While ESPN continues as another sports staple to devour itself from the inside out, its decision-reaching capabilities remain incomprehensibly vapid.
Last week, ESPN hired Jim Boeheim, who as a coach was among the most relentlessly rude and callously dismissive of media, including ESPN’s own — unless you kissed his fanny.
Clearly, it didn’t matter to Syracuse or ESPN that cheating on Boeheim’s watch was staggering, at one point costing 12 scholarships over four years and forcing the college and coach to vacate 108 wins — roughly five seasons’ worth! He’s hardly the first scalawag hired by this mixed-up-messages, hypocrites-on-the-march Disney network.
The hiring of Boeheim brought to easy recall ESPN’s engagement of bully Bobby Knight, whose relentlessly abusive behavior of players, students and media, was collected, chronicled and condemned on ESPN — especially that growing Bobby Goes Bonkers reel ESPN regularly featured. That reel vanished the day Knight joined ESPN, returning only after Knight left.
And harsh but true: If not for recidivist cheating that had him fired, Jim Valvano would’ve never been available to ESPN.
So welcome to ESPN, Coach Boeheim, where your record and ESPN’s speak for themselves.
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Last week, ESPN hired Jim Boeheim, who as a coach was among the most relentlessly rude and callously dismissive of media, including ESPN’s own — unless you kissed his fanny.
Clearly, it didn’t matter to Syracuse or ESPN that cheating on Boeheim’s watch was staggering, at one point costing 12 scholarships over four years and forcing the college and coach to vacate 108 wins — roughly five seasons’ worth! He’s hardly the first scalawag hired by this mixed-up-messages, hypocrites-on-the-march Disney network.
The hiring of Boeheim brought to easy recall ESPN’s engagement of bully Bobby Knight, whose relentlessly abusive behavior of players, students and media, was collected, chronicled and condemned on ESPN — especially that growing Bobby Goes Bonkers reel ESPN regularly featured. That reel vanished the day Knight joined ESPN, returning only after Knight left.
And harsh but true: If not for recidivist cheating that had him fired, Jim Valvano would’ve never been available to ESPN.
So welcome to ESPN, Coach Boeheim, where your record and ESPN’s speak for themselves.
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