{"id":338,"date":"2016-02-28T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/?p=338"},"modified":"2016-02-28T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T13:31:00","slug":"espn-the-world-wide-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/2016\/02\/28\/espn-the-world-wide-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN, The World Wide Leader…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sit here trying to write something scholarly about Rob King<\/a>‘s visit to the B-U sports journalism seminar series and all I can think about it watching Steph Curry’s Saturday night performance<\/a> against Oklahoma City AGAIN!!… I mean, i loved Oscar Robertson<\/a> and still think he was one of the top ten all time players but c’mon Big O, you couldn’t stop this guy, \u00a0you didn’t have guys that could shoot from 35 at a 47% clip!… It’s a different game!…..be right back(gotta watch that again)…Curry had a better field goal percentage from 3 point land than he did from 2! (75% vs 58%)…That’s why we watch SportsCenter \u00a0<\/em>religiously…<\/p>\n

The Senior Vice President of News and SportsCenter<\/em> rails against the critics who say they are not about highlights…Too much this (taking heads), not enough that (hockey)…If Curry keeps throwing up games like this, King won’t have to worry about people watching…<\/p>\n

E-S-P-N’s coverage of Tom Brady the last year hasn’t made them very popular here in New England but let’s be honest, they do a lot of things right…”We were way out front on mobile publishing” said King “What you do, what you think, the way you wake up in the morning, what you want to consume, drives our business, not the other way around”…On the flip side, King recognizes some of their shortcomings, “Our mission is so big, that by definition, we’re constantly pushing up against the edges”…<\/p>\n

So why didn’t Durant call a timeout?<\/p>\n

That doesn’t excuse being wrong and inaccurate reporting…”Some of our biggest problems come from sources”, \u00a0King told the group…<\/p>\n

And then there was being called out by a local sports talk radio show<\/a> for allegedly telling their anchors NOT to report on Peyton Manning and his problems at the University of Tennessee…”What we said was we’re not just going to report this story until we can verify some of the material in it and those guys(WEEI) got a call from somebody in our group who has a relationship with them saying we just got told not to report on Peyton Manning…And nothing sets people’s teeth on edge here(New England) like the notion that we would treat Peyton Manning differently than we would treat Tom Brady”…Was that not<\/em> reporting a story?…..I don’t think so…<\/p>\n

And why did Durant foul Andre Iguodala?<\/p>\n

It started with a lot of Austrailan Rules<\/a> football back some thirty seven years ago, weaved its way through college basketball, NFL football and Major League Baseball and yes it IS the “Entertainment Sports and Programming Network” but face it, we all watch and cant wait to see what the Top 10 plays are…Hey, B-U<\/a> made it twice!…Go Terriers<\/a>!<\/p>\n

I’d love to write more but i gotta go watch those highlights again….Cue the music! – do do do, do do do\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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I sit here trying to write something scholarly about Rob King’s visit to the B-U sports journalism seminar series and all I can think about it watching Steph Curry’s Saturday night performance against Oklahoma City AGAIN!!… I mean, i loved Oscar Robertson and still think he was one of the top ten all time players […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}