The shift to more and more broadcasts from home thanks to COVID-19 quarantines have produced some technical issues, and the mock NFL draft Monday produced technical problems of its own. And the two combined in an interesting way Wednesday during Dianna Russini’s ESPN SportsCenter report ahead of the draft; host Matt Barrie asked her what the league was doing to prepare for technical issues, and that question got lost in its own technical difficulties.
https://twitter.com/MattBarrie/status/1253013442069495808
Russini commented on this on Twitter herself later:
I hate everything https://t.co/2tdXZjPBjo
— Dianna Russini (@DMRussini) April 22, 2020
https://twitter.com/diannaESPN/status/1253051942210805760
That’s definitely a pretty funny moment for technical difficulties to show up. Hopefully the actual draft coverage Thursday will run more smoothly.
[Matt Barrie on Twitter]
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Andrew Bucholtz has been covering sports media for Awful Announcing since 2012. He is also a staff writer for The Comeback. His previous work includes time at Yahoo! Sports Canada and Black Press.