Not coincidentally, I have started to watch the CBC Hockey Night in Canada segments on the internet. It’s so ridiculous up there: they don’t actually target the lowest common denominator and they actually try to teach us about the game. I learned more about hockey in this past year through a television outlet than I have about either football or baseball through a television outlet in my entire life. I have basically had to learn about the intricacies of football/baseball through either getting books about it, or actually playing the sport.
I mean ESPN can have NFL Live on each day, but it still does a crappy job of covering the NFL because there is so little substance in the shows, besides actual transaction news that they gloss over anyway. They always have to have stupid segment topics like “which player has the most pressure on him to perform in the AFC South” and then they have their answers already revealed on the bottom bar a split second before they say them. It looks so contrived and lightweight, which I can say about pretty much anything on ESPN.
And Buzz Bissinger really wonders why sports fans have started blogging: its because our sports coverage is light and we want to talk about actual subject matter and not need a timer to tell us when to stop.
(For those who saw the Buzz Bissinger segment on Costas Now, did he not come off as being entirely too angry about something that in the long run really should never deserve that much attention in the first place. He’s a fine writer, but that outburst was really inappropriate. That kind of anger should seriously be directed at assholes like Dick Cheney, not Deadspin)

Lee Corso just felt the need to butt in….