SPM 339 MP
Cornealius C. Simmons
January 23, 2020
Assignment: Chapter III
Discussion
Instructor: Dr. Karla
Jonesaz
When I discovered our class assignment for this week, I
became excited because daily I watch sports shows and news on television. I
enjoy the incredible highlights amazing commentary by individuals who become
extended family members that we enjoy seeing. The two television shows that I
will discuss today are both on the ESPN network of sports shows. Sports Center
and my other show that had to grow on me name is Around the Horn. The sports
articles that I retrieve my information from are ESPN.com and Barstool Sports.
First, we will look at ESPN, the name says it all, The
Everything Sports Programing Network, the 24-hour sports network has changed
sports availability with constant access to our sports stars, launched in 1979
by founder Bill Rasmussen. (Ref Forbes Sep 2012)
The topic this week on all the sports channel programs
and networks, the big basketball fight that erupted between Kansas and Kansas
State Basketball teams. ESPN covers all sports in a sixty-minute format with
two sports casters sitting at the desk as news anchors, it’s the same set up as
the evening news this actually gives the sports the look of serious business
and to us fans sport is serious business. . The topics are his at a fast pace
and the biggest similarity is reporting on sport and all things associated with
sports.
The ESPN show Around the Horn, is set up in a game show
format and the well-established sports journalist and commentators debate
numerous sport topics at a fast pace earning points if the host thinks the
comment is worthy. This show is interesting and both shows deliver a plethora
of information for viewers to agree or disagree. They spend more time on one
topic giving viewer’s information that is more detailed and controversial.
The articles that I read from ESPN.com, paralleled with
the Sports Center show, when you read the articles they truly are an expansion
of the sixty-minute television show. The writers give you more detail
information and add their flare on the current topics.
Barstool Sports in my opinion has become the ESPN of
online articles and sporting news, the delivery is fast pace and draws you in
with videos with the articles.
Each one of these mediums will continue to change the
game of how we receive and look at sports. Every day I personally spend time
watching sport like many of you, and the faster I get this information the
better, these organizations have changed the game.
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