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Priding their work on examining critical issues on and off the American sports field, Outside the Lines assigned NBA analyst Chris Broussard and columnist LZ Granderson to share their views on Jason Collins’ groundbreaking announcement.ĮSPN, having worked with Granderson and Broussard on past occasions, knew the opposing views each person held, along with the sensitivity surrounding the story. ESPN covered the breaking news on their storied program Outside the Lines.

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Only the second publicly gay athlete to play in any of the four major professional North American sports leagues, Jason Collins provided headlines for every major news network. In April of 2013, NBA veteran Jason Collins announced his homosexual identity to the world. The Chris Broussard fiasco serves as the perfect microcosm of ESPN’s reality-TV identity. Over the course of the next year, ESPN plans to track Winston’s every move, understanding that his volatile nature and the high expectations surrounding the draft’s number one pick have enough capacity to create a media circus. This year, Jameis Winston, a player accused of sexual assault and theft, earns the spotlight. Instead of focusing on their glaring off-field issues, ESPN glorified their potential-setting both players up for tremendous failure. This happened to players such as Jamarcus Russell and Ryan Leaf. College kids inherit titles as the next Peyton Manning or a franchise’s savior, only to fall on their face and return home unemployed three or four years later.

They spend millions of dollars in resources preparing their coverage of the draft, hyping college prospects as larger than life athletes (despite them never having played a single down in the NFL). Year after year, ESPN performs the same stunt with the NFL Draft. They love to build athletes up, only to enjoy the spectacle of their fall. Ignoring far greater social issues at hand, the network loves to watch the world burn over a few lost pounds per square inch in a football. Unfortunately, ESPN manages to view Brady as a villain, playfully labeling Mayweather and Suggs as “charismatic” jokesters instead. Tom Brady “likely knew” about his team “probably” deflating footballs. Terrell Suggs, a linebacker on the Baltimore Ravens, threatened to pour bleach on his wife and child. Floyd Mayweather possesses a past littered with cases of domestic abuse. While ESPN launches a witch-hunt to burn down the reputation of arguably our generation’s greatest quarterback, the network fails to provide any sort of context. The angrier fans get, the more page-views they receive. Sure, they embrace debate, but they do so at the cost of their own integrity. All of sudden, this objective source has its own agenda.ĮSPN loves to launch headlines that polarize an audience. The Colts, of course, blew the whistle on the New England Patriots immediately after this year’s AFC Championship Game. Polian, a former NFL general manager, headed the front office of the Indianapolis Colts from 1997 to 2011. Want an objective source? ESPN provides Bill Polian to weigh in on the case with his two cents.įor those who remember Peyton Manning-to-Marvin Harrison, the RCA Dome and underwhelming playoff performances, the name Bill Polian might sound familiar. Naturally, O’Connor, with a pro-Jets bias, paints Brady a color shy of Judas Iscariot and Richard Nixon. ESPN assigns the ESPN New York beat writer to feature Deflategate coverage as their lead story. Deflategate proved the mightiest of nails to the journalistic coffin. It takes a true journalist to view both sides and offer a fair medium.ĮSPN allowed that single headline to take on a life of its own. Seriously? What kind of reputable news station irresponsibly uses the word “probably” to leak out a story? Anybody has the capacity to light a fire and run away from it. ESPN expects us to believe the non-concrete, defaming headline against Tom Brady-a consistent ambassador of the NFL.

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