injured, who's going to play on Sunday....that type of thing.
The internet and cell phones were made for that type of sound byte information.