Best internet sports site?
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Seriously, I only use ESPN for box scores and other such statistical type information.
Seriously, I only use ESPN for box scores and other such statistical type information.
For sports news, you really can't beat espn.com. Just read the news that interests you and skip the other stuff. I sometimes check out the other sites (Fox, SI, CBS, etc), but generally only if I am looking for a different perspective on a story that interests me.
ESPN and that's it. I've tried everything and nothing.
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I completely understand where you are coming from. ESPN has become increasingly more political over the last couple of years. It's gotten to the point that even shows like Sportscenter can get relatively political at times. That used to never happen.
With that said, ESPN still has the most complete sports reporting site on the web. They have the most complete group of journalists and their website is the easiest to navigate. SI comes close in NFL coverage, 247 is far and away the best recruiting site on the web, and they are decent at news reporting. At least with ESPN they have news front and center, and then the fluff opinion pieces are usually down a ways. Still the best site I'm aware of.
The only thing I'll say is I use the "Score" app pretty extensively on my phone. You can customize the news you see pretty easily, and it's easy to navigate as far as the actual games. I use that far more than the ESPN app. I feel like even Bleacher Report's app has gotten a lot better. It used to be all user opinion and even some semi-porn to try and get viewers, but they've gotten better as far as combining the reporting on a lot of sites onto their app. It too is pretty sortable which makes it easy to get rid of a lot of the junk. Between those two apps, I rarely even go to websites these days.
With that said, ESPN still has the most complete sports reporting site on the web. They have the most complete group of journalists and their website is the easiest to navigate. SI comes close in NFL coverage, 247 is far and away the best recruiting site on the web, and they are decent at news reporting. At least with ESPN they have news front and center, and then the fluff opinion pieces are usually down a ways. Still the best site I'm aware of.
The only thing I'll say is I use the "Score" app pretty extensively on my phone. You can customize the news you see pretty easily, and it's easy to navigate as far as the actual games. I use that far more than the ESPN app. I feel like even Bleacher Report's app has gotten a lot better. It used to be all user opinion and even some semi-porn to try and get viewers, but they've gotten better as far as combining the reporting on a lot of sites onto their app. It too is pretty sortable which makes it easy to get rid of a lot of the junk. Between those two apps, I rarely even go to websites these days.
Suggestion re Washington boards for New Years Eve game - I pretty much only have time to follow one team - and found these two forums. Check out http://forums.seattletimes.com/forums and http://washington.247sports.com.
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There was a debate on this on tRant the other day. Some loon correlating ESPN's subscriber loss to their increasingly leftist ideology.
There was a debate on this on tRant the other day. Some loon correlating ESPN's subscriber loss to their increasingly leftist ideology.
I get them losing TV viewers to this - people want their world view presented to them, not someone else'. But on the internet you decide what story to open. You can just skip the stuff that doesn't interest you. With that in mind, and knowing that espn.com has the best sports coverage in the world (it's not even close), deciding to boycott espn.com seems like a decision to punish yourself. You're not hurting them by boycotting their web site.
I don't think ESPN's increasing leftist activism is the sole reason they're losing subscribers, but I do think it's a material one.
There's actually a good parallel between why Clinton and the Democrats got wiped out and why ESPN is losing subscribers. In both cases, it boils down to hubris born of living, working and socializing in the liberal bubbles on the coasts.
It doesn't even occur to them (the DNC or Clinton or her campaign or the brass at ESPN) that their worldview is distinctly different from that of 90% of the country's geographic area and a material majority of its population. So they simultaneously (1) categorize anybody who disagrees with them as stupid enough to be beneath contempt, and let the world know they feel that way, then (2) go begging votes or money (in the form of ever-rising cable subscription fees) from the very group they just dope-slapped.
They literally try to insult people into voting for / watching them, then are genuinely dumbstruck when the middle (still carrying a handprint welt on its collective face) tells them to shove it where the sun don't shine.
To have such self-congratulatory intellects and egos, they're amazingly tone deaf and out of touch. In fact, they're so tone deaf that they can't recognize music when they hear it.
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Truth.
The cable stuff of funny to me. The political crap may get on my nerves, but then I simply change the channel.
Truth is, they're losing cable subscribers at exactly the same rate as basic cable. People aren't giving up basic cable because of ESPN. They're giving it up (along with ESPN) because they have alternatives that are less expensive than their cable service. That's not to say these folks that would cancel their cable subscription because Jemele-Hill-said-something-that-makes-me-want-to-run-to-my-hugbox don't exist, but they're not going to make a noticeable dent in ESPN's subscriber base.
Now, I'm done unless Earle wants to move this over to NS or something. Isn't really the forum to be having such discussions.
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Since I only follow college football in general and the SEC in particular, I am on the best site right now.
What exactly is reddit? From what little bit I've seen, it didn't seem like a sports site.
I know I won't be "hurting them," but I can find another website to spend my time for the amount of sports info I need. They are as bad, or worse, than the Enquirer with their click bait article titles.
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