COWHERD’S LUNCH: CROW
Strike one for bloggers: Colin Cowherd will give MZone credit today for the Vince Young Wonderlic Test bit it lifted without credit last week, according to Gelf Magazine. ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz says of the snafu:
“As the internet continues to flourish and grow, these types of issues continue to spark discussion and constructive debate on how to best and properly incorporate the voice of the fan, which is a significant part of what (we) do here.”
Hmm…one could start by allowing your content to be the game and not the many-armed Cthulu that has become ESPN/Disney? Or allowing facts and outcomes to dictate television coverage? See: USC’s coronation, J.J. Redick and Adam Morrison winning their brackets because TEHY R ROXXtarZ, Tiger Woods in anything…
The voice of the fan has very, very little to do with ESPN in its current form. A corporation in an identity crisis does. Anyone out there planning on getting ESPN Mobile? Anyone?
T-shirts most fine, including one made just for Colin’s Monday.
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Ryno says:
Cthulu reference?
touche EDSBS, touche…
March 27th, 2006 at 9:42 am
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Robb says:
What a BS statement by the WWL (not that we expected anything less). To blame “the internet” instead of the dickhead who passed off someone else’s work as his own — and that is precisely what Cowherd did — is a pitiful copout.
I would also be curious as to what, if any, sanction Cowherd will receive for his snide and juvenile e-mails to the proprietors of the MZone and others who dared question Cowherd’s journalistic integrity.
March 27th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
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JacketDan says:
According to the comments section over on the MZone, Cowherd handled it fairly professionally and was very self-effacing.
I still think he’s a talentless douchenozzle, but he at least showed a little class in the end.
March 27th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
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Gob Bluth says:
What the hell is up with Cowherd’s nose? It’s like he’s got Owen Wilson’s nose, only worse.
March 27th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
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Heismanpundit says:
As one who is always quick to bash the media and their callowness, I think that to be fair, ESPN was letting some facts and outcomes dictate their coverage of the things you cited.
It is fact that USC had won 34 in a row, that J.J. Reddick and Adam Morrison had had remarkable seasons, that Tiger Woods is outstanding, etc. It’s not just ESPN that follows that script, but really most of the media, as last week’s cover of SI can attest (with Morrison on the cover).
The problem is that society itself has become so celebrity-driven, that ESPN and the rest of the sports media has fallen prey to the convergence of sports and entertainment. And it’s all in the quest for higher ratings. They don’t trust that people actually care or know about sports–to me that is the main problem. It’s like watching the Olympics and having to see fluff features because it draws in the women viewers.
March 27th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
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Stacey Keibler Luvs Me says:
Cowherd’s Radio Show
The positive aspect of Cowherd’s program is that he talks about college football all of the time, which is rare among sports talk shows. His show is hard to listen to, because everything he says in on a fever pitch. That dude needs to lighten up.
Lately been ranting about how Michigan’s football team sucks the big one. He goes on and on about how they are no longer any good.
Then, he steals some Michigan’s bloggers material, which makes fun of that dummy from Texas. To add insult to injury, he blasts bloggers in general. (Cowherd’s IQ is probably down there with that dummy’s from Texas because people that listen to sports radio, most likely also read sports blogs. He’s biting the hands that feeds him.)
That is like putting on a huge “kick me sign” all over himself. With the big fan bases from Michigan and Texas, it was obvious that he was going to get smacked around.
What does he do? Cowherd the Coward backpeddles on his knees as fast as he could, apologizing like the you-know-what that he is.
Fluff Pieces
I will watch fluff pieces all day and night long as long as they are about Sasah Cohen, Misty May, Lindsey Jacobellis and those sluts from FSU!
March 27th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
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Willis says:
I remember back when you did your “52 reasons we hate ESPN/Disney/ABC” piece. That was the first time I’d ever visited EDSBS, and this site has been a daily read for me ever since.
ESPN has taken the fun out of sports with fluff pieces, fabricated stories, and their constant bickering. The great thing about blogs–especially EDSBS–is that they make sports fun.
March 27th, 2006 at 10:39 pm