ESPN Sportscenter Track "Coverage"

you know what else- i love it that when mcgwire and sosa were having that home run chase a few years ago that supposedly saved baseball after massive greedy strinking mcgwire was admittedly on drugs that both made him stronger and kept him healthy(how many full seasons did he have before starting serious supplement use). and sosa is like oh yeah i think drug testing is a good idea- so sammy can we test you?- umm welll umm maybe thats not such a good idea. Oh yeah and the cork? ugh

I think maybe the Norwegians were onto something but they just had the wrong sport. it makes me sick that mark androire broke the single season record and barry whats that in my OJ bonds might break hank aarons record. ok enough enough

98 percent of America doesn't even know the Pan Am Games happened. I have never turned to Sportscenter expecting to see any track coverage. My guess is that Marion Jones is the only track athlete any of those guys could name. I just don't beat my head against the wall anymore about stuff like Sportscenter giving short shrift to track. It happens and it will always happen.

espn is owned by disney what do you expect?

unfortunately i was confined to a treadmill on tuesday and Jim Rome was ranting on "Rome is Burning" or something like that on ESPN. He commented on what a pussy Mary Slaney, not Mary Decker Slaney, was for not getting back up in the olympics 19? years ago to the day. I thought it was funny that he took the time to rip on a once great runner instead of discussing a football players "homo" comment about bill parcells for another 8 minutes.

"She should have stopped crying about a skinned knee and just gotten up and run...it was the damn olympics"

i guess some discussion is better than no discussion.

I recall a comment from a "SportsCenter" producer or executive or something -- "We don't cover sports -- we cover sports broadcasts." So there's part of the bias.

Some discussion is often worse than no discussion, especially when it's uninformed.

McVeigh's comment is pertinent. One of the reasons you see so little track and field and running coverage on cable and local sportscats is because no one made any videotape available to them. Whereas every station was given the monster truck pull footage. You can't show what you haven't got.

yeah they cry about these pussy football players suffering from dehydration and their little sissy injuries...try racing a full track season on a screwed up hip and doing long runs in 90 degree weather with plenty of humidity....fat out of shape 300 lb pieces of shit that steal all the hot girls....

Youre 100% right. This is the thing i HATE the most about stupid ass media "coverage" in this country. I would rather have no coverage at all than only negative coverage. Why not let high school kids learn about track from web and possibly newspaper without hearing negative shit on their sucky loser "show". Why not let the millions of joggers around the country who SHOULD be paying a little bit of attention(but obv arent) not think that track is just a big bunch of drug addicts. Since obv Joe and Jane Lardbelly dont give a shit about track anyway why would they put it on their piece of shit broadcast anway?

Would they ever ever say anything about the Pan Am Games??? . Obv not. If there was a world record they would mention it in passing (prob only if it was an American and most likely only if it was 400m or less and obv never a field event). That show is the most stupid ass idiotic thing in the world. The whole network is pathetic- how many reruns can you show in one day(everyday). After watching the same juiced up player hit a golf ball out of a 315 foot baseball field 10 times i wouldnt really want to watch the 11th but i guess some stupid fat ass people do.

This is the exact same thing that people complain about on this site all the time- people just being negative and not having anything good to say. Its just mud slinging with a thin veneer of supposed journalism covering it. Unfortuneately if you cover dog shit with a piece of paper it still stinks. OK my rant is over but i think i will go to espn.com and see if they have an email address. I hate sportscenter and i hate it when the f***ing say negative stuff about track. This is apparently not a newsworthy sport to them so why the hell do they have to comment on it when something bad happens. ok im getting started again but i hate this. whatever happened to if u cant say something nice dont say anything?? or at least these days maybe it should be changed to since you arent going to say anything good dont f***ing say anything dumb shithead.

ESPN what does this stand for? extra shitty piece of nothing (someone help me out on that i dont feel like coming up with a better one or perhaps im not capable of it hehe)

go back to bristol you stupid sellouts

also dont even talk to me about their track "coverage" like people say on here the channels in canada and europe coverage of track in one summer is approx 1000 times better than the coverage over the last 20 years of espn.

ok im done at least on here