RE: Perhaps this has been covered, but I feel I must say something.

This started out as a comment and just ballooned into another post.

I just heard that ESPN is going to have a Barry Bonds TV show, Bonds on Bonds.

Dr. NO

As far as the TV station, ESPN is trading its objective newscoverage in order to line the pockets of the "empty suit". In order to accomplish this, and you are right on, turn the station into MTV. The original goal of MTV was to play videos and report on news in the music industry. Both goals have since been domoted to "nice-to-have" bullet points in case they have time one day. MTV's goal now is to make money in entertainment - NOT to have a music station. See: Osbornes, Beavis and Butthead, The Real World, etc.; and notice the almost complete absense of videos during any normal time that someone not stoned would actually watch.

So ESPN is trading its sports soul, and following this same path. Unfortunately we only have ourselves to blame. People have to watch this crap to make a demand enough to boost ratings to a point where advertising dollars outweigh that of a normal sports program.

Nobody wants all music all the time. Nobody, apparently, wants all sports all the time. This is the entertainment world we live in.