The NFL has become a year-round endeavor as the most popular sport in the land and there’s no true “off-season” anymore. However, we’re just about through what is probably the last lull in the schedule between the draft and the start of training camp. With camps opening up around the league, ESPN and SportsCenter are beginning three weeks of in-depth coverage.
Bristol will employ their armada of NFL personalities including hosts, analysts, reporters, and NFL Nation bloggers. SportsCenter will also send three anchors on the road to camp – Jay Harris (Denver Broncos, July 31), Lindsay Czarniak (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, August 7th), and Matt Barrie (Houston Texans and Washington Redskins, August 8th).
In total, ESPN expects to be on-site to cover 30 of the 32 NFL teams at training camp. To fans of the Atlanta Falcons and San Francisco 49ers, you can start writing your angry e-mails to ESPN now. But on the bright side – three days of Cowboys coverage! That’s good because nobody ever talks about the Dallas Cowboys.
Here is the planned schedule:
This is a huge investment to send this many crews around the country for training camp, and it continues a trend at ESPN and especially at SportsCenter in the last couple years of going out on the road more and more.
ESPN may be cutting costs a lot of different places at the network, but their NFL coverage is clearly not one of them.
