Soccer receives an upgrade on ESPN?

[ianai]

Hey all. I wasn't sure where to post this, but just had to share. This may be old news, as I usually access ESPN's soccer section through soccernet.espn.go.com rather than via the main page. Anyway, the last time I navigated from the main ESPN page, I don't recall soccer being listed with the rest of the big sports, certainly not near the big three. It was after baseball, football, basketball,hockey, NASCAR, college football, college basketball, fencing, curling, track and field, field hockey, bowling, poker, golf, horseshoes, equestrian, rodeo, kickball, beer-pong, cornhole, etc.

Anyway, is this new? I almost thought they'd taken it down entirely as I naturally didn't look near the front of the sports list. Such jubilation by something so simple as a respectable insertion in the list of sports :D

http://ianbatchelder.com/soccer.png

[Gorando]

Yea I noticed it too, surprising to see soccer between the other major sports :p

[NYfan]

They also show scores much more often on the ticker on the bottom of the screen. I was watching some completely unrelated sport last weekend on ESPN U, I think, and saw the La Liga scores show up.