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September 24, 2010
ESPN Building Set at Miami Heat Camp: As the Miami Heat open their training camp next week in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, club President Pat Riley is defensive about how much LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh have been hammered over the way the team was built. "They proved that they want to win by taking less money, they proved they want to win by having to give up the ball more and by coming to play together," he said. ESPN is building a set at their camp.
posted by rcade to basketball at 04:27 PM - 8 comments
I hate ESPN. Why hasn't their been any credible competition for them?
posted by bperk at 04:44 PM on September 24, 2010
Once NBC and Comcast merge I think part of the plan is to build Versus and NBC Sports into a competitor. Fox started down that path but has changed to a mostly cherrypicking strategy. No one else has the capacity in the near future.
posted by billsaysthis at 04:54 PM on September 24, 2010
My comment should be "there" not "their".
posted by bperk at 04:58 PM on September 24, 2010
ESPN makes me ill lately, especially the way they fawn over certain players. I wish there was a viable competitor.
posted by scully at 05:12 PM on September 24, 2010
I may be mistaken, but once income tax is considered are "The Big Three" really taking less money?
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 09:43 PM on September 24, 2010
I hate ESPN. Why hasn't their been any credible competition for them?
Don't they usually just hire the competition?
posted by BornIcon at 01:04 PM on September 25, 2010
Don't they usually just hire the competition?
No, it's usually the other way around. Think Robin Roberts, Dan Patrick, Olberman, Storm, Steiner, etc.
posted by mjkredliner at 02:37 PM on September 26, 2010
Is it me, or is ESPN's building of the set at Heat camp a direct extension of the now-infamous one hour "decision"?