thats amore

to my first love,

in the beginning, it was nothing but bliss. our relationship was beautiful, you amazed me to no end. but now things have changed. i have grown and developed, and you have stayed the same. i certainly have dreamed and even asked that you would follow my footsteps, but you are too stuck in your ways to understand. times are a changing, is it too much to ask for a little effort out of you? it certainly seems to be. i will always love you Sportscenter, but not the way i used to.

Love,
Biggs



sad but true. ever since that magical day at the end of elementary school when my fam finally got some basic cable!1! i was hooked. sportscenter was like my dream, the perfect hour for a skinny, overly interested and semi nerdy sports fanatic that i have been almost my entire life. even up until this past year, i would sometimes watch the same episode of sportscenter twice in a row, because the highlights and analysis were better then anything else on tv. nothing like playing poker with sc on in the background. but something's different. there are a number of possibilites, it could be the love affair with Brett Favre this summer, where i refused to turn it on, because i couldn't deal with any more brett. it could have been the fact that your soccer highlights are limited to a 2 minute espn deportes spot while nascar gets five minutes on a bad night (what could be more riveting then watching cars go around in a circle hundreds of times?) or even just my general frustration that there is baseball tonight in january, but no weekly soccer review while the mls and epl are in season. now i dutifully turn to fsc to see the highlights from the night before in the world of futbol. and i haven't looked back.

I don't feel it is too much to ask for one half hour a week minimum or even some good epl highlights on saturday and sunday night. there is almost always a top play from that day from the epl, and yet the lack of coverage is appalling. espn has done brilliantly with euro coverage, mls coverage, usmnt coverage, and have rights to 2010, and yet, sportscenter and general programming lag painfully behind. so i urge you espn, reconsider. find the time for me, and for all the other soccer starved fanatics out there. for you can either give me the love, or lose me forever.

biggy