ESPN

The ESPN empire has exponentially grown over the past say 20-25 years that I have been watching it. My first memory of any sports is growing up the first thing my father and I would do after waking up was to grab cereal, bowl, milk and sit at the kitchen table with a small tv and watch highlights from the day/night before games. From what I remember it was a majority of Baseball, Football and Basketball. The big difference I get watching today is firstly they have several networks such as ESPN deportes for the Hispanic audience, and now they cover everything from the X-games to the golf network. Obviously Tiger Woods is a big reason golf grew in popularity and revenue. Although he has basically dropped off a cliff in his play he still draws a crowd, thankfully for golf fans, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIIroy have stepped up and look to continue to develop a rivalry.

Now with publications like ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com they are looking to continue their growth. I have a problem with this expansion though. Sometimes growth is great and sometimes it spreads you so thin that you don't fully grasp the consequences. For me personally, I can't stand that ESPN.com now has a large number of material and even entire sections in the college category that are only available to view if you are a ESPN The Magazine subscriber. ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE.

I happen to be a subscriber because I still enjoy reading a magazine, having the feel of it in my hands. But a large majority of the population, especially in today's seemingly bad economy, shouldn't be forced to shell out another $10 to get the full story on the website. It doesn't matter that it's less the $1 an issue. It's the point of it.

 I try to write factual and interesting pieces based on my opinions of articles. Coming from where i'm sitting I just don't think it's right to make portions of a website and conglomerate that make a huge number of profits, off limits to hard working sports fans, spending time supporting your business by reading articles on pages FILLED WITH ADS YOUR BEING PAID TO SHOW.

what do you guys think? should espn eliminate the "pay to play" per se??????

Yahoo Sports....reason #12327 why not to go to Yahoo Sports for my sports news

Yahoo article link to: Unfortunate headline paints a graphic picture of West Virginia’s loss to Syracuse

Yahoo Sports picked up the HUGE "SPORTS STORY" of some little West Virginia Newspaper that had the massive, life altering, world changing, story of the year, and committed a typo.....YES, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? A human made a serious error like that. Can you believe we water-boarded all of those innocent terrorists? Used "stress positions" trying to get information from suspected enemy combatants for merely trying to plot to kill innocent Americans and other civilians around the world and they haven't "captured" this obvious MADMAN YET?

Really Yahoo? PLEASE, pretend to be a serious news publication. It's not even that difficult, just try it for a few days. If you don't like it you can go back over with the Inquirer and TMZ....

The Blind Side Movie Review

I was impressed with the overall story-line of the movie and since it's based on the real life events of Michael Oher I was really hoping that they stayed as true to reality as possible. I didn't need some over the top wrinkle to add some "flash" because that takes away from credibility. The writers made it through. Well, actually they didn't. They made it about 80% of the way through the movie before they scraped together this unrealistic scene.


After growing frustrated with the NCAA's questions about his recruitment Michael stormed out of the office meeting, confronted his "new mom" and somewhat (pardon the pun) blindsided her with the question of "why did you do it", "was it for me or was it for you all along" thing and walked off. Later that night somehow he ends up back on the "other" side of town where he grew up and when faced with the difficult decision of waiting for his mom alone outside or entering the drug den (good vs evil) he makes the one bad choice of his life and it turns into a mix of a Snoop Dogg video, a clip of Scarface and backyard brawls 2. I won't spoil the rest. My point is it transitioned awkwardly to where they needed but they could have done a much better job without losing the sincerity of the entire movie.





All in all I really enjoyed the movie though. It conveys a great message of perseverance and hard work can make anything happen. Obviously this unbelievable story is something that's a 1 in a million type of thing but hey better then 1 in a trillion right?


I'm going to rank it a 7/10 on my just created tonight grading scale which will be patented shortly(so don't get any ideas Siskal and Ebert! what the heck is a scale that only goes up to 4? There is a HUGE difference between a 3 and a 4 i'd think, ya gotta get some more stars guys)

Frontier Regional High School- South Deerfield, MA

Frontier Regional- is a known "sports" school throughout the area and continually sends 


team after team season after season sport after sport year after year into the playoffs and 


beyond. The towns that feed into Frontier are Conway, Whately, Sunderland, and Deerfield which 


are mainly rural wide open farming areas and the student population reflects that. It's a public 


school and several buildings have recently been remade from the poor condition to basically 


brand new still. 


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Gym is nice and can fill to capacity for a home basketball game and atmosphere 


is great. Boys+Girls teams are both top notch at basketball, soccer, football, cross-country, 


volleyball, and baseball. Teaching was about average for the area with trivial authority figures 


making hypocritical decisions, displaying favortism for some depending on who they were, what 


they played, ect ect. Same in a lot of small towns in the area but compared with other schools 


elsewhere would rank below average in that category.