ESPN Torpedoes Its Audience With 'WokeCenter' Programming
June 13th, 2020 1:02 PM
By force-feeding its viewers an unwanted diet of systemic racism and social justice, ESPN has thinned its viewership to an all-time low. The blundering miscalculation sank ESPN's audience this week to the lowest numbers in its 41-year history. Good luck defending this hair-brained strategy to your advertisers, ESPN.
Sports Media Veering Deeply Into Social Justice
June 9th, 2020 12:38 PM
ESPN is not a political network, says its president, Jimmy Pitaro. Like heck it's not! The network has used the George Floyd story to completely go off the rails, veering far out of its lane and abandoning all pretense of sticking to sports. In a revealing Washington Post story, Ben Strauss reports ESPN has thrown its full capacity into covering the protests, through a sports lens and…
ESPN Guest: America 'Earned' Looting, Rioting, Burning
June 1st, 2020 6:22 PM
Author and radio host Lenard Larry McKelvey, known professionally as "Charlamagne tha God," went H. Rap Brown on ESPN's First Take television show Monday. He claimed America earned every bit of the social unrest over its 400 years of white supremacy. The militant Brown said during the racial unrest of the 1960s that if America doesn't come around we will burn it to the ground, and…
Trump-hating Progressive Power Couples To Host 2020 ESPYs
May 27th, 2020 10:00 AM
The 2020 ESPN "ESPY Awards" show this summer is bound to be a politically charged event. How can it not be with Megan Rapinoe, Sue Bird and Russell Wilson hosting the remote event? It's an election year, all three of these Seattle area progressives have a history of political activism and the ESPYs have provided "home field" for the likes of Michelle Obama and Caitlyn Jenner in the past.
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Obama Disappointed About Jordan's ‘Republicans Buy Sneakers Too’
May 5th, 2020 9:00 AM
In this time without live sports, the country has been looking for anything possible to fill that void.
Similarly, sport media has been looking to find new ways to fill air time. One of the largest ways they have been doing this is by releasing new documentaries, such as ESPN’s The Last Dance.
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ESPN's Smith Accuses MLB of Racism Over Cheating Scandal
April 25th, 2020 10:00 AM
Ranting on ESPN's First Take show Thursday, Stephen A. Smith accused Major League Baseball of racism in its punishment of sign stealing offenders. The sports media blog Awful Announcing roasted him for the bizarre accusation, calling his claim "quite a stretch."
World Ending, But At Least ESPN's Not Sticking to Sports!
April 8th, 2020 10:10 AM
Sports media, President Donald Trump, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and anyone else hinting at a fall return of sports took a brutal beating from Jay Mariotti in a Monday post on Barrett Sports Media. With carnage on the streets and the world nearing its end, this is absolutely the worst time in history to stick to sports, the bombastic Mariotti vented.
'Blacketologist' Charts Black-Coached Teams' Paths to NCAA Tourney
March 12th, 2020 10:00 AM
Just imagine if a white sports writer penned a piece on the probability of college basketball teams coached by white guys making it into the NCAA Tournament field. And then obsessed on precisely what these white coaches would need to do to get their teams into the tourney field. The writer would be denounced as a "white supremacist," then quickly tarred, feathered and fired faster than you can…
ESPN Writer Somehow Connects Boxer’s Loss to Voter Suppression?
February 27th, 2020 10:00 AM
When the white boxer Tyson Fury (at left in photo) defeated African American rival Deontay Wilder (at right) Saturday, David Dennis saw the WBC heavyweight championship bout purely in racial terms. MLK's call to judge people by the content of their characer -- and not the color of their skin -- went by the wayside.
ESPN's Bomani Jones Show 'High Noon' Bites the Dust
February 26th, 2020 10:00 AM
In another High Noon showdown, two more ESPN lefties bit the "bullet." Bomani Jones and Pablo Torre and their left-wing shtick will get till the end of March and then their High Noon program will be designated for the television version of Boot Hill. Low and declining rating are listed as the cause of High Noon's impending death, according to ESPN.
Why Is ESPN Allowing Bill Walton to Glorify Pot Use?
February 18th, 2020 10:00 AM
It never ceases to amaze one that network sports continue to employ loud-mouthed liberal loons like Bill Walton and Charles Barkley. Barkley has been embarrassing himself on TNT's Inside The NBA for years, and Walton does likewise calling college basketball on ESPN, openly advocating against the war on drugs and glorifying pot use.
ESPN Senior Writer Stokes Race Issues in New Book
February 12th, 2020 10:00 AM
Radical ESPN Senior Writer Howard Bryant has released another book of political essays indicting American sports as overtly political, one where African Americans must navigate a sharp edge of whiteness. Released late last month, Full Dissidence: Notes From An Uneven Playing Field follows Bryant's 2019 book, The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism, by a…
ESPN Blog: NFL Teams Hire Coaches on 'White Is Right' Mentality
January 14th, 2020 10:00 AM
Only one man of color got a head coaching job in the NFL's recent round of hires, proving to The Undefeated's senior NFL writer that the league has a "white is right" mentality. Furthermore, Jason Reid writes that league owners could not care less about inclusive hiring.
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Lib Sports Media Slam NFL: 'Whiteness Still Major Issue in' USA
January 9th, 2020 10:00 AM
The recent hiring of three white NFL head coaches has led to an outbreak of complaints by minority media, notably panelists on ESPN's First Take program and Roland Martin of Unfiltered: The Daily Digital Show. In their complaints against African Americans not getting any of these head coaching jobs, the media called for various levels of controls and legal means to stop the NFL for what Martin…
