Let’s not forget the influx of token women commentators, forgetting men also like watching sports to also get away from nagging wives and GF’s.
The long decline of ESPN
- Thread starter Bob Jewett
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Well I don’t know about that as long as they were knowledgeable about sports but they have taken quite a few that were pretty faces and you could tell didn’t have knowledge to go along with it
In my lifetime, I've watched technology transform the way we live, work, and connect. First came the internet, opening a whole new world of information. Anybody remember dial-up modems, that noise? Yeah, I'm old. Then Google made finding that information effortless. Cable television expanded our viewing choices beyond a handful of channels. Smartphones put the world in our pockets. AI is now changing how we create, learn, and communicate.
And today, live streaming lets us watch almost anything, anytime, from anywhere in the world, not just pool tournaments, but sports, concerts, news, podcasts, and everyday life as it happens.
It's amazing to think how much has changed in just one lifetime. Makes you wonder what's coming next.
Well I have a subscription to https://www.wst.tv/matches/?
That is just uh often idle. The archives access is worth the monthly.
The Snooker makes pool seem so....uh? Putt Putt golf like.
That is just uh often idle. The archives access is worth the monthly.
The Snooker makes pool seem so....uh? Putt Putt golf like.
I remember when Bob Ley basically was the only sportscaster on ESPN back in its pre-ABC owned days. Now Ley is gone and all we have is SAS and Scott doing the show. The rest of it is MLB, NFL and some other sports. It would cost them time and some money to put on a Pool related event like the US Open or bring back the Women's Tour which every one liked. Where or where is the Duchess of Doom vs the Black Widow?
Thanks for sharing...that was awesome and informative.
I remember when ESPN (and cable, for that matter) first started. I would get up at 5:00 AM to watch racquetball and table tennis before work. One of the first pool events I remember them showing were those Legends matches in the early/mid 80s.
We’re all sounding old Jen and yes I feel that way too.
I recall my grandmother telling me she owned one of the first televisions in her town.
Folks saw the antenna on her roof and would knock on her door and ask if they could watch it with her. Many were strangers and she happily invited them in for a while to watch her tv.
She mentioned it had a tiny screen built into this big cabinet with tubes inside. It was quite a marvel in its time.
Fast forward and now we are a little like her. Talking nostalgically about things we had years ago compared to now.
I don’t know what the future holds but undoubtedly the next generations will be just like us and those before us.
Change so fast like the blink of an eye, suddenly we got old.