Awful Announcing
The ACCN broadcasts include some new-to-ESPN faces like Wood, Beason and Mark Herzlich, plus some experienced ESPN figures like Collinsworth, Dave O'Brien and Tim Hasselbeck.
“I know you guys know everything that's going on at Texas A&M, and that's really what The Athletic is about is owning a beat. There wasn't anyone else we could go to where we say, 'We own this beat.'”
The series trailer includes clips of Miles talking with Kansas AD Jeff Long before Miles was officially hired. It will continue throughout this season with behind-the-scenes footage around games.
Between announcing their press conference schedule with photos of coaches in similar poses to Lizzo and drawing up humorous graphics for each coach speaking, the Longhorn Network had some fun with the first day of Big 12 Media Days.
The ACC Network's current announced deals only cover about 20 million homes, although more are expected by launch. But there are still some big holdouts, including Comcast, Dish, and Charter.
The SEC Officiating account has already received waves of replies about past questionable calls. Whoever's running that should be in for a fun season.
Staples had been with Sports Illustrated since 2008.
After time in jail over burglaries to fuel an opioid addiction, Leaf has gotten clean and started working in the sports media. He worked for the Pac-12 Networks and Sirius XM last year, and now he'll be calling college football games for ESPN.
Michael Strahan will serve as an executive producer.
Last Chance U is again covering Independence (KS) Community College and controversial coach Jason Brown, who parted ways with the school after the last football season over an "I'm your Hitler now" text and was since charged with blackmail and identity theft.
This would be a trainwreck of a move by Shea Patterson...if it were real.
ESPN will take a wait-and-see approach to see which school replaces UConn in the AAC.
Eliminating California schools from competing for national championships would dramatically damage the fields in a lot of non-revenue sports, and throw away a lot of viewers, attendees and host sites in revenue sports as well.
This could be an opportunity for Fox to show more women's college basketball.
