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how bad does asher look for telling all of america about tim floyd's hiring at u of a? another reason why phx is a small town sports market.
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I agree, pretty embarassing. This IS ESPN, remember last year when Terrell Owens had, a "severe overdose", ESPN reported that Owens tried to commit suicide, when in fact Owens only had a reaction to some medicine he was taking. What happened to the verify a story by "3 different sources". A rule that is taught in Journalism school. To ESPN's credit, they did mention 620 as the source of the story. So they blew the story on every level of the medium. World Wide Leader? That phrase is worn out, so is the four letter network.
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I like mine scrambled...
landtuna said:
It's a specious connection especially since 620 KTAR (an ESPN Radio affiliate) isn't one of the Disney O&O ESPN stations. So not only does 620 look bad, national ESPN looks really bad for citing them as a source.
Nate Wesley said:
I followed your line of reasoning....until I got to the "small town sports market" part.
The error was made by a local radio station, not by ESPN or any sports team here (and we have all the majors and a few minors). One was even in the Stupid Bowl this year and another won the World Series a few years ago.
So, what makes the Valley a "small town sports market"?
nat king cola said:
Over easy please.
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CHRRR
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a small sports radio town. the mother ship never referred to ktar am as an espn affiliate. they had asher and ktar "break the news" ...which turned out to be dewey beats truman.
ktar am has horrible shows. sac ca has better shows.
but now that you mention it...the suns are the only team w/ fan support. dbax can't sell out opening day (ktar runs network filler ads during the game). cards have been a 18 year embarrassment. (new stadium will wear off). and coyotes are moving.
yes..small town sports market. w/ ever smaller sports radio stations.
ktar am has horrible shows. sac ca has better shows.
but now that you mention it...the suns are the only team w/ fan support. dbax can't sell out opening day (ktar runs network filler ads during the game). cards have been a 18 year embarrassment. (new stadium will wear off). and coyotes are moving.
yes..small town sports market. w/ ever smaller sports radio stations.
CHRRR said:
The Suns have been here the longest (of the professional teams) so it makes sense that they would have the largest following. But they are not the only team that draws well.
CHRRR said:
Not sure any of the "smaller market" baseball teams are doing all that well on opening day given the current economy. Normally they draw very well. As do the plethora of spring training teams who tend to fill their respective stadiums every year.
CHRRR said:
True, but they were a contender in this year's Super Bowl and have great support presently. It just takes a winning season to get things rolling. That a great many people still came to their games when they were deplorable says more about a sports town than those jumping on the bandwagon during a winning season.
CHRRR said:
The Phoenix Roadrunners of the WHA and several minor leagues were the biggest hockey action in town for many years here. The Coyotes come to town and first play in an arena that is very ill-suited for hockey then move to their new facility out in the extreme western part of the city (and away from their core fans), raise ticket prices through the roof (compared to the RR's) AND management sells off virtually all the talent and you wonder why they don't draw better? Again, as with the Cards, if they were playing competitively with other NHL clubs they would be supported. Management has decimated this team into minor league status. Still, they have a reasonably good following and have spurred a bunch of youth hockey programs here. You can look at a number of NHL teams who have somewhat the same problem (Chicago, Vancouver, Florida come to mind and there are others) and they are in historical hockey cities.
CHRRR said:
Won't argue that one but then I don't listen to sports radio.
But you are forgetting we have a PacTen university here that in normal years draws as well if not better than any of our professional teams and that relates not only to football but to basketball and baseball as well. We have dozens of top quality high school sports teams which draw very well. A sports market is not limited just to its professional teams.
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