{"id":823,"date":"2004-04-01T01:21:28","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T06:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/sportscenter\/"},"modified":"2004-04-01T01:21:28","modified_gmt":"2004-04-01T06:21:28","slug":"sportscenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/sportscenter\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>SportsCenter<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Feeney writes on <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2098071\/\">the turn of <i>SportsCenter<\/i><\/a> in not-so-flattering terms:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s strange that ESPN added <i>Dream Job<\/i> to its lineup since they already have a show in which aspirants compete, with an irritating surfeit of eagerness and theatrical sarcasm, to capture the singular vibe of Dan and Keith. It&#8217;s called <i>SportsCenter<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Feeney goes on to contrast the current anchors with the legendary Dan Patrick\/Keith Olbermann duo.  Strangely, in diagnosing the current <i>SC<\/i> cast&#8217;s shortcomings, Feeney omits who in my view is one of the worst anchors, the ironically casted host of <i>Dream Job<\/i>, Stuart Scott, whose &#8220;hip&#8221; gibberish can be hazardous to your vocabulary.<br \/>\nApart from the anchors, <i>SportCenter<\/i>&#8211;and much of ESPN for that matter&#8211;has gotten far too cute and full of itself.  Outside of football season, I usually find it a chore to watch the show for more than a couple of segments.  Guess I&#8217;ve developed the short attention span and can&#8217;t handle much more.  Ironic, given that that&#8217;s the type of viewer ESPN apparently targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/sportscenter\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to SportsCenter\"><p>Matt Feeney writes on the turn of SportsCenter in not-so-flattering terms: It&#8217;s strange that ESPN added Dream Job to its lineup since they already have a show in which aspirants compete, with an irritating surfeit of eagerness and theatrical sarcasm, to capture the singular vibe of Dan and Keith. It&#8217;s called SportsCenter. Feeney goes on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}